Ungara-One was famous for being home to the Green Lantern of Space Sector 2814, Abin Sur. When their hero died on a mission close to Earth-One, where he crash-landed, a replacement was selected by Sur himself. Test pilot Hal Jordan proved a worthy successor, and early in his career saved the planet of his predecessor from the destructive path of a comet.
However, news of their champion Sur’s death left their society fragmented. This led to a world-wide civil war, with one side developing a deadly orbiting plasma satellite and the other attempting to defuse it. Instead, they inadvertently activated it, causing it to unleash its destructive energies which causes over one hundred million deaths as well as causing its planetary orbit to shift radically. This turned Ungara-One into a frigid polar planet.
Ungara-Two did not have the noble legacy of the Green Lantern Corps to draw strength from, and so adopted their more destructive tendencies earlier than their counterparts. Developing deadly globe-beings sent to Earth-Two, these caused that world to become a frigid polar planet. Doctor Fate tracked the origin of the globe beings to the shifting orbital world of Ungara-Two, where he quickly destroyed it an all its inhabitants!!!
As for Hal Jordan, he was more merciful, using his great power with help from fellow Green Lantern Arisia, to restore Ungara-One’s climate to normal. A key question remains. What caused Doctor Fate to be judge, jury and executioner of an entire globe? Did the inhabitants of this world remind Fate of someone else, who likewise in his eyes deserved no mercy?
It may have been Fate’s previous experience on his native world of Celia, the planet where he and his fellow Lords of Order originated. These Lords became obsessed with eliminating disturbances to this order, such as the Lords of Chaos. Among their agents was the Doctor's arch-enemy, Wotan!
In fact, like Ungara One and Two, the parallel planets of Gemworld (which by the 30th century had become known as planet Xerox) and Celia were indirectly instrumental in the affairs of Earths One and Two, respectively. While the greatest adversary to those of Celia was Wotan, his counterpart Dark Opal was even more effective, having conquered Gemworld. In fact, his legacy may have influence the evil Mordru by the 30th century, who had assumed Opal's throne having conquered Xerox.
Ironically, bringing this Twice-Told Tale back full circle, while the Abin Sur of Ungara motivated Hal Jordan into becoming Green Lantern, Wotan had for a time caused Alan Scott to rethink his role as Green Lantern after a battle between the two led to the tragic death of a young man.
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