Thanks. I don't want to comment about Brainiac going back to Krypton in season 7 & messing with the orb because according to Quest, the orb was stuck in the Luthor mansion fireplace since before it was built (probably at least a century if not longer) while in Kandor, Jor-El was seen making the orb. So I can't comment on that aspect because Brainiac went to Krypton circa 1986 and I have no idea where the orb was in 1986 as of the retconned origin of the orb given in Kandor.
But I do know that the black crystal that Brainiac used to open the Phantom Zone portal to free Zod in Solitude & Clark used to open the portal to throw Davis in the Zone in Beast is a form of Brainiac since Jor-El did say the Black Ship itself & all extensions of it was Brainiac. And my guess is that Brainiac was able to communicate with the technology of the orb & through it, using it as a voicebox/mouthpiece. Any link between the 2 could be a result of both the orb & the black crystal having been placed in/on the Fortress of Solitude's crystal console (the orb was placed on it in Arctic & the crystal was placed in it in Solitude & Beast). Or it could also have to do with Chloe, while she was possessed by Brainiac, manipulating the FoS crystal in Bloodline (while she was sucking Clark & Kara out of the Phantom Zone) so that once the FoS was rebuilt & the next time the black crystal was inserted in the FoS, it would activate a sequence in the orb that would allow the Brainiac in the crystal to speak through the orb. Because the orb had interacted with the Fortress in Arctic, it's possible when the Fortress dissolved back into that crystal, it contained coding/AI from the orb that allowed Brainiac to communicate with it.
You may be right about Brainiac possessing Zod. If he hadn't finished reconstructing his own body by the end of Kandor, then he could have possessed Zod temporarily. For my theory to also explain Alia's powers under both suns, Brainiac in the original timeline (the one that led to the future seen in Pandora) would had to have finished creating his own body by the events seen in Pandora so that the Alia who time traveled with Lois was in fact Brainiac in his own body shapeshifted to look like Alia.
Then again, they could also execute a lazy version of this theory by explaining that Alia's superpowers were a result of being possessed by Brainiac. Last season in Legion, they showed Chloe as being able to superspeed while being possessed by Brainiac. The lazy version of this theory is having Alia's powers under the yellow sun be explained as her being possessed by Brainiac. I call is the lazy version because they would have to go a step further & also explain Alia's heatvision while under the yellow sun (which she used in Savior) as a result of her being possessed by Brainiac. Previously nobody possessed by Brainiac had heatvision & prior to Chloe in Legion nobody possessed by him had any powers whatsoever (not Casey Brock, not Lana, not Dax-Ur, and not Chloe). At worst, they could explain that because Alia is Kryptonian, Brainiac was able to override the blue-k in her body & use her Kryptonian physiology to execute those powers. So this would be the lazy version of my theory because Brainiac reconstructing his own body wouldn't be necessary. This lazy version of my theory could end up with Brainiac ultimately creating hiw own body & multiple copies of himself, one of which possesses Zod & releases General Zod from the Phantom Zone so he (General Zod) could possess Major Zod's body just as the Brainiac copy oozes out of Major Zod's body. But even this lazy version would stem from the same event that the black Brainiac crystal merged with or was absorbed by the orb & was released when the orb opened up.
But I do know that the black crystal that Brainiac used to open the Phantom Zone portal to free Zod in Solitude & Clark used to open the portal to throw Davis in the Zone in Beast is a form of Brainiac since Jor-El did say the Black Ship itself & all extensions of it was Brainiac. And my guess is that Brainiac was able to communicate with the technology of the orb & through it, using it as a voicebox/mouthpiece. Any link between the 2 could be a result of both the orb & the black crystal having been placed in/on the Fortress of Solitude's crystal console (the orb was placed on it in Arctic & the crystal was placed in it in Solitude & Beast). Or it could also have to do with Chloe, while she was possessed by Brainiac, manipulating the FoS crystal in Bloodline (while she was sucking Clark & Kara out of the Phantom Zone) so that once the FoS was rebuilt & the next time the black crystal was inserted in the FoS, it would activate a sequence in the orb that would allow the Brainiac in the crystal to speak through the orb. Because the orb had interacted with the Fortress in Arctic, it's possible when the Fortress dissolved back into that crystal, it contained coding/AI from the orb that allowed Brainiac to communicate with it.
You may be right about Brainiac possessing Zod. If he hadn't finished reconstructing his own body by the end of Kandor, then he could have possessed Zod temporarily. For my theory to also explain Alia's powers under both suns, Brainiac in the original timeline (the one that led to the future seen in Pandora) would had to have finished creating his own body by the events seen in Pandora so that the Alia who time traveled with Lois was in fact Brainiac in his own body shapeshifted to look like Alia.
Then again, they could also execute a lazy version of this theory by explaining that Alia's superpowers were a result of being possessed by Brainiac. Last season in Legion, they showed Chloe as being able to superspeed while being possessed by Brainiac. The lazy version of this theory is having Alia's powers under the yellow sun be explained as her being possessed by Brainiac. I call is the lazy version because they would have to go a step further & also explain Alia's heatvision while under the yellow sun (which she used in Savior) as a result of her being possessed by Brainiac. Previously nobody possessed by Brainiac had heatvision & prior to Chloe in Legion nobody possessed by him had any powers whatsoever (not Casey Brock, not Lana, not Dax-Ur, and not Chloe). At worst, they could explain that because Alia is Kryptonian, Brainiac was able to override the blue-k in her body & use her Kryptonian physiology to execute those powers. So this would be the lazy version of my theory because Brainiac reconstructing his own body wouldn't be necessary. This lazy version of my theory could end up with Brainiac ultimately creating hiw own body & multiple copies of himself, one of which possesses Zod & releases General Zod from the Phantom Zone so he (General Zod) could possess Major Zod's body just as the Brainiac copy oozes out of Major Zod's body. But even this lazy version would stem from the same event that the black Brainiac crystal merged with or was absorbed by the orb & was released when the orb opened up.
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