Well now you see the magic water iguanas didn't want Gecko Jesus to take over Atlantis, is was by all rights his right to rule from birth, but as greedy as the magic water iguanas were, they decided to blow Atlantis using several small atomic bombs created from atlas adiamantite. Gecko Jesus was able to escape before the explosion decimated the Atlantian population by 98%. This ending the Atlantian era in ZAMABAZOOMOO.