Post by Z451 on Feb 26, 2014 0:00:44 GMT
Guardians of the Universe
The Guardians evolved on the planet Maltus, and were among the first intelligent life forms in the universe.
At this time they were tall greyish blue humanoids with black hair, who roughly resembled humans except for their skin color.
They became scientists and thinkers, experimenting on the worlds around them.
One experiment led to the creation of a new species, the Psions.
In a pivotal moment, billions of years ago, a Maltusian named Krona used time-bending technology to observe the beginning of the Universe.
However, this experiment, and later attempts to stop it, unleashed disaster upon all existence.
Originally, the experiment splintered the Universe into the Multiverse and created the evil Anti-Matter Universe of Qward.
Following the retroactive destruction of the Multiverse, it was revealed that Krona flooded the beginning of the Universe with entropy causing it "to be born old".
Feeling responsible for this, the evolved Maltusians relocated to the planet Oa (at "the center of the Universe") and became the Guardians.
Their goal was simple: combat evil and create an orderly universe.
They acted quickly on that goal.
During this period they slowly evolved into their current appearance, losing about half of their height and having their skulls grow larger.
They now act as the leaders of the Green Lantern Corps, an interstellar police force which patrols the universe.
Desiring to bring order, peace and harmony to all the universe, created a mechanized police force, composed of powerful, self-aware androids known as Manhunters.
These Manhunters, resembling uniformed, blue-skinned humanoids, operated as cosmic police officers, much like the later Green Lanterns.
They protected civilization and peace in the Universe for millions of years, patrolling 3600 sectors the cosmos had been divided into.
However, one disastrous day, the Manhunters collectively changed their directives and set out on a campaign to eradicate all organic life.
Starting with Sector 666, they killed the people they had been created to protect, eradicating almost all life in the entire sector before the Guardians managed to stop them.
Most Manhunters were decommissioned after the Massacre of Sector 666, but the ones that escaped became the sworn enemies of their former masters and remained so until modern times.
The Manhunter rebellion led to schisms.
One group (the Controllers) thought that the only way to protect the Universe was to control it.
The female Oans (Zamarons) felt no need to involve themselves in the Universe's problems.
Over the years, both groups evolved to look most unlike the Guardians.
Other groups have also left the Guardians; one such group settled on Earth, becoming the origin for leprechaun legends.
The Manhunters became avowed enemies of the Guardians.
The Apokolips campaign ended with a truce with the Guardians forced to abandon a soldier (Raker Qarrigat) to Darkseid.
Fearing dissension, they ordered all records of the Campaign expunged.
Survivors of the Massacre of Sector 666 - beings others would label demons - banded together to form a nation which opposed all the Guardians stood for, the Empire of Tears, which used dark magics to create a galaxy-spanning realm of chaos and evil.
The Guardians eventually defeated it and imprisoned its leaders, the Five Inversions, on the bleak world of Ysmault.
Thereafter, the Guardians decided magic in general was chaotic and as such a threat to the balance they desired to achieve, and thus labored to destroy, suppress or imprison sources of magic throughout the Universe.
They succeeded in compacting and encasing much of the chaotic magic energy of the Cosmos and imprisoning it inside a star; part of it, however, eventually broke out, travelling through space for a long time as the Starheart.
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At this time they were tall greyish blue humanoids with black hair, who roughly resembled humans except for their skin color.
They became scientists and thinkers, experimenting on the worlds around them.
One experiment led to the creation of a new species, the Psions.
In a pivotal moment, billions of years ago, a Maltusian named Krona used time-bending technology to observe the beginning of the Universe.
However, this experiment, and later attempts to stop it, unleashed disaster upon all existence.
Originally, the experiment splintered the Universe into the Multiverse and created the evil Anti-Matter Universe of Qward.
Following the retroactive destruction of the Multiverse, it was revealed that Krona flooded the beginning of the Universe with entropy causing it "to be born old".
Feeling responsible for this, the evolved Maltusians relocated to the planet Oa (at "the center of the Universe") and became the Guardians.
Their goal was simple: combat evil and create an orderly universe.
They acted quickly on that goal.
During this period they slowly evolved into their current appearance, losing about half of their height and having their skulls grow larger.
They now act as the leaders of the Green Lantern Corps, an interstellar police force which patrols the universe.
Desiring to bring order, peace and harmony to all the universe, created a mechanized police force, composed of powerful, self-aware androids known as Manhunters.
These Manhunters, resembling uniformed, blue-skinned humanoids, operated as cosmic police officers, much like the later Green Lanterns.
They protected civilization and peace in the Universe for millions of years, patrolling 3600 sectors the cosmos had been divided into.
However, one disastrous day, the Manhunters collectively changed their directives and set out on a campaign to eradicate all organic life.
Starting with Sector 666, they killed the people they had been created to protect, eradicating almost all life in the entire sector before the Guardians managed to stop them.
Most Manhunters were decommissioned after the Massacre of Sector 666, but the ones that escaped became the sworn enemies of their former masters and remained so until modern times.
The Manhunter rebellion led to schisms.
One group (the Controllers) thought that the only way to protect the Universe was to control it.
The female Oans (Zamarons) felt no need to involve themselves in the Universe's problems.
Over the years, both groups evolved to look most unlike the Guardians.
Other groups have also left the Guardians; one such group settled on Earth, becoming the origin for leprechaun legends.
The Manhunters became avowed enemies of the Guardians.
The Apokolips campaign ended with a truce with the Guardians forced to abandon a soldier (Raker Qarrigat) to Darkseid.
Fearing dissension, they ordered all records of the Campaign expunged.
Survivors of the Massacre of Sector 666 - beings others would label demons - banded together to form a nation which opposed all the Guardians stood for, the Empire of Tears, which used dark magics to create a galaxy-spanning realm of chaos and evil.
The Guardians eventually defeated it and imprisoned its leaders, the Five Inversions, on the bleak world of Ysmault.
Thereafter, the Guardians decided magic in general was chaotic and as such a threat to the balance they desired to achieve, and thus labored to destroy, suppress or imprison sources of magic throughout the Universe.
They succeeded in compacting and encasing much of the chaotic magic energy of the Cosmos and imprisoning it inside a star; part of it, however, eventually broke out, travelling through space for a long time as the Starheart.
Links
Green Lantern Wiki
Angelfire
Copyright Owner
DC Comics
Record:
W:
L: