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Ok was getting into a bit of a green Lantern Kick lately and well here's my first alien Lantern. Inspired a bit by Saint Walker, who really needs more info on himself and his species, and a bit of the Quarians.

"My name is Avik Re'Kresh. I'm a Lokan. We call ourselves Citizens of the Void. We take this title as we hold no worlds of our own. Our people largely live aboard our ships. Though some of our vessels are so massive their essentially mobile space stations. Constantly on the move and constantly studying all around us. We once had a homeworld long ago though it is said to be no more. Burnt to a cinder by the death of it's star. I was just a Ship's Technician. An Apprentice one at that. Nothing really all that special about me. I had a mind for mechanisms. Technology. One day I was working in one of the lower hangars. An Equipment Charging station wasn't working properly and I was busy trying to determine what was wrong with it as shuttles came and went. Then an alarm sounded. I looked up seeing the red emergency lights flashing as the ship's computer declared an intruder alert. That's when it found me. The ring flew right over to me having entered through the open hanger door, passed right through the atmo barrier and set off the alarm. I stared at it for a bit. Puzzled I reached a hand out to it to examine it and the ring slipped itself onto my finger. In that moment my life changed. It chose me. The ring chose me to be a Green Lantern and I couldn't fathom why. What was so special about me? I kept wondering that as I went through training. The others were fast and strong and confident. I wore my hood a lot. Not just to shield my eyes from the bright lighting on Oa but to hide my face from them. They were so confident. Then it happened. We were on a training mission and things went very wrong. Ambushed by a Pirate fleet. Out gunned to be sure. Fighters filled the void choking it with blaster fire. It was chaos. All of us were just trying to stay alive. I guess experience is a good teacher as the circumstances brought out my talent for constructs. After a while my emotions just sort of clicked off. I kept making various weapons and in lew of that I started thinking like a tech. Where's the ship's weapons? Engines? Power Core? I started reacting and targeting those points. Disabling or outright destroying enemy vessels. By the time the battle was done I realized why the ring chose me. As I stood on the surface of the moon looking out at the debris field I realized that the best weapon to have coupled with the ring is the mind. The Ring has no limits but what you can imagine. And I could imagine a lot. That was why it chose me. I brought something other than brawn to the table. I brought my Will and my intellect. Two weapons that those pirates couldn't stand against"

Well hope you guys liked the pic and the lil story. ^^

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