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

There's still everything that led to the war that Paul intends to settle.

 

...That's what killing Caledor and taking his crown settled, though. There's no outstanding grudge, just outstanding damage to Ulthuan's credit score. Getting blame tied to the Dark Elves would require proof of sufficient quality that a dwarf would consider it reliable. Even if one of Paul's brainwashing victims were willing to testify who had been around at the time, there remains the issue that dwarves may not consider the testimony of elves with scrambled brains reliable.

 

Jesus. It's like reading a Terminator trying to ignore Skynet's prime directives.

 

Man, she really got fucked up.

Hope she can properly realise it at some point without:

Getting in the way again.

 

Nothing's wrong with her

She'll be fine.

 

This might be just the Doomsday interface.

In which case, it's AI is far more sophisticated than expected.

Or they really messed up her brain repair, enough for herself to notice.

 

Now this is fascinating!

 

'the Kryptonian'

Apparently that logic and science are better than passion and primitives.

True.

He may know a lot about it but more like a well informed foreigner rather than someone who grew up in said culture.

So this is Kara.

He's more than a good man.

Well you also had a military leader, a writer and a priest.

I think that's largely your Eradicator side.

Though you could have some subconscious biases.

No, I doubt you are.

'we've lost'

I know this distrust is due to racism, but not trusting renegade isn't such a bad policy.

Especially since their parents are incredibly open and friendly.

Future generations of Kryptonians may not have as many issues and sticks up their asses as their ancestors did.

Well now they are like that.

The giant pile of rubble floating where Krypton used to be strongly indicates that it didn't.

'gordanian'

Also these ships may have New God improvements, so destroying them may not be so easy.

'Lanterns'

'maneuver'

Freaky.

Aliens that may have advanced tech and have the backing of a powerful god.

So Kara has the Eradicator in her head giving her advice and doing similar things.

Well it's good to know she still has a large part of her still in there.

 

Great... She's a sociopath in concerns to aliens now...

Well... I guess it's a good thing Zoat nerfed the Doomsday so much...

 

It's not that they messed it up, it's that the standard mental template for clone soldiers is a good bit different than that of someone born and raised naturally.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Not in my country, colonial.

 

An interlude with Kara, I see. And stepping back a little while. No doubt so we can see the arrival of Grayven-16's fleet. Let's hope he doesn't lead off with the planet-killer attack like he did in the Paragon timeline...

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The joy of getting her brain rebuilt by machines intended for culture intended to be xenophobes...

I'm honestly not surprised that the Military Council named it... Can't really intimidate someone into surrender with a ship named 'Large Capital Ship 1', after all. But Doomsday? Yeah, that's a name to run away from.

It's a metaphor for reason and intellect triumphing over animal instinct and unreasoning brutality, I guess?

No, Eradicator, he's better. Because he understands life and living... At least, I assume it's an Eradicator program. Or something similar designed to reinforce xenophobic tendencies in the Daxamites.

Yes, things changed over the centuries, and not necessarily for the better...

And look where it got you. Sure, no internal wars, but no external contact either. That's not conducive to progress. Just the opposite, in fact. Without outside stimulus, Krypton fell into stagnation...

Because they'll be fighting aliens, huh? Ah, Eradicators...

Given it's the largest concentration of Kryptonians in the galaxy right now, outside of Daxam? Yeah. And I suspect the Eradicator programming wouldn't count them as pure as the original breed.

Oh, I hope this programming gets found out and pulled out somehow. Maybe a trip to Equestria?

Argh. Hard to second-guess something inside your own brain, and that keeps telling you everything's fine.

Ironically, he's been the best thing for the Kryptonian people since the disaster... Since, you know, he's responsible for there begin a Kryptonian people at all.

Tough luck, Eradicator, that's how it is.

Now that? That's true. But they refused to look outside their little box...

Not enough, though. Not nearly enough, even if you dumped them into the Phantom Zone too.

I get the feeling the Eradicator programming is just salty that its' high-and-mighty Kryptonian Science couldn't have helped. But that would require it to have emotions it wouldn't have been coded for...

Hopefully not warships like the Doomsday, though. One is enough, and makes something of a big target, really.

Overconfident, Eradicator. At least the Karnans will get to work out some anger on these ships. Especially if they come down to the surface for a chance at some looting.

Yeah, sometimes nothing can prepare you for the real thing.

