Recaps

After returning from the Marvel Universe with captured ships and supplies, He-El reassured New Krypton’s leaders that he could handle the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance. He arrived at the Moon War Base and reviewed the alliance’s latest assault beyond the Oort Cloud Ring Perimeter Defense Line.

• The Mechanical Corps and Seven Lantern Corps salvaged Cosmic Emperor He-El’s ships and equipment after He-El killed him and routed his forces.
• Father Izaya warned He-El that lifting martial law could leave New Krypton vulnerable to the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance’s war of attrition.
• He-El told Father Izaya that his power had surpassed the star level and that Zero could use his knowledge of cosmic power and the Omega Effect to overcome the Zeroers’ knowledge blockade.
• Athena said nothing had happened worth He-El’s attention, while Kal-El, Father Izaya, and Scarface concluded that the alliance was no match for his return.
• He-El entered the Moon War Base command room and examined a hologram of star-level enemies and fleets attacking beyond the Solar System’s Oort Cloud defenses.

He-El ordered New Krypton to kill Lobo Rob, a stellar-class fighter serving the Oa Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance, as another battle began at the Solar System’s perimeter. Kal-El, Athena, and Father Izaya pledged their forces, leaving New Krypton poised to break the long-standing balance and risk a wider war.

• The Mechanical Corps dismantled the warships and cosmic motherships captured from Cosmic Emperor He-El’s forces, bringing New Krypton a vast haul of resources.
• He-El examined Lobo Rob’s image while Kal-El explained the bounty hunter’s history and his sporadic appearances in battles along the Oort Cloud Ring Perimeter Defense Line.
• Kal-El described how the Oa Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance’s war of attrition had consumed most of New Krypton’s military resources while neither side had lost a stellar-class powerhouse.
• He-El calmly ordered his forces to kill Lobo Rob, despite the risk that capturing and killing a stellar-class fighter would ignite a larger war.
• Kal-El accepted the order, Athena promised the Divine Realm’s support for General Karu, and Father Izaya joined the campaign before He-El declared that no one could oppose his conquest.

He-El sent Hela to study New Krypton and earn the strength and knowledge needed to command her own corps. He then heard Scarface explain why she had brought the Seven Lantern Corps to New Krypton, convinced that He-El’s conquest would bring stability to the universe.

• He-El ordered Ciri to show Hela around New Krypton and send her to the War Academy, explaining that she must prove herself before leading soldiers.
• He-El allowed Hela to choose soldiers and build a corps under her command, and Hela vowed to forge an invincible corps.
• Ciri took Hela away from the command room to familiarize her with New Krypton.
• He-El questioned Scarface about joining New Krypton and establishing the Seven Lantern Corps there.
• Scarface said she had supported New Krypton because she believed its conquest would secure the universe and its people, and added that her power could not be left to drift among the stars.

He-El welcomed Scarface’s Seven Lantern Corps into New Krypton and ordered her to deliver an ultimatum to the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance. Scarface accepted her role in the coming war as He-El declared that the universe would bear New Krypton’s name.

• He-El learned that Zhang Beihai’s Green Lantern Corps remained outside New Krypton’s core because Zero did not trust Scarface.
• Scarface explained that only her Green and Yellow Lantern Corps were complete, while the other five remained incomplete because she lacked their power sources and faced obstruction from the Guardians of the Universe.
• He-El admitted Scarface’s Seven Lantern Corps into New Krypton, and Scarface chose to support him because she believed New Krypton would prevail.
• He-El ordered Scarface to tell the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance that he had returned and demand submission or face destruction.
• Scarface knelt and accepted the order as He-El declared that the name of the universe would be New Krypton.

He-El learned that the Shinigami World had become New Krypton’s research and supply base, with the Death Legion ready to join the coming war. He-El heard of Rangiku Matsumoto’s death and her son’s resentment toward him, then asked Savitar how he felt.

• Scarface led Sinestro and the Green Lantern Corps commander away to announce He-El’s return to the Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance on Oa Star.
• He-El learned from Aizen that the Shinigami World had completed Reishi Energy Conversion Equationization and could send its Bleach forces to fight for New Krypton.
• Gin told He-El that Rangiku Matsumoto had died before the research was completed and that her son resented the father he had never met.
• He-El ordered Aizen, Ichimaru Gin, and Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni to prepare the Death Legion for the coming war and set aside other matters.
• After the three leaders left the command room, He-El asked Savitar how he felt.

