Hal Jordan, a test pilot in Coast City, with a normal life, was driving to a date one night in June of 2011 when he was stopped with a sudden crash in a field in the distance of his route. When investigating the crash, he discovers there's way more than human life in the solar system. Protectors who call themselves the Green Lantern Corps. Watching a residing member of the corps pass, the ring of the member then leaves it's host's body and offers Hal the chance of becoming a Green Lantern himself.