With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

[Darko]

Also, as The Froggy Ninja mentioned above; Lantern Son of Great Mother is a thing, and his entire shtick is that he wants someone to assign him mindless repetitive tasks for the rest of forever, which is fundamentally a desire for obedience

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Don't forget that slave Paul met in Vega.

She just wanted to follow someone and be obedient to them.

 

[Mr Zoat]

Tried to close a bold tag instead of italics here

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"father's"
"country"

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Thank you, corrected.

Huh. I wonder why the other nations never moved to stop them.

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I don't think I can answer this without [Modern Politics], but whatever country you just thought of, it's probably the same reason.

Not sure this quite lines up with the last time it was discussed:

Could be explained by the priesthood of the planet explicitly not teaching their women what the actual laws and rights were?

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I'll change it. They don't have legal divorce, but they do have de facto divorce.

 

[Darko]

Huh. I wonder why the other nations never moved to stop them. Fear of their 'god' maybe? Perhaps someone tried and an example was made...

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Jade's roommate on Maltus was from the planet with the eye god.

Though she was from a country that didn't worship the eye god.

She told Paul that the other governments on the planet wanted to stop the eye gouging, but the number of lives that would be lost in the war that would be required to make it happen were just too great for them to actually do it.

 

[LZB1285]

He didn't have having his eyes gouged out hanging over him for his entire childhood.

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Should this be "like having"?

 

[Mr Zoat]

Should this be "like having"?

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No. If you prefer, 'he didn't have the prospect of having his eyes gouged out'.

 

[boo600]

…I thought the whole planet worshipped the Eye-god? Dox didn't say "you've started a war no one else wanted," he said that there would be planet-wide unrest because the whole place depended on the Eye-Gouging God Religion for social order - it was woven into everyday life, like Christianity and Islam are for much of Earth. What is this about other nations and war? Does Taranna mean that other nations have aids for blind men, or that some sections of the planet allowed their blinded woman aids, meaning that she's from an extremely repressive part of an already extremely repressive planet? What's going on, here?

 

[Mr Zoat]

…I thought the whole planet worshipped the Eye-god?

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They did not.

Dox didn't say "you've started a war no one else wanted," he said that there would be planet-wide unrest because the whole place depended on the Eye-Gouging God Religion for social order - it was woven into everyday life, like Christianity and Islam are for much of Earth.

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Yes. I imagine that if martians came down and wrecked the Aztecs while Cortés watched it would have been fairly disruptive to life on Earth too.

What is this about other nations and war?

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To quote the Daleks...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBzZycw9APw

Does Taranna mean that other nations have aids for blind men, or that some sections of the planet allowed their blinded woman aids, meaning that she's from an extremely repressive part of an already extremely repressive planet?

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Various aids are available for blind people. They're not a monoculture, so it varies from place to place.

 

[Clell65619]

"That's fine, but I'd appreciate it if you'd visit Daxam first. Negotiations continue in nine hours or so, and I'd like the information by then. Sodam Yat is currently in Bir Tawil, so you can see him when I drop you off."

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Uh, isn't Daxam, like Krypton was, a high-gravity world? And doesn't the biology of evolving in that high-gravity environment account for at least some of the 'super strength' they have?

Or has that been retconted in of one of the multitude of 'crises' they've had over the last 40 years or so?

A Martian travelling to Earth would be subjected to 2.68 of his/her/its 'normal gravity'. Shape shifting could help, I guess, but still, living as if 2.7 of you were standing on top of you from every direction couldn't possibly be pleasant, and the atmospheric pressure would be a problem as well.

Is Paul going to equip J'aarkn with some exotic undetectable tech powered by high-grade handwavium to allow him to function in a high-gravity, high-pressure situation? Or is he doing his survey from orbit?

 

[Clell65619]

"Good show." I look down at the Earth, which miraculously hasn't exploded. "Alright, I'm turning in. Send me a message the moment anything changes."

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Oh, come on, Paul, Earth doesn't explode all that often.

 

[Mr Zoat]

Uh, isn't Daxam, like Krypton was, a high-gravity world? And doesn't the biology of evolving in that high-gravity environment account for at least some of the 'super strength' they have?

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Not since right near the start of the Golden Age, no.

Or has that been retconted in of one of the multitude of 'crises' they've had over the last 40 years or so?

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More the start of Silver Age, which was 1956 to 1970.

A Martian travelling to Earth would be subjected to 2.68 of his/her/its 'normal gravity'. Shape shifting could help, I guess, but still, living as if 2.7 of you were standing on top of you from every direction couldn't possibly be pleasant, and the atmospheric pressure would be a problem as well.

Is Paul going to equip J'aarkn with some exotic undetectable tech powered by high-grade handwavium to allow him to function in a high-gravity, high-pressure situation? Or is he doing his survey from orbit?

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And even if that wasn't true, J'aarkn is an expert shapeshifter. He could cope.