Hal Jordan isn't the biggest fan of authority. As a high-ranking peacekeeper in the Green Lantern Corps, he's willing to defy any and all orders if it means getting the job done. So what happens when he becomes the authority? When the Corps gains a...
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"Thank you, Saviour! Thank you!" One of the lifeforms in front of Vell yelled at the top of their lungs.
Vell stood there with her hands planted on her hips and eyes squinted in confusion. Several minutes ago, she used her power ring and a couple tonnes of rock to block a magma flow from consuming a small village on the planet of N'eltu in her home sector. Before long, more members of this strange community joined the stranger and bowed before her, chanting "All hail the Emerald Crusader, all hail the Verdant Saviour!"
Vell thinned her lips and said "Uh...please. Please don't do that."
The lead alien immediately leapt from his kneeling prayer. "The Saviour is displeased with us! Forgive us, almighty Saviour! We must cast ourselves into the lake of fire to atone!"
The townspeople then started towards the now blocked off magma flow.
"Stop!! Don't kill yourselves!" Vell called.
The N'eltuans froze, as if God himself had yelled at them.
"I'm...just going to leave now. Okay? I'm not a god or anything. So don't worship me. That would be stupid." Vell remarked as she kicked the thrust and tore through the planet's atmosphere and into space.
The N'eltuans were extremely superstitious, especially for an interstellar species. The Non-Intervention Protocol dictated that Green Lantern officers must not make contact with any race that has not established a means of interstellar travel; any species that was not ready for alien contact would surely be disrupted beyond repair if the meeting was forced. This also applied to the act of introducing advanced technology to a species not currently capable of understanding it. Vell recalled a log submitted by Lantern Peycurd of Sector 1701 who was discovered by locals of a tribal civilisation, then became worshipped as a God for the might of his power ring. Peycurd was penalised by being demoted several steps, and tasked with fixing his mistake, which he did by showing the divine prophet that he could bleed just as his worshippers could.
However, the N'eltuans had been capable of interstellar travel for centuries, but their primitive ways did not evolve with their technology. They were still obsessed with religion and would be terrified of anything they did not understand. Because of this, Vell was glad to be done with that predicament.
Right now, she was on her way to engage in a top secret briefing on Mogo. She was scheduled to meet a one-time foe on the sentient planet for a debriefing. Ever since the Gornian Encounter, Olengurr has voluntarily been acting as a double agent for the Green Lantern Corps. He's assisted in running reconnaissance on Sinestro's latest project, the construction and establishment of his own personal policing corps. So far, there were only four Yellow Lantern rings in circulation; those belonging to Olengurr and Mortess, one for Arkillo, and of course one for Sinestro himself. Sinestro was working on perfecting his design before he mass-produced the rings. Hopefully, once Olengurr attained enough information, the GL Corps could launch an incursion and exterminate Sinestro's Corps before it even began
