History

Working as a scientist on his homeworld Xudar, when he was approached by the Guardians Of The Universe who wanted him to become one of their Green Lanterns.

Soon after completing his probationary period, Tomar-Re was dispatched on a mission to rescue the population of Krypton. The Guardians had at this point considered making the Green Lantern Corps independent of Oa. They prophesied the offspring of Jor-El and Lara of Krypton in Space Sector 2813 would be genetically perfect, and an ideal future leader of the Corps.

It was discovered that the planet Krypton would explode due to the core of the planet being unstable. Tomar was dispatched to delay the planets destruction until the inhabitants found a way to fix the problem.Evacuation of the population was not an option. Two hundred fifty thousand years ago, a device called the "eradicator" was developed as weapon against alien intervention. The eradicator created a defect in the natives' genetic structure designed to "tie" the Kryptonians to their homeworld. The Green Lantern worked unseen by the natives of Krypton.

Tomar soured the skies of space looking for a material stellarium that would absorb the planets radiation.It took months to gather enough of the element, but Tomar-Re worked feverishly to complete his task. It was in the Ariel star system that Tomar-Re found a deposit of stellarium. He was unable to see that Ariel itself was also unstable, and after mining stellarium the star went nova destroying the system and blinding Tomar from the radiation.

He soared the skies blinded and wanting to get the material back to Krypton. The only thing guiding him was the ring that saved his life during the super nova. But Tomar wasn't in time to save Krypton and the planet exploded before he could get to the planet. Kal-El was only saved by the Manhunters who helped in him getting to earth.

As the years passed, Tomar-Re earned his legendary status in the Green Lantern Corps. The emerald warrior of Space Sector 2813 developed a devise called the Zathon Ray Communicator which warned against disasters.

One day while holding back a migrating group of blood grass he was visited by Hal Jordanof Earth. He was saddened that his good freind Abin Sur died and that Hal was his replacement.

The two Green Lanterns were soon summoned to Oa to convene a meeting regarding the threat of Legion. Along with Salakk of Slyggia, the three Green Lanterns approached the Great Book of Oa for answers to the Legion problem.

Jordan was soon put alongside Kilowog who trained him in the ways of the Green Lantern. The GL were put to the test when Legion arrived on Oa. The planet was soon overun by the Legion and the Green Lanterns were forced to retreat. The last ditch effort of Hal Jordan saved Oa and freed it from the grasp of the Legion.

Following the defeat of Legion, the more intensive aspects of Hal Jordan's training would be continued by Sinestro of Korugar. The Green Lantern of Korugar was a model for all to follow, his sector the most orderly in the universe. It was unknown to the GL's that Sinestro ruled with an iron fist. Katma Tuiled a revolt against Sinestro, and Tomar Re was one who found that Sinestro had gone far over his mandate as a Green Lantern. Sinestro was put on trail and found guilty. Tomar recommended Katma tui to serve as a Green Lantern in her sector of Korugar.

In years to come Hal and Tomar would come to each others assistance on many occasions. One such was on the world of Aku. He was unable to aid the world and called forth for more Green Lanterns.Hal was the first to arrive on the planet and helped aid in fight against the invasion of the monsters who were on the planet.

The Green Lantern of Xudar kept a watchful eye on Hal Jordan. He attempted to give Jordan early warning of a violent "cosmo-storm" that had struck Xudar. The storm had strange effects on his power ring and would likely do the same to Jordan's ring. Tomar-Re was unable to deliver the warning in person due to an important case on Xudar.

Jordan's ring did indeed act peculiar. He had been fighting the suervillain known as Sonar when the ring gave out. Suspecting something might be wrong, Jordan ordered his ring to create an emergency packet of energy to remain near at all times. With this, he was able to defeat Sonar.

When the cosmo-storm cleared, Tomar-Re was able to send an energy image to make sure Jordan was safe. Apparently, some of the Xudarian's message made it through the storm, subconciously picked up by Jordan's ring.

On one occasion Tomar was one of the GL's who were to capture a group of criminals on the Guardians prison planet. The group wanted to destroy the Green Lanterns. An were succesful in killing a number of Green Lanterns including including Davo Yull of Pharma and Chogar of Tyrea.

When Tomar retired he was made one of the Green Lanterns honor Guard a title that pleased Re very much. Even though he was retired he would still be active in activities of his emerald comrades.

Throughout his career, Tomar-Re never forgot the destruction of Krypton. He met Superman when the Guardians of the Universe enlisted the Man of Steel to help defeat the Weapons Master, who had usurped control of the power rings.

Tomar was a mentor to many of todays Lanterns.

Death

During the so called battle on Infinite Earths, The battery that charged all of the Green Lanterns rings was attacked by the Anti-Moniter. The moniter put fifteen Gls in stasis which then unleashed their powers on the Green Lanterns who were trying to help.Tomar-Re was utilized by the Central Battery to communicate with the Guardians and Green Lantern Corps. The Battery had learned of the nature of the Anti-Monitor when he had taken control of it. The repository of power explained why the Corps should save the Dark Moon of Qward, the Genesis Point for the Anti-Monitor. The moon's destruction would free the Anti-Monitor from all constraints of the material world. The Green Lanterns set out for the Antimatter Universe to stop Guy Gardner and Hal Jordan's mission to destroy the Qwardian moon.

The Green Lanterns engaged in battle.Xax of Xaos was one of the first of the Corps to fall against a Weaponer. And Tomar an Hal fought side by side against Hal's enemy Goldface. Many Green Lanterns would fall during the battle and Tomar was one of these.As he was dying, Tomar-Re fulfilled his final duties as a Green Lantern: Passing his ring on to a worthy successor.Tomar-Re's ring lifted off his finger and hovered in front of John Stewart. This surprised the assembled Green Lanterns, as Stewart was already one of them. The ring told Stewart he was wearing Hal Jordan's power ring. Both rings hovered in the air before settling on to their rightful owners. Hal Jordan was given back his power ring. Tomar-Re saw that things were right before he finally slipped away. John Stewart conferred the final honor in the name of the Guardians. Hal Jordan was Green Lantern once again.

One of Tomars dying wishes was that John would serve as a Green Lantern.Tomar-Re's body resided in the Crypts of the Green Lantern Corps, until Oa's destruction at the hands of Kyle Rayner.

The people of Xudar still speak of Tomars legends and will never forget their one true hero.

Tomars Oath

"And I shall shed my light over dark evil,

For the dark things cannot stand the light,

THE LIGHT OF THE GREEN LANTERN!"

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