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

To be fair, its not exactly mutually exclusive. Yoinking people’s things requires the desire to possess them, therefor…. Still Orange Light.

 

I thought the ring tells him the date? Weren't there entries where he starts without the ring that didn't have a date?

 

In this situation the ring has no way to discover the local date. At least, not in a format that would mean anything to him.

 

It could be, but I don't think so.

He could have stumbled over a planet in one of Mammon's realms rather than Throne, and there's enough fuckery that Yisun could have set up an actual Orange Lantern causally antecedent but temporally precedent to Paul's presence there just because of the atemporal nature of the Wheel, but the Hologram makes me think it's not K6BD. While they do have the technology and magic to make something like that, I don't remember ever seeing holograms in the webcomic; hell, Solomon has literal town criers delivering messages across his territory, despite television apparently existing.

Also, while the mosaic could represent the enfranchisement of demiurges by Zoss, or the enfranchisement of priests by a demiurge, you'd expect atleast one of the figures to be a Dragon for either scenario in Mammon's territory.

(though I haven't read through the rulebooks for the tabletop, so I don't have a full picture of the setting, and I could be wrong and me thoughts aren't exactly fully dispositive here).

 

I wonder how Zoat will slot the Alterans in Stargate? They seem like Malthusian equivalent until Stargate: Atlantis and then they get a LOT more dumbed down and ’humanized’.

I like to think of Alteran Ancients and Atlantean Ancients as different. Millions of years of separation as a culture / society.

Single City-Ship making a new Empire, all that lost knowledge, be better and worse at different things.

Once this SI gets ahold of something Ancient (that doesn’t almost kill him) he’ll probably be set on the technology side of things for this universe. If taking Goauld purposefully shitty tech and making it better doesn’t already do that.

 

He's not a descendant of the Ancients, so he wouldn't be able to use anything Ancient.

 

It's a specific gene that's needed. The ring should have no trouble giving it to him.

 

It absolutely should.

The only reason that sort of thing worked in canon was because it was being used on people who already had the gene, just in a mostly dormant state. And we aren't talking "gene" in the DC sense either. We're talking it in the real life sense where it results in a number of physiological differences. Many of which express themselves in the structure of the brain.

 

We just had a whole thing about how modifying your body is a bad idea.

 

Even if he doesn't get the gene, the ring may just be able to take control of Ancient tech without it.

The Maltusians are at least on the Alterans level, probably higher, so I don't see why it couldn't work.

 

"every"

And there's a classical bit of Britishness from a new Paul.

Stealing things from locals.

 

Well no, we just had a whole thing about how permanently altering your mental state while using an object that runs off your mental state, is a bad idea.

These are two very different things. Pretty much the first thing all the orange Pauls do, is alter their bodies. Nobody had an issue with them being young and fit, just psychotic.

 

The high end comic Malthusians are in a couple places.

Zoat's heavily altered Malthusians however should be nowhere near the Alterans.

 

Zoat, I know you can't see him, but you uh, it's kind of embarrassing, but uh, you kind of just agreed with Vaermina there.

 

Stranger things have happened.

Granted, it's rare, but occasionally it happens.

 

Either "A rap of my knuckles and a scrape of my fingernails" or "I rap my knuckles and scrape my fingernails"

I think you meant "to my guards"?

 

True, I remember the world of cardboard speech.
Still at this point in time nobody actually knows this except maybe Paul.

Given the threat he represents do you really want people to go in unprepared thinking
"Just throw superman at him and we'll be fine."
Better to give people a reason to stop and think about how this is going to work before they go and get killed for being stupid.
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War shows how bad that can end and that's without deploying anti-life.

telling them he can bitch slap superman through planets just by looking at him makes the league decide maybe they should plan this out and up gun the planet first.

 

You can't just put the 1st two of wyrm at the front of the episode and the next at the last T.T why do you make it so hard not to skip chapters... Also I was laughing a lot in the last episode when the world meets the space capitalism

 

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What a great suggestion. I'd love it if that was the case.

Definitely a lot of the colonising attitude IMO. Espescially with this Paul's thought about taking the wall image to the Brisish Museum.

 

depends on if he can learn to use his ring with a high level of proficiency cause if he manages that his ring can just absorb the ascended. also the wraith are actually more vulnerable to pauls predations then the Goa'uld.

 

He could certainly try.

But of course, even if it were possible an Ascended Being wouldn't just sit there and let him. And Ascended Beings are very capable of killing a Power Ring user.

Unlike the Goa'uld that fake it, the Wraith are in fact offensive oriented psychics.

And Paul doesn't even have the standard level of Ancient descendant defense to such things.

 

Thank you, corrected.

They're not qualified to look after them themselves.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Ooh, is he accidentally doing the Goa'uld glowy thing?

 

This does make Stargate seem more likely to me.

 

Huh. Okay, so it looks like it is Stargate. But Movie or Television series? There are slight differences between them, after all. Either way, this Alt!Paul may have to watch out for wandering Goa'uld, depending on timing...

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Presumably said palace was the hall of their master, buried during some manner of attack.

Of course, you're assuming that the planet has significant continental drift. Not every world is so tectonically active as Earth.

Many questions, few answers...

Hmm. Bit of a mess up here. Perhaps this world was once held by this Mammon, but he, she or it was driven off.

Definite traces of a battle, then.

I'm guessing part of the power core? Not that he'd recognise it as such.

Methinks you're looking in the wrong direction for now...

Which probably isn't that far from a Gate. Goa'uld don't like their pets to spread out, after all.

Interesting. Medieval society, except for the collective schooling thing.

Not like they're any threat to you, certainly. So if they're hostile, you can just fly off.

Might draw a little too much unwanted attention. Just turning up in a town that's likely the centre of a controlled region might be suspicious. Especially if there's any controls on travel.

Presumably they're at least using iron tools, not bronze?

Can't have the slaves killing themselves with their own dirty habits, after all </goa'uld>

And it's easy enough for you to copy 'rich folk' clothes and pretend to be a dumb noble...

Ah, the classic 'Doctor Who' Approach. Though you lack the benefit of a TARDIS' natural disguising effect on clothing and speech.

Even if you will stand out like a pale sore thumb.

Remember to turn the light down, or folks will be wondering about the orange falling star.

Oh, wait until you get the hang of FTL Transitions...

And hopefully have a good story like 'Boy, how drunk did I get last night?'

Ah, yes, the tendency of Goa'uld colonies to be set up in places that resemble southern California.

Well, good thing you aren't trying to hide, since your environmental shield gives you that huge debuff to stealth.

Good choice not to add anything. Don't know if they're friendly or not, after all, and you're clearly not a 'neighbour.'

I bet the local Goa'uld took it as their icon.

Oh, boy. Paul, you probably just flared your shield. And around this galaxy, glowy thing usually mean trouble.

So, off to a great start with the locals. Hopefully they take you as an official of a Goa'uld lord, and treat you well. It doesn't look like there was any kind of rebellion, or they'd have been a lot more wary. Wonder when this is, though. Can we expect to be meeting an SG team sometime soon, then? And which team, I wonder...

 

Or Zoat could get wild and use the original Book spinoffs.

 

The only Goa'uld he would have to watch out for are Anubis and maybe Ra.

Everyone else is easily killable with a power ring.

 

Well, more like Vancouver, but it's still West Coast, it counts.