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

Does anyone know if the snakes are from something cause I've never heard of them or anything like them

 

Wonder Woman (2006), issues 42-44.

 

Yeah but wheres the telepathic dragons though?

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined /s

 

Of course the author knows.

 

Grayven's little speech. Peak Conquest.

 

Quite a bit of Godspeech today!

Spoiler: Be Revealed!

 

So... How exactly are you manually activating things on an enemy ship without a filament in said ship to bridge the hardware gap?

 

Interesting that she can use Godspeech as well. Has Grayven found a way to Awaken his subordinates like the Renegade? Or did she develop it on her own?

 

At least they're not afraid.

'There wasn't'

Hello Jorah Mormont.

I think they're collecting the locals as food and fuel.

'my lead'

Hah.

Now I'm reminded of a snippet from Life Ore Death.

Apparently Kaldur and Aquaman were responsible for the Sharknado franchise when an attempt to stop some criminals by trapping them in spinning water went wrong after a shark got in there.

You monster!

'weak-willed'

Hmm, Old God demigod God-Speech.

Seeing as she called him an impostor I'm guessing she knows Actual Grayven.

 

Forge, probably?

And it's an interesting thought: have the Oans or Weaponers found a way to quantise emotions?

One milli-Sinestro being vague worry and a kilo-Sinestro being the fear of imminent death? That sort of thing?

(A milli-Khorneflake would be mild irritation, a milli-Aphrodite a gentle wish to spend more time together...)

 

Earth 50 Diana was able to sense renegade using his powers and renegade thought she could develop like a New God, and seeing as this chick is thousands of years old she may have developed it herself.

Old Gods can use something similar, like when Hera forced Paul to talk about his love life.

If she is working with Actually Grayven then maybe he gave her some pointers.

 

Remember Diana can do it too,and shes Olympian.

 

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Astarte
I knew there was a space Amazon I was forgetting about!

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Whoops. Drawback of Anti-Universe Ring technology, with it's outwardly-focused reinforcement. If the source of your empowering light changes emotions... >Poof< goes the enhancement bonuses.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

Having awful, terrific ideas?

Using Mr Zoat's post earlier as a clue, I found the storyline this stuff came from: Wrath of the Silver Serpents. And indeed, the snakes ('Providers') are gathering all useful organic matter as both food and fuel.

Because there's no shortage of trouble spots. This is triage, unfortunate as it sounds. You have to pick your battles where you can.

...And that battle is a lost cause.

At least the whole planet isn't being attacked at once. I wonder, do the Citizenry (our erstwhile villains of this piece) only attack planets with low levels of technology, ones that cannot mount a concerted defence against the Providers?

No time to waste, after all. Sooner they save people the sooner they can foil the villains.

Really enjoying the chance to lean on the Pern references, eh, Renegade?

A good question. No time to summon them, given the rapidity with which the fleet is dropping their cargo?

No telling when Grayven-16 might show up, after all.

Surface-to-orbit point defence? Now I'm picturing something like the Macross' main gun firing in episode one of 'Super-Dimensional Fortress Macross'... Big dakka.

Can't get more favourable than that. Also, sassy, Ring, sassy. Been taking pointers from Ringnestro?

Plenty of time to save lives. Get to it, Lanterns!

Looking for a fight, eh? Which they'll probably pitch as 'self-defence against an unknown attacker'...

Heh. Yeah, I don't think these people care much for the Green Lantern Corps...

Hopefully not by getting in the way of said weapons. Not for too long, anyway.

Ah, still thinking of the 'Forging a Yellow Ring' suspicion?

Heh, there's a z-grade schlock name for you: Snakenado...

I see she's been monitoring the situation on her end. Impressive that Kalmin worked that out before his untimely demise here. Hmm... That would likely mean Varnathon is still in charge in this timeline... Good or bad? We'll see.

Yeah, you can put the planet back together easily enough. The people? Just a bit tougher. This day will likely enter their mythology as a cataclysm of divine proportions...

"You English son of a piggy dog! I blow my nose at you!" Though... Remotely activating disconnected speakers? Using your God Powers for that, I take it.

"Reminds me of my honeymoon!" Would probably be her response. OR maybe her first date with Scott.

Dayum.

Dispatching some terror-troops, eh? Got to love the synergy of Orange and Yellow.

Ah, Astarte. This will be interesting. I wonder if he'll call Diana in for this meeting before or after they duke it out?

Well, this is indeed fascinating. 'Imposter'? Did Grayven-16 press-gang the Citizenry into his service on his way here? I could see him doing so, if only to increase the size and number of his armies. But then, why would they still be raiding? Preparing their supplies for the journey? I'm sure Astarte will have plenty to say tomorrow, as she tries to lay a beat-down on the Renegade...

 

I remember that in the comics they attacked Earth, which does have technology to defend itself.

Though they could have thought it was too primitive to pose an actual challenge.

Astarte also mentioned the Oans were vary of them, but she could have just been talking out of her ass.

Yep, he's still in charge.

Renegade spoke to him.

He did seem eager to get on renegades good side, so he may have scrubbed his plans for universal domination.

 

We were headed this way on an unrelated errand and saw an opportunity. Then someone started killing our poor, defenseless sneks for no good reason, the bullies!

 

Astarte is Diana's aunt, her mother's sister, which makes her thousands of years old.

The KISS explanation is that Zoat is making use of the fact that Diana's mother is the daughter of Ares, which would make Astarte a demigoddess as well.

 

As much as I agree and look forward to this... I can't help but have the odd feeling of the next chapter being a "Supplementary, SI Option" or "Meanwhile in Universe #####" chapter just because.

Which I'll also happily read, of course, but the sensation is just there for some reason...

 

Zoat has done things like that before.

Though seeing as we haven't gotten an alternate version chapter in a while it may be a paragon interlude.

 

Diana does mention in that comic that their weapons feel like Green Lantern energy but "malevolent."

Honestly, it may just be the Guardians and GLC having to job for some no name.

Again.

 

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No.

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It was the Warhammer one, actually.

 

Fantasy or 40K?

 

Close enough!

 

I vaguely remember something about how renegade mentioning Diana would be somewhat capable of it if she used her godly powers more. Or at the very least she would be significantly more in tune with how the New Gods work. Perhaps something from that? I could be misremembering though.

 

Mr Zoat, this talk about Godspeech reminded me that Knockout is the New God of Thuggery. Since she's a rival to Barda, shouldn't Barda also have a domain/God name/whatever the correct term is? My best guess is Aggression, or maybe Ferocity.

 

I really like this declaration that he'll taunt them

 

A milli-Fleeze is an idle whim. Hope is measured in milli-Walkers, and Green lanterns are all given a milli-Ion score.

 

god i love the godspeak. time to phone diana.