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The 3600 sectors

 

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The Corps is an organization of 7200+ Green Lanterns (the old Corps was comprised of 3600) who are chosen by the ring for being able to overcome great fear, with two assigned to each sector of space that require the protection of more than one Green Lantern (Earth, home to Hal Jordan and John Stewart, is in Sector 2814).

 

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Heavily-populated Sectors like 2814 can have several Lanterns.

 

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While the primary Lanterns of Sector 2814 are Hal Jordan and John Stewart, Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner call Earth home, but are stationed on Oa, first as teachers, and then specially assigned to cases that are too difficult for the average GL.

 

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The official number of active Lanterns apparently does not include backup members who are kept in reserve to be called to active duty on short notice in the event that the regular Lantern in their particular sector is not available.

 

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In the original organization, the active list was apparently kept at a strict maximum considering John Stewart was not mobilized during the Nekron crisis despite the situation's dire nature.

 

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The specific arrangement of the sectors has changed over the years.

 

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If the universe is viewed as a sphere (or oblate spheroid), the sectors were originally described as wedges of that sphere, each 1/10 of one degree wide.

 

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This effectively meant that each Lantern had a sector of infinite size, since the universe is theoretically infinite.

 

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Wikipedia

Green Lantern Corps​

 

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Later, sectors were described as being of non-standard location and size.

 

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A large area of vacuum between galaxies might be one large sector, while a galaxy like the Milky Way may be comprised of several sectors.

 

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latest description amends the original one - sectors are now a one-degree by eighteen-degree section of the sphere-shaped universe, with the origin points meeting at Oa, which is located at the center of the universe.

 

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While this still results in an infinitely-sized sector, is not as spread out.

 

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Since the sectors all meet and begin on Oa, this means that Oa is in every lantern's sector, and while a Lantern is on Oa, he is technically still patrolling his home sector

 

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Each member has a great deal of autonomy as to their methods in their jurisdiction, subject to review by the Guardians if they feel the Green Lantern in question has abused their assigned authority.

 

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The individual Lanterns are responsible for arranging their replacements (when possible) if they are near retirement or death.

 

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If a Lantern dies before that obligation is met, the ring will find and seek another to be trained on its own.

 

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In rare circumstances, Guardians will personally go out into the field to recruit a replacement.

 

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Upon recruitment each Green Lantern in the original Corps received a Power Ring, a Power Battery shaped like a lantern (with which the ring is recharged), and a uniform.