Recaps

Su Chen defeated the Yellow Lantern Legion and discovered that its ring drew power from other people’s fear of him. The Blue, Indigo, and Violet Lantern leaders gave him their rings, and Su Chen set out to visit the Lantern Beasts to learn how the seven Emotional Spectrums might unlock the power to create the universe.

• Su Chen put on Sinestro’s Fear Ring but felt nothing until the Yellow Lanterns’ fear of him flowed into it.
• Su Chen reflected on the fear he inspired and told the surviving legions he assumed they had already made their choice.
• The Blue, Indigo, and Violet Lantern leaders handed Su Chen their rings instead of fighting him.
• Su Chen briefly sensed a resonance among all seven rings, but the feeling quickly vanished.
• The Indigo Lantern leader suggested the Lantern Beasts could help Su Chen reach the power of creation.
• Su Chen told the three legions he would visit them in due time.

Su Chen disciplined the leaderless corps, then realized the seven rings might combine into a power that let him travel by thought. Emma summoned him to Asgard over a mysterious presence near their home Earth, where the chapter ends as S.W.O.R.D. detects an unfamiliar spacecraft arriving through a wormhole.

• Su Chen ordered the red, orange, and yellow corps to return to their assembly points and await his orders.
• Su Chen concluded that the ordinary rings lacked the Supreme Ring’s access and decided to visit each Lantern Beast to gather its energy.
• Emma told Su Chen that an unknown group had appeared near their home Earth, and he immediately traveled to Asgard.
• S.W.O.R.D. detected an oddly shaped spacecraft emerging near Earth, while the narration described the Utopia Alliance’s growing magical and technological power, including its creation of Ultron.
• S.W.O.R.D. monitoring personnel identified a new wormhole arrival and began examining the unfamiliar spacecraft.

S.W.O.R.D. detected an enormous robot arriving with a hostile warship, and the robot scanned the headquarters before moving toward Earth. As Captain Marvel rushed to respond, the robot circled the planet and its chilling scan unsettled people across multiple cities.

• S.W.O.R.D. detected a black military spacecraft and prepared its headquarters cannon for an apparent attack.
• An enormous eight-eyed robot emerged from the spacecraft and scanned S.W.O.R.D. headquarters, triggering an alert and mobilizing the First and Third Legions.
• Captain Marvel set out in her combat suit as the robot began approaching Earth.
• The robot accelerated to the atmosphere and circled Earth, scanning the planet while Captain Marvel reached the spacecraft and found the robot gone.
• People in New York, San Francisco, Manhattan, and Wakanda felt an icy sensation and looked up in alarm.

A Celestial arrived outside Earth and scanned cities across the planet, prompting the Utopia Alliance to fire its defenses. Captain Marvel recognized the visitor and raised Earth’s shield, then prepared to warn Supreme about the threat of the Celestials’ judgment.

• The Celestial scanned cities and regions across Earth, alarming the New Mutants and Utopia Alliance branches.
• Captain Marvel ordered unscanned cities to aim their weapons at the visitor, and the branches launched powerful red beams at it.
• Captain Marvel recognized the robot as a member of the Celestials and ordered S.W.O.R.D. to activate Earth’s ultimate defense.
• The Utopia Alliance activated a planetary shield using the former Sorcerer Supreme’s sanctums and Wakandan Vibranium resonance.
• Captain Marvel recalled how Celestials had destroyed a planet with the Power Stone and decided to warn Supreme.

Su Chen returned to his home universe after learning that the Celestials had visited Earth, and he ordered his forces to protect Earth while Hela searched Asgard’s archives for records of an earlier conflict. Reunited with the Infinity Stones and the power of the Emotional Spectrum, Su Chen expected to confront the Celestials, whose ship reached an enormous destination.

• The Celestial ship departed Earth after scanning it, and Emma told Su Chen about the visit.
• Hela recalled that Odin and Asgardian soldiers had once fought the Celestials on Earth, so Su Chen asked her to search Asgard’s archives for the true history.
• Su Chen assigned the First and Third Legions to guard Earth, sent the Second Legion back to Asgard, and told Emma to finish the remaining tasks.
• Su Chen and Hela returned to their home universe, where the Infinity Stones rejoined Su Chen and restored him to peak condition.
• Su Chen ordered Hela to find the Celestials’ records and considered how the seven rings might surprise them.
• The Celestial ship arrived at its destination, where an immense behemoth dwarfed the vessel.

