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

[BR549]

"The Controllers approved this?"

"The Controllers like order. And they don't like it when pissant primitive would-be empires decide to make everyone's life difficult."

"Then they are enemies of Thanagar."

"Oh, please declare war on the Controllers. It will make my life much simpler."

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...and if this happens to get out, well.

The Controllers overall will ignore the squawkings of the annoying primtive bird-people.

Hinon will laugh and get back to work.

...the Thanagarians, on the other hand? The people up top who know what the Controllers actually are and are capable of?

Once they finish changing their suddenly brown pants, anyway:

"...yes, Shayera Hol. By all means. Do threaten that we will go to war with the people who are of the same species as the Guardians of the Universe, who have all of the Guardians' knowledge and abilities, and who split with the Guardians because they felt that the Guardians of the Universe were being too hands-off."

 

[Duke Long]

Actually, is singularity projector the best brute force option Paul has outside direct Ophidian summoning?

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I think it probably is if it works, but since it is relatively easy to block or deflect I think that in practice his best brute force against foes with sufficient esoteric defences might be basic orange destruction pulses.

 

[Lurking Shade]

I'm not sure where you're getting this from?

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I also stumbled on the whole "Thanagars armies were created by Hyathis" part on three different wiki when looking up info on her out of curiosity when this arc started, because my knowledge of Thangar is entirely "they're locked in war with the Gordanians wanting to enslave / exterminate them" from the older Justice League show.

 

[Mr Zoat]

Even ignoring Paul's reaction should Thanagar try anything near Earth, the league is quite capable of beating back moderate sized invasions without either lantern corps.

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Oh, they wouldn't send an invasion force. It would be a small strike team of Crows.

Does she know he knows that?

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Yes, the fact that they went to downside and had to fight the manhawks is part of his intelligence file.

"...yes, Shayera Hol. By all means. Do threaten that we will go to war with the people who are of the same species as the Guardians of the Universe, who have all of the Guardians' knowledge and abilities, and who split with the Guardians because they felt that the Guardians of the Universe were being too hands-off."

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They split off because the Guardians wanted to keep the Manhunter androids in service after they murdered an entire Sector.

I also stumbled on the whole "Thanagars armies were created by Hyathis" part on three different wiki when looking up info on her out of curiosity when this arc started, because my knowledge of Thangar is entirely "they're locked in war with the Gordanians wanting to enslave / exterminate them" from the older Justice League show.

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In this story at least, Hyathis isn't a mind control specialist. She can nudge things a little if you've got her engineered microscopic plant life in your body, but mostly she doesn't bother. The Thanagarians who originally followed her did so out out of gratitude and a sense of obligation... And being a little off balance because getting cured doesn't mean that your mind immediately gets straightened out.

 

[Lurking Shade]

And being a little off balance because getting cured doesn't mean that your mind immediately gets straightened out.

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That part was also listed on it, though made a much big deal and treated as the primary and only reason they let her crown herself an absolute monarch. I'd mainly been curious about what her whole deal was since Hyathis is a character I'd only ever heard of in this story.

Was a real "Ah, comics" moment reading up on things and how the version of the Plague described there stripped all Thanagarians of their individuality until cured. Especially its version of why the Hawks were sent to Earth being "how to handle crime?" because according to it Thanagar had no criminals before the Plague and was practically a peaceful utopia. As was her trying to use telepathy to get a planet to start a war with the Darkstars as a false flag to conquer them.

 

[Austin Pharos]

I wonder if there are civilizations advanced enough to use singularity projectors as their main guns, but not advanced to use something better?

Actually, is singularity projector the best brute force option Paul has outside direct Ophidian summoning?

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Define brute force.

By area of effect, maybe? However it struggles to bypass esoteric defenses.

Esoteric defenses tend to have a narrow range of solutions anyways. Spell-eaters might be better at brute force due to how common magic defenses are.