In the history you know chronicled by the documentary Man of Steel, the infant Kal El was sent forth by his father Jor El to escape the destruction of his home planet Krypton. Kal El's ship landed in Kansas during the latter half of the 20th Century, where he was discovered by the Kents. Renamed Clark and raised by the Kents as their own, the Last Son of Krypton hid his powers until he was an adult, when the discovery of his heritage led to the arrival of General Zod, enemy of his father, to Earth. Then he was forced to openly use his powers in the fight against Zod and his followers to prevent them from destroying the human race by their attempt to make Earth into a new Krypton.
But there are other realities in which things occurred differently. In one such reality the history of Krypton's destruction and young Kal El's exodus occurs roughly 300 years or so later as far as the rest of the universe is concerned. Kal El's life pod travels not to the relatively primitive Earth of the 20th Century but to a remarkably advanced Earth of the 23rd Century, the center of a Federation with technology that in someways surpasses Krypton's.
So, what becomes of Kal El? How is the course of his life changed by growing up on a more advanced world that's part of an extensive interstellar civilization consisting of many species? And how do events play out when Zod is eventually drawn to Kal El's new home?
I, The Watcher, pose this question to you all,
What If Superman Grew Up On Federation Earth?