The Celestials judged Earth to be a threat after discovering its rapid technological growth, aggressive humans, and traces of the Infinity Stones, then sent Eradicator to execute their order. On Earth, Hela reported that Asgard’s archive of historical murals might contain records about the Celestials.

• The Tester, The Prosecutor, and The Explorer reported on Earth’s people, technology, and depleted resources to the Celestials.
• The Tester warned that Earth had exceeded the Celestials’ safety requirements and should be judged again.
• The Celestials learned that the Infinity Stones had been used on Earth, and The Judge ordered Eradicator to eliminate its advanced intelligent life and scatter the Stones.
• Eradicator left the Celestials’ domain to carry out the judgment, while Hela told Su Chen she had found records concerning the Celestials in Asgard’s archive.

Su Chen and Hela uncovered the true history of the Celestials’ third descent: Earth’s gods lost and were bound by an oath not to interfere in humanity’s fate. With the Celestials returning and Earth’s development drawing their attention, Su Chen prepared to confront them, though he regretted not knowing where they were gathering.

• Hela explained that the Celestials had descended on Earth twice before, creating humanity and later destroying the people whose advanced technology alarmed them.
• Hela described how Odin and the gods of Earth had fought the Celestials, while the murals claimed the Celestials had sworn not to interfere in humanity’s fate.
• Su Chen suspected Odin had falsified the history, and Hela uncovered an older mural showing Earth’s gods fleeing in defeat before the Celestials.
• Su Chen concluded that Earth’s gods, not the Celestials, had sworn to stay out of humanity’s fate, and he warned that Earth’s development could provoke an extermination.
• Su Chen said his new power and knowledge of other universes had changed his ability to challenge the Celestials, while Hela cautioned that their strength could exceed expectations.
• Su Chen expressed regret that he did not know where the Celestials were gathering, as Hela recognized he wanted to attack them before they arrived.

The Guardians debated how to stop Su Chen after he defeated the Seven Lantern Legion, then opened the shadow prison and offered the Black Lantern Legion’s leader a chance to fight. On Earth, the Utopia Alliance entered combat readiness, while Su Chen observed how the green and yellow rings responded to the people’s emotions.

• The Guardians argued over releasing a terrifying power to oppose Su Chen, then voted unanimously to summon the being imprisoned in the shadow prison.
• The Guardians offered the Black Lantern Legion’s leader limited freedom and a habitat in exchange for fighting Su Chen, and he became excited at the prospect of facing someone who had defeated the Seven Lantern Legion.
• The Utopia Alliance placed Earth on level-two readiness, closed communications with outside forces, and deployed replacement members for the First and Third Legions.
• Su Chen examined his seven rings in Manhattan and noticed that the green ring brightened as Earth prepared for war, while the yellow ring reflected people’s fear.
• Su Chen welcomed the fear as evidence that people still possessed their full range of emotions, though he regretted never having experienced fear himself.

As Eradicator arrived above Earth, S.W.O.R.D. and Captain Marvel prepared the planet’s forces to attack while relying on Su Chen to face the threat. In the Guardians’ domain, they freed Nekron in exchange for his promise to destroy Su Chen and confined his Black Legion to Earth and the surrounding Solar System; Nekron left vowing to wipe out the Green Lantern Legion.

• S.W.O.R.D. detected Eradicator’s arrival above Earth, and Captain Marvel ordered the available forces to attack his giant ship.
• The Guardians agreed to release the being trapped in their black hole if he annihilated Su Chen and kept his Black Legion within Earth’s region.
• The Guardians shattered the black hole’s restraints, freeing the skeletal Nekron.
• Nekron asked to turn the intelligent life in his allotted domain into his legion, and a Guardian agreed as long as he stayed within its borders.
• The Guardians gave Nekron a restricted black-and-white ring, which he reclaimed before leaving their domain.
• Nekron saw the Green Lantern planet and vowed to destroy the Green Lantern Legion after taking over the Solar System.

Nekron escaped his defeat by raising a reserve force of Black Lanterns on a barren planet and reclaiming a ring that restored his full power. He assembled the legion and set off for Earth, while the Indigo Lantern leader learned that Su Chen was expected to face this trial.

• Nekron retreated after the Green Lantern power proved able to dispel his death energy, leaving the Indigo Lantern leader to sense his return.
• The Indigo Lantern leader consulted Proselyte, who told her to wait for the seven emotional powers to gather and let Su Chen face the coming trial.
• Nekron changed course to a barren planet and awakened Black Lanterns he had hidden there before his defeat.
• Nekron took a ring from one of the revived soldiers, restored his full power of death, and summoned the Black Lantern Legion to Earth.

