It still amuses me no end that Krypton is a Crux world. There's something fundamentally flawed with the prime universe if it picked "the planet that almost always blows up prematurely" as one of its "planets that must be protected at all costs" worlds. I'm sure that the other universes are having a good chuckle over that.
I mean, it is highly known for science, which attracted others like Braniac to the planet. And of course one of the most iconic superheroes among pop culture came from there. So I can understand why it's considered a Crux world that was left unprotected unfortunately. But yeah, one of the most important planets in the DCU always blowing up prematurely is definitely flawed lol
I don't know, Krypton blew up what, 40 years ago? Before that Krypton did its thing for hundreds (thousands?) of years.
Died a victim of its own hubris as well, not like the Corps failed to stop an invasion of what have you. Don’t really consider it’s death to be a failure of the Corps although I do think it speaks to the inefficiency of the GLC. How many worlds die simply because there aren’t enough Lanterns to cover anything? DC Cosmic gets really grim dark if you think about it lol.
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The low density of Green Lanterns is one of the (many) reasons I balk at the notion of portraying the GLC as some sort of "cosmic police force." There's frankly not enough of them to "keep the peace" throughout the universe, by a few orders of magnitude. And that's okay - they're not cops. They're wandering knights, given the charge to do good deeds in their sectors as they see fit (within certain defined rules), and answering to the inscrutable whims of the Guardians when they choose to give direct commands.
And that's the thing about the Guardians - they take the billion-year view. The ephemeral political concerns of a star system (or, indeed, of a galaxy) shouldn't necessarily concern them. Their stratagems play out over geological time. So, while they may have mysterious and unknowable plans relating to things like "Crux worlds" and things like that, most of the time they aren't particularly concerned by whether a Green Lantern rescues a random planet from a supernova, or puts a stop to a random planetary despot on Beta Regula IX, or something. But they might. They also might order a GL to rescue a space cat on a distant planet. They're weird, they see the big picture, and they don't like to share it.
So the GLs patrol/roam their sectors, doing good. Some of them anal-retentively try to prioritize the threats in their sectors, maximizing their efficiency. Others spend most of their time protecting their homeworlds/systems, mostly venturing out only when beckoned by the Guardians. Some explore, seeking out adventure. Others, not so much.
At least, that's how I see it.