Re: 3600 Sectors?

> Though whether the Guardians would let that affect the activities
> of the GL Corps is at best unclear.  In the preboot 30th century,
> they claimed to respect Earth's wishes to keep GLs offworld after
> the Vidar incident.  But as it turned out, that simply meant that
> they restricted their agent to covert activities.  It seems
> unlikely that they'd have greater respect for the Dominators or the
> Khunds.
>
> More recently, it's clear that the GL Corps has at least attempted
> to operate on Apokolips, albeit with something less than total
> success.  If Darkseid's fair game, I doubt that anyone's really off
> limits as a matter of policy.

I would tend to agree.  The backstory we've been given on the Guardians is
that they were told, by the Source energy that made them immortal and that
powers the Great Battery that the GL's draw their power from, that since it
was Krona's fault that evil had been unleashed in the greater DC universe,
it was their job to police the entire universe.  I don't see them saying to
themselves, "well, these sectors of space are now ruled by sentients who
don't want us around, so we'll just devote our efforts to the parts of the
universe they don't control."  If anything, I'd think that those "empires"
who didn't allow the GLC to operate would automatically be more
suspect...and in fact would be ripe for the Guardians actually trying to
de-throne the despots.  I seem to recall a Silver Age story early in
Sinestro's career that had the Guardians sending him to do just that...take
down a planetary ruler that was oppressing his people.

I'm not sure I'm as comfortable with the Guardians sending GLC members to
Apokolips, though.  My understanding, from the various NEW GODS series, is
that both Apokolips and New Genesis exist outside the mainstream DC
universe...that's why they can only be reached via Boom Tube.  And, if the
GENESIS mini's assertion that the Great Battery on Oa is powered by the
Godwave that came from the Source is true, then logic dictates that the
Source might want to deal with any problems Apokolips causes on its own,
rather than having "mortals" interfere.  I'm not saying that they haven't
had stories indicating that the GLC *tried* to reign in Apokolips...only
that to do so raises some questions that DC hasn't answered yet.

David Peattie