Glossary
Sector
3,600 slices of the universe.
The story
When the Guardians founded the Green Lantern Corps three billion years ago, they faced an impossible problem: one police force for an entire universe. Their solution was division — the cosmos was partitioned into 3,600 sectors, each patrolled by Green Lanterns chosen from its worlds. Two Lanterns per sector in the modern era; one in the old. The sector is the Corps' fundamental unit of order: a beat to walk, a jurisdiction to defend, a home to know better than any outsider ever could.
Some sectors are legend. Sector 2814 is ours — home to Earth, to Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, and every human Lantern. Sector 1417 holds Korugar, Sinestro's homeworld, the planet his tyranny scarred. Sector 666 is the forbidden sector, the site of the Manhunter massacre, whose name the Guardians speak only in warning. Sector 2813 is Xudar, home of Tomar-Re; Sector 2815 is Daxam, home of Sodam Yat. Each number is a history; each history, a story of the Lanterns who walked it.
The sector system is the Corps' greatest organizational triumph — and its quietest tragedy. For every sector has known Lanterns who died in its defense, worlds that fell despite their protector's sacrifice, and long stretches where the ring found no bearer worthy at all. The 3,600 sectors are a map of the Guardians' ambition: a universe watched, ordered, and — they believed — made safe. The Lanterns who patrol them know better. They have seen what the map leaves out.
Artwork: DC Comics — fan tribute.