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

[Neruz]

He has scans of at least 4 telepaths (Lita, two psi cops, Ironheart), and quite likely many more (he likely scanned everyone who was in the building he was interrogated at), as well as however many minbari telepaths he scanned. The ring is clearly capable of independent genetic analysis - it was able to isolate the minbari beard genes and compare them to human genetics. So "ring, locate human telepathy genome sequence" should be possible, based strictly on what he already did in this continuity. As well as "ring, compare human telepathic gene to minbari telepathic gene" and "ring, adapt isolated sequence to narn biology" for thr bonus and G'kar's eternal gratitude.

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Every single human brain is unique, there are commonalities, but exactly how every brain develops is different for every individual. (This is also true for the rest of the body, ask any surgeon and they'll tell you no two bodies are the same and nobody actually looks like the anatomy diagrams.)

Figuring out how to alter a fully formed brain into one with the structures for psychic powers is certainly possible, but it would take substantially more data than just a few brain scans.

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And they didn't know what caused Ironheart to ascend like that. (There's very good reason other species who have had telepaths longer then humans dont artificially increase telepathic power like the Psi-Corp was trying to do.)

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IIRC it's actually implied that Ironheart's ascension was a forced version of the intended fifth stage of the Vorlons psychic experiments. Human telepaths are third stage by default, and the Vorlon upgraded Lyta was fourth stage, but there are supposed to be five stages. And while we never get any explicit statements regarding the fifth stage, given the Vorlons goal of creating beings that could fight the Shadows it seems likely that the fifth stage is probably something similar to what happened to Ironheart.

 

[Mr Zoat]

Shouldn't the ring be capable of restructuring the brain? Like it did in the main timeline with the venombuster and agent orange victims. There's not much difference between that and adding the telepathic structures, as I understand it.

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I mean... Yes, a power ring can add or remove biological structures, no problem there. The problem is know what to add and how to add it without causing a stroke or some sort of other brain dysfunction. You can't really test something like that on laboratory mice.

 

[BoML]

Well, that throws my timeline completely out of whack.

Still, if he goes through with this, and the Psi Corps ever finds out, he's an enemy they have to address in the future. I do have to wonder just how deep Psi Corps has embedded themselves in Earth Alliance decision making process, and what the likes of "Bureau 13" feel about it.

Well, after he's done with Mayan, he'll be able to chill out in this new destination. He'll probably have to go through Babylon 5...

Hmmm...I'm wondering how long it took until Ironheart started loosing control of his powers. He's stable now...but how long will he stay that way?

 

[PeriodicPedant]

Where did I feel like doing? The lobby.

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*rubs hands together gleefully*
Not sure why I'm enjoying the B5 branch as much as I am -I was never big into B5-, but eeeee this is fun.

 

[Mr Zoat]

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Thank you, corrected.

Hmmm...I'm wondering how long it took until Ironheart started loosing control of his powers. He's stable now...but how long will he stay that way?

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Thing is... Ironheart is a good deal more moral a person than, say, Bester, but he still volunteered for the enhancement program and his outlook is still significantly formed by Psi Corps doctrine. If the SI saw him crackling with energy and preparing to explode, he'd try and stop that as fast as he could.