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

The psions underwent total societal collapse due to the action of Omega Men in The Omega Men 30. They gained full access to their entire history. Are you telling me that they took a look at the way male psions treated female psions and decided 'seems fine to us'?

Why can't it be both?

The mass killing didn't take long. The planning could have taken any length of time.

 

Wait, now that I think about it, Amalak and his mercenary company patrols a, probably, big area of the border the Vega trench and the Crown Imperium's borders (including the planet of the Spider Guild and its surroundings) and Jarko controls Asryx and probably patrols a considerable area of the border... but I don't think Vega is that small, so I guess there are relatively unobserved areas that the Crown Imperium fleet (or someone else) could take advantage of to get in the Vega Systems undetected.

Still, it would require a lot of resources and firepower to defeat the Psions relatively quickly and then scorch Wombworld fast enough that the Illustres felt like it was abruptly done. I mean, I guess the Illustres hasn't really been paying attention to Vega at all (the Corporate War and the Karnan Retake both took him by surprise), so the Psions might have been fighting their attackers for a while now and just recently lost and got wiped.

Personally my first possible culprit would be Captain Comet and Komand'r, maybe with some assistance; between the both of them I could see enough power for this. Then the Crown Imperium, although they haven't demonstrated a grave hatred for the Psions. The Omega Men and the Karnans in third place but they seem occupied with the situation in Karna, even though their fleet isn't doing that much right now.

 

Technically all you need is to smuggle a sufficiently powerful antimatter bomb and psion defenses are probably weak to magic, so the omega men might be capable if they had the right amount of support...

But again a fleet isn't needed when we know FTL weapons capable to glass planets exist.

 

I don't discard the possibility of FTL planet-destructive weapons, but at the same time interdiction fields exist and it is the Psions' home base, to me it would be kind of weird if they didn't consider the possibility and prepare possible counter-measures to FTL weapons. As you said, the Omega Men, if they had the right support and/or connections could have acquired a sufficiently powerful bomb and accomplished it and they have been active in Vega for a while now; not saying the Psions are that genre-savvy but at least the possibility should have passed through the minds of their high command.

To defeat the Psions and glass their planet I believe it would be needed an elite force (with a lot of power or advanced equipment) or a fleet with a lot of firepower and/or resources (with good planning and knowledge of Psion defenses or at least one that accepts they're going to take a few punches).

 

I am talking about weapons that bypass THOSE, remember the Thanagarians?

 

Well, someone just fucked up in a major way.

The problem is there's a number of people it could have been, and that's assuming it wasn't a number of groups working together. And it might not even be the most likely suspect.

 

I believe you mean the bypass the Thanagarians were creating in Earth 50 to attack New Gordane? I don't think it was a weapon, it was a bridge/portal so that the Thanagarians Fleet could attack the Gordanian Empire with impunity and bypassing distance, defenses and interdictions. It's just that the activation of the Bypass would blew the systems where they were built when activated. At least that's what/how I remember.

 

If the Bypass allows a Fleet to ignore interdiction fields, then it also allows near FTL KKVs to do the same.

 

Rereading the last part, OL telling Gavyn he had a problem with killing all his problems away made Gavyn afraid.

Was Gavyn involved somehow in the attack in Wombworld to gain some street cred versus his sister? Fighting gordanians and pirates is nothing while Gavyn helped strike down the psions?

 

del

 

The Crown Imperium playing the part of Fortinbras, possibly. Though Amalak's leadership is not likely to have the palace intrigue to duplicate the canon ending.

 

The Specter approves this mass killing.

If there is a single species in DC that deserves to die more than the New Gods and the Reach, is them.

 

Some kinda doomsday weapon even a super advanced species couldn't stop?

 

How very Amarr of them.

 

So... other shoe dropping on the Conquest! Gordanians? Because when I think "planet turned into hellscape", Apokolips is pretty high on the list, and OL unintentionally gave the notSeneschal here pretty much blanket permission to spend Apokolyptic power on anything that could be framed as 'an enemy of my enemy'.

 

Ohhohohohooo. Some people ‘gon die T’night.

 

Did you mean "from returning" or?

