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After several escape attempts by the New God, Orion, and a concerted effort by Superman, Wonder Woman and The Flash, the League succeeds in breaking loose and restraining their En ' Taran captors thanks to the efforts of Steel, using Orion's Mother Box to block the En ' Taran telepathy.

Adam Strange then reveals that he has been completely sane during their entire incarceration — using a device to broadcast deranged brainwaves and give the impression that he was mad — and that the restoration effort has been a ruse to ward off an En ' Taran invasion.

Due to a fluke of circumstances, Alanna was never really dead, but was rather merely in a coma, having been misdiagnosed by an Earth doctor unfamiliar with Rann physiology, prompting her father to take her body to other planets to try to find a cure.

As the En ' Tarans revived her, they discovered the secret to Zeta Beam teleportation technology and began to covet it for military purposes.

Acting quickly after the En ' Tarans tricked him into bringing them to Rann, Adam Strange feigned insanity and had the Justice League brought to Rann to provide back up and help him with a desperate gamble.

The structures of the capital city are actually plans to turn the entire planet into a larger version of the teleporter ; by using his own body as part of the lens, the radiation that keeps him tethered permanently to Rann can instead be used to permanently teleport the invasion fleet away.

The Justice League was necessary to complete the repairs in time and for mounting a fast rescue attempt of Alanna and her father from the En ' Taran fleet, Superman ' borrowing ' the Flash's speed so that he could rescue Alanna and her father from the fleet after the beam was fired but before it struck the ship.

The plan works, and Strange's family is rescued seconds before the beam channels through him to teleport the fleet away.