No, he's probably more concerned with the likelihood that Grayven-16 will open up multiple attack vectors.

I mean, if nothing else, it can probably fly through the enemy ships without noticing too much, given the durability of Kryptonian material science...

Yep, Grayven-16 looks to be hitting multiple planets at once. Forcing the defenders to spread themselves out, obviously, but also thinning his own ranks... Will he be making a play for the Renegade's home base planet of Tamaran, I wonder.

I suppose the programming does have some use. Pity about the xenophobia...

And that's a failure flag if ever I've seen one. I can't see Grayven-16 passing up a chance to strike down the Renegade's most powerful asset.

Man, that programming's really whispering sweet bullshit into Kara's brain, isn't it? I can but hope it gets noticed sooner rather than later, before she ends up going off the rails. At any rate, the fight's begun, Grayven-16's made his first foray into Vega, and the Renegade is about to get the call. This plotline's coming to a head real soon.

 

Jokes on you.

I only speak the colonial language but I'm not one.

 

Magical computer reprogramming.

One of the main problems of someone with mental and emotional problems is them admitting that they have problems.

Conquering the place or destroying it may give him a metaphysical advantage over the Renegade.

Tamaran is fairly important to him.

 

Kryptonian philosophy is Superman's exact opposite it seems.

 

Would be kind of silly if he didn't given that would give him an immediate advantage over Renegade.

 

Yeah, bringing an El back to life using eradicator adjacent tech? Bit dangerous.
Might want to get the Jor El sim to take a gander.

That's a flaw on the Renegade side that he lacks the access to the soft skills Paragon would to detect it.

Manchester Black might but he's not here.

Also, nice swerve from getting to the beatdown on whoever is attacking Lynne.

I'll be disappointed in Renegade if he didn't leave Shade behind as the bulwark since he can handle or at least slow anything short of a Crisis. Got to take advantage of those allied eldritch terrors!

 

And yet dumb enough to miss the point about current practical limitations

 

By the way, when did british english dropped the "œ" in manœuvre ? I'm pretty sure it was there during the Middle Age.

 

Aaaaah, I love the Peacehammer stuff...

...though I am still curious about how Khalida reacted to the marriage proposal.

Because if she is restored to flesh... DAMN.

There is a reason why she was said to be one of the most beautiful women in Nehakhara.

Teclis getting restored will be delightful.

I also wonder when Paul is going to tell them the main reason the Curse of Aenerion exists is because Malekith pussied out of the fire too early...

 

Given the number of telepaths Grayven has on staff it is rather bewildering that such blatant mental contamination hasn’t been noticed.

 

Or they did notice but renegade considered it a better alternative compared to being brain dead.

 

He wasn't proposing. Marrage alliances are practiced in both the Reikland Empire and Nehekara. He wanted to know if she'd consider it, or if her religious vows prevented it.

After he said that there was an awkward pause before she checked that was what he meant.

He could restore her flesh at once. But he couldn't make her feel it. It would just be meat over the bones she did control.

Technically, he wouldn't be 'restored' as he's never been healthy.

End Times goes into the box. I'll probably have Storm of Chaos as canon, though I'd actually use the game results and actually kill Archaon.

 

I honestly wonder if a version of Brainiac (or the Eradicator) have worked there way into Kara's mind? Or perhaps that's just the Doomsday "talking"?

 

It's the Eradicator. Which is why she's wearing the Eradicator version of the Superx uniform and why they talked about Kem-El.

 

I suppose this time around we'll actually see the fulfillment of the Prophecy of Demise, which supposedly concerns Malekith and who kills him, in this fic.

If it doesn't turn out to be Nagash, who happens to be a "firstborn son of noble blood", I wonder if we should expect a elf-human hybrid son from Paul and Aranei in the future, (created thanks to his father's orange ring), who takes after his mother in becoming a sorcerer.

 

Does anyone know what happened to Paragon Karasta Wor-Ul I know Superman found her, she kicked his ass, and then left but was it ever said where she went or if she would be back?

 

She left Earth, seemingly for good. There's no word on where she went, so it's possible that she won't be appearing in the Paragon timeline at all.

 

You know, if Warhammer Paul's plan to drain the warp energies from the Old World are successful, I half expect that a miles-long spaceship might suddenly appear in the sky...

You know, to let him show off the full power of the most powerful weapon in the universe, and potentially start building his own Orange Lantern Corps to bring peace to the stars.