He-El met with Savitar and Reverse-Flash, whose Speed Legion was running short of energy for the coming war. He gave them an Earth-sized Speed Force Crystal and promised New Krypton would eventually make the Speed Force a permanent force of the universe.

• He-El asked Savitar how he felt as commander of the Speed Legion, which he and Reverse-Flash had formed with Zero’s support.
• Savitar reported that the Speed Legion lacked enough Speed Force energy to sustain the war.
• He-El examined the Speed Genes Savitar and Reverse-Flash had developed after losing access to the Speed Force of The Flash world.
• He-El produced a Speed Force Crystal the size of Earth and sent it to Savitar, promising that New Krypton would eventually have its own Speed Force Wall.
• Savitar and Reverse-Flash knelt and fervently accepted the crystal from He-El.

He-El reunited with Zero and transferred knowledge drawn from the six Infinity Stones to help her and the Mechanical Corps grow stronger. Zero left with the AllSpark and instructions to overcome the technological blockade imposed by the world of The Three-Body Problem.

• After Savitar and Reverse-Flash left, Zero formed a body of liquid metal before He-El and told him she had feared losing the New Krypton he created.
• He-El reassured Zero that they mattered more than New Krypton and that they could build again if necessary.
• He-El transmitted knowledge about the Infinity Stones and the universe’s underlying forces into Zero, storing the information she could not hold in the AllSpark.
• He-El gave Zero the AllSpark and ordered her to use the knowledge to remake herself, strengthen the Mechanical Corps, and break the technological blockade imposed by the world of The Three-Body Problem.
• Zero accepted the AllSpark and agreed to follow He-El’s instructions.

The Guardians of the Universe called the Oa Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance’s Stellar-class leaders to account for turning their anti-He-El coalition into a trading market. When one leader suggested destroying the Solar System, another reminded the gathering that He-El had killed Darkseid.

• More than two hundred civilizations reshaped Oa Star into the Oa Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance, which had become a prosperous trading hub within a century.
• The Stellar-class leaders gathered at the decade-long meeting and spent it bargaining, advertising goods, and arranging trades.
• A Guardian of the Universe demanded that the leaders remember why the alliance had been founded: to stand against He-El.
• The leaders argued that trade did not conflict with their efforts against New Krypton and questioned why the Guardians had not simply destroyed the Solar System.
• One leader asked whether they had forgotten He-El, the man who killed Darkseid.

The Stellar-class powerhouses of the Oa Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance argued over whether He-El, Emperor of New Krypton, was truly dead after killing Darkseid. The chapter left them divided between confidence in the alliance’s strength and fear that He-El might return, since they believed none of them could stand against him.

• The Stellar-class powerhouses fell silent as they recalled Darkseid’s past attacks and the threat he had posed.
• A powerhouse said He-El had perished with Darkseid in the Black Domain, while others questioned his death because his remains had never been found.
• The powerhouses noted that Darkseid’s ability to kill beings of their rank was gone, but He-El had already proved strong enough to kill Darkseid himself.
• Some alliance members claimed its two hundred Stellar-class powerhouses could defeat any threat, while others warned that those who had never faced Darkseid underestimated him.
• An ancient powerhouse said the younger members would learn the truth through defeat, and another admitted that none of them could withstand He-El if he returned.

Young and ancient Stellar-class powerhouses argued over the Oa Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance’s cautious war against New Krypton, with the young demanding action and accusing the elders of cowardice. They agreed to reward those who captured New Krypton’s Stellar-class combatants with Trade Council shares, then turned to the seventeen Guardians of the Universe.

• Young Stellar-class powerhouses dismissed the elders’ warnings about Darkseid and claimed the Alliance’s two hundred members could defeat New Krypton.
• An ancient Stellar-class powerhouse challenged the young to face General Karu or one of the Twelve Olympians and explained that Darkseid’s absence and the Emperor of New Krypton’s disappearance emboldened them.
• Young powerhouses demanded an assault on the Solar System, unaware that Earth’s stability was crucial to the universe and the Antimatter Universe.
• A young powerhouse proposed awarding Trade Council shares to those who captured New Krypton’s Stellar-class combatants, and both young and ancient powerhouses approved.
• After trading insults over who would claim the rewards, the Stellar-class powerhouses turned toward the seventeen Guardians of the Universe.

