Ganurath
Literal Enthusiast
- Location
- A Valid Location
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Every time I see that name, I need to remind myself that no, Earth 50's replacement Justice League aren't white supremacists.
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
- Thread starter Mr Zoat
- Start date
- Status
shepsquared
Erratic Aussie
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
The debatable bit is that it doesn't really have a body
IIRC greenies can't use their rings for personal profit outside of bounty hunting.
A relevant quote from the story:
Note the last sentence especially.
- Location
- Oblivion
Easy to get around that rule on Earth, they might not be able to transmute stuff with the ring for Profit. But even just a rock sample brought back from space would be worth something like 50x it's weight in gold if I remember right.
Not when they have a ring full of "Bobblehead malware" it isn't.
- Location
- Oblivion
I don't think there's any malware that would stop a Lantern from starting a rock collection and grabbing a small one any time they went off world.
Yes they do; their rings have AIs, not just dumb hardwired limits.
A Star Reborn (part 13)
- Location
- Hampden Park
16th April
18:43 GMT -5
His right hand goes straight to his ear. "Aqualad to team. The staff have been infected by Starro-tech."
"Ugh!" / "Ghr!"
I look around as M'gann slams two security guards to the far wall with telekinesis. Both had been in the process of drawing their guns. Kaldur dons his helmet and draws his Water Bearers. "Take them down. Miss Martian, can you detect-" There's a burst of gunfire from somewhere in the building, which rapidly cuts off. "-their telepathic communication?"
"Klarion used magic when he was controlling them. A Star Conqueror would just use normal telepathy. I.. should be able to." Her hands go to her forehead. "I'll need a minute."
"A trap we could not even recognise! So elegant!" Glad Canis approves, though unless he has something helpful to say he really shouldn't say it over the comms-. "Aqualad, if we cannot slay these revenants, where shall we deposit them? I did not think to bring bindings and my aunt -ugh- tells me that I should not break Human kneecaps."
Kaldur glances at me. "The exotic materials lab has a testing chamber we could seal. And I've got plenty of spare zip ties."
"We will congregate them there, but they are most likely a distraction. Miss Martian is attempting to locate the Star Hunter, and we will need to move immediately once she has."
"Fifty seven people are working here today. Kid Flash and me got seven. D'you want us to drag them to you now, or go looking for the rest?"
"We can track down the remaining infected staff later. It is more important that they are out of the way when our true enemy reveals itself."
"I got nine!"
"It's not a contest, Robin." Okay, let's see if I can get anything on empathic visio-. I create an armour plate construct in front of the door as a.. strange purple beam punches through the thick metal. No, the beam isn't purple. It's.. sort of.. colourless, with a faintly purple aura. My construct evaporates even as I send filaments rushing down the corridor to strike the two scientists carrying the guns firing it, shock crowning them. They collapse, dropping their guns, which hit the floor, sparking and burning. Darn, I wanted to look at those. "Watch out for scientists using their equipment."
"Think we can take a guy with a microscope, Oh El."
"Two guys just shot me with some kind of energy weapon."
"I didn't-. See anything like that-. On their computers." Robin sounds a little distracted.
"Did they bring them in from home? Ah, I got five, by the-."
"Not a competition, Cornwall. And I'd guess not. Maybe the Star Conquerors told them how to build it." I tap my communicator off for a moment. "Aqualad, what was the timeline on the additional Cure-tech?"
"It should be ready now, but we cannot spare you if there is a Star Hunter concealed here."
"Kid Flash could pick up Tula and dash to the zeta tube. I'm assuming that the work is being done in Poseidonis?"
"Yes, but that would not get them to us quickly." He reactivates his communicator. "Aquagirl, attempt to contact Professor Vulko and then have him send the Cure-tech through the Poseidonis zeta tube. Kid Flash, once we have been notified that it has arrived, run to the Gotham zeta tube and bring it here."
"It'll only take a moment."
"Okay, Artemis and I are in the lab. Superboy's here as well. I can make it to the zeta tube and back in about a minute and a half. Two minutes, tops."
Wait, how were those guys aiming without a line of sight? Telepathy? No, that wouldn't-. I notice that the guards M'gann stunned have their eyes slightly open. Shock crown, pithing needle. Their eyes open fully for a second and then they slump bonelessly to the floor. Guy did say that Star Conquerors can share information. Ring, scan them and see if my ring knowledge has improved to the point where I can detect the signs of Starro-tech.
Compliance.
No, not getting anything helpful. I look through the building with empathic vision, trying to pick up any particularly inhuman sets of feeling. Yes, there's-.
Oh. No. That's just Canis.
