A streak of yellow light hurtled through the boundless universe, tracing a perfectly straight line behind it.
Half a light-year behind that yellow trail, a far more dazzling ball of yellow light followed at a distance.
Magnified, those two lights-one large, one small-would reveal themselves to be neither meteors nor comets, but a crystal-clear ring and a man with purplish-red skin.
He was a warrior from the planet Korugar. He had once served an immensely powerful force in the Milky Way Galaxy, but had since defected and begun building a force of his own.
What excellent luck.
Sinestro stared expressionlessly at the yellow ring ahead, matching its speed.
He had forged that power ring using one of this universe's Primordial Forces: the Yellow of Fear within the emotional spectrum. Much like the Legion he had once served, each ring would independently seek out a worthy host in nearby star systems.
At first, Sinestro had been delighted. His Yellow Lantern Legion of fear was still in its infancy. Although he had already found quite a few capable candidates compatible with yellow rings in his region, the entire Yellow Lantern Legion had very few powerful warriors who could hold their own.
Rebelling against his former Green Lantern Legion had already been an enormous risk. Unless he recruited enough people capable of matching those Green Lantern warriors before the damned Green Lanterns came knocking, they would likely uproot his entire organization.
Fortunately, one of the Yellow Lantern rings stored in Sinestro's warehouse had become unusually active today. Unlike the other mass-produced yellow rings, however, this one was not among those he had commissioned Korugar's master weaponsmiths to forge.
Instead, it was a new Yellow Lantern ring he had created with the power of fear and Yellow Lantern energy, modeling it on the energy