A YJA Moment - The Hidden Masters of the Emotional Spectrum (Part II)

 On the planet Nok there is a very secret and unusual prison that has no walls or guards.  There the members of the Indigo Tribe, some of which were formerly known as the most terrible individuals in Known Space.  The Green Lantern Abin Sur found the world a decade ago, drawn to the strange energies emanating from the planet.  There he found peaceful people who possessed staves that harnessed purple energy, not unlike the Green Lanterns own Power Rings. Tracing the source of this power deep in the earth he discovered a cavern with a rock formation that coalesced the Emotional Spectrum of Compassion.  With the help of a rogue Qwardian Weaponeer called Nastromo, they altered Power Rings to tap into the Indigo Spectrum.  Before his death, Abin Sur then took the most irredeemable criminals he could find and inducted them into the Indigo Tribe.  The Power Rings have the ability to bring out the best in people, helping them legitimately redeem themselves.  Instead of channeling its own energy for effects, the Indigo Rings can emulate the power of the other Power Rings, granting themselves unique abilities without the limitations normally associated with them.

The recent appearance of the Black Lantern Corps during the troubles on Oa has caused worry not only throughout the Green Lantern Corps but across all of Known Space.  For all their differences, the various Lanterns Corps share some similarities, but that is not so for the Black Lanterns.  Instead of living participants, the Black Power Rings animate the corpses of the dead, giving them a zombie-like existence and a craving for the emotions of the living.   Though they possess flight and occasionally provide spectral constructs in mockery of the other Colors, the Rings are about consuming the Emotional Spectrum in much as death consumes life.  Members of the Corp seek out the living and drain their life-force, drawing from it the emotional energy within.  This leaves a dormant husk devoid of life.  The Central Power Battery of the Black Lantern Corps is in the Underworld, atop the staff of the death lord known as Necron.  Within it lies the Soul Stone, one of the fabled Infinity Gems and the undisputed master of life and death.

The corrupting power of Anti-life infects reality and makes a simulacrum in mockery of existence.  Such has occurred with the Emotional Spectrum, with the creation of the Ultraviolet Power Ring.  Drawing from the primal emotions of bloodlust, self-hatred, and shame, users of the Invisible Emotional Spectrum can replicate all the powers of an Oan Power Ring.  In addition, the Ultraviolet power can infect another person, forcibly and irrevocably turning them into a fellow member of the Corp.  Thaal Sinestro originally discovered the existence of the Invisible Spectrum and attempted to use The First Ring to tap into it.  He ultimately failed and was arrested, seemingly ending his quest forever.