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Ah, making magical doodads for the American government? Probably more in the 'diagnostic tool' field than anything, I hope. Although personal defensive items also have a market, I suppose.
Oooh, evil plan, Zee.
Optimistic, really.
Sadly, I suspect more shocks to the culture are in store.
You'd think the Smiling fellow would want things back to normal as fast as possible for optimum exploitation.
The joy of what is effectively a post-war world.
He had quite the headache when he tried to work out how her talking backwards could produce spell effects, didn't he?
For now. I bet his future glory will be because he isn't pinned down to one magical tradition.
Ah, I see. He's got the metaphysical equivalent of Final Fantasy X's 'One MP Cost' ability. Doesn't matter what he casts, it always 'costs' him the same negligible amount?
Ah, gotta build up his skill before he can break out the top-level stuff instead of repeatedly using 'Phone a magical friend.'
Quite the headache of her own when she tried to raid Destiny's Book for anything about him.
So it's like someone has put some manner of obfuscation on him. Could even have been his future self, depending on methods.
If it hasn't been so far, probably not?
I suspect the answer to 'what can he do' will eventually be 'Yes.'
And with his Ring, he always has the optimum amount of muscle for his self-image.
Argent isn't really built for strength, while the Face... Who knows what his Un-Man physiology is capable of?
Oh, right. Well, one option would be armour. Even if it would look odd on the Face, walking around shirtless isn't particularly viable.
At the least, it'll cover his ass legally in some cases of application of force.
Yeah, if you finished that pun, you'd be walking around with a donkey tail for a day or two, I suspect.
Argent is a teenage girl. It's going to be very important to get her to train combat instincts other than 'scream and run' or 'shield self then run.'
Heh. Now that is the million-dollar question, isn't it?
Technically? The comics version has artificial genetic infusions courtesy of the H'san Natall. Whether they'll be coming back for her and her fellow hybrids remains to be seen...
So the silver skin is part of her powers, rather than purely biological? Interesting. An innate skin-tight field she can't control yet, perhaps.
Right, then. Let's see if she can brute-force the matter.
Preferably with a globe showing country, city and even street address, is possible.
Looks like there was some measure of resistance she just broke through.
Assuming they didn't detect her scrying them and promptly pack up shop and leave before they arrive.
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Forgot about this. I have added a line under outdated by canon in the trivia page.
"gives different results" or "gives a different result"
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Did she actually practice?
Season 4 revealed she's secretly been counseling the passengers of the school bus that appeared throughout the series, as they've actually been time travelling. She also counsels Zatara after he was freed from Nabu.
That would be hilarious. She might just be waiting to bring it up at the perfect occation.
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So close.
They've been added in one entry.
So, then. I see Alt!Paul had no issue seeing G'Kar and said his piece. ...And then G'Nun said his piece, evidently. Interesting that Alt!Paul blanked out while G'Nun was present, though. Wonder how it looked.
And apparently completing their 'quest' allows them to 'move on', as it were. I wonder if that reduces his available charging pool or not?
'Guest Workers'? I assume that's a euphemism for off-world slave labour. Which explains why their story hadn't been heard - none of them lived to tell it to a Narn in a position to return to their homeworld.
So the Ring made a full biological alteration while G'Nun was active? And that would be a way to catch out someone not accustomed to speaking a language. Not every idiom and meme is recorded in textbooks.
I can just imagine him sniggering to himself as he faded away.
Yes, I suspect that's going to be a common reaction to this Paul. (Pity Saul is taken by the Indigo version. would make a pithy name easier. 'Speaker', perhaps?)
Hey, when you're working with 90's prosthetics...
Though I suspect that kind of thing is completely absent or the most part because they hadn't really become common back when the series was made...
The challenge of this meeting: Convincing G'Kar that the story was real and true. Ideally without exposing his sources.
Mostly because the source of said information is something of an outside-context-problem.
Doesn't stop G'Kar having a couple of burly guards waiting outside to detain him for a bit, though.
At leas it didn't produce a whole Construct Lantern out of it. Seeing a Spectrum Construct would be very surprising for anyone on this setting, I bet.
Speaker's ship, I take it.
With a name like 'Soul Hunters' I'm not surprised. It implies a measure of proactiveness about their operations.
