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

I know that, but when Chojin said it I kinda thought it meant more ring power.

 

Hey, I have a weird question, I was re-reading the thingie to mark some stuff for something else, and I don't seem to recall what happened to the rest of the paragon citadelians. Any chance for them to show up with some anti-lantern weapons they still have in stock and back up the Reach
? Or with a few very bitter and vengeful Psions ?

 

Paragon mind controlled hundreds of them and later on only a dozen were left and the others were executed.

Some of them did escape, but they were either hunted down by Kori, Kom or the Vega Alliance by now.

There probably aren't that many left if they're still alive.

 

I almost felt sorry for them then I remembered its the reach so I brought out the popcorn instead.

 

No, I mean in one chapter they offhandedly mention that those that didn't get killed during the citadel complex destruction just vanished. I don't have any scraped version to quote the exact line, but I read that yesterday and todays chapter somehow got me thinking.

 

High chance that they were hunted down by Kori, Kom and the rest of Vega after that.

Still maybe we'll see them again in the future.

 

Velus is at least a useful monster.

Not much of a compliment, but then Paul is all about rehabilitation, right?

 

This latest segment reminded me that Paul is good at leading warbands.

 

Has she visited at all? I was under the impression that Paul was doing all the traveling, because she can't exactly charter s ship to fly her all the way to Earth, while he can just teleport.

Also, are we going to see Artemis's debriefing with Batman after this battle is over?

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Actually, I disagree. He doesn't really know the capabilities of his troops. He's knows these aren't the best trained Lanterns, and is just trusting that they've been trained enough to react how he would given the situation. I could understand that if the OLC has been around for awhile, and he'd know from experience what every OL was capable of after training, but he really doesn't, and nothing in the story indicates that.

Everything in this battle is going well, so far, which is good, but it could easily have gone the other way. You don't fight an important battle based on faith. It's bad enough Vox had Paul do something mission critical that he'd never done before, without even discussing it with him. Now Paul is just continuing to just go with the flow, unless he used his ring to review their training records off screen with it being mentioned to the readers.

 

Honestly, Velus seems like one of the first sort of psychological profiles Dox would think to try. He's recruiting people as operators of yearning-based superweapons, and he wants those operators to use the superweapons to kill a whole bunch of Reach. Getting a guy who 100% always down to kill literally anything and offering him the superweapon contingent on him killing only stuff that you're OK with dying just seems like an obvious approach to try.

 

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Ideally, they might want to do a ~simultaneous attack using Honden-ported Controllers - In principle, it seems like a squad of Central Power Battery Bonded Controllers could probably traverse safely through the Honden while being dragged along by Hinon - or perhaps even move themselves, and it seems like Controller's ought to be able to do well against a fleet, considering what we've seen of lanterns so far.

 

We're seeing the cross-section of the corps which gets sent on a possible suicide mission deep into enemy territory. Of course they're going to be psychopaths.

But we know for a fact that this isn't the only kind of lantern Dox has recruited. For instance, that Clicker whose whole thing was defending the hive. Not entirely neuronormative, but not dangerous or a psychopath at all.

 

Interesting to see Lanterns using their rings to cause various effects. I was honestly expecting them all to bust out Crumbler tech.

The man wants to replace the will of every thing in the entire universe with his own Will. That's ego beyond ego.

If you have monstrous urges, and yet channel them for good/in positive ways....is that not a plus?

 

I don't know about rehabilitation Paul does have limited time, but the galaxy is unlikely to run out of even worse monsters to point Velus at.

 

I hope they had a strike team disable the planetary suicide charges before hand.

Otherwise there are going to be a lot of dead bodies resulting from this.

 

Actually it's probably overcompensation.

Darkseid was and is terrified of his father. And for good reason, generally his father makes Darkseid look like a sweet faced little girl trying to sell you some thin mint cookies.

Darkseid grew up with his older brother being the favorite, the crown prince.

Darkseid's mother? Had his wife killed, because Darkseid loved her and she made him happy, and Helga wanted Darkseid with a hole in his soul he'd futilely try to fill with vengeance and power.

Although, as ever, that might not apply here in Zoat's version...

 

Wouldn't the beam dissipate/ diffuse to the point of uselessness by then?

 

Actually I think they do.

It was mentioned that Desaad killed Suli on Heggra's orders, and Darkseid told renegade that he gained the understanding for using a part of the AL Equation, specifically the one he infected renegade with, from that incident.

So you're not wrong.

 

I mean... Gundams?

Missed fixing the "his"

I mean, it'll get ablated by the hydrogen in the interstellar medium along the way, but that's still a lot of energy and not a lot of matter to block it, and the fact that it's a beam in the first place means there's some sort of exotic effect containing it -- a plasma left to its own devices will immediately begin dissipating as it's made of charged ions that mutually repel each other.

Given the exotic containment, my guess is that it's more likely to cool down over time from blackbody radiation. Without knowing more about the technology, it's hard to predict what it'll condense to once it stops having enough energy to be plasma... but it won't stop being antimatter.

