The Indigo Tribe Power Ring is a Power Ring; that "preserves" the rare energy of the Indigo Light from the Emotional Spectrum. It was harnessed as a weapon by the Indigo Tribe, who waited in the shadows for the fulfillment of the Blackest Night Prophecy so that they could take part in it and defeat the coming darkness. The first noted encounter with a power ring was after the Sinestro Corps War, when a Green Lantern and Sinestro Corpsmen battled on a planet where the Indigo Tribe were.
Powers and advantages
Indigo Energy Conduit: The rings channel the power of compassion for a variety of uses.
* Energy Blasts: The ring can fire indigo energy blasts.
* Force-Field Generation: The ring can create various forcefields to protect the wearer and others around him/her. The ring creates a force-field around the wearer, protecting him/her from the hazards of the void. An atmosphere appropriate to the wielder's biology is created inside the force-field, body temperature is maintained and waste products are removed. Gravitational stresses which could cause injury are stabilized for the ring wielder.
* Energy Constructs: The ring can form constructs of indigo energy. An Indigo Tribesman can create any particular items or construct that they can imagine as long as they have the mastery of compassion necessary to will it into existence. The constructs are made out of indigo energy, which is a tangible form of pure compassion, and they exist only as long as a indigo lantern is fueling it with their mastery of compassion. Items created by the rings are not indestructible and are only as powerful as the inspired compassion of the indigo lantern creating them.
* Phasing: The Power Ring allows the wearer to pass through certain solid objects, such as walls. Which objects that are not penetrable are not known, but it may depend upon the strength of the wearer's compassion and the density of the object's molecular structure.
* Environmental Playback: Upon request, the power ring can recreate a holographic environment based on data in its memory banks. The ring wielder can observe events in a ghostlike state, but the wielder cannot alter the outcome of the playback. All objects in the playback will appear in the full spectrum of colors, regardless of the wielder's level of expertise creating simulacrum's. The power ring will automatically end the playback if outside interference warrants the staff wielder's undivided attention.
* Invisibility & Light Refraction: A ring wielder can render him/her/itself invisible by willing the ring to bend light waves around his/her/its form, as well as that of the power staff. Presumably, a similar action allows an experienced ring wielder to create objects of colors other than indigo.
* Energy Twin: The power ring allows the wearer to create an "energy twin" of his/her/itself that can travel at far greater speeds than that of the ring wielder's physical form. While the energy twin is active, the ring wielder remains motionless, as his/her/its life force is needed to guide the energy twin. The energy twin can not alter its surroundings, and may only be perceived by the another ring wielder as a indigo, ghostlike image. Any knowledge gained by the energy twin is transferred back to the ring wielder's physical form upon recontact with the body. As a rule, a ring wielder can not create actual, independent duplicates of him/her/itself, as the power staff cannot create life.
* Energy Absorption: The ring can absorb and store most other energies. Doing so does not replenish the normal store of energy the staff has. A ring that needs recharging but contained a store of electricity could only discharge that electricity, for example.
* Flight: By the manipulation of anti-gravitons and directed molecular movement, the ring allows the user to fly at incredible speeds. In atmosphere, an Indigo Tribesman has been known to fly as fast as Mach 10 in atmosphere by creating an aerodynamic envelope around his body. Towing others, usually within a bubble, his speed is limited to the twice the speed of sound or 1440 mph. In space, an Indigo Lantern speed can be significantly greater and has been known to approach 80% of lightspeed in normal space. Flight is possible at velocities exceeding light speed. In atmospheres, air friction is not a hindrance, since heat is either absorbed or reflected by the staff's field.
* Wormholes & Spacial Warps: The power ring grants its wearer access to wormholes in space, enabling the staff wielder to rapidly cut time and distance needed for transport.
* Time Travel: Time travel is possible with the power ring, though the further forward in time a ring wielder travels, the more compassion it takes.
* Limited Cellular Regeneration: The ring has a limited ability to heal physical injuries.
* Electromagnetic Scanning: The ring has a wide range of detection abilities based on the imagination of the user. If one can conceive of it, the user can probably detect it. Magical effects like clairvoyance, seem to be beyond the scope of the ring. Most normal electromagnetic phenomena are within the range of the ring, including radio, television, infrared, ultraviolet, and high frequency band communications.
* Universal Translator: The power ring can translate virtually any language in the universe, facilitating diplomatic encounters rather than violent confrontations.
* Ring Duplication: Most Power Rings are capable of automatically duplicating themselves. Each duplicate typically shares the qualities and capabilities of the original ring. While the thought of an unauthorized person getting a hold of a power ring and making duplicates for nefarious purposes, their ability to inflict damage is limited because each duplicate still requires to be recharged by a personal power battery.
* Emergency Beacon: An Indigo Tribesman in distress can use his/her/its power ring as an emergency beacon. The alert can be directed to an Indigo Tribesman's neighboring sector, or it can be a Corps-wide alert.
* Homing Beacon: A homing beacon in the power ring can lead one Indigo Lantern to another.
* Security Protocol: The rings can be programmed. They are coded to the wearer to make them unusable if stolen.
* Preset Conditions: Commands can be stored in the ring to be executed at a later date, even if the bearer is not wearing the ring.
* Thought Relay: Otherwise known as a telepathic link.
* Emotion Immunity: The Indigo Tribe power rings control the emotions of those who weild them, preventing them from feeling anything but compassion, which is required to channel other lights without being affected by them.
* Interstellar Teleportation: The Indigo Tribe power rings can teleport the weilder of it and anyone they want from one part of the universe to another, this is only used when nessesary as it requires a large amount of energy to do so.
Weaknesses
* Willpower Subversion: While the Indigo Rings prevent the lights that they channel from influencing them (e.g. to prevent the red light from consuming them once it's no longer in use) is a strength, it is also a weakness as it subverts their wills to the influence of the Indigo light.
* Recharge Protocol: Formerly, the Rings needed to be charged after a period of 24 hours, regardless of how often it was used.
Additional Info
In contrast to all other forms of Power Ring, the Indigo Lantern Ring is always complemented by the Indigo Lantern Power Staff. The ring is capable of directing the Indigo light as other power rings do, but more often than not an Indigo Tribesman utilises the staff to direct the energies.