...Ah, that would be the source of the 'souls' Speaker is carrying now.
Not the best image of them here, but they are very distinctive. Presumably their sites don't have statuary of them.
Given Minbari spirituality, I wouldn't be surprised if the Soul Hunters were seen as 'stealing Minbari souls from their rightful rebirth'.
Yeah, it's a fair cop.
I'm sure G'Kar spotted that he didn't mention how he found the Reliquary in the first place.
Like a fricking hot-rod. Definitely worth changing up, since I doubt Speaker can easily manage Ring-based spaceflight just yet.
Not least the fact they probably need a fair-sized crew.
Though if he could learn to extend his Ring's shields around the ship, it would be even tougher.
And that is a significant piece of information for G'Kar. I imagine Soul Hunter Reliquary locations are highly desired.
With the rest of his time being spent in the equivalent of hotels as he fulfils objectives for his passenger souls...
As long as it isn't suspicious that a human is cruising around in a Centauri ship. I'm guessing their papers are in order.
...Ah, spoils of war. So there might be a tiny chance of trouble down the line if a relative of his ships owner learns about him using it and objects.
As long as it doesn't get lost in imminent affairs.
Presumably his word will guarantee the veracity of said testimony.
Ah, he is a canny one. Might not be obvious that the Speaker is carrying them right now, since it's not like he has a bag full of Soul Hunter storage devices.
It'll be more interesting if there are any Minbari. That's going to be tricky to bring up.
...Interesting. Metaphorical quest conditions not right, eh?
Why do I get the feeling said Narn soul is waiting to meet a particular Centauri?
It's been awhile (and I do appreciate GhostKing 666's checking up on my facts, as it has been awhile), but as I recall, they actually, despite their reputation, aren't as such. The Soul Hunters, or Shak Tot as the Minbari (note, Minbari, not Mimbari) call them, don't seek consent of the souls they collect, but they also don't, as a rule, kill people early; they just make sure they're in the area when an auspicious soul is in line to kick the bucket. The plot of the episode that introduced them was that one had decided to be "proactive", having been driven mad by his failure to collect the soul of Dukhat, the leader of the Minbari Gray Council whose death had kicked off the Earth-Minbari War, and thus started actively going out and killing people.
It's funny you should mention that...
Leaving aside the...history the Narn and Centauri have making it logical that ex-Centauri vessels captured by the Narn would be on the market, the Centauri were one of Earth's best friends in the early years; IIRC, they were literally Earth's First Contact, and they were one of the few nations still actively openly trading with Earth - at sky-high prices, of course - during the Earth-Minbari War. Londo was the ambassador who tried to warn off Earth from contacting the Minbari, even: "Ah, arrogance and stupidity in the same package. How efficent." So a human in a Centarui yacht might be seen as unusual, but likely not too much more so than, say, an American driving a 1990s Nissan Skyline around is: "Huh. Neat."
Huh. I was going to say that speaking to important officials like ambassadors isn't that easy, then I remembered that religious couple who spoke to every ambassador within a day when they were trying to prevent Dr. Franklin treating their son. In this case the SI was trying to keep his abilities secret and so didn't want to come under that sort of scrutiny.
Yes, the problem there is probably that the Soul Hunters are too advanced,. and narns have literally no telepaths.
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Considering how old the Soul Hunters are as a space fairing civilization(over a millennia at least) every single part of that ship is undoubtedly more advanced than anything the Narn have, even the metallurgy and materials it's made from.
The Centauri in fact have no issues selling their ships to other races. Money is money after all. That said, don't expect the publicly available model to have modern Centauri technology, to say nothing of how they will straight up remove the AG systems before putting the ship up for public sale in other star nations.
Also, not enough time. The Narn-Centauri War breaks out in just a couple of years and B5 is not a setting where reverse engineering advanced alien technology is a fast process(Shadow tech doesn't count, the EA had help putting that stuff into their ships). It could take anywhere from 20-30 years minimum before the Narn started seeing any returns from getting that ship.
I get yhat it's hard to get in contact with the ambassadors, which is why Paul would go through G'kar, using him to arrange the meetings.
Exactly. As far as I remember, narns are somewhat obsessed with getting telepaths of their own, including buying alien telepathic dna and such. Having the soul hunter tech, if those are related, might help.
