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I had a train of thought that started off with “Isn’t the Universe massive!” and ended with “the Guardians of the Universe are idiots”.
There are approximately 100 billion galaxies in the Observable Universe and there are as many stars in each galaxy as there are galaxies in the Universe. So there are about 10 quadrillion stars (10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) in the observable universe. If short, blue, and mysterious think that 7200 lawmen are going to be able to effective with over 1.4 trillion star systems to patrol each they’ve got another thing coming.
A single Green Lantern wouldn’t just be covering the nearest planets to Earth, they wouldn’t just be covering the entire galaxy, but they’d probably be covering the entire local group of galaxies and a good fraction of the surrounding local supercluster of galaxies. Talk about police resources being over stretched.
Like many civilisations, the self appointed “Guardians” don’t hire enough police to get the job done properly. What’s more, as we’ve seen recently, they’re heaping more and more rules into the Book of Oa without a thought to the well being of their staff. They’ve got a rapidly deteriorating security problems with anarchists (Red Lanterns), terrorists (Sinestro Corps), and communists (Blue Lanterns) mixing it up. And the body count is rising – or more specifically the bodies are rising (Black Lanterns).
How much more can our poor over-stretched, under paid Lanterns take before they’re forced to unionise?
I don’t think that’s really fair to say. in effect, the lanterns are there to protect life. Life is sparse in the Universe, and the Lanterns are able to travel at speeds comparable to teleporting, making it easy to get to individual parts of their sectors. In an entire Space Sector, the likely hood is that only less than 1% of the sector has life inhabited planets