 

I really am curious why people didn't tell Paul at all, not even the sisters.

Why?

 

"I'm not happy about this, but I'm not going to kill you all. I'm just going to speed up the consquences."


Nice.


Although, that's pretty much this ark in a nutshell.

 

So how many slaves did they kill right now? Morons.

Yes OL was gone, but he could have been called in a second and also he was busy building up his corps against the Reach, since, you know, Vega isn't the only crisis point in the galaxy, but nooooo.

It's also pretty clear Oswin tried to position himself as a "saviour" to make his claim to Vega stick. I bet he doesn't give two shits about the Psions or their victims.

 

This should be Koriand'r

Well, this chapter answered some questions, but raised some others. That's the end of this episode though. I wonder who we'll get an interlude of, assuming there is one.

 

Not only that but like Zoat stated all data on any Pisons off planet, their deals with others, the information of sold slaves/experiments, and tons of other useful data that would have been worth fighting to get.

I still don't understand why seemingly everyone in Vega thought they couldn't tell Paul or ask for his help on this matter. He needs to discipline the sisters, who are his subordinates, why they didn't tell him anything either.

This whole thing was an idiot ball on a massive scale with everyone Paul thought he could work with actively keeping information from him and not believing he would assist if asked literally any time.

 

I'd assume they would like some ability to act on their own without having to defer to Paul.

Also the same reason Paul often does things without talking to others. They might say no.

 

I’m curious to see how the situation goes and the consequences for all involved, the anticipation is killing me.

 

And they're about to die anyway.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

Nearly every power in Vega.

Persistent, aren't they?

They should be.

Wombworld is now officially dead, short of dropping a Blackstone Fortress on it.

Argh. Figures that would bite OL in the ass.

She's one of the few I could see being less happy about this.

Probably just instinct, to smash and smash until there's nothing left.

Rookie mistake! And a clear sign she's a better Blue than she is Orange.

Got to love the 'handful of scrabble tiles' approach to DC alien naming.

That gunner? His ass is grass.

...Oh my. I suspect there were some browned trousers up there at that.

Why waste ring charge better used to beating some idiots with other morons.

Seriously, OL, you need to get her a Blue ring.

Relocating their entire homeworld to another sector? One that won't have a treaty with them? I thought they were smart.

Resisting urge to knock that smarm down his throat...

They thought the first Beast was bad? OL can be so much worse...

I expect the Guardians will have quite a few words for them too...

Well, the damage is done. Now for the fallout.

 

They didn't want to bother him? I mean, if anyone knows to keep as much distance from the Orange light as is feasibly possible it's Vegans.

I'm more curious as to how everyone managed to hide this from Paul as he was doing his surprise rounds. This seriously didn't pop up in anyone's emotions?

 

My guess is that this will have negative effects on the Crown Imperium via sanctions from the GLC. Oswin's "great victory" will bite him in the ass, maybe via sciencell. If not, I could see the GLC prohibiting trade with their empire, denying them their expansion and maybe other punishments. Hope this doesn't strain Paul's relationships with the various powers in Vega.

 

Right. Conventional fleet not a one-shot WMD.
in a perfect world there’ll be heads rolling for the collateral damage- the alledged portal tech sounds like a justification born of partial intelligence by someone looking for Pr/Glory-or someone sweating bullets in a panic about destroying blackmail material/incriminating info- there’s no way In Tiamat’s CENSORED that initial containment required this.... sloppy, unprofessional mess- THiS is a waste of a perfectly repurposeable planet with existent infrastructure, and a priceless trove of scientific and engineering data that would be morally/diplomatically unfeasable to Aquire through normal methods...

as HK-47 would say, dealing with a threat like this calls for precision, skill, ART- the resource loss is akin to blowing up a Derilict in Sword of the Stars instead of just shooting its handful of turrets off to disarm it (netting a large global research output bonus in a 4X- significant leg up)

.... and given how triggerhappy the fleet was, I wonder how many captives took friendly fire directly....

 

*to the Jovial Marauders

*disperse

I wonder if he's going to invite her to visit Earth. If Hal Jordan is training a recruit, it would be fitting for Paul to meet them with a recruit of his own.