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

My apologies if this has been covered before but given how Paul ended up in the DC universe without a soul and had to fashion his own, does the same apply here? The results could be quite interesting, and also disturbing.

Hmm, I think I've found a hill I'm willing to die on, I've always done Tyranid in the same way as Tyrant, especially since the Imperium named them that because one of the earliest encounters with them was at the planet of Tyran. One thing I've noticed is that who one goes for in 40K is very much dependent on what section of lore they were first exposed to and built from there. I unfortunately started out with 5E Space Marines and then had to sort of expand from there, took me a few years to find my home with the Guard, though the Ciaphas Cain series very much helped with that.

 

Yes, but 40k has plenty of things without souls so it's not as much of a big deal.

Obviously I'm retretconning the pariah gene back in.

See, that's the justification I've always used.

In answer to your other question, the Enclave Reborn submod makes them far more interesting to play (reform, anyway) than any of the Brotherhood factions, having an actual reason to fight everyone as well as a massive focus tree.

 

Zoat has implied that all the alt.Pauls started off soulless.

Some of them still are, for example if I recall correctly Zoat indicated that Saul from the Boys never grew a soul, but since there is a lack of known magic users in the setting it just doesn't come up.

But various other alt.Pauls have grown a soul in some fashion or other. Anti-Green from getting dunked in a Lazarus Pit more often than he changes his socks, Sybarite from eating demons, Paul's tattoos, Gravy with the Father Box, etc, etc.

 

Sweet, I always liked that whole bit with the Pariahs, was a tad annoyed when I realized they had been effectively replaced with the Lychguard, who were far less interesting as a concept anyways.

Thanks for that by the way, ERB is always such a delight to play and honestly, my one time through the purity route felt like such a chore to get through. Plus the whole idea of forming the state of Nevada and helping give the legion the finger amuses me quite a bit. Hmm, so many ideas for when OWB gets around to the Chicago Enclave..... eventually.

 

WHY ARE ALL THOSE WEAPONS JUST FLOATING IN THE AIR!?

 

The Ld 7 bubble ability has so many more tactical options. I was annoyed when the Culexus Assassin lost that ability as well.

Purity was done first, and I get the feeling that they were learning how to make focus trees at the time. Hopefully they'll go back to it. I'd like a mechanism for coring territory where you exterminate mutants and replace them with cloned perfect humans, causing a drop in manpower until you build it back up. I'd also like Anderson to have a democraticish route and not have to do Presidential Dictatorship or nothing.

 

Inconsistent spelling

One word

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Regarding the Tau sterilizing other species, it's made fairly explicit in the Tau ending of Dawn of War Dark Crusade. Though how reliable this is, is up for debate.

 

0:26 The human inhabitants had embraced the Imperial return. And what does the Imperium teach about aliens? It teaches that they're all absolute monsters who will torture you to death and then eat you.
0:45 Less than 5% of the total population doesn't actually mean that any died, just that a lot of tau and kroot started living there.
0:46 Successfully re-educated gue'vesa soldiers standing with the Tau Empire.
1:04 Not going to have a lot of children if everyone's in a single sex re-education camp.

 

Correction anti green got his soul in a similar fashion to Alan and Stewart from star crossed, he is infused with raw green glow to make him stronger, but he is speed running his way to half glow elemental because he is infused until his brain gives up and he dies, then the Lazarus brings him back with a raw infusion of elemental energy from mother earth.

Also you forgot Raul as he got his soul construct when he got drowned in the lakes of rage.

Baul is also getting infused with hope glow energy and got a raw magic infusion as well (to get rid of his weaknesses to magic).

In the scale of Paul's I would guess the results are as follow.

Standard Paragon Paul: Infusion of magic through tattoos, possession by Greed embodiment, hell infusion got burned out of him the first time, the second lesser exposure remains, heaven infusion remains with him.

Rating 1 Para Paul.

Renegade Paul: Copied Grayven, soul got wrecked by anti life, infusion of glow energy (half the spectrum to fix some of the damage), finally purged anti life, in the grand scheme of things I would say he is 0.8 from Paragon Paul at least as far as the soul stuff goes.

Next is probably anti green lantern for the aforementioned events and his speed run to green glow elemental. 0.6 Paul

Next is probably Sybarite with his own speed run of greed flavored hell energy turning him into an incarnated demon like blaze. 0.5 Paul.

And so on... Raul is probably 0.3 Paul and Baul is probably around 0.3 too.

 

Zoat said that -14 Constantine gave Baul his soul and Anti Green got his soul from the Lazarus Pits, but i'm not sure if both of them are really absorbing their respective colors like Alan was.
Also Raul got his soul from Atros in one of his blood pools and may have a bit of red in his soul, but he may not be absorbing the red color.

 

Except of course there's also the problem that the Tau only have the single win con of suborning themselves to the Imperium.

And the important thing isn't whether a Warhammer faction is nice, it's whether you can set things up so the Warhammer faction will win, and is nice to you.

And the funny thing is while it would be pretty easy for an SI with a Power Ring to pull that off with the Imperium, Eldar, or some branches of the Necron, it's impossible with the Tau.

 

Spoiler: NO BOYZ 'ERE

 

It took me way longer than it should have to notice that there where orks in that image

 

[citation continues to be needed]

The Tau have to work with the Imperium in the long term, for sure (assuming they can't achieve a military victory on all fronts, but that's... unlikely), but I see no reason it would HAVE to be as a vassal state.

 

The one time I used Culexus effectively they were an absolute joy because everything lined up perfectly. Then the small group I play with learned to put it real high on the target priority list. Ah well, such is the nature of the game.

Yeah that makes a lot of sense, I remember seeing it on the OWB discord that the ERB team planned on doing an overhaul for Purity eventually, but it wasn't going to be anytime soon. Ah well, fingers crossed!

 

Also the narrator is clearly a human of the Imperium so could easily be painting them in the worst light possible.

Tau are not perfect but they aren't super monsters either. Leadership might be corrupt enough that Farsight and others left but also shows said leadership doesn't have an irongrip or anything.

People mainly hate Tau cause they aren't grimdark enough for setting, plot armor keeps them alive, and gameplay of armies.

 

i don't recall reading a The Boys Paul.. can i get a quick link to that one?

 

Because that's the only thing the Imperium would possibly accept and there isn't time to even try anything else.

Never forget, the Tau are on a 65 year deadline.

 

2 chapters here: https://forum.questionablequesting....stice-si-story-only.8961/page-35#post-2508962
One more here: https://forum.questionablequesting....si-thread-fourteen.8938/page-142#post-2579071

 

thank you my friend

 

Well, that escalated quickly.

 

Grayven knows what is best in life.

 

Oh. Yeah I guess that makes sense, but oh.

 

Wow! The head of some screechy bug thing, so romantic!

Realistically, I wonder what the reactions to this move will be. Chrysalis, while a horrible being, is also a sentient creature and that might horrify Celestia and Luna. Probably Luna less because she has moral values of a thousand years ago. Its going to be interesting to see how this turns out.

 

Grayven you are not on apocalypse anymore, stop using apocalypse dating customs.

 

"Lovely. Let me get a vase for it"

"Luna!"

 

Good dentistry, Soft Toilet Paper, and Hand Sanitiser. Apparently.