Green Lantern #2

[lordultimus]

Comments

[dcbanacek]

Wouldn't it have made more sense to have kept the Lanterns in those sectors but put them under the "United Planets Brigade" authority during emergencies?

The Lantern rings ARE (supposedly) the most powerful weapon/tool in the Universe. Only limited by the will and imagination of the wielder (and whatever weaknesses the writer wants that will add tension to a scene). Are the Redshirts of the UPB going to have the tech to equal that? Does anyone aside from Apokolips and New Genesis?

Kryptonians and Daxamites are problem the most powerful races out there, if not under a red sun, however even Superman would admit that the rings can do things he can't. (Unless its Silver Age Superman)

[beyondthefringe]

Made sense, sure.
But this is clearly a case of jurisdictional head-up-ass, kind of like folding all sorts of agencies into Homeland Security, where all of a sudden, they're butting heads and forced to play nice with former not-quite-rivals. And in this instance, it means scaling back the GLC even if it's a bad idea.

Not the first time that the Guardians have had treaties regarding certain regions. They used to have a non-interference agreement with the Vega system and with Apokalips.

One might even wonder why the GLC's area of coverage was ever limited at all. Why 3600 sectors instead of 5000? Why 3600/7200 Lanterns instead of 10000 or even more? Why are there unexplored territories even after all this time? Because the Guardians are only so powerful and the Lantern only has so much juice and the Corps can only support so much logistics. So maybe redistributing their focus is a good thing (or would be if the other events of this issue hadn't occurred.)

(And that's not even taking into account the sheer size of the universe when you really think about it--for all intents and purposes, the Guardians probably only oversee a handful of locally-clustered galaxies at best. (Seriously, how big is a sector? Just one galaxy alone contains BILLIONS of stars and planets, and sentient life is common enough in the DCU to support the creation of the United Planets... You could fit every single alien species ever depicted in the DCU into one tiny little corner like a "you are here" dot and still not even have to leave this arm of the galaxy.) (So are we talking the Milky Way? The Local Cluster? The Virgo Supercluster? Let's get ambitious--the Guardians of the "Universe" claim dominion over the whole Laniakea Supercluster--a whopping 100,000 galaxies... so each pair of Lanterns only has to look after 27 galaxies.)

Yeah, when you stop and consider it, comic book science never makes any sense in terms of scope of impact. And my head hurts.

[bruinsfan]

It seems odd to me that the GLC would have to step down such a big share of its oversight. Perhaps things have changed in one of the many, MANY reboots, but my understanding was that the Corps spanned the entire universe, and each Lantern's sector normally covered multiple galaxies. Most of the current worlds involved in the nascent United Planets are extremely local to Earth's solar system: Rann (Alpha Centauri), Thanagar (Polaris), Tamaran (Vega), etc.

[christianconnor]

At one stage in comics history, Oa was the centre of the universe and each sector was a triangular wedge coming out of Oa. Like the universe was divided up like a dart board.

So sectors weren't even based around galaxies, let alone clusters. A sector boundary could cut right through a densely populated galaxy. Presumably galaxies could move to different boundaries.