The Book of Oa has a forbidden chapter on cosmic prophecies, which includes the following:Ī face of metal and flesh shall speak of the secrets of the 52.Īnd a war of light will unleash the truth behind the power of the ring.įollowing his defeat in Green Lantern: Rebirth, the events of Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1 Sinestro retreats to the planet Qward in the antimatter universe. The Manhunters were defeated and Henshaw's head was brought to Oa. Hal and Guy found several Green Lanterns, all of whom were assumed to have been killed during the Emerald Twilight saga, and the Manhunters' new grandmaster Hank Henshaw, the Cyborg Superman.

Hal Jordan encountered one on Earth and, with Guy Gardner, followed their trail to Sector 3601. This was largely ignored up until upgraded Manhunters started to appear throughout the universe. It was revealed that after untold millennia, the Weaponers of Qward, Ranx the Sentient City, the Children of the White Lobe, and the Empire of Tears will rise united against the Green Lantern Corps. The yellow ring then sought a replacement and selected Amon Sur, the disgruntled son of Abin Sur, who was on Earth attempting to steal Hal Jordan's ring. However, Batman's willpower combined with his previous brief exposure to a power ring allowed him to reject the yellow ring before it took him to be properly trained and molded into one of Sinestro's soldiers. ĭuring this time, the Sinestro Corps attempted to recruit Batman, known even to some alien races for his formidable ability to instill fear in others. Members recruited include Karu-Sil, raised by animals Despotellis, a sentient virus capable of attacking Lanterns from the inside and Bedovian, the sniper of the Corps, capable of taking out a target from three sectors away. Arkillo also serves as the Sinestro Corps' drill sergeant, similar to Kilowog's role in the GLC. Although the Sinestro Corps uses fear, and opposes the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians, Sinestro has stated their goal is to bring order to the universe, which he claims the Guardians have failed to do.Īrkillo, a large and muscular vicious alien, is enslaving all the Qwardian Weaponers and forcing them to continuously build new yellow rings which are programmed to breach the barrier between the antimatter and matter universes to find and recruit new ring-wielders. Qward also has a huge yellow Central Battery on its surface like the one used on Oa. The members of the Sinestro Corps work in sectors, like the Green Lantern Corps. Members of the Corps are immediately taken to Qward to '.be subjected to psychological and physical reconditioning'. Recruitment drive The Sinestro Corps gathers on Qward.Īfter the Green Lantern Corps was restarted with the return of Hal Jordan, the Sinestro Corps began actively recruiting members, offering yellow power rings and a role in the Corps to those who can 'instill great fear'. From there, Parallax and Sinestro were able to influence the fall of Hal Jordan and instigate the fall of the Green Lantern Corps, leaving one last Green Lantern: Kyle Rayner. There he was able to use his ring, which uses fear, as opposed to willpower, as a power source, to awaken Parallax from hibernation. After various encounters with Earth's Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, he was imprisoned within the Central Power Battery. When he returned, he wielded a power ring which used yellow energy. When asked what Corps he belongs to, Booster ad-libbed, 'The.Sinestro Corps', leading Sinestro to twirl his mustache in thought while mumbling, 'Of course.Of course.' Īfter Sinestro went rogue, he was banished by the Guardians of the Universe to Qward in the antimatter universe.

To do so, he convinced Sinestro to leave Earth, claiming that he was an admirer from the future, and that his yellow Legion of Super-Heroes flight ring was a tribute to Sinestro. Booster Gold was assigned to prevent this from happening. Thaal Sinestro, at the time the universe's greatest Green Lantern, was sent to Earth by Supernova in a plot to erase Guy Gardner from history. This caused green power rings to be weak to the color yellow, and Parallax subsequently became known as the 'yellow impurity' over time. The Parallax entity is a space parasite that is the embodiment of fear that was imprisoned within the Central Power Battery on Oa. Main articles: Parallax (comics), Sinestro, and Green Lantern: Rebirth

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