The seventeen Guardians of the Universe discussed how to weaken New Krypton and agreed to capture its stellar-class powerhouses by forming teams through the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance. Before they could announce the plan, they received alarming information from the Oort Cloud Ring Perimeter Defense Line.

• The Guardians of the Universe worried that He-El might return and that New Krypton’s allies would make it difficult to resist him.
• The Guardians regretted losing Father Izaya and the Olympian Gods to New Krypton, despite their past ties and support for them.
• The Guardians agreed to use trade-share allocations to form teams of at least twenty-five stellar-class powerhouses to capture New Krypton’s forces.
• The seventeen Guardians received information from the Oort Cloud Ring Perimeter Defense Line and cried out in shock.

The Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance learned that New Krypton had struck first, with nearly all its stellar-level powerhouses attacking and capturing Lobo Rob. After watching the footage, the Alliance's powerhouses declared that the war should begin.

• The Guardians of the Universe revealed that New Krypton had already acted before the Alliance could capture its stellar-level powerhouses.
• The Guardians showed footage of Athena, Hera, Apollo, Father Izaya, General Kal-El, and New Krypton's forces deploying at the Solar System's Oort Cloud Ring Perimeter Defense Line.
• New Krypton's stellar-level powerhouses trapped Lobo Rob in a divine prison and repeatedly attacked him until he could no longer regenerate.
• Athena and the Olympian Gods took the incapacitated Lobo Rob away, while the Alliance's powerhouses showed little concern for his fate.
• A young stellar-level powerhouse called for war, and the Alliance's powerhouses agreed to let the war begin.

The Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance's Stellar-class powerhouses welcomed the prospect of war after New Krypton captured Lobo Rob, while the Guardians of the Universe feared New Krypton's true intentions and worried about Earth. The Guardians considered whether New Krypton was declaring war, then wondered what it could have that would give it the confidence to do so.

• Alliance powerhouses celebrated Lobo Rob's capture as a pretext to destroy New Krypton and divide the universe's spoils.
• Older powerhouses warned against underestimating New Krypton's veterans, though most still believed the Alliance's overwhelming numbers would win.
• The Guardians of the Universe worried that New Krypton's move might threaten Earth or signal a counterattack.
• The Guardians recalled that they had formed the Alliance to contain New Krypton and protect Earth, not to rule the universe.
• A Guardian noted that Zero acted with absolute rationality, leading the others to consider that New Krypton might be declaring war.
• The Guardians questioned how New Krypton could dare to fight the Alliance and concluded, 'Unless...'

The Guardians of the Universe urged caution over attacking New Krypton, warning that He-El, its Emperor, may have returned. As young stellar-level powerhouses demanded war and dismissed the danger, Scarface entered the conference area and confronted the Guardians.

• The Guardians of the Universe explained that New Krypton and the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance had remained in a stalemate, and that He-El had begun a counteroffensive.
• Young stellar-level powerhouses demanded retaliation after New Krypton targeted Lobo Rob, while older veterans suspected the Guardians had a reason to hesitate.
• A Guardian of the Universe revealed that He-El may have returned and reminded the assembly that he had beaten Darkseid to death.
• Several young powerhouses dismissed the threat and challenged the Guardians to let them face He-El.
• Scarface entered the conference area, pushed back her hood, and called the Guardians of the Universe rotten.

Scarface entered the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance meeting grounds, where the Guardians of the Universe and gathered Star-level powerhouses confronted and trapped her. She revealed that she had come as New Krypton's envoy.

• A Guardian of the Universe recognized Scarface as a traitor, and the Guardians and Star-level powerhouses reacted with anger and contempt.
• Ganthet demanded to know how Scarface had entered the meeting grounds, while Scarface condemned the Guardians for relying on Green Lantern technology.
• A Guardian sealed space, physical particles, and psychic power across the meeting grounds, revealing that the defenses had been meant to trap New Krypton's forces.
• Scarface remained calm despite her psychic power being restricted as the Star-level powerhouses mocked New Krypton's prospects.
• Scarface dismissed the gathered powerhouses as insignificant and announced that she had come as New Krypton's envoy.

