Okaara

The jungle world where greed took root — Larfleeze's hoard.

Okaara — the Controllers discover the Orange Lantern battery
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Deep in the Vega system, where the Guardians' writ does not run, lies Okaara — a jungle world of impossible density, where the trees themselves seem to hunger. It was here, billions of years ago, that a band of thieves followed a stolen map to a buried temple and found something that would change the universe: the Orange Lantern, the living embodiment of avarice itself.

Larfleeze, the last survivor of those thieves, claimed the orange light and never let go. He fought the Guardians and their Manhunters to a standstill — read Green Lantern (vol. 4) #41 for the full tale of the pact — and won the right to keep his treasure, confined to the Vega system. Two billion years later, he's still there, sitting atop a hoard of stolen souls, each one an Orange Lantern construct bound to his will.

Okaara is not a world you visit. It's a world you steal from — if you dare. The Controllers tried, in Green Lantern #28 (2009), descending into the Jungle of Weeds to claim the orange light for themselves. They found Larfleeze waiting. None of them left. When Hal Jordan and a strike team of Green Lanterns came during Agent Orange, they learned what the Controllers learned: on Okaara, everything belongs to Larfleeze. Even you.

First appearanceGreen Lantern (vol. 4) #28 (2009) — the Controllers' expedition
Notable featuresThe Jungle of Weeds, the Orange Central Power Battery, Larfleeze's hoard
StatusActive — Larfleeze's domain; entry means death or enslavement

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