| SWARMTROOPER 000830 (Kyle Rayner) | BIOGRAPHY |
| Created by Grant Morrison and Howard Porter |
Art by Howard Porter
PERSONAL DATA
Real Name: Kyle Rayner
Aliases: Green Lantern
Occupation: Parademon, formerly Green Lantern, frelance artist
Homeworld: Earth
Gender: Male
Hair: Black
First Appearance: (as Swarmtrooper 000830): JLA #13 (December 1997): "Rock of Ages Part Four: Wasteland"
Creators: Grant Morrison and Howard Porter
HISTORY
Perhaps one of the most powerful devices in all of creation, the Philosopher's Stone had been lost on Earth for four thousand years. To the New Gods it was known as the worlogog, hourglass of the gods. A map of all time and space, the worlogog was a mirror of the universe, in miniature. A fraction of the Source revealed itself in the Worlogog and in some points along the timeline Metron was its keeper.
- JLA #15
In the late 20th Century, a Colombian drug lord had kept the stone as a paperweight until agents working for Lexcorp took it by force. It was studied in Lexcorp's labs and by Lex Luthor himself who used it to help create the Injustice Gang, his answer to the perceived threat of the Justice League. He was also inadvertently warping space-time to create the conditions that would ultimately grant Darkseid total control. - JLA #11 - #15
Following the defeat of the Injustice Gang, Superman destroyed the Philosopher's Stone. This event created a divergent timeline in which Darkseid's forces were able to invade and conquer Earth. From fifteen years into this future, Darkseid, Lord of Apokolips, New Genesis and Earth sent Metron, now broken to serve his will, back into the past to ensure Darkseid's conquest would come to pass. - JLA #14
Seven years after the Stone's destruction, heroes such as Aztek, Firestorm, Impulse, Starman, Doctor Fate, Mister Miracle, Robin, Captain Marvel and Steel were dead. Others died later, such as J'Onn J'Onnz, the Martian Manhunter. Batman was believed dead, killed around the same time Aztek died. Earth was well in the process of being transformed to a hellish version of Apokolips, with an enormous fire pit occupying most of the European continent. The JLA's lunar Watchtower was a "zombie factory" which erased the minds of humans and gave them only the anti-life. A being of energy, Superman tore open his containment suit after he was forced to slay Lois Lane, who had been changed into a mindless zombie by Darkseid's minions.
Kyle Rayner had been captured, having lost his power ring. Rayner, like others that had not been killed, was taken to the moon and processed. Rayner was now Swarmtrooper 000830, one of millions who lived and died in the service of Darkseid. - JLA #13
Back in the 20th Century, before the destruction of the Stone, the New God Metron arrived on the JLA's lunar Watchtower. Metron claimed Highfather of New Genesis had commanded him to seek the aid of Earth's heroes to search for the Philosopher's Stone before it fell into Darkseid's hands. Using Mother Box, Metron upgraded the JLA teleporters to generate time-space doorways. Green Lantern, Aquaman and the Flash would carry modular Baby Boxes which would home in on Metron's Mother Box's parent signal. - JLA #11 - #12
The three heroes were sent to different worlds and times in search of the stone but never finding it. On one world, Green Lantern met Hourman of the 853rd Century Justice Legion A. The diamond-generation intelligent machine colony claimed Rayner had been betrayed by a false god.
The heroes were ultimately snared by a bio-radar trawl and taken to Wonderworld, Headquarters of the Theocracy, Order's last outpost before the eternal dark. The heroes of Wonderworld showed them to the Hyperwheel, a machine once used by the super-fast Glimmer to traverse time and space. The Flash used the Speed Force to propel himself and his two friends to speeds beyond that of light, using the Baby Boxes to home in on Metron's signal.
They believed they were home and could feel themselves solidifying as they decelerated. They were pulled towards Earth to see a massive Apokoliptan fire pit straddling the continent of Europe. - JLA #12
Fifteen years after the destruction of the Philosopher's Stone, Kyle merged with his future self, disrupting the anti-life broadcast through sheer force of will. He turned on his fellow swarmtroopers in what was left of Metropolis. Aquaman had also merged with his future self and was battling swarmtroopers alongside the Wonder Woman of this future era. Aquaman and Wonder Woman were about to defend themselves once more before Kyle revealed who he was. They soon found the Flash, merged with his future self as well, but Wally West was sickly, out of shape and could not contact the speed force.
The three heroes from the past had not permanently bonded with their future selves but they could feel the process finalizing. They would need to return home before it was too late. Aquaman gathered the remaining heroes to plan an assault on Darkseid himself. The reprogrammed android villain Amazo now served the heroes and assisted with modifications to Kyle's Swarmtrooper cybernetics. Wonder Woman, Atom, Green Arrow Connor Hawke, Argent and Azteka joined in the coming battle.
Kyle was able to bring them into Desaad's Las Vegas stronghold, using Swarmtrooper commands. They were there to steal Apokolips time technology, specifically Metron's Mobius Chair, and found the Batman instead. - JLA #13
The Atom, Amazo and Green Arrow battled parademons in Metropolis while Wonder Woman fought Darkseid and the Grandmother Box. Kyle, Wally and Aquaman went after Metron with Batman. They used Apokolips technology to create a theotropically engineered fog to confuse the New God. Batman was able to persuade Metron to temporarily become human, so that the ever curious Metron would drop his fantastic powers. As a mere human, Metron was easily overcome and bent to their will. Batman ordered Metron to return the time displaced heroes back fifteen years to prevent his reality from ever coming about.
Amazo was cut down over the skies of Metropolis and Wonder Woman succumbed to injuries sustained in battle with the defeated Grandmother Box. Argent and Azteka had gone to the lunar Zombie Factory to shut it down. This would paralyze all of Darkseid's slaves on Earth. Argent was mortally wounded in the attempt but she lived long enough for the facility's destruction. Azteka erupted her armor's four-dimensional battery into three-dimensional space.
Darkseid dispatched Batman with the Omega Effect. Though his enemies had hurt him, he believed his will would still be followed. Three men still lived to oppose his plans, two stood before him: the Atom and Green Arrow.
At the Atom's request, Green Arrow released a flare arrow at Darkseid. Predictably, the shaft broke when it reached the shield surrounding Darkseid. The Lord of Apokolips had not counted on the Atom miniaturizing himself to ride the waves of light through Darkseid's eyes and into his brain. Once there, the Atom was able to create a fatal neural storm to disrupt Darkseid's brain.
Miles from their location, Orion, son of Darkseid, activated the Genesis Box. The device was programmed to convert the entire universe to pure energy and then remake it without Darkseid's taint. The universe was unmade in an instant. - JLA #14
Green Lantern, Aquaman and the Flash were returned to their proper time period where Green Lantern immediately alerted the Martian Manhunter. J'Onn J'Onnz prevented Superman from crushing the Philosopher's Stone, thereby eliminating the future ruled by Darkseid. The Metron from this divergent timeline disappeared once Superman's actions were prevented and the true Metron was given the worlogog. - JLA #15
CHRONOLOGY
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