User blog comment:Cackling Shadow/How long have they REALLY been here?/@comment-432124-20130114024526/@comment-5656020-20130114034932

True, Apokalips might have been the source of that info, but if the denizens of Apokalips knew of the possibilities of Starro Tech, wouldn't they have gone to great lengths to capture Starro for themselves instead of letting the Light do it for them and risk them screwing it up? Also, Savage mentioned needing the League alive for Phase 2. I haven't seen any evidence of Apokaliptan influence all season except for Intergang's gizmos, and the Ambassador played General what's-his-face and Capt. Atom like a piano in Cornered.

In fact, he and the Reach have been playing everyone like a piano since hitting the scene, and we out here are still the only ones who know about the fleet of warships hiding at the bottom of the ocean. I say it's not at all impossible for them to have planned all of this ahead of time, and it's also not impossible for them to have formed an alliance with Apokalips as well.

The only episodes I've seen so far that didn't look like they could have been planned for or by the Reach so far are T.O. Morrow and his reds, Harm's little rampage, and Superboy getting loose in ep.1.

Kobra venom (make metas even without the metagene), AMAZO (what intergalactic conquerer wouldn't want an army of those?), the fog (think about it), Klarion removing the helmet of fate as a variable (one less threat), the testing of interplanetary transport (able to jump things across the galaxy in an instant? I'd want one!), Starro Tech (A conqueror's best friend), uniting the world under the Light (fewer organizations to take down), even the black hole generator in ep.24. (an absolute failsafe)