 

In nearly all cases, yes.

Of course, there's also the question of why anybody would use antimatter plasma as a weapon instead of just a straight up positron or electron near light speed particle beam in the first place.

 

Having Antimatter as a Plasma means it can be magnetically bottled away from Normal Matter, unlike an uncharged lump would be. Antimatter Plasma would be more easy to deal with if the firing system as well, giving it less of a chance to react with local mass. simply release it outside the hull with a directional magnetic field to repel the charged plasma. The fact that it's Plasma is secondary to the payload of antimatter itself, and is simply the method of delivery.

Still, it's a pretty indiscriminate weapon considering average hydrogen density in deep space. Even if it does disperse it'll still have some energetic reactions further down the line.....most anti matter weapons would be.

Star Trek usually gets a pass on their 'photon' torpedoes being antimatter because they keep equal parts matter and antimatter and aim for local annihilation and conversion, along with the extra mass of the torpedo, to cover any loose antimatter after a detonation. Still crazy, but since their own power generation for federation ships are antimatter already, it's fairly easy for them to take some from the onboard stores as they have it 'on tap'

Reminds me of the old stardestroyer.net rants, where 'imperial intelligence' captures the court preceding for the designer of the Galaxy Class, on the various horrors of engineering it demonstrates.

I will state that having thought about it over the last few minutes, the Romulans using micro singularities for their power generation actually sounds safer. All a unstable singularity will do is evaporate al-la Hawking radiation, rather then have the containment fail leading to anti matter detonation.

 

It doesn't take a lot of antimatter to ruin someone's day.

Thank you, corrected.

 

taken

 

Man this guy's a grade A dumbass. I know orange madness isn't exactly conducive to intelligent thought but Larfleeze could be pretty clever even through the haze.

 

'taken'

'designed'

maybe 'adds an'

Somehow I think it was influenced by his hate for aliens.

Called it.

maybe 'that size'

'that if'

 

"And if all else fails?"

"Then it's cake time"

"What?"

"I meant, then it's snake time"

"...What?"

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

I'm impressed that they had what had to be museum pieces by now still on hand. I suppose they're kept maintained and ready to deploy at a moment's notice just in case the Green Lantern Corps went back in it's pact...

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The latter being a weapon we've seen affect OL before - in the form of the modified Brain Bane used on him a year or so ago in-universe - and presumably the 'spatial disruptors' make it hard to maintain the integrity of a construct within the area of effect... Logical enough to use against Lanterns, whatever the colour.

Not that they care much about the ship OL's wing are chasing beyond its' usefulness as a way to get knowledge of the attack...

"Blasted human, stating the obvious again. Is that some trait of their species?"

Helpful. Though I doubt any but the highest commanders would have access to more out-of-the-ordinary knowledge.

So the scarabs won't be giving their game away when OL fights them. Good to know.

And not let the Reach keep worrying about what he'll do? Seriously, OL is like the little asian guy in the middle of the brawl right now. You know he's going to do something, you want to see him do it, even if you know it'll be bad for you...

No doubt OL will explain in detail about Dox's plans for his deployment. We all know how he loves to exposit.

Hey, once you've hosted the Ophidian, you can call yourself a Super-Lantern too. Don't sound so snippy.

Feh, Politics. Not what the soldiers on the ground care about.

Don't ask him to demonstrate now, you might be needing your ring in a moment. But it's not too hard to learn, I suspect.

Doesn't matter how powerful you can be when someone can just tell the Ophidian, "Shut this guy down, please, dear?"

No doubt he's proud. He was bested personally by the leader he now serves. If you look at it the right way, they had to send him to take Ragnar down, because he's the only one who was able to do it. Just don't mention the fact that OL was more or less the only Orange Lantern in the field at the time...

Suggesting they can go weapons-free on any Reach personnel they see without fear of censure? And note that he missed the unspoken suggestion that the three of them are some of those worrisome cases.

Huh, more 'Star Trek'-worthy references. They must have one hell of an engineer on board...

Now, now, OL. Don't comment yet, you don't know what zhe's planning. They might be testing the defences with a weak probing attack. Don't assume they're making a rookie mistake.

All you're doing is annoying them. Let them work, OL.

More likely that's annoyance at your commentary, OL. You do seem to have that effect on some people.

See, now that's how you do it. I wonder if the Reach have ever encountered anything like Crumbler-tech before? Earth Bullshit^tm for the win!

So, is that a mission kill or what? Having a giant drill slam straight into the power-plant would be a pretty effective way to do it.

Good-o. One for Brobranbrak. Four more and you get to be an Ace!

Someone else attacking at the same time? A poorly-timed supply run? A Reach fleet passing through on the way to somewhere else? Let's see!

...Let's see tomorrow!

All going well so far, at least from what OL's seeing. I wonder if other Lanterns are having as easy a time on their end... And who's this turning up?

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The connection fades.

Missing a closing quotation mark.

 

That's probably not the best idea given what they are up against.

After all, Entities can be killed.