I've been looking to do my own spin on "Galactic" superheroes. Those heroes who adventures are across the stars.

I have some ideas, but a friend came to me with a good name and backstory, "The Lightbringers", who fulfill the role of DC's Green Lanterns in their own settting.

Ssure I could run a GL game, but I can't write stuff, or publish stuff for Green Lanterns, I can however create a group--different, more "mine", with a major twists and turns that make them very different in many ways. Plus, I kept coming back to the old folklore/myth of "Champions Light", of Champions who are surrounded by light (divine, natural, whatever) in the heat of battle.

The Source-no one knows what, or who, it truly is, grants heroies, champions who turn the tide (usually for good), with the ability to manifest their valor into light. Star faring cultures, know more than just the heroic champions granted light in great moments of challenge and sacrifice, they know the "Lightbringers" as beings who serve the Source, and their own convictions to do good across the galaxy. These champions have many enemies, who I'll consider at length.

For now, I'll just give their battlecry.

  Wherever darkness spreads terror and fright
 Whenever innocents face dire plight.
 However sentients know evil's blight.
 
We! Bring forth the light!

 Between the candle and the star
 No matter where, near or far.
 Across the universe we shall fight
 We pledge to be justice's might

 We! Bring forth the light!

Tags: Superhero Hearts & Souls Writing