Citadel

CITADEL

Membership:

Base of Operations: Vega System

First Appearance: Green Lantern II #137 (February, 1981)

History: (Starfire II #1 (fb)) - Koriand'r and Komand'r were royalty in the House of Tamarus on the planet Tamaran. The Citadel invaded the planet, massacring the inhabitants, including the girl's parents. Komand'r, now queen, surrendered, and was put in place as a puppet ruler of Tamaran, while Kori was exiled. Kori was experimented on, and gained superpowers. She led a slave result, and made her way off-planet, ending up on Earth.

(Starfire II #4, 5) - Blackfire hired assassin Kragg Gorn Kee, who decided to make an impression by killing her Citadel guard before meeting with her. Blackfire wanted him to locate Starfire, and report back to her, but not harm her sister. The assassin took the job, and said if she changed her mind he had no trouble killing Starfire. On his flight to Earth he was ambushed by Citadel spaceships. They had their own agenda, and wanted Starfire dead. To coerce him they had his wife and child held hostage. In a fury he destroyed one of their ships, but agreed to play along.

Comments: Created by Marv Wolfman & Roger Silfer.

CITADEL (pre-Flashpoint)

Membership: Blackfire, Branx, Citadelians, Complex-Complex, First Citadelian, Gordanians, Harry Hokum, Spider Guild

Base of Operations: Citadel Homeworld, Vegan Star-System

First Appearance: Green Lantern II #137 (February, 1981)

History: The Citadel was founded thousands of cycles ago by the firstborn son of the goddess X'Hal. Known as the First Citadelian (his true name was lost to history), he was a charismatic leader that rejected love and rejoiced in warfare. Raised on Okaara, he turned the populace into warmongers, which led to nuclear war and his banishment. He returned to the Psion lab where he was born, and with the help of Psion scientists formed a Fortress Ring out of broken fragments of a moon that would become his headquarters. The Citadelian created the Citadel Homeworld on the planet below, recruiting Gordanians and Branx warriors to serve as his army and bring him slaves. The fascist Citadel empire was born, and the Citadel waged unending war against the cosmos. The Citadelian cloned himself to make the Citadel race, although they were imperfect and mentally challenged replicas. Towards the end of his life the Citadelian programmed his consciousness into the computer network Complex-Complex that governed the Citadel.

(R.E.B.E.L.S. #6) - Starro The Conquerer usurped L.E.G.I.O.N. and conquered the Dominator homeworld. The Citadelians and other extraterrestrial civilizations prepared for war with Starro.

(R.E.B.E.L.S. #23) - Vril Dox continued his anti GLC rhetoric, and several planets, including the Citadelian homeworld, wanted the GLC out of their sector. Vril had Lyrl design a singularity module, and secretly delivered it to the Citadelian Liberation Front, who threatened to destroy Vega's sun with a black hole unless the GLC left. GLs Altin Admos and Gorius Karkum foiled them, defusing the bomb, and realized the brain-damaged clones could not have masterminded the plot, even though they had no evidence against Dox.

Comments: Created by Marv Wolfman & Roger Silfer.

The Citadel received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #5.

The Citadel had a cameo in R.E.B.E.L.S. #10, 16, 18.