Emma Frost mobilized the First Legion and Amazo against Nekron’s Black Lantern Legion on Earth 1, while Su Chen confronted Eradicator outside the native Earth. Su Chen shattered space to counter Eradicator’s attack, leaving the two facing a spreading field of deadly spatial rifts.

• Emma Frost discovered that the Celestials had once been defeated in Earth 1’s history, then received warnings that Nekron’s Black Lantern Legion was approaching.
• Emma Frost ordered the First Legion to mobilize, and the Sentinels and Amazo flew out to confront the Black Lanterns.
• Su Chen received news of the threat to Earth 1, sent Hela a message, and flew out to meet Eradicator.
• Eradicator declared Earth his target and swung his scepter at Su Chen, compressing space into a bomb.
• Su Chen used his Emotional Spectrum rings and physical strength to shatter space, and the resulting rifts swallowed satellites and forced Eradicator to retreat.

Su Chen discovered that the power of all seven Emotional Spectrum rings could raise him to a spiritual height, while Emma directed the First Legion’s battle against Nekron’s Black Lantern Legion. The Sentinels overwhelmed the enemy at first, but an energy they could not analyze or copy emerged, and Nekron prepared to unleash the power of his ring.

• Su Chen realized that the power of the seven rings alone could reach a spiritual height without the stones.
• Emma ordered the Sentinels’ control to switch from artificial intelligence to manual processing as they and Nekron’s Black Lantern Legion approached the battlefield.
• The Sentinels copied their enemies’ energy and, led by Amazo, inflicted heavy casualties on the Black Lantern Legion and drove Nekron back.
• The Sentinels’ operators discovered an energy they could not analyze, and Amazo’s team found that he could not simulate it.
• Nekron escaped Amazo’s assault and, furious at the robots’ strength, caused the rings of the Black Lantern Legion to glow with the same black light.

Hela arrived at Earth 1 with the Second Legion to confront the Black Lantern Legion, whose members revived and overwhelmed the Sentinels. Meanwhile, Su Chen continued fighting the Eradicator far from Earth, leaving a trail of shattered planets.

• Emma Frost contacted Hela about the Black Lantern Legion, and Hela revealed that the Second Legion was already on Earth 1 and ready to fight.
• Su Chen recalled Particle Shark's account of the Black Lanterns, then sent Hela to confront the death-powered Legion while he fought the Eradicator.
• Hela led the Second Legion toward the battlefield after the Black Lanterns revived their fallen members and pushed the Sentinels into mounting losses.
• Su Chen discovered that the Eradicator's physical strength nearly matched his own and drove their fight farther away from Earth.
• Su Chen and the Eradicator fought across space, and their battle left the scattered remains of planets in their wake.

Su Chen continued battering the Eradicator and began to notice something unusual about him. Meanwhile, the Celestials mobilized a vast super fortress toward Su Chen, while Hela and the Second Legion reached their own destination.

• Su Chen drove the Eradicator into a planet’s core, and the Eradicator identified him as a maximum-level threat and began executing a contingency plan.
• The Celestials answered an alarm, gathered more than ten thousand members aboard an immense fortress, and forced their way through space toward their destination.
• Intelligent powers across the universe detected the Celestials’ departure and feared what their mobilization meant.
• Su Chen kept attacking the Eradicator with physical blows until the battered figure was barely recognizable, then noticed something that interested him.
• Hela arrived at a designated location in another universe with the Second Legion, whose soldiers had gained new possibilities through the Goddess of Death’s gifts.

Hela led the evolved Second Legion into outer space, where she confronted Nekron and his Black Lantern Legion after they nearly destroyed the First Legion. Rejecting Nekron’s offer to unite their forces under death, Hela began a battle against him while the Goddess of Death watched with satisfaction.

• Hela arrived as Nekron and the Black Lantern Legion overwhelmed the First Legion, leaving fewer than a thousand Sentinels and a badly weakened android.
• The remaining Sentinels withdrew toward Earth for repairs while Nekron admired Hela’s Second Legion and proposed that they join forces to spread death across the universe.
• Hela rejected Nekron’s proposal, declaring that death was not the strongest power and that she would not let him claim Earth.
• Hela drew her swords and led the Second Legion into battle, taking the android’s place as she clashed with Nekron.
• The Goddess of Death observed the battle from Knowhere and approved of Hela’s growth, declaring that their opposing forms of death could never coexist.

