When Abin Sur (Green Lantern 1 of sector 2814) crashed landed on Earth, he knew that he was going to die. With what little life was left in him, he instructed his ring to seek out and find "a man who was perfectly honest and born without fear" (since retconned to be: "capable of overcoming great fear."
Abin Sur's ring found Hal Jordan. They would one day say that Hal Jordan was the greatest Green Lantern of them all but before he was inducted, he was an arrogant and reckless air force test pilot. The ring saw potential in him, however, and brought him to the body of Abin Sur.
Abin Sur commissioned Hal to join the Green Lantern Corps. and Hal accepted.
When Hal flew for the first time, a fail safe in the ring brought him to the center of the universe on the planet Oa sector 0 before the Guardians of the Universe. The Guardians of the Universe were the first race created and thus took upon themselves the task of guarding the universe . . . always watching. The Green Lantern Corps. was their second attempt to police the galaxy through the harnessing of the green light of willpower. Anyone who wields the green light channeled through the ring would be able to create solid light constructs, fly, live in space, etc.
Until Hal Jordan, there had never been a human Green Lantern before and the entire corps was skeptical. This included the Corps. drill sergeant, Kilowog, who worked to break Jordan, but try as me did, he couldn't break the nearly limitless will of the human. Hal Jordan showed enough potential for further training. The Guardians saw it fit to pair the human with the pride of the Corps., Sinestro.
Sinestro and Hal became close friends and Jordan flourished under Sinestro's difficult training. The friendship would not last, however, when Sinestro's true nature was revealed. It would become apparent that he had become the dictator of his home planet and forced the natives to follow his every militant order. Seeing that Sinestro was mad with power, Jordan called in the Corps. and threw down Sinestro.
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