Scarface announced that He-El had returned and offered the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance a chance to surrender to New Krypton. The alliance’s young stellar-level powerhouses dismissed He-El as a future stepping stone, while the Guardians of the Universe feared their confidence would provoke disaster; the meeting ended with someone asking what surrender entailed.

• Ganthet interrupted a young stellar-level powerhouse and asked Scarface what New Krypton wanted.
• Scarface said He-El had returned and sent her to offer the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance a chance to surrender.
• The Guardians of the Universe reacted with shock, recognizing He-El as the one who had killed Darkseid and the strongest being in the universe.
• Several young stellar-level powerhouses declared that they would defeat He-El and prove their invincibility.
• A mechanical voice asked what surrender entailed.

Brainiac asked Scarface what surrender to New Krypton would entail, prompting Stellar-class powerhouses to consider their options. Scarface explained that surrender meant their factions would be absorbed into New Krypton, turning wavering powers against it, while the Guardians sealed the meeting venue and declared Scarface would not leave.

• Brainiac asked Scarface what surrender to New Krypton meant, and some Stellar-class powerhouses began considering it as a way to survive.
• Scarface said New Krypton would absorb both the surrendering powerhouses and their factions into its unified rule.
• The powerhouses who had considered surrender rejected the terms and mocked New Krypton's approach, while Brainiac remained silent and thoughtful.
• The Guardians of the Universe felt reassured that the powerhouses would oppose New Krypton and sealed the meeting venue, telling Scarface she would not return.

Scarface defended her attempt to rebuild the Seven Lantern Corps and argued that the Guardians of the Universe had failed to bring lasting peace. She declared that He-El and New Krypton should unite the universe under a single voice.

• Stellar-level powerhouses watched the Guardians confront Scarface, with some urging them to kill New Krypton's envoy.
• Ganthet called on Scarface to surrender and admitted he believed her proposal to restart the Seven Lantern Corps had merit.
• Scarface accused the Guardians of hypocrisy, while they explained that attempts to restore the Corps had failed because their power sources and Lantern Beasts were missing.
• Scarface urged the Guardians to leave the stage and let New Krypton unite the universe under He-El.
• The Guardians rose in anger as Scarface proclaimed that only one voice, He-El's, could bring peace to the universe.

Scarface transformed by calling He-El’s name and broke through the Guardians of the Universe’s containment field, alarming them and undermining their standing in the Oa Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance. Surrounded by seventeen Guardians, she said she could not escape their attack but invoked He-El as her sovereign, then opened her eyes with a calm presence that silenced the tense atmosphere.

• Scarface called He-El’s name, transformed in a black-and-gold suit, and broke through the containment field to draw energy from the stars.
• The Guardians of the Universe realized their trap could not sever He-El’s connection to Scarface and feared New Krypton had surpassed their capabilities.
• Stellar-class powerhouses criticized the Guardians for trapping another power’s envoy, and some lost respect for them after Scarface escaped the field.
• Seventeen Guardians surrounded Scarface and demanded that she surrender, claiming their combined strength could contain her.
• Scarface acknowledged that she could not escape while the Guardians attacked, invoked He-El as her sovereign, and opened her eyes with a presence that stilled the Guardians’ hostility.

He-El took control of Scarface at the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance meeting and confronted the Guardians of the Universe and the stellar-level powerhouses on Giant Peak. After offering the Alliance members terms to surrender to New Krypton, he escaped through opened space, leaving one Guardian badly injured.

• He-El possessed Scarface and suppressed the seventeen Guardians of the Universe surrounding her.
• The Guardians combined their power and pierced Scarface's chest, but He-El evaded the attack and seized the Guardian acting as their outlet.
• He-El offered the Alliance's stellar-level powerhouses two ways to surrender to New Krypton, while several openly challenged him.
• He-El poured energy into the captured Guardian and threw him at the sixteen charging Guardians, triggering an explosion that halted their attack.
• He-El memorized the gathering's faces and escaped with Scarface through opened space, while the injured Guardian began reconstructing himself.