The Goddess of Death watched as the Celestials mobilized against Su Chen and decided to let him face the danger as his final test. Su Chen confronted the Celestials’ Judge, who blocked the power of his rings and Infinity Stones, but Su Chen revealed he could still fight without them.

• The Goddess of Death considered helping Su Chen but chose to make the Celestials his final test.
• Su Chen defeated the Eradicator and watched as a vast Celestial fortress arrived, already imagining using it as a headquarters for S.W.O.R.D. and the Utopia Alliance.
• The Judge condemned Su Chen and his race to extinction, and a Celestial attacked him as the fortress’s machines locked onto him.
• Su Chen blocked the attacker’s knee but discovered that the Celestials’ technology had suppressed his rings and temporarily stopped the Infinity Stones.
• Su Chen told the Judge that he had only used the Emotional Spectrum to test its enhancement and had never intended to rely on the stones.

Su Chen fought the Celestials after they restricted the Infinity Stones and Emotional Spectrum, discovering that the ancient beings were naturally arisen mechanical life-forms. As observers across the universe recognized him as the one who destroyed Ego, Su Chen continued attacking the Celestials.

• Su Chen unleashed his Energy Particle Body, matched the Celestials' size, and fought their specialized warriors.
• Su Chen noticed electronic circuitry inside the Celestials' remains and concluded that they were mechanical beings.
• Hidden observers from across the universe watched the battle and realized Su Chen was defeating the Celestials.
• The observers recognized Su Chen as the being who had destroyed Ego and recalled his power to annihilate planets.
• Su Chen seized a thickset Celestial and punched through its chest.

Su Chen followed the Celestials’ remains to their mechanical gathering place, where they began rebuilding, and used the Infinity Gauntlet with the Emotional Spectrum to snap them out of existence. Meanwhile, Hela and Nekron paused their exhausting battle as Nekron proposed they join forces to take over the universe.

• Su Chen followed the super fortress through spatial ruptures to the Celestials’ gathering place.
• The Celestials’ fragments fused together in a massive pit as they began to resurrect.
• Su Chen’s Infinity Gauntlet could not destroy the Celestials because they were part of the universe’s workings.
• Su Chen combined the Emotional Spectrum with the Infinity Stones and snapped, destroying the Celestials.
• After two hours of fighting, Hela and Nekron stopped attacking, and Nekron suggested they join forces to claim the universe.

Hela refused to join Nekron, who used a black crystal to seize command of death and overwhelm the battlefield. Su Chen returned, restored the light, and faced Nekron as the Second Legion suffered under the Black Lantern Legion's assault.

• Hela rejected Nekron's demand to submit, insisting that only Su Chen could protect or conquer a universe.
• Nekron tore a black crystal from his chest and pressed his ring against it, plunging the battlefield into darkness and infusing death with malice.
• Nekron claimed mastery over death, suppressing Hela's power as the Black Lantern Legion attacked the Second Legion.
• The Goddess of Death watched from Knowhere and anticipated the coming confrontation.
• Su Chen appeared beside Hela, said he had dealt with the Celestials, and challenged Nekron's claim to be truth.

Su Chen fused the seven Emotional Spectrum powers into the light of creation and used it to overwhelm Nekron’s power of death. As the light cut through Nekron’s monstrous form, Hela felt death itself instinctively recoil from Su Chen’s power.

• Su Chen judged that Nekron’s surge of death power came from a Lantern Beast, while Nekron absorbed his Black Lantern Legion and transformed into a monstrous amalgamation.
• Su Chen’s seven rings failed to harm Nekron, so he crushed them and forced their energies to trace back to their sources.
• The seven Lantern Beasts released their powers toward Su Chen, whose fused energies became a dazzling white light of creation.
• The light of creation sliced through Nekron’s black form, and Hela recognized it as a power stronger than death.

Su Chen used the seven Emotional Spectrum source powers to destroy Nekron, then released them rather than risk being assimilated into Universe 1. He returned to his plans for conquering the universe and explained that he had replaced the Celestials’ roles and discarded them elsewhere.