"So where exactly is this Star Hunter, anyway?" I hear more shots, both through the building and through Raquel's communicator. "Shouldn't it be flying through the skies of Gotham, throwing little stars at people? And can someone get over here and stop these guys shooting me?"
I blink, taking in the whole of the building. "Zatanna, Robin, she's down the corridor to your right."
"Be there in a second."
"I thought your belt made you bulletproof?"
"Yeah, but it doesn't make the guy standing next to me bullet proof and they're just shooting-." There's a bang. "Thanks Robin. I've got a few guys out cold here and the others were just blasting away with shotguns."
"Kid Flash, while you're in the lab, check to see if they were making any more Starro-."
"Already doing it, Oh El. Can't see anything here, and Starro-tech had a nanotech component. STAR Labs Gotham doesn't have a nanorobotics lab."
Kaldur checks both corridors leading away from our position, both with his eyes and with puffs of scalding steam from his Water Bearers. "Starro-tech was created by the Light. We have no reason to believe that they used everything they produced on the Justice League."
"I've thought about it, and I don't see the Light working with actual Star Conquerors. It's too much of a risk."
"Vulko says the Cure-tech will be at the zeta tube in four minutes."
"Acknowledged. Kid."
"I'll set my timer."
Kaldur turns to me. "Then what do you believe happened?"
"People get exposed… Maybe researchers, maybe test subjects. We know there was a Star Hunter in the ice. Why not two? Or more? Maybe they tested it on a telepath? Whatever. If Klarion wasn't there or wasn't managing it full time, could it have been woken up by that? Or… Maybe a piece in their laboratory regenerated a full sized brain?"
"Oh El, are you just trying to let Luthor off again?"
"You don't stay a successful criminal in a city patrolled by Superman by being stupid or reckless, Kid Flash."
Kaldur shakes his head. "At this point it makes little-."
M'gann's eyes flash open. "I've got it! It's in the-!"
With a tremendous booming crash the wall to our right flies apart, bricks shooting right at us! Kaldur and I both throw up barriers to block it and I stick a construct platform under our feet as the floor starts to tip and crumble! As the building starts to subside I get a momentary glimpse of a huge red eye moving upwards through the rubble and metal, before it vanishes in the dust.
Shit! Ring, building schematics. Compare to sonic scans. Construct construct construct! The wall turns orange as the rings light it up in an attempt to prevent the building collapsing any further. A sub-basement, it was in a sub-basement. They must have dug it out and lined it with.. something. Scan for bodies. No one? It must have made its thralls get out of the way. Optics? Yes, there's a Star Hunter in the sky over the building. Still can't scan the bastard thing. This must be how magic users feel about me.
"Aqualad to team! Is everyone alright?"
I tune out the affirmatives as I try and shore up the building. Some rooms I give up on, letting them collapse and crumble into the chasm the Star Hunter left in its wake. In others I fuse brick and metal, taking girders out of subspace to create a stable surface.
There's a loud bang followed by a series of metal-on-concrete clangs. A quick optical check shows that the Star Hunter has torn apart the vessels containing the frozen Star Conquerors with its telekinesis, throwing the containers aside carelessly while its smaller kin recover from their imprisonment.
"Aqualad, if I'm going to stop it getting away, I need to get up there."
He nods. "Go. We will follow."
I abandon my construct, don my power armour and phase through what's left of the wall before flying upwards. The Star Hunter isn't exactly like the ones Guy showed us, but he did say there was a good deal of variety-. Daghh! Its eye focuses on me and I feel the telepathic assault against my mental defences. Less powerful than some of the things M'gann's tried in training, but the Star Hunter doesn't appear to have to focus completely on me to pull it off. Ring, extra psi-baffles. Ah, that's better. Right, railgu-.
The warehouse on the far side of the road collapses as a second Star Hunter pulls itself free.
18:43 GMT -5
His right hand goes straight to his ear. "Aqualad to team. The staff have been infected by Starro-tech."
"Ugh!" / "Ghr!"
I look around as M'gann slams two security guards to the far wall with telekinesis. Both had been in the process of drawing their guns. Kaldur dons his helmet and draws his Water Bearers. "Take them down. Miss Martian, can you detect-" There's a burst of gunfire from somewhere in the building, which rapidly cuts off. "-their telepathic communication?"
"Klarion used magic when he was controlling them. A Star Conqueror would just use normal telepathy. I.. should be able to." Her hands go to her forehead. "I'll need a minute."
"A trap we could not even recognise! So elegant!" Glad Canis approves, though unless he has something helpful to say he really shouldn't say it over the comms-. "Aqualad, if we cannot slay these revenants, where shall we deposit them? I did not think to bring bindings and my aunt -ugh- tells me that I should not break Human kneecaps."
