Trom
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For the village in Cambodia, see Laming
Laming
Laming is a commune in Bar Kaev District in northeast Cambodia. It contains five villages and has a population of 2,622....

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Trom is a fictional planet in the 30th century . It was home to Legionnaire
Legion of Super-Heroes
The Legion of Super-Heroes is a fictional superhero team in the 30th and 31st centuries of the . The team first appears in Adventure Comics #247 , and was created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino....

 Element Lad
Element Lad
Element Lad is a fictional character in the 30th and 31st centuries of the , a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. A native of the planet Trom, he has the power to transmute chemical elements.-Pre-Zero Hour:...

, who is the planet's sole survivor.

Due to the high radioactivity of the planet, the natives of Trom were never many, living in a few valleys. They all had the ability to transmute elements. As such, precious metals and other wealth had almost no value on Trom, which was a highly spiritual civilization. The space pirate Roxxas
Roxxas
Kivun Roxxas is a fictional supervillain in the DC Universe. Primarily a foe of the Legion of Super-Heroes, he first appeared in Adventure Comics #307 .-Fictional character biography:...

 threatened the population with extermination if they did not obey his demands (creating gold, etc.). They refused, and he exterminated the entire population except Jan Arrah, who escaped, and later joined the Legion of Super-Heroes
Legion of Super-Heroes
The Legion of Super-Heroes is a fictional superhero team in the 30th and 31st centuries of the . The team first appears in Adventure Comics #247 , and was created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino....

 as Element Lad. The population could have easily killed Roxxas by transmuting his ships (or him) to a gas, but their spiritual beliefs prevented this. After Roxxas was captured, Jan Arrah returned and created monuments to each of his people.

During the v4 legion, he lived on Trom alone, guarding the planet against all outside contact.

After the Legion reboot, Trom was a key part of the United Planets as the only source of the element needed to power stargates. In this version, Roxxas was a Daxam
Daxam
Daxam is a planet within the DC Universe. It is home to a race called the Daxamites, who are descended from Kryptonian colonists.-History:Daxamites were originally Kryptonians who left their homeworld in order to explore the Universe. They are an intensely xenophobic race, and are fearful of alien...

ite, and with a band of Daxamites exterminated the populace. It has not been described much in the current incarnation of the legion.
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