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

The Reach may have never encountered any type of alchemy in their previous conquests, so they may have very little idea what they're dealing with.

They most likely have extensive knowledge of chemistry, but not alchemy.

They have no context of what they're dealing with, unlike Wally, who at least had some instructions.

 

It's always so fun seeing what a high level Light Shaman can do isn't it? So many different paths the devs gave to explore, and yet The Emotional Spectrum has always had such a flashy presence in-game.

 

It was a quote.

These are Orange Lanterns. For those that seek power, they see something they might achieve if they work at it. They always knew that the Illustres was powerful but now they're seeing what that translates into in macro level combat.

 

Has anyone in the corps attempted to merge with Ophidian, yet?

 

Is it really a quote? If it is, where is it from?

 

I believe it's a quote from Hellsing Abridged. This one

 

No.

Ah, how close do they have to get for it to count as 'tried'? A few have walked purposively towards the Orange Central Power Battery, but they generally get jumped on by their wiser colleagues.

 

"This gets you promoted in the Green Lanterns!"

"Well last time I checked that wasn't a green battery."

 

I'm glad I was right that subspace would kill the eggs.
I'm glad I was right when I suggested he'd see Jade on his mission.

I'd be concerned that my space soldier gf said something like that if I didn't have empathic vision. I do hope for some kind of relationship development to come from this, though.

 

It read to me as a bit of snark between lovers rather than an actual biting comment, but it could be a setup, though I don’t think so. Things have been going well in there relationship, even if I would like to see more of it, and Jade was the one who wanted to work off planet.

 

Everyone quotes Alucard (abridged)

 

The eggs are all right.

 

I think he's implying that Paul did not use subspace. It's that pocket universe thing the Priest did.

 

...Huh. Out of everything Klarion did, I didn't think that THIS would be what Paul would emulate.

 

That can't be what he did, because time still passed normally in the children's world.
What I suspect is that even the eggs can hold their breath for the few minutes it takes a fleet of highly motivated orange lanterns to transmute new incubators into existence. And of course with this much orange light here and absolutely everyone left wishing for the eggs to stay safe, they will. Blue and orange morality agree today on the values of hope and avarice.

 

I know that Paul didn't actually do the same thing, I was commenting on the similarities between the actions.

Also, I like how he told the Reach agent that a god was the one to do that, and then turns around and does it himself.

 

Ah, comic book power escalation. Start off using clever tricks to beat up the baseline human martial artist, and a few years later, you're abducting an entire planet of eggs into a pocket universe. Soon you'll be creating a construct hook so that Superman can tow around planets!

 

He already did that, kinda.

 

Paul's pulled pizza and potato's out of subspace, just as hot as they were when they went in. Also pulled out a set of severed atlantian hands at one point.

It HAS been stated that living things cost more charge to store and remove then non living things, but much like his magical gear taking more juice to subspace, he's using multiple rings and has a connection to the orange light improved via best snek.

A Planet Worth of egg bebbies is a bit of a stretch as we haven't seen him subspace anything bigger then......I think either the Cruise Missiles, or maybe that block of hardened magic water during the Atlantis fight with the saramites way back when.

We've seen him Dump his whole subspace pocket when he un-merged with the snake, leaving all his stuff around the mountain. As well as when the visit to venus when he got his subspace pocket picked. Don't know the power requirements for doing it piecemeal over all at once being any different, though I assume there might be an increase in power use for doing so at significant ranges.

Aside from his Personal Subspace pocket it has been shown that he can create Independent pockets. One for his lantern when he hid it in his room, and one for some cereal when kid flash had his snacking fit in the early days. Again no comparison on power use vs his own pocket and making new ones.

It does raise a question over the magical connection for these eggs, and the lack of that connection in what ever pocket they end up in. Hopefully this next generation doesn't wake up with a taste for Orange.

 

Not....sure I would have offered up that little tidbit to someone I wasn't about to splatter but....well I'm not OL.

I couldn't resist.

 

Look, if you get to high enough levels, they are basically the same thing.

 

I do kinda have to question the wisdom of blabbing about how weird Earth is to a Reach member but then again he’s made no attempt to keep that secret from others before and the Reach were probably going to learn about it anyway

Plus with the war starting it’s not like the Reach can spare the resources to go conquer a world they probably don’t know the location of and even if they did is very far away from the front lines, hell Paul is probably hoping that they will try it because then he can get the League to fight them

 

I think I remember some snippets about the Reach changing when they come to Earth die to Paul.

If this still applies then I'm betting it was because of things like this.

 

They wouldn't need a fleet, a single stealth ship with a planet killer and Earth would be gone.

 

I mean assuming that the Reach have fire and forget planet killers you’d be right

But that’s also assuming that the Reach go against every single thing we know about them and destroy a potentially extremely useful planet and restart the war with the Green Lantern Corps on top of the one they’re already fighting all because a single person they’re fighting happens to come from there

 

It was a major plot point of the series that they do.

Paul really should have thought of that before he declared war on the Reach.

Because now the GLC won't do shit to defend Earth since doing so would be them violating the treaty and not the Reach.

 

Their planet killer in the show was specifically a weapon that had to be deployed on the planet and given time to build up and the League managed to disarm twenty of them with no problems

Well that’s just emphatically untrue, the OLC and their allies fighting a war with The Reach doesn’t automatically mean that Earth is involved in that war just because they have one to two human members

By that logic every battle the GLC gets involved in also involves Earth and the worlds of every other race that has members in it and any war that has an American fighting in it, regardless of who or why, means that the country of America is involved as well

 

Any one of which would have been enough to render the planet uninhabitable.

Of which they were only able to find and stop because the Light handed the location and countermeasures to them.

Okay... I am sure the Guardians will come to bat for Paul and risk the war expanding to them just to protect Earth...

 

And the only reason the Reach managed to hide where they were was because they had a prolonged stay on Earth in which to do so ergo they aren’t simple fire and forget planet killers plus there’s absolutely no reason to believe that the Light wouldn’t help them in this situation like they did in canon because they live on Earth too

Considering that it’s the Reach breaking their treaty to attack Earth and that’s exactly what they did in canon?

Yes, yes they would

 

And they could do the exact same thing with a steal ship sneaking down to Antarctica.

Actually the Lanterns attacked them first.

The Reach: No? It's a different lantern group with no affiliation to the guardians you say? Well, we won't believe you if you in any way try to protect planet X. After all the person leading the attack force claimed to be from X planet, so if they aren't allied to you, that means you can't protect them without going to war with us.