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

[Rafin]

5th February
09:21 GMT

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This probably went under completely when it was written, but reading through the whole archive at a more rapid pace than one chapter a day, I am pretty sure that a large part of this chapter is redundant. Specifically, the agreement between Hinon and Dox already was that the Controllers would be allowed to recruit their own Lanterns and tithe a number of rings to Grayven. Which, even ignoring the content of this chapter, makes it weird that they waited for so long.

Let me look up the relevant quotes.

Edit: Here they are:

And some conventional rings and personal lanterns would be nice."

"How many were you thinking?"

I shrug. "I don't know. A few thousand."

She looks decidedly unimpressed. "Really. And what's in it for me?"

"A few thousand Lanterns. Plus you get to sort out a few of the Guardians' missteps in a way that you can hold over their heads forever."

"So these Lanterns will work for me, will they?"

"My Lanterns will work for me, and I may dispatch a proportion to assist my allies. You can recruit your own as well if you want. It's no skin off my nose."

"But you would keep the Central Power Battery."

"Once I destroy the Citadel there will be no significant interstellar power in this region of space. It will be far safer here than on the Reach's doorstep."

"And what does Yuga Khan think of this?"

"Grandfather's been missing in action for nearly as long as you have, and as far as I know father's never been here. And I don't care to serve either of them. Part of why I'm doing this is to gather enough power to ensure my ongoing independence."

"And that Anti-Life fragment in your soul isn't a mark of his favour?"

"He may regard it as such. I do not."

Hinon turns away from me, bending slightly to get a better look at the Light Fountain. "Keeping an entire Lantern Corps going would be quite a big job for me to do on my own."

"Since they're mostly going to be operating locally, all I absolutely need in the short term is the Central Power Battery. I have Larfleeze's ring reserve and can wait on the personal lanterns. Beyond that, the more other Controllers you convince to help, the more Lanterns they get. Failing that, it occurs to me that -properly re-educated- the Psions may have what it takes to aid you."

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So, I guess the tithing part wasn't clearly stated (though it seems implied to me), but it still clashes with the content of the February 5th chapter. Also, seems like both the Psions and the Reach were mentioned as well, in a way that also clashes with how this latter chapter mentions both as if discussed for the first time between them.

But, regardless of whether or if you decide to retcon this discrepancy, I still wonder what Hinon has been doing for half a year, if it wasn't making rings or expanding the corps in any way.

 

[Vaermina]

The only ones we know who never progress past their "Third Age" by B5 phrasing were the Narn and Centauri... mainly because they never got over their mutual hate for each other(and even then, I don't think they went extinct). Beyond that, we don't know what happens to any of the League races.

Unless you're going by JMS's seeming low-level bias towards more "spiritual" races vs the more "materialistic" ones.

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Most of the League races are already slowly dying, the only one that isn't is the Gaim.

And the Gaim end up getting heavily screwed by the Drakh plague.