Technically not contradictory, but still kind of weird.
It still isn't impossible, but I'm also toying with the idea of learning how to make Hearts of Iron submods.
I'll modify it.
That's got to suck for them.
I would be interested in seeing the Renegade beat Kalibak into the ground before Boom Tubing him back to Apokolips.
It gets worse.
Why on Earth would he do that to his brother?
I struggle to imagine how much worse things can get for them.
The ones that Paul met should know what he told them, while the ones in the Renegade timeline would have no idea and no way to learn of it.
Wow... The completely predictable thing that pretty much everyone guessed was happening was actually happening...
No, because the correct response to mass mind control is not masser mind control.
Plus Anarky didn't mention anything about the OMACs not consenting to their treatment, so he didn't know about it.
I got stuff confused. Sorry about that. For some reason I thought that their magic house was in Britain and that they used to live in New York, but don't anymore. I remember stuff about her being in a different time zone from the main team. Am I massively conflating stuff with how it's going for Cornwall Boy? Or is my only mistake that I didn't know that she's an immigrant originally from the US?
Oh, it's much more important than that. Ironheart is getting the documents. And will be scanned in detail. Ironheart is on the brink of becoming a First One - like existence, a being of pure energy. Meaning that, chances are, the process will become doable with an orange ring. Not "directly ascend people" probably, but "initiate the ascension process in a given telepath / human". That is bound to have political consequences, both internally for human politics and externally with other race relationships.
Shaal Mayan looking for that different approach to reach humanity, I see. From the sound of it, appealing to the world's most-read news source for the right to upload an editorial column.
Who read human literature and news sources? I'm sure there are. Not just intelligence agents studying the human character, perhaps.
Sounds like someone trying to send him a telepathic message. Or perhaps a command. And it seems to have affected a few of his passengers.
Because they share your head, they got hit by it.
Ah, the human journalists taking the wrong approach, I see. As Mayan mentioned previously, Minbari default to authority even for information distribution. So them poking low-level functionaries isn't going to get them much news.
Since Journalists as humans understand the concept are not a thing amongst the Minbari, I take it. Those who disseminate information to the public are more likely spokespersons than investigative journalists. To slightly misquote Pulaski from GTA San Andreas: "They report what they're told to report!"
Ah, another meaningful butterfly in the timeline. No doubt havign a crisis of faith right now and looking for an 'out' from PSI Corps control.
Let me guess, she's wondering who's trying to kill her this time.
Fitting. Also, Power Rings make spy stuff so much easier.
Especially if it's open-air. An observer with good eyes and a little lip-reading skill...
Nothing like cutting through espionage bullshit like the direct approach.
Presumably more noticeable from within than from outside. Not like a cone of silence...
Making it clear he's responsible for said field, of course.
Honestly, computer analysis should have occurred to him already. An artifact of B5 being mid-90's sci-fi written by people born before computers could do that in seconds.
Keeping busy, I see. The locals just don't learn, I guess.
His ship might get a bit cramped with four people, for sure. Especially if they don't want to share the comfy beds.
Oh-ho. A previously silent passenger? Ominous.
Oh, that's going to be an interesting conversation.
Yeah, not evading the suspicions at all.
The problem being that it is still ongoing, and he may not survive the whole process, of course.
Depends on who they work for. And since it's PSI Corps behind it, well...
Someone with the right telepathic proficiency probably could cause micro-strokes in a target's brain. Make it look completely natural.
Ah, disguising the deal with something innocent sounding. Assuming Ironheart takes the hint.
Such as the things done to Ironheart, for example...
In other words, document the program, sneak out everything you can carry on your person and be ready to run.
Hopefully she hasn't gotten into actual trouble while he's been away.
If he has the equivalent of a burner phone, that would be a very useful form of contact number.
This is turning into a personal in-joke, isn't it?
It would certainly be capable of it in theory, given that psychic powers are demonstrably biological in nature, having been introduced into sentient species via genetic engineering.
He has scans of at least 4 telepaths (Lita, two psi cops, Ironheart), and quite likely many more (he likely scanned everyone who was in the building he was interrogated at), as well as however many minbari telepaths he scanned. The ring is clearly capable of independent genetic analysis - it was able to isolate the minbari beard genes and compare them to human genetics. So "ring, locate human telepathy genome sequence" should be possible, based strictly on what he already did in this continuity. As well as "ring, compare human telepathic gene to minbari telepathic gene" and "ring, adapt isolated sequence to narn biology" for thr bonus and G'kar's eternal gratitude.
The catch is that one might presume the Vorlons would have anti-tampering protocols of some kind in their work.
If he takes Ironheart to the Vorlons everyone in the Psi-Corp dies.
Vorlons are very limited in how they can interact with humans right now due to the time loop they established and which hasn't closed yet. They still need Sinclair to become Valen. Also, why? In canon Ironheart ascended with zero vorlon interruption or retribution.
Maybe, but also maybe not. Depends on how it all works, and how the ring works. We shall see, I guess.
I went with the official chronology.
Shouldn't the ring be capable of restructuring the brain? Like it did in the main timeline with the venombuster and agent orange victims. There's not much difference between that and adding the telepathic structures, as I understand it.
The Shadows response to that would be to have The Eye kill Matthew as the act of re-engineering the Narn to have telepaths would be taking a definitive stance against the Shadows.
The Vorlons have many ways to close the timeloop.
