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It's kinda funny, the flight rings working like GL rings. Almost fitting...speaking of which, why haven't there ever been that many GL's in the 30th century? Rond Vidar is the only one I can think of off the top of my head...
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Something about the Guardians keeping them away from Earth. Vidar, Rond's father, was a rogue GL before he was stripped of his ring and went on to become Universo.
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As I recall they were banned from Earth on Mondays!
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Still, with all the planet hopping the Legion does, and all the "Universal Threats" to crop up, you'd think you'd have seen more of them...
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It *is* curious they didn't show up in Great Darkness. Or the Magic Wars. Or umpteen other billions of universe wide crises...
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There had to be something behind the Lanterns not being around.
The Trapper is controlling the Guardians? The Time Trapper said the Legion is what always kept Mordu in check. Why not the Lanterns?
Are there less Lanterns in the future? Did they kept wiped out by Mordu? Or a scheme by Mordu followers keeping the GLs down?
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Pre-ZH, we never saw more than a handful of GLs at a time. Maybe there weren't that many left? Maybe Oa's heyday was over, and they knew it. In GL continuity, remember, Earth of the year 6400 (or thereabouts) needed a time-travelling Hal Jordan (or Salaak); they had no GL of their own.
In 5YL, Celeste encounters a ring in flashback, just prior to her transformation, but it's implid that its purpose is not immediately evident; thus we can surmise GLs are not as well known in 30 as they were in 20.
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Yeah, wasn't Celeste the recipient of the last of the Green Lantern energy?
The absence of the Guardians, for whatever reason, could also explain why the Controllers are suddenly taking a more active interest in the affairs of the Universe.
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Maybe the creation of the Legion is a direct result (from the Trapper's POV) of the GL being "weak".
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quote:Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare: In 5YL, Celeste encounters a ring in flashback, just prior to her transformation, but it's implid that its purpose is not immediately evident; thus we can surmise GLs are not as well known in 30 as they were in 20.
Celeste got the ring off of a corpse, and referred to it as "Jewelry". She didn't know what the GLs were, and she was never portrayed as a shut in, so it can be surmised that GLs just weren't in circulation in the 30th....but why?
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I can think of at least 2 "working with what you have" explanations:
1) The universe is a REALLY big place, even for the Guardians. 3,600 Lanterns spread over the whole universe is spread pretty thin. You could argue that, by the 30th Century, Earth and the U.P. had gotten their act together enough that the Guardians turned their scarce resources elsewhere. Doesn't explain the Great Darkness, unfortunately. Wonder if Levitz ever thought about a scene where Darkseid banished Oa with his Omega Beams, or dispatched a few hundred thousand Daxamites to bottle Oa and the Lanterns up?
2) The story Levitz wrote about Vidar (Universo), the Legion and the GLC involved the Time Institute. Basically, Circadia Senius and Brainy were using the Time Institute to explore the beginning of the universe, saw the old "hand at the beginning of time" schtick with the cosmic lightning bolt. This brought down the wrath of the Oans and the Lanterns. In retaliation, Earth banned the Corps. One might extrapolate that Earth's prominence led all the UP to similarly ban the GLC. So, the Oans were "honor bound" not to interfere with the Great Darkness, Magic Wars, etc.
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