Guardians of the Universe (Earth-7642)

The **Guardians of the Universe** are a group of immortal Oans who organized and run the Green Lantern Corps. They have been trying to bring order to the universe for eons, with varying success.

## History

### Background

The organization's roots start on the planet Maltus, and they were possibly the first intelligent life forms in the Universe. At this time they were tall greyish blue humanoids with black hair. In the early days of the universe, they were a war-filled race. Sometime later, 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. This experiment flooded the beginning of the Universe with entropy causing it "to be born old".

Feeling responsible for this, some of the Maltusians relocated to the planet Oa (at "the center of the Universe") and became the Guardians of the Universe. Their goal was simple: combat evil and create an orderly universe, and they acted quickly on that goal. During this period they also changed to their current appearance.

### Campaigns

* Before life existed on Earth, they learned how to manipulate what they called "the Glow", and eventually created a Central Power Battery to store this energy. This "energy" was actually the collective willpower of the inhabitants of the universe, and the center energy field of the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum. Accessing and manipulating this willpower gave the Guardians an ultimate tool to pursue their goals.
* Hunting down those who preyed on the weak, they captured a fear elemental, Parallax. They imprisoned the creature in the Central Battery, hoping to lock it away forever.
* After the Celestials were using the infinity stones for destroying and recreating the universe, the Guardians decided that the Celestials were to dangerous to let them do as they please, and so imprisoned them in the Anti-Matter Universe.
* Robotic Manhunters were created to patrol the Universe. The Manhunters rebelled, believing they were superior to the Guardians and should be in control, and were exiled. Since the Arions were the only species from the Massacre of Sector 666 to survive. The Guardians reached an accord with the Arions, the Guardians would turn a blind eye to their illegal activities in exchange for their silence about the truth of the Massacre of Sector 666.
* After the failed experiment with the Manhunters, the Guardians invented other ways of opposing evil in the universe. The Green Glob was an intelligent teaching machine created from their emerald energy, programmed to educate mortals all over the universe and able to briefly alter reality to do so.
* The Halla's, an intergalactic police corps wielding power guns channeling the emerald energy, was a short-lived successor of the Manhunters and a precursor to the successful Green Lantern Corps.
* Finally, the Green Lantern Corps was established to replace the Manhunters and the Halla's. These troops were given some of the power of the Central Power Battery, accessed through a ring. Due to Parallax's imprisonment in the Battery, these rings had no effect on the color yellow, which Parallax was attuned to through the Emotional Spectrum; this "flaw" was used as a limitation to control the Green Lanterns in case of their corruption.
* Millennia ago after a protracted war they achieved an accord with the Reach, an alien race who turned out to be the source of the Blue Beetle Scarab bonded to Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes).
* The magic-wielding Empire of Tears was subjugated and imprisoned on the throneworld and tombworld of Ysmault.
* Trying to remove magic from the Universe, they bound as much magical energy as possible into an orb called the Starheart. This would eventually become the ring and lantern of Alan Scott.
* The expanding religious empire known as the Universal Church of Truth caught the attention of the Guardians of the Universe after a long crackdown on the church, the guardians outlawed the religion. Unbeknownst to the Oans, the Church survived in the form of the Believers, a remnant of the Church, led by the Sovereign and headquartered on the planet of the same name. As a result, the Church was all but forgotten while the Green Lantern Corps focused their efforts on preserving the new age of peace in the Universe.
* The mad god that was the entire Sector 3600 was defeated by the Guardians and was constrained by a matrix of their making. By showing the sector that they were its superiors, the Guardians had imprisoned it for all time.
* They reached an accord with the Spider Guild whereby they and their operatives would stay out of Vegan space. Due to this agreement the Omega Men have become the only peacekeepers in their sector.
* Against Apokolips, they waged a war. They tried several times to infiltrate Darkseid's home, finally deciding on a war against his rule. Their troops were brutally defeated with two-thirds dead. The attack on Apokolips ended with a truce.
* The Guardians guided Kal-El (Superman) on his journey to earth.