>>111368817It was..... Sort of.
The original plan was that Jones would reveal that the Guardians that he brought back in the 1990 revival series were impostures and servants of death. Hal would find out that they were fakes, but he would be framed as a traitor and Sinestro would be brought back and given control over the GLC and a lot of the minor changes were made (no more yellow weakness, vague charge times instead of charging every 24 hours) and hunt Hal down for a year long arc.
Along the way, as Hal hunted down the real Guardians and found out that the Zamarons (the race behind Star Sapphire) were the masterminds behind the coup, having imprisoned the Guadians after going off on a sex vacation following Crisis, and then fucked death itself to have kids, he would pick up a young twenty something sidekick who would be what Kyle Rayner was: Hal's replacement.
The story would have ended with Hal freeing the Guardians and beating the Zamarons and their necrophilia spawned kids but in the process, the Zamarons would reveal that the Guardians caused the plane crash that killed Hal's dad and explicitly manipulated the events leading up to Abin Sur's death and other elements of Hal's life to "create the perfect Green Lantern".
The Guardians would admit to having murdered Hal's dad and Abin Sur and meddled in his life in secret, once restored to power. Hal would resign and Not-Kyle would become Green Lantern. So that they could have a perfectly conceived trap door set up to bring Hal back if Not-Kyle flopped or alternatively, keeping Hal around as a live-in mentor to Not-Kyle.
Sadly editorial HATED it, due to the fact that they didn't think anyone gave a fuck about Zamarons or "who are the real guardians" or the franchise in general. They wanted their own version of Spider-Man and none of the older Green Lantern fans, so they ordered the franchise nuked and Hal declared radioactive and unusable ala Scarlet Witch
