Delightful start.
I loved the Clark face off with Ching.
“Excuse me?” Clark shot back as he stood, finally able to meet the ‘lieutenant’ at eye-level. “Do you really believe that you have a right to be this self-righteous?”
Now please, please, please, be one of those people who understand that even if we inflate Zara's 2,000 to 10,000 somehow it is still to few people to support a High Tech culture. Even with imprinted knowledge you don't have enough people.
Clark coming from a small town and having visited all over the world is going to know this and recognize the danger of New Krypton.
Now that they know about Earth, when their culture starts to collapse, some will seek out Earth. Instead of Superman we have the prospect of hundreds of Super brats.
Clark does not owe them anything, but he needs to do what he can to prop up their culture and keep it running to protect Earth from them.