He-El gave Scarface new lantern rings and ordered her to prepare the Seven Lantern Corps for war against the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance. Scarface accepted the mission and understood that some Alliance members might surrender because they feared He-El’s ability to kill stellar-level beings.

• He-El withdrew from Scarface after using her body to escape the Guardians of the Universe, and she collapsed before recovering.
• Scarface saw He-El controlling a powerful solar force field and realized how far his strength had surpassed hers.
• He-El gave Scarface five redesigned lantern rings for the Red, Orange, Blue, Compassion Cyan, and Violet Lanterns.
• He-El ordered Scarface to upgrade the Seven Lantern Corps and accept any members of the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance who surrendered.
• Scarface doubted anyone would surrender, but He-El explained that some older powerhouses would choose survival over resistance.
• Scarface recognized that He-El’s ability to kill stellar-level beings made him a threat the Alliance could not match.

After Scarface delivered New Krypton’s demand for surrender, the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance summoned its stellar-level powerhouses to Oa Star and prepared for war. Many refused to attend, and Brainiac chose to surrender to New Krypton instead.

• The Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance opened Green Lantern passages to gather stellar-level powerhouses from across the universe.
• New arrivals at Oa Star challenged one another to fight over who would face He-El first, and the Guardians of the Universe stopped them.
• The Guardians learned that forty-two stellar-level powerhouses had not arrived, with many ancient figures making excuses to avoid the war.
• The Guardians of the Universe chose not to tell the absent powerhouses that Earth’s destruction would destroy the universe.
• Brainiac told the Guardian contacting him that he had prepared to surrender to New Krypton, then cut off the communication.

He-El gave Zero the AllSpark and ordered her to turn the captured warships into combat-focused Guardians for the coming war against the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance. He then planned to strengthen New Krypton’s forces and ordered Zero to break through the Three-Body World’s technological blockade to acquire advanced weapons technology.

• He-El handed Zero the AllSpark and taught her how to use it and create mechanical bodies.
• Zero assessed the captured Marvel Universe warships and organized them into thirty fleets led by ten-thousand-meter-class motherships, naming the new combat-focused mechanical bodies Guardians.
• He-El ordered Zero to reserve stellar engine frameworks for the thirty Guardians so he could install a star in each one as a power source.
• He-El considered the Alliance’s overwhelming number of stellar-class powerhouses and decided to preserve New Krypton’s strength for the war and what would follow.
• He-El ordered Zero to break through the Three-Body World’s technological blockade and request mature advanced weapons technology when its cosmic forces made contact.

He-El visited his children aboard the Zero Mothership and returned to New Krypton as its people prepared for the coming war. In the Divine Realm, Ciri showed him her biological creations and Athena presented the Divine Legion, which was ready to fight the immense Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance.

• He-El visited his 320 children aboard the Zero Mothership, then went to Earth and saw New Kryptonians celebrating his return while volunteering to support the coming war.
• Zero rejected the public's request to continue military control, following He-El's orders to let people celebrate and prepare for war without imposing restrictions.
• Ciri took He-El and Hela to the Divine Realm and introduced them to her powerful, unusual biological creations, including Doomsday-like giants, Godzilla-like creatures, carnivorous trees, Kraken, and black crows.
• Athena and Raven welcomed He-El, and Athena showed him the Divine Legion that she and the Olympian Gods had trained over the past century.
• He-El learned that the Divine Legion was vast but would face overwhelming odds against the nearly two hundred factions of the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance.

He-El returned to the Shinigami World and surveyed how it had become New Krypton's main logistical base over ten thousand years. His tour ended when his son, the Shinigami prince, attacked him, leaving He-El facing a family confrontation.

• He-El entered the Shinigami World through the Spirit Realm Gate and reunited with Aizen, who had governed the transformed realm in his absence.
• Aizen showed He-El the modernized Seireitei, its training facilities and production sites, and explained that Zero had abolished the nobles and eliminated those who resisted.
• A young man resembling He-El appeared, activated his Bankai, and attacked him, but Aizen blocked the strike and urged the prince to stop.
• The prince fought against Aizen's restraint, drawing the attention of more than eighteen captain-level Shinigami, who arrived and bowed to He-El.
• He-El recognized the attacker as his son by Rangiku Matsumoto and asked him what he needed.