Question: Green Lantern of Krypton

[Drifter]

Hi there, I know this has been asked before, but I froget the answer and a friend was asking me about it. Was there not a Green Lanetern assigned to the sector of Krypton before it went ka-boom? and if so, where were they when the planet blew?

Hope someone can help!

[Typo Lad]

Tomar Re of Xundar was the GL of Krypton's Sector, 2813.

[Drifter]

Tomar Re of Xundar was the GL of Krypton's Sector, 2813.

thanks, do u know if he/she/it was aware of the oppending doom of krypton? was anything done to try and protect it?

[Typo Lad]

I know there was a astory done about it, but someone else will have to do the honor of giving the details.

[Expletive Deleted]

From GLCorps.org (http://www.glcorps.org/tomar-re.html):Soon after completing his probationary period, Tomar-Re was dispatched on a mission to rescue the population of Krypton. The Guardians had at this point considered making the Green Lantern Corps independent of Oa. They prophesied the offspring of Jor-El and Lara of Krypton in Space Sector 2813 would be genetically perfect, and an ideal future leader of the Corps.

The Guardians had discovered that Krypton was due to explode due to radioactive instability in the planet's core. Krypton would not be saved by the Green Lantern Corps. If the world was not annihilated within a short number of years, Krypton's erratic magnetic field would disrupt many of its neighboring stars leading to even more death. Tomar-Re was assigned to delay the planet's destruction until the Kryptonians could discover their plight and act upon that knowledge.

Evacuation of the population was not an option. Two hundred fifty thousand years ago, a device called the "eradicator" was developed as weapon against alien intervention. The eradicator created a defect in the natives' genetic structure designed to "tie" the Kryptonians to their homeworld. The Green Lantern worked unseen by the natives of Krypton.
[Act ANNUAL # 2]

Tomar-Re scoured the sector for the element "stellarium", which would absorb the radiation that threatened to tear apart Krypton. It took months to gather enough of the element, but Tomar-Re worked feverishly to complete his task. It was in the Ariel star system that Tomar-Re found a deposit of stellarium. As he mined the element, Tomar-Re had failed to notice Ariel itself was unstable. The star went nova, and would have killed the Green Lantern but for the power ring's protection. Tomar-Re was blinded by the nova's yellow radiation.

He flew blind through space with the stellarium in tow. The power ring guided him across hundreds of light years. Tomar-Re was confused and exhausted by his virtually non-stop work. Unfortunately, the Xudarian Green Lantern was too late to save Krypton. His vision returned in time to see the planet explode in a ball of radioactive fire.
[SMAN # 247]

Kal-El of Krypton would be protected from capture at the hands of the Manhunters during his space-journey by members of the Green Lantern Corps. The starship would arrive on Earth, its sole occupant adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent. Named Clark Kent, the baby would grow up to become Earth's greatest hero, Superman. The Guardians had realized Kal-El would be physically superior to the people of Earth, but even they were surprised by his super-human powers. Though they would occasionally guide the Man of Steel, Superman's destiny was now his own.

As the years passed, Tomar-Re earned his legendary status in the Green Lantern Corps. The emerald warrior of Space Sector 2813 developed the "Zathon Ray Communicator" to warn of disasters on other worlds in his sector. The people of Xudar were staunch supporters of the Green Lantern Corps and of Tomar-Re.
[GL2 # 6]

[Drifter]

wow, detailed, thanx!

[davids]

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[davids]

http://superman.ws/tales2/worldofkrypton.php