Darkseid's sons were lying in that pile of corpses just now—two of them.
Orion and Kalibak both looked like anatomical cadavers discarded in a trash heap, Libya battle-damage editions at that. They were even missing organs.
Sinestro knew them but had not stopped, which meant they were not the ones he was looking for. There was another one.
Because of the ceasefire agreement between Apokolips and Genesis, Darkseid and his brother Highfather had once included a safeguard clause known as "exchanging sons"—in other words, hostages.
The Dark Tyrant sent his son Orion to Genesis, while Highfather sent his son Scott to Apokolips. If war broke out again, each side would kill the other's favorite child. Everyone suffered.
It sounded fair enough. The difference lay in how the two princes were treated.
Highfather treated Orion as his own son, feeding and clothing him well and patiently teaching him every kind of knowledge: commanding armies, governing nations, scientific research, interpersonal relations, and more. He raised him entirely as an heir.
As a result, Orion became a normal New God under Highfather's guidance—brave and proud, fond of riding that flying vehicle of his, which looked like exercise equipment for the elderly, all over the place.
Though he had initially been somewhat blindly arrogant, believing that as a New God he could do anything, he came to enjoy working with Earth's other Superheroes after suffering a few setbacks on Earth.
He became enamored with human life on Earth. He loved listening to Earth's pop music, eating street flatbreads and hot dogs, and playing with little animals like cats and dogs.
He had even joined the Justice League of America. Though he did not live on Earth often, he could still occasionally uphold justice. It felt a little like Thor, the God of Thunder, over