Compared to the original story, Kyle Rayner's task of rebuilding the Green Lantern Corps this time was far more daunting.
Although Hal Jordan had not become Parallax in this universe, and Earth alone could provide three Green Lanterns, including Hal, to help him, unlike in the original story, where he had needed to issue a universe-wide call for veteran Lanterns who had retired and returned home to come back into service.
Kyle himself, however, was nowhere near as powerful as his original counterpart had been when he took on the mission in a crisis and became Ion.
Without the aid of the Green Lantern Entity, the Ion Shark, Kyle could not even reignite the Green Lantern Corps' Central Power Battery.
What was more, The Old-Timers was now roaming this universe, hungrily eyeing the seven Emotional Spectrum Corps.
Determined to get back up where they had fallen, the four Green Lanterns from Earth unanimously agreed to rebuild the Corps at the center of the universe.
But The Old-Timers was hardly going to let them accomplish such a feat so easily.
Whenever they released even a little extra Green Lantern energy, it would not be long before that giant rampaging through the universe caught the scent of emotional energy and came looking for them.
In fact, Kyle and the others had recently picked out a planet ideally suited to rebuilding Oa. With the Green Lantern Corps' technology, no matter how barren the planet was, terraforming it later would not be too difficult.
"But we can't move this planet at all."
John Stewart floated in space, gazing at the planet that so closely resembled Oa before its destruction, and sighed.
Of course, the four Lanterns had the power to tow a planet. After Hal Jordan accepted some of his memories from his time