Actually, this covers the GL Corps as well...

[dewline]

...since it addresses the homeworld of Justice Leaguer and Legionnaire Mon-El and GL Corpsman Sodam Yat alike, Daxam. So possibly, I need an avatar that incorporates both insignia.

Anyway.

My understanding was that Daxam was in our own Galaxy and therefore in the jurisdiction of GLC Sector 2814. The latest issue of GL: Emerald Warriors is putting Daxam in some other GLC Sector. I can't recall the exact sector number at the moment Turns out to be Sector 1760....which would seem to render Daxam extragalactic.

Anyone have any clue what happened between the Legion and GL offices on this one?

Comments

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

I might be misunderstanding 'sectors' but they aren't THAT big, are they?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

My understanding, at least from the Englehart years of the mid-1980's onwards, was that GL Corps Sectors are in fact big enough to encompass multiple galaxies.

Various writers and editors over the decades don't always seem to have approached this inconsistently, perhaps due to not understanding the scale at which the Corps truly operates.

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

Hmm, possibly. I would have thought that galaxies would have multiple sectors, at least. Tho admittedly with the GL rings ability to warp space they could be jumping around through galaxies without it being 'shown'

[dewline.livejournal.com]

They've been shown exploiting naturally-occurring "wormhole"-type phenomenae of the sort you'd see on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine over the decades. Those rings really are akin to highly miniaturized starships.

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

Well, considering Daxam had Sodam Yat in the modern comics, it would have to be a seperate sector, at least.

Unless Geoff just messed up again. *lol*

[dewline.livejournal.com]

There's precedent for the error. Putting Vega in a different sector for Omega Men purposes despite its location within our Galaxy being the most notable example.

[black13.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps ignored it, because one galaxy is more than enough for a corps of only 3,600 agents. A lot of sci-fi writers haven't understood the difference between "galactic" and "universal" (or even "star system" and "galaxy").

I'll grant you, though, that their Wiki page their jurisdiction covers the universe, and they've been expanded to 7,200 agents.

[madlycool.livejournal.com]

The universe is supposed to be divided into 3600 different sectors, based on a 1/10 of a degree slice centred on OA. It's a very impractical way of dividing space. It's as if the person who came up with the idea had no idea of the structure of the universe (or confused it with the galaxy, ignoring the fact the centre of the galaxy is a very large ball, not regular stars and such), and assumed it was more or less the same everywhere. Plus, with billions of galaxies, each GL would have a ridiculous number of galaxies and planets to worry about. Of course, with a single GL per galaxy, you'd have billions of GL, which would actually make more sense, given the supposed scope of the Guardians.

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the scale of how much territory the GLs are supposed to be watching boggles the mind. There's almost no way one or two people could even patrol a sector that large....

[querldox.livejournal.com]

What they said. In addition, consider that it's established that Tomar-Re's sector included Krypton (he attempted to prevent, or at least delay, its explosion pre-Crisis), which I don't think has ever regularly been in another galaxy. And Tomar's sector was next to 2814, which is why he was the first other, non-dying, GL that Hal met.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Superman: Birthright aside (which I think we can jointly agree upon setting aside) with its depiction of Krypton's home system being in the Andromeda Galaxy(M 31)?

[mdg1.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression the Corps only covered the Milky Way, but my only source for this belief is Maggin's Last Son of Krypton novel.

"For a bit more that a million years the Guardians had been experimenting with a standing corps of agents who acted as a sort of Galactic police force. The Green Lantern Corps consisted of one mortal for each sector of the Galaxy—which was mapped and divided arbitrarily into geographic regions by the Guardians. "


It certainly makes more sense than assigning 1 or 2 beings to patrol essentially infinite space.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I have to admit to feeling more comfortable with the GLC having a far wider ambit than the United Planets and LSH than vice versa.

[jkahane.livejournal.com]

Or it's just another one of DC's inconsistent elements in their comics, that have plagued the company over the years?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Almost certainly. But consistency can be achieved in time.

[jkahane.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but how many different Crisis series does it take for DC to get continuity straight? And then how many series does it muck up when they do a straightening out of continuity? (The mess they made with LSH over the years has been a great, or bad, example of this!)

[dewline.livejournal.com]

*head hurts again*

And the revival of the multiverse - in limited form for now - has only begun to provide useful therapy for this, hasn't it.

[jkahane.livejournal.com]

Somewhat. But I am fully confident that DC will either muck up the continuity of this version of the multiverse, or they will figure out a way to do so down the road a year from now, when they figure they need to have *another* Crisis of some sort to sort it all out again.

Won't stop me from reading my favourite DC titles (LSH and JSA), but it also won't stop me from griping about stuff from time to time, either. :)

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Well, that was interesting.

Three years later, and someone thinks they can spam this thread and not get noticed.