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This article contains despoiler forGreen Lantern#7 .
In an unexpected spin , Darkseidhas just created the first of a unexampled generation ofGreen Lanterns . The Green Lantern Corps is facing its darkest day yet . ThePower Core on Oa has been put down , stripping almost every Green Lantern of their powers . The outlive Green Lanterns are scattered across the galaxy , suddenly vulnerable , and they naturally have a deal of enemies . Already amplitude have been placed on the head of the Green Lanterns , and they ’re being hunted down .
John Stewart is seek to rally the survivors , and he ’s accumulate together a group of oldtimer Green Lanterns to reply to crises and rescue their fellow Lanterns . They ’re presently on their path to the satellite Anacitus , in response to a desperate cry for help from the Green Lantern Kilowog . On the way there , John Stewart finds himselfconfronted by a mysterious being cite Lonar , one of the New Gods of New Genesis . " I ’m here to watch out you save the universe , " Lonar tells Stewart . " Or destroy it . One or the other . " Those baleful words launchGreen Lantern#7 , by Geoffrey Thorne and Tom Raney .
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Lonar is the God of Journeys , and he ravish John Stewart back in meter to the first encounter between the beings who would become the Guardians of the Universe and the New Gods . Stewart initially watches this ancient war , but he finds himself unable to resist get involved when a New God named Uxas excision loose with a artillery called a Soul Cannon . " That weapon is n’t the Omega Force , " Lonar tell him , advert toUxas ' destiny to become Darkseid , " but it will put down what it touches nonetheless . " John Stewart dives in , and is blast by the Soul Cannon … only to be transformed by the experience . As Lonar explain , John Stewart has just evolved into something new .
Lonar is the God of Journeys , an broker of modification and phylogenesis . He clear take John Stewart to the right mo in account to ensure he was expose to specific energy that would , in his words , " develop " the Green Lantern . The colour scheme of John Stewart ’s new costume suggests this development has metamorphose him into the first of a new contemporaries of Green Lantern ; note the shimmering sphere of energy in Stewart ’s chest , suggesting his body has now become a major power assault and battery itself , no longer needing the Power Core on Oa .
The current crisis has brought the Green Lantern Corps to the threshold of death , but Lonar clearly believes that now - even as theGreen Lanterns are being hunted- they can modify and evolve . His words evoke this is a turn full point in galactic history , one that will either lay aside the universe or destroy it , presumptively calculate on whether theGreen Lanternslearn how to bug into the same big businessman John Stewart now handle - and what they choose to do with it . It is ironic , then , that the key to this evolution was found millennium ago , in the being doom to becomeDarkseid , whose mystical Soul Cannons were just what was needed .
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