• Nekron urged Su Chen to kill the Guardians as the seven Emotional Spectrum source powers gathered around him.
• The seven powers entered Su Chen, expelled the six Infinity Stones from his body, and expanded his perception across Universe 1.
• Su Chen created the concept of zero within Nekron’s black mass, causing Nekron and the mass to vanish completely.
• Su Chen deliberately expelled the genesis power because he feared the seven energies would assimilate him into Universe 1, and he told Hela he wanted to keep them available for future use.
• Su Chen ordered Hela to put forming the Legion on the agenda and said the Celestials had been removed from their universe and replaced.
• People in an unnamed universe looked up at their sky in terror after Su Chen discarded the Celestials there.

Su Chen returned to Earth 1 after eliminating the Celestials and explained that they could no longer be reborn, with Alpha Flight set to take over some of their duties. With his home universe secured, he turned his attention to conquering Universe 1.

• Su Chen wondered where Nekron’s death power had gone, then returned to Earth 1 with Hela and prepared to recruit the Lantern corps for the conquest of Universe 1.
• The Goddess of Death absorbed the purified origin of death through Hela, while the Anti-Monitor reappeared from the discarded impurities and spoke with her.
• Emma Frost asked Su Chen whether the Celestials were gone for good, and he explained that he had severed their connection to the universe using power from another universe.
• Su Chen proposed that Captain Marvel and Alpha Flight take over some of the Celestials’ responsibilities, leaving S.W.O.R.D. in need of a new leader.
• Su Chen told Emma Frost that his home universe was settled and that he would now focus on Universe 1.

Su Chen claimed the Red Lantern Legion for his planned Fourth Legion, persuading its members to join a combined force of emotional-spectrum holders. He then arrived at the Orange Lantern Legion’s gathering place, where its Lantern Beast gave him the Supreme Ring of Greed and the legion cheered its new allegiance.

• Su Chen confronted Blood Ox at the Red Lantern Legion’s blood-red lake and told the uneasy members they would join a new legion under his command.
• Su Chen declared that the Red Lantern Legion would merge with other emotional-spectrum holders, and Blood Ox gave him the Supreme Ring of Rage.
• The Red Lantern Legion accepted Su Chen, then dispersed to gather near Earth and prepare to join his Fourth Legion.
• Su Chen traveled to the Orange Lantern Legion’s gathering place and announced that it would be disbanded and absorbed into his legion.
• The Orange Lantern Lantern Beast gave Su Chen the Supreme Ring of Greed, and the legion members cheered their new leader.

Su Chen took control of the Orange and Fear Legions, then confronted the Green Lantern Legion and secured its Supreme Ring after condemning its past failures and revealing that Nekron had returned. The Green Lanterns were disbanded and sent to join the Fourth Legion, still questioning whether the Guardians had released Nekron.

• Su Chen took the Orange Lantern Legion’s Supreme Ring and learned it could create energy puppets from those its bearer had killed and absorb other rings’ energy.
• Su Chen gained the Fear Legion’s allegiance, and its members joined the gathering near Earth as the third part of the Fourth Legion.
• Su Chen met Ion Shark and told the Green Lanterns that their past actions had disappointed him and that an eighth, black Lantern Legion had appeared.
• Su Chen claimed he had killed Nekron and produced a Black Lantern ring as evidence that Nekron had returned after being released by the Guardians.
• Su Chen announced that he would disband the Green Lantern Legion and unite it with the others, then received its Supreme Ring from Ion Shark.
• The Green Lantern Legion flew toward the gathering planet as its members debated whether the Guardians had really released Nekron.

Su Chen’s newly formed Fourth Legion gathered on a planet, where its Green Lantern members awkwardly met the red, orange, and yellow legions. Meanwhile, the Guardians learned that Nekron and the Black Lantern Legion had vanished and that several Lantern Legions had severed their ties to them; Su Chen then headed toward the Indigo Lantern Legion’s prison-like gathering place.

• The Green Lantern Legion arrived at the Fourth Legion’s base and silently faced the red Rage, orange Avarice, and yellow Terror legions.
• The Guardians argued over Nekron’s rapid recovery and considered concessions and renewed experiments to strengthen the Lantern Legions.
• The Guardians sensed Nekron and the Black Lantern Legion disappear, then learned that the Orange, Yellow, and Green Lantern Legions had severed their connections to them.
• Su Chen found the Blue Lantern Legion’s gathering planet empty, spotted an Indigo Lantern weapon, and realized the Indigo Lantern Legion had moved on.
• Su Chen flew toward the Indigo Lantern Legion’s gathering place, a massive prison used to hold criminals gathered by the legions.