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Guardians of the Universe

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Real Identity: Various
Affiliation(s): Green Lantern Corps
Appearances: Emerald Knights, The First Lantern, and Abin Sur
Powers/Skills: Immortality, Flight, Telekinesis, Telepathy, and Energy Manipulation
Voiced By: Michael Jackson (Ganthet)

One of the universe's oldest races, the Guardians are said to be over five billion years old. The Guardians originated from the planet Maltus. When an arrogant Maltusian scientist named Krona attempted to observe the Great Hand, that supposedly called the universe into being, a blast of cosmic power created an antimatter universe. Since then, it has been a universal law that no one can see the Great Hand. Overcome with guilt, the Maltusian's migrated to the planet the Great Hand formerly occupied, Oa. There, they announced themselves as the Guardians of the Universe, under the mandate that they represent a force of order.

The Guardians saw chaos had outbalanced creation and hate outbalanced fellowship. They gathered the light and sought a solution to the suffering. From the light came a weapon of unrivaled power, four power rings. The Guardians gathered the universe's greatest warriors and selected four among them to be the first Green Lanterns. Focusing their collective energies into a Central Power Battery, the Guardians fueled their rings with the Battery's power. The Guardians forged more rings then formed the Green Lantern Corps and began seeking out worthy aliens throughout the universe to become Green Lanterns. Subsequently, the Guardians arbitrarily mapped out the universe into 3600 sectors and assigned a Green Lantern to each sector.

With the Central Power Battery, the Guardians are essentially immortal and preside over intergalactic matters, despite the wishes of other races to be simply left alone to settle their own problems. While the Guardians retain uniform physical and social features, several of them are more prominent such as the empathic Ganthet and old timer Appa Ali Apsa.

The Guardians of the Universe summoned all Green Lanterns to Oa and assigned them to monitor for Krona's arrival. They ordered an evacuation of Oa and all important documents and artifacts were moved to the Broome-Kane star cluster for safe keeping. Among them, the Guardians moved the Book of Oa and proceeded to relocate the library and Central Power Battery next. Atrocitus saw a vision of the future where the Green Lantern Corps lost a war of light. The Guardians of the Universe were defeated and the Sinestro Corps skinned them alive and feasted on them. Whether this future will happen is yet to be seen.