Barry pondered for a long while before finally deciding to tell Jor-El what would happen in the future.
He could tell that this man was extremely dependable. More importantly, he must have held considerable status on Krypton; otherwise, he would not have been able to bring home a child who should have been destroyed without the Council discovering it.
To some extent, Al's home was very likely outside the Council's jurisdiction. That meant he could use this to interfere with the future.
Barry first asked Al for a sheet of paper. As he wrote, he asked, "You can understand the Green Lantern Corps' cosmic coordinates, right?"
"'Sectors'?"
"Exactly."
"We can. They differ from the coordinates we commonly use, but they can be converted."
Barry wrote down a string of words and letters on the paper. After handing it to Al, he said, "This is where your son will live after Krypton is destroyed. The star system is called the Solar System, and the planet is called Earth. It should have the star you need."
Al was not shocked by the fact that Krypton would be destroyed. Instead, he looked as though he had expected it. He took the paper and looked it over before saying in surprise, "That far away?"
"Yes." Barry began writing and drawing again, then said, "What you need to do now is build a spacecraft that can automatically travel here and land precisely at this location on Earth."
Barry handed him another sheet of paper. Al saw that it was a map with several continents drawn on it, and an X marked at a certain point on one of them.
"There, your son Kal-El will meet adoptive parents who love him dearly. He will spend a happy childhood and youth there, then go to Metropolis for