Sardath

**Sardath** was a Rannian scientist and the father of Alanna Strange.

## Biography

### Thanagarian Invasion

Sardath was the greatest mind and scientist the Rannian race had ever seen. During the first Thanagarian invasion of Rann, Sardath's daughter, Alanna was killed and her husband, Adam vanished, leaving their child, Sardath's granddaughter Aleea alone and without parents. Instead of searching for her and taking her in however, Sardath decided to spend his days helping the war efforts of Rann, in order to take revenge, though a peace treaty was signed at some point, preventing his vengeance to be fulfilled.

### The Zeta Beam Experiment

during the war, Sardath had used his son-in-law's Metagene to gain more control over the mass and direction of the Zeta Beam, a beam of energy capable of teleporting something to another place, which was also responsible for Adam's disappearance
Due to the treaty, Rannians and Thanagarians wanted to both participate in a science experiment together, using the Rannian Zeta Beam technology to create a direct connection between their two planets as a sign of peace. Sardath, as well as the Thanagarian scientist Banth Dar were chosen to oversee said experiment, along with the help of Green Lantern Hal Jordan. First, it seemed that everything was going according to plan, with a ship being transported from Thanagar into Rann's airspace. But while the scientists were celebrating this great success, the Yellow Lantern Sinestro had somehow entered the space station and sabotaged the entire experiment. As result, and despite Lantern Jordan's best efforts, the whole planet of Thanagar was transported directly next to Rann, which resulted in many natural and climate disasters and deaths on both sides. Unable to come to another conclusion, the two races blamed each other and their war began once again. During this time, Sardath decided to build a weapon strong enough to entirely destroy Thanagar. He watnded to use his Zeta Beam in order to teleport the planet again, this time into a super nova, killing every single one on it.

### Visited by Adam Strange and Death

Shortly after his weapon was finished, Sardath was contacted by Rannian officer Jorson, who informed him that Adam Strange, his late daughter’s husband, had returned in order to speak with him. As they spoke through a hologram line, Sardath explained proudly how he was going to use his weapon to commit mass genocide, but Adam begged him not tu use it on them. Sardath was surprised by this, calling it an act of cowardice and brining up his daughter’s death by the hands of the Thanagarians, but Adam still wanted to speak with him in person. Sardath then used a Zeta Beam to teleport him, his also thought-to-be-dead ally Hal Jordan, his replacement as a Lantern John Stewart, the Thanagarian warrior Shayera Hol and the Human vigilante Green Arrow onto his satelite. There, Adam wanted to explain to him why the Thanagarians were innocent in this case, but as soon as they arrived, a warning signal informed them that they had been followed by a Thanagarian Ship. Shayera Hol explained that this was Sinestro and his Corps and Adam and his allies, along eith the stationed Rannian troops, went to the hangar to defend the space station. Shortly after, Hal Jordan came to the control room again to speak to Sardath and convinced him that the experiment had been sabotaged. Sardath then downloaded the codes for the Zeta Beam weapon and gave them to Hal, seeing as he would have no use for them anymore. The others, seemingly having finished Sinestro’s allies, entered the room and Jordan explained to them that he had convinced the Rannian scientist. Sardath then went on to say the only other place the codes were saved in was his mind. Hal Jordan said this was excellent and shot Sardath in the head in order to prevent him from ever using the Zeta Beam, killing him. The others then found out that Jordan was secretly the leader of the Sinestro Corps and had been infected by the fear parasite Parallax and planned to use the Zeta Beam in order to wipe out the entire Universe.

## Abilities

* Science
* High Intellect

## Equipment

* Lab
* Zeta-Beam

## Relationships

Family:

* Alanna Strange † - Daugther
* Adam Strange † - Son-in-Law
* Aleea Strange - Granddaughter

Allies:

* Rannian Military
	+ Kantus †
	+ Jorson
* Thanagarian Science Division
	+ Banth Dar
* John Stewart
* Shayera Hol
* Green Arrow

Enemies:

* Thanagarian Military
* Sinestro Corps
	+ Hal Jordan † - Killer
	+ Thaal Sinestro †

## Trivia

* **Sardath** was created by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky and first appeared in Dc comics in Showcase #17 in December 1958.