Biography:

        KRUSSH is ruination embodied in a living, bellowing form that absorbs everything it destroys. Many heroes have clashed with KRUSSH over the decades when it sporadically appears in Union City or elsewhere, and many bear the scars of these encounters.         

        KRUSSH is made of living debris so it strikes with the force of a collapsing building and hitting it is like trying to beat down an animated pile of construction materials. While KRUSSH may became seemingly irritated or distracted by Heroes trying to stop it, it is just as likely to remain oblivious to them, especially if it is so large that they are like ants in comparison to its monstrous mass.

        As it grows in size, it can cross huge swathes of the map and has far more bulk to combat but for all this, KRUSSH is not unstoppable. It can be destroyed with major force or disrupted with enough power being turned back on it.         

        Trying to understand this behemoth is at best an unrewarding task. The Futurist and Dr. Tomorrow have both tried to analyze or communicate with KRUSSH, to no avail. It has some kind of consciousness, because it roars “KRUSSH” as it rampages, demolishing everything in its path. But it’s never said anything other than “KRUSSH” and even its namesake utterance seems more a mystery than any kind of answer.              All we know is that KRUSSH does what it says: crushes everything in can get its debris-formed hands on. KRUSSH has only one purpose, and that is to destroy anything and everything. It cannot be reasoned with, mollified, or distracted. It is single-minded and unyielding. And it rises time and time again to wreak its havoc on Union City. 

        Designed by a distant alien civilization as an ultimate armament, the KRUSSH intelligence is an energy-form that can accumulate wreckage in order to perpetrate more wreckage in a self- sustaining cycle of devastation. So perfect was it as a weapon of mass destruction that soon it leveled the entire enemy continent. But the cheers of celebration from the victors soon turned to screams of terror when they realized that they had no means of turning their animated destructor off. It was not long before the entire planet was utterly destroyed, reduced to no more than scattered, floating space debris.         

        But its effectiveness had become legend, and there were those who knew how to profit from legends. Gorthun Gom, the Space Thief, included arms dealer in his resume of crimes. The rapacious alien managed to get fragments of KRUSSH that he peddled to the most ambitious, bloodthirsty, and suicidally psychotic despots and subjugators across the universe. It was Gorthun Gom who smuggled a piece of KRUSSH to earth, hoping to sell it. But when he was intercepted by the original Captain Jupiter, KRUSSH was unleashed upon the world.         

        KRUSSH smashed into a freeway, blasting cars and asphalt. It grew to the size of a lumbering city block before Captain Jupiter, Dr. Tomorrow and the army managed to stop it, disrupting its psychic energy. This was only a reprieve. The KRUSSH consciousness is dispersed for the moment, but it lingers, laying in wait for a suffiently strong destructive force to once again call forth its powers of wreckage. It has come back many times.

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Absorptions:

        Anything that KRUSSH destroys it absorbs. While this always makes KRUSSH larger, it also means that there are some things that can make it even more deadly when they are destroyed. Even basic elements of infrastructure like electric generator stations, railways, and industrial sites all turn KRUSSH into a far more dangerous threat to civilians and heroes alike. KRUSSH can be wreathed in flames after destroying an oil refinery and still function with abominable acumen.         

        Some of the most common and notable  elements that KRUSSH has absorbed include power lines, gas mains, chemical plants, water treatment stations, military bases, and even a nuclear power plant. It is never certain whether KRUSSH targets these sites out of a kind of terrible instinct or if it is dumb luck that it stumbles into these locations on its mindless rampages. Either way, when KRUSSH is able to discharge gigawatts of raw electricity or spray acidic chemical runoff from its mouth, it becomes far more destructive and lethal to heroes who need to confront the monolithic despoiler.         

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KRUSSH-lings:

        Castoff pieces of KRUSSH can become small, independent KRUSSHes which go on to begin destroying things themselves. These smaller entities were dubbed “KRUSSH-lings” by Bumble Boy. KRUSSH-lings are usually man-sized though as they wreak havoc, some can become larger through the same process of destruction and absorption that fuels the central KRUSSH.