The planet Kalanor, located in the Arcturus sun system. The aliens on this planet were humanoid looking with purple skin and fins on their heads. Two of these Kalnorians were running from the authority. The planet was ruled by a ruthless dictator. This tyrant leader has caused an uprising, a resistance gaining momentum. The two members of the resistance, Ramon and Eamon, were currently in close pursuit by the local authority in Kalton, Kalanor's capital city.
"Hurry Eamon, we can't let them capture us." Ramon calls out.
"I know, I know." Eamon says.
The two run down an ally way. It appears to be a dead end.
"Now what?!" Eamon shrieks out, clearly panicking.
"Calm yourself." Ramon says.
Ramon kneels over and pries open a sewer cover.
"Come on." Ramon says, as he descends down.
Just as Eamon is about to join him, he is grabbed.
"No, NO! Ramon, help me!" Eamon yells out.
"I am sorry my friend." Ramon says as he pushes forward.
One officer restrains Eamon as another approaches him.
"We captured one of them, our men are pursuing the other through the sewers. Take this one to our leader." The officer says.
"No, not that. Please, I beg you, anything but that." Eamon pleads as he is taken away.
Ramon continues running through the sewer. He was following a map.
"It should be up here." Ramon says to himself.
Ramon reaches a final corridor. There was something concealed by a sheet. Ramon removed the sheet revealing a rather shoddy looking space craft.
"Come on, up ahead!" An officer shouted out.
Ramon knew they were close; he didn't have much time. He jumped into the cockpit. He pressed a button starting the launch sequence.
"There he is, FIRE!" An officer yells out.
The officers open fire on Ramon's ship as he continues to fiddle with the controls.
"Come on, come on!" Ramon says.
Ramon smacks the control panel just as the ship powers up. The ship then blasts off. As Ramon escapes the atmosphere he looks at his control system. He had taken heavy damage and wasn't sure how far the ship would make it. He just hoped he could get far enough.
Eamon was taken to public square. All of the capital city of Kalton were required to attend the very public interrogations that so very often lead to executions. Eamon was thrown to the ground. Some of the servants began chanting. The soldiers pounded their spears into the ground. A path was cleared as a hulking being approached. He looked like the other Kalnorians, only much much larger. This was the ruler of the planet, his name, Despero.
Despero looks down as Eamon pleads on his knees before him.
"Do you know why you are here?" Despero asks in a deep booming voice, commanding authority.
"Please my lord, I have done nothing wrong, I was just a bystander." Eamon pleads.
"Hmph, prove it." Despero says.
"How?" Eamon asks.
Despero looks down at Eamon. On Despero's forhead, a third eye opens up. This eye peers into Eamon's mind. Despero can see Eamon with the resistance. Ramon shows Eamon a map to a ship. The ship is to get them off world and find a champion who could help them in their fight. Ramon and other members had heard of such a champion. He wore a blue outfit with a red cape and had a red "S" on his chest.
"Grrr, where was the ship headed?" Despero asks.
"I don't know, I swear to the gods." Eamon says.
"Swear to me!" Despero commands.
Before Eamon has a chance to react, Despero picks him up and snaps his neck.
"Any member of this resistance will be hunted down and eliminated." Despero says, as he drops Eamon's lifeless body to the ground.
"Despero is the beginning, Despero is the end, Despero is all." The civilians in the square all say in unison.
Ramon's ship floats a drift in space. The engines had shut down and life support was on its last leg. Ramon had made it further than anyone else in the resistance, but in the end, it wasn't far enough. Or so he thought. Just a Ramon thought he was about to take his last breath, a green light emerged and encased his ship. It was the Green Lantern, Hal Jordan. Hal rescues Ramon's ship and tows it to safety.
