Kyla also tells Clark about how the man came from a star that used to be in the sky, but no longer was there" referring to Krypton, which would no longer be visible since it was destroyed. Both Lana and Chloe mention how Clark usually has an impregnable armor around himself to guard ...
5 or 6 figures seems like too much but a sizable portion of SF is cheap easily manufactured automated drones that get sent (and destroyed) in droves meaning they have a lot of padded numbers. When I say they have numbers equivalent to a modern country I don't even mean major milita...