Left to their own devices, the Corps underwent a major reorganization. The Guardians' failure to take appropriate action during the Crisis led to their decision to depart Oa in the company of their female counterparts, the Zamarons. Authorized to start a massive recruitment, Raker and his fellow Lanterns inducted thousands of new members, bringing total membership up to 3600.īoth the Corps and the Guardians suffered casualties during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Raker returned to Oa, where he convinced the Guardians that taking Apokolips would require an army. Green Lantern Raker Qarrigat sought to remove Darkseid from power, only to be humbled by Darkseid's might. Home to Darkseid, a galactic tyrant, Apokolips was and is a stronghold of evil. The Guardians sought to bring order to the planet known as Apokolips. Initially consisting of only a few dozen agents at a time, the Corps radically increased its numbers approximately 1000 years ago. It is believed that this ideal was adopted and spread throughout the galaxy as a symbol for law and justice and its ability to pierce confusion and uncertainty, eventually resulting in the formation of the Green Lantern Corps, with requisite power rings and lantern-shaped batteries along traditional lines. Allegedly, the first life in the galaxy emerged on an unnamed foggy world, and when they developed a police force-the first in the universe-the constabulary carried a lantern lit with a green chemical flame, hence a corp of Green Lanterns. To arm this new legion of celestial knights, the Guardians created the Power Rings, rings of inconceivably-advanced technology that allowed their wearers to project green beams of energy with which the bearer could conjure objects of any size or shape, limited only by his or her imagination and willpower.Īlthough the connection between the Guardian Oans and the origin of the Green Lantern symbol has yet to be clarified, it has been revealed that the lantern itself has its roots in the first life in the universe. Eventually, they formed their own robotic society where they pursued their own agenda (which often included interfering with and foiling the plans of the Guardians).Ĭhastened by the failure of the Manhunters, the Guardians decided that their newest force of soldiers for good would consist of living beings, ones who had free will and strong moral character. Ultimately, the Guardians overcame their android servants, stripping them of their power and banishing them across the universe. They rebelled against the Guardians and fought a millennia long war that culminated with an attack on the planet Oa. The Manhunters eventually came to resent their servitude and were also viewed as flawed due to their inability to recognize and/or feel fear at all. To enforce their will and guard against alien menaces of all sorts, the Guardians had created a legion of robotic sentinels called the Manhunters about 3.5 billion years ago.

The female Oans, feeling no need to involve themselves in the situation, also left, becoming later known as the Zamarons. They would later found the Darkstars organization. One group, calling itself the Controllers, separated itself from the others and favored using more violent methods to achieve their ends. Some of the Guardians, however, disagreed on how to deal with the chaos that had been unleashed. Finally, it has been stated that it accelerated entropy, shortening the duration of the universe by a billion years. Later still, it was used as the explanation for the existence of parallel universes in the DC Universe (and the creation of the Monitor), which eventually led to the rearrangement of Time itself, as seen in the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Later, it was attributed to have created the Antimatter Universe of Qward. They subsequently settled the planet Oa and declared themselves the Guardians of the Universe and enemies of evil after one of their own, the renegade scientist Krona, performed a forbidden experiment that had terrible consequences for the Universe at large.Įxactly what those consequences were have varied with different versions of the stories originally, it was supposed to have unleashed Evil in the first place. In the early days of the Universe, natives of the overpopulated planet Maltus evolved into immortals of great power.

3.1.2 Crimson Mantle of Command and Corps Leader.

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