As funny as this, this really isn't painting Matthew in a good light given his ring should have been able to detect both that she's a telepath and that her records are fake.
Only if he bothered checking. But he seems to consider it the wrong choice to scan Kelsey. And he doesn't really have any reason to be suspicious of her anyway, not that he would notice them.
The whole "has no reason to be suspicious of her anyway" falls apart given his knowledge that he's in a semi-dystopian future.
Heh, this is Paul we are talking about you know. He can be really oblivious sometimes.
a) Do we, the Reach, or you, know what the guns, or for that matter the yellow crystals, do when aimed at someone with inherent Glow abilities, e.g. a Maltusian?
"The Earth isn't a dystopia so long as you ignore the extremist mind police and everything connected to them" isn't really the good argument you think it is.
Yes, because the interweb exists.
That sort of problem isn't a case where it has to be "common" knowledge, it's a case where it has to be "publicly available" knowledge.
Anti-construct weapons turning up in the hands of various pirate groups doesn't break the treaty. The Reach provably providing them does. But the Reach are good at not providing evidence.
The Boys is based on the comic series. Babylon 5 is live action.
No, I'm keeping them.
I haven't reached a firm decision.
I'm starting with 'two per Sector' so it's probably about twice that.
There are more Green Lanterns, but Orange Lanterns are very focused.
To be fair, Mr. Underwood did, presumably (as he claims such) through some sort of psionic land mine in his head, incapacitate two Psi Cops - who are, by definition, P12s on the Psi Scale, which is the scale's highest natural rating. This is extremely sus (to be fair, well, it is) and also grounds to be extremely careful even if you just keep an eye on him (which, to be entirely fair to the Psi Corps, is an entirely fair thing to do, even if they weren't, well, how they are).
Zoat has quipped(?) that Bester's scan of 'Matthew' would come up as 'this guy thinks I really look like somebody named Pavel Chekov'.
I'm pretty sure you've used limey before and it didn't click in my head at the time but as I stare at this I realize the MC is in Gotham, USA and not the UK and that's a British slang term.
In.
Is the MC connected to the Dream? I know he's not in the Book of Destiny but this thought just struck me and now I'm curious just how far "I can't say my own name" goes as a story plot point.
The internet lied to me! Damn, blast my lack of cultural awareness!
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Thank you, corrected.
I think that should be 'closest'.
Now that its been confirmed in universe that Orange Rings just have the AI do everything it just comes off kind of like the Aimbot user playing an FPS who mocks regular players for not having their skill.
Yes, since the Guardians
Damn, no subtlety here. I bet that took a good few minutes to setup for OL and Hal... And Gaart if he managed the railgun constructs. Easy enough with OL guiding him, anyway.
Pfft, no. Other colours get to cheat.
Ah, the drawback of a Determination-base superweapon system: Self-doubt
Which is a hell of a feat in itself. Most fleshy beings don't do great in the near-vacuum of interstellar space.
Number one interstellar mobility technique in boot camp, I would imagine. Other than 'hitch a ride with a faster ship'.
And now we see why Hal is an Honour Guard. It's not just Ring skill, any Earth Lantern can manage that. Hal also knows how to build someone up, support them while they recover their footing, inspire their determination... He's a leader as much as a warrior.
Wonder what they're making of the Lanterns' movements? 'They're just flying around out there. I think they're shooting, but there's nothing I can see yet...'
Lighting it up, weakening the shields so that...
...The rest of the shots can crack it and damage or mission-kill the ships.
Broad-focus beams might have been able to hit, but not destroy projectiles, either. And turrets can only traverse so fast...
Handy when your weak, point-defence weapons can't scratch your buddies' armour. Tough luck for the little guys, though. Bet they went down cursing their bosses.
Best case, they somehow reach the Source Wall in a few billion years. Worst case, some local planet(oid) out there is gonna suffer their own Chicxulub impact in a few thousand years, barring strong stellar gravity wells.
All you can tell thus far is that its' engines are a little banged up, yeah...
Really don't wanna hear that in stereo, either.
At least his armour is letting him remain mobile. It's slower, but they might assume he's disabled anyway and ignore him.
Shaken up and possibly suffering broken bones, I take it, but his armour is likely still unbreached if he's on Ring comms..
Detailed scans made while they were on the surface, of course. OL wouldn't leave the chance to make a medical record for an ally hanging.
Well, it's confirmed in-story now, but that is a reasonable explanation for it not having too much impact yet.
Such is their nature. You're not likely to see capital ships made of balsa wood and silk, after all.
Literally breaking the keel by twisting it, eh? Ships that big would rely heavy on structural reinforcing fields to prevent that, and those can be overwhelmed.
It's a mission-kill, but not a kill-kill. It won't be properly dead until it's reduced to scattered atoms.
'Shit, they got the boss' ship! Cover them, he might reward us!'
The lack of manoeuvring systems might hurt, if he's not prepared for an impromptu spacewalk.
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched yet, OL. The fight isn't over yet.
And if any of these ships put escape craft away to the planet, that could be a lot more than expected...
Uh-oh, that alert's only sounded if there's a hostile Lantern about.Ah, crap. That's right...
Mongul Junior almost certainly has a Ring.
Quick google says 3600 sectors, but I don't know why that many specifically. Assuming the universe is the same size as ours, it would work out to 1.17x10^29 light years cubed per sector, or a little under 5,000 trillion light years on the X, Y and Z axes; about 1.39*10^19 (13,900,000,000,000,000,000) habitable worlds per sector. That's a ridiculously high number for two people per sector to staff, even with FTL to make travel times negligible and to let us ignore that the universe is expanding. We know some planets go for centuries without seeing a Green Lantern, but even if the Reach and Apokolips have taken over, say, half that space, it still doesn't make sense. So either there's a lot more sectors, a lot fewer life-bearing planets (maybe due to something related to baseline thaumic levels, or Krona, or any number of other explanations?), or a much smaller universe. Probably all three.
I think Universe -16 has only 7 galaxies in total because of what Krona did? I am not entirely sure.
Meaning that all the Controllers who backed the OLC have suffered massive loss of influence and either abandoned them or are frantically trying to invent a counter.