Has anyone else noticed that planet Daxam is quite different from what we normally know it as in both the 21st and 31st centuries?
The first time we see it in this continuity is in issue 7 of Superman during Jon's flashback. The people asking for help say that they're "being tortured by a warlord off the asteroid belt nirit-do. The planet Daxam!" When Jor-El asks who and where they repeat/clarify "the Khunds. On planet Daxam." But when Jon goes to free them on planet Daxam, we see that Daxam is home to a bunch of different races rather than the strictly human looking beings we usually know to be their in past continuity.
Then later in issue 19 we see the fledgling United Planets of the 21st century settling on where to call their home base. We'll find out in issue 22 that this planet is Daxam, but one of the representatives gives us a hint by saying the planet is uninhabited because of "you know who". Starfire's dad tells them to stop it because "that's all behind us now. We are a United Planets." This seems to be talking about the fact that last we heard it was the Khunds taking hold of this world till Jon stopped them, and the Khunds are in fact part of the United Planets now.
Then over in Legion we see that Planet Daxam remains the home world for the United Planets without a classic human looking Daxamite in sight. So, it seems like Daxam is no longer the Kryptonian off shoot world it usually is. However, Mon-El's Fritchman tag says that he's from Planet Daxam, his name is Lar Gand, and that he's even vulnerable to led. BUT Bendis did say in an interview that the members of the Legion did have the ability to change what their Fritchman tags said.
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I have my theories on why and how Mon-El has his powers, but for now I'm just interested in Daxam's history that we've been seeing unfold.