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Originally Posted by Jason Abbadon

At the dawn of time, the race that would become the Guardians was the first sentient species to become technologicly advanced. Their top scientist- Krona- wanted to know what happened before at the moment the universe was created and, against the laws of is people, made a kind of time portal to view the creation.
He saw two giant hands made of entropy energy...

Not only did this sorta break Kronos' mind, some of that entropy got through the portal- destroying a delicate universal balance: when the DCU eventually ends, it's supposed to collapse in on itself and create another "big bang" that will make a new universe- but Krona's meddeling cost a huge amount of energy at the dawn of the current universe, meaning that once the universe ends, it's kaput.
After millenia, the new Guardians had determined that by controlling anough of the normal chaos in the universe- by bringing an enforced order- the gap in energy culd be closed and Krona's crime would be attoned for.

So they went about containing or stopping chaos however they could- one major way to to contain the Starheart- source of all mystical energy in the DCU inside an actual star. They also contained or inprisoned the emotional totem entities of the energy spectrum- Fear, Anger, Love, Will, Avarice, Compassion (and unbeknownst to them) Life.
Another way to combat universal chaos was to police the universe with the robotic Manhunters, which, after terrible programing errors led to their killing billions in an effort to wipe out chaos, were replaced with the (living) Green Lantern Corps.

So, the Guardians and the GLC is really all about guilt and atonement for Krona's crimes- and their mission has the highest stakes imaginible.

Alan Scott's lantern is actually a part of the Starheart that bonded to an ancient 2184 Green Lantern's power battery, ws destroyed and re-fashioned many times into lantern shapes, eventually falling to Alan scott and giving him a vision of how to restore it's original look and purpose- Alan, an engineer made the starheart into a battery and ring and became the first earthman to be called "Green Lantern".

Fo reasons Wikipedia was created for, I'll tell you that Alan's weakness was wood and that yellow is just another color to him. He also has to recharge his ring every 24 hours bu this has been shown to be more of a holdover limitation from his battery's original design and he o longer needs to do that. also of note, Alan has used his battery just as he would his ring and other people cant make his ring work.

Alan is also much much more powerful than any single GLC member.

DC is confusing in that regard with all the retcons to origins.
Like how Zero Hour changed the origin of the universe.