Chapter Summaries

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.

He-El faced the Prince, who blamed him for abandoning Rangiku Matsumoto and attacked him. After learning that Rangiku was in Hell, He-El sent his foolish son there to find her.

• The Prince erupted in anger and demanded to know whether He-El remembered Rangiku Matsumoto, accusing him of failing to visit her before she died.
• The Prince attacked He-El with his Bankai, but Aizen blocked his strikes while He-El explained that he had been occupied across other universes and had planned to retrieve Rangiku from Hell.
• Aizen revealed that the Prince preferred training, and He-El realized his son had never learned that Shinigami with vice-captain-class Reiatsu went to Hell after death.
• When the Prince hesitated in surprise, He-El struck him into the ground and opened a passage to Hell.
• He-El threw the Prince through the passage and told him to find Rangiku.

He-El reviewed New Krypton's military forces and their command structure after returning to the Zero Mothership. As he considered finding thirty suns to power the Guardians motherships, Zero reported that Oa Star was requesting communication.

• He-El reviewed the Kryptonian Army, led by Kal-El, and the Divine Legion and Magic Corps, commanded by Athena.
• He-El assessed Aizen's Death Legion, Scarface's Seven Lantern Corps, and the Lantern Rings that he had created with the AllSpark.
• He-El confirmed that Zero controlled the Mechanical Corps and managed the manufacture and distribution of Lantern Rings.
• Zero's Mechanical Corps added more than three million captured ships, converted into combat mechanical entities under thirty Guardians motherships.
• He-El considered finding thirty suns to power the Guardians motherships when Zero told him that Oa Star was requesting communication.

He-El accepted the Guardians of the Universe’s demand that New Krypton attack Oa Star, despite the Oa Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance’s overwhelming home-field advantage. He left the gathered powerhouses stunned by asking whether victory required destroying Oa Star or killing them all.

• Zero informed He-El that Oa Star was requesting communication, and He-El agreed to take the call.
• The Guardians of the Universe told He-El that New Krypton and the Oa Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance could not coexist and proposed a war on Oa Star, with the winner claiming the universe.
• The gathered Stellar-class powerhouses mocked the Guardians for choosing their own headquarters as the battlefield and requiring New Krypton to attack.
• He-El accepted the terms and asked whether victory meant destroying Oa Star or killing everyone present, silencing the meeting.

He-El declared that he would kill all 155 stellar-class powerhouses of the Oa Star Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance, and the Guardians of the Universe feared he could do it. They proposed surrender terms to preserve stellar-class lives, drawing scorn from the alliance as He-El dismissed the arrangement as absurd.

• He-El said he would kill all 155 stellar-class powerhouses, prompting laughter and disbelief from the alliance.
• The Guardians of the Universe privately suspected He-El could fulfill his threat because he had killed Darkseid.
• The Guardians offered to spare any stellar-class powerhouse who surrendered and said their collective surrender would give New Krypton victory.
• The alliance’s stellar-class powerhouses mocked the Guardians for speaking as though their side would lose.
• He-El called the Guardians’ proposal absurd.

He-El rejected the Guardians of the Universe’s proposed surrender protections and their request that New Krypton refuse defectors. After he ended the communication, the Guardians secretly discussed releasing someone they hoped could challenge him.

• He-El condemned the Guardians’ proposal to spare anyone who surrendered, and several stellar-level powerhouses agreed that it was insulting and self-serving.
• A Guardian explained that the proposal was meant to help the victorious side absorb defeated forces, then asked New Krypton not to accept defectors from the Oa Pan-Stellar Domain Alliance.
• The Guardians and other powerhouses discussed Brainiac and three other stellar-level defectors, dismissing them as too few to affect the coming war.
• He-El refused to negotiate further, told the assembled powerhouses to await New Krypton’s attack, and cut off the communication.
• After the powerhouses waited for war, the Guardians secretly discussed removing a seal to release someone they believed might stand against He-El.