🔴Green Lantern Faces the Sublime "Source Lantern," DC's Most Powerful Lantern Battery Ever🔴
0Green Lantern Faces the Sublime "Source Lantern," DC's Most Powerful Lantern Battery Ever
The Green Lanterns' mythology just got a lot more complicated with the debut of the Source Lantern. The Green Lantern Corps' new rulers, the United Planets, have made a lot of changes since it took over and they're doing whatever they can to enshrine their power.
Across the Emotional Spectrum, various hues have begun to fall. Sinestro's army, the Red Lanterns, and even the peaceful Blue Lanterns have all suffered devastating attacks. The United Planets finally reveal what they've been planning as Hal Jordan discovers the mightiest Central Power Battery he's ever seen in his life.
In Green Lantern #10 by Jeremy Adams, Xermánico, Amancay Nahuelpan, and Romulo Fajardo Jr., Hal Jordan has made it to the Green Lanterns’ base on Oa and reunited with Sojourner ‘Jo’ Mullein. However, Jo is insistent that the two not use their Power Rings, otherwise they’ll be discovered by the Ring Hunters, the United Planets elite guard. Instead, the two Lanterns travel by foot through various ducts and shafts until they make it to the secluded Resistance Corps base deep underneath Oa’s surface.
Hal reunites with his old comrades Two-Six, Salaak, and Kyle Rayner and the Resistance Corps brings Hal up to speed on what the United Planets have been doing. Jo reveals that Corps veterans have been slowly replaced by the United Planets Lanterns, ring-wielders who can channel other parts of the Emotional Spectrum. The debut of the United Planets Lanterns coincided with the United Planets’ leader, Lord Premier Thaaros’ ordering the destruction of the Emotional Spectrum’s Central Power Batteries. Jo takes Hal to another part of Oa to see what Thaaros is attempting to do.
Jo shows Hal the Source Lantern, the United Planets Lanterns’ Central Power Battery, and they witness Thaaros is attempting to unlock its power. With the Orange Lantern Central Power Battery destroyed, Thaaros convinces a volunteer to channel the Orange Lantern power and storm the Source Lantern. Unfortunately, this only results in the Lantern vaporizing himself. Thaaros expresses disappointment that the United Planet’s recently acquired Orange powers didn't unlock the Source Lantern power, but resolves to continue the experiment the next day with a stronger candidate.
Sometime after the dust settled after Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Guardians of the Universe disappeared, temporarily leaving the Green Lantern Corps without leadership. However, control of the Corps was left to the United Planets, who immediately began enacting some bold and controversial choices. Citing the numerous dangers Earth presented, Lord Premier Thaaros placed Sector 2814 under strict quarantine and reassigned every Green Lantern from Earth to a new duty. Unfortunately for the Green Lanterns, this change began one of the most tumultuous chapters in Green Lantern history.