Kaldur glances at me. "The exotic materials lab has a testing chamber we could seal. And I've got plenty of spare zip ties."
"We will congregate them there, but they are most likely a distraction. Miss Martian is attempting to locate the Star Hunter, and we will need to move immediately once she has."
"Fifty seven people are working here today. Kid Flash and me got seven. D'you want us to drag them to you now, or go looking for the rest?"
"We can track down the remaining infected staff later. It is more important that they are out of the way when our true enemy reveals itself."
"I got nine!"
"It's not a contest, Robin." Okay, let's see if I can get anything on empathic visio-. I create an armour plate construct in front of the door as a.. strange purple beam punches through the thick metal. No, the beam isn't purple. It's.. sort of.. colourless, with a faintly purple aura. My construct evaporates even as I send filaments rushing down the corridor to strike the two scientists carrying the guns firing it, shock crowning them. They collapse, dropping their guns, which hit the floor, sparking and burning. Darn, I wanted to look at those. "Watch out for scientists using their equipment."
"Think we can take a guy with a microscope, Oh El."
"Two guys just shot me with some kind of energy weapon."
"I didn't-. See anything like that-. On their computers." Robin sounds a little distracted.
"Did they bring them in from home? Ah, I got five, by the-."
"Not a competition, Cornwall. And I'd guess not. Maybe the Star Conquerors told them how to build it." I tap my communicator off for a moment. "Aqualad, what was the timeline on the additional Cure-tech?"
"It should be ready now, but we cannot spare you if there is a Star Hunter concealed here."
"Kid Flash could pick up Tula and dash to the zeta tube. I'm assuming that the work is being done in Poseidonis?"
"Yes, but that would not get them to us quickly." He reactivates his communicator. "Aquagirl, attempt to contact Professor Vulko and then have him send the Cure-tech through the Poseidonis zeta tube. Kid Flash, once we have been notified that it has arrived, run to the Gotham zeta tube and bring it here."
"It'll only take a moment."
"Okay, Artemis and I are in the lab. Superboy's here as well. I can make it to the zeta tube and back in about a minute and a half. Two minutes, tops."
Wait, how were those guys aiming without a line of sight? Telepathy? No, that wouldn't-. I notice that the guards M'gann stunned have their eyes slightly open. Shock crown, pithing needle. Their eyes open fully for a second and then they slump bonelessly to the floor. Guy did say that Star Conquerors can share information. Ring, scan them and see if my ring knowledge has improved to the point where I can detect the signs of Starro-tech.
Compliance.
No, not getting anything helpful. I look through the building with empathic vision, trying to pick up any particularly inhuman sets of feeling. Yes, there's-.
Oh. No. That's just Canis.
"So where exactly is this Star Hunter, anyway?" I hear more shots, both through the building and through Raquel's communicator. "Shouldn't it be flying through the skies of Gotham, throwing little stars at people? And can someone get over here and stop these guys shooting me?"
I blink, taking in the whole of the building. "Zatanna, Robin, she's down the corridor to your right."
"Be there in a second."
"I thought your belt made you bulletproof?"
"Yeah, but it doesn't make the guy standing next to me bullet proof and they're just shooting-." There's a bang. "Thanks Robin. I've got a few guys out cold here and the others were just blasting away with shotguns."
"Kid Flash, while you're in the lab, check to see if they were making any more Starro-."
"Already doing it, Oh El. Can't see anything here, and Starro-tech had a nanotech component. STAR Labs Gotham doesn't have a nanorobotics lab."
Kaldur checks both corridors leading away from our position, both with his eyes and with puffs of scalding steam from his Water Bearers. "Starro-tech was created by the Light. We have no reason to believe that they used everything they produced on the Justice League."
"I've thought about it, and I don't see the Light working with actual Star Conquerors. It's too much of a risk."
"Vulko says the Cure-tech will be at the zeta tube in four minutes."
"Acknowledged. Kid."
"I'll set my timer."
Kaldur turns to me. "Then what do you believe happened?"
"People get exposed… Maybe researchers, maybe test subjects. We know there was a Star Hunter in the ice. Why not two? Or more? Maybe they tested it on a telepath? Whatever. If Klarion wasn't there or wasn't managing it full time, could it have been woken up by that? Or… Maybe a piece in their laboratory regenerated a full sized brain?"
"Oh El, are you just trying to let Luthor off again?"
"You don't stay a successful criminal in a city patrolled by Superman by being stupid or reckless, Kid Flash."
Kaldur shakes his head. "At this point it makes little-."
M'gann's eyes flash open. "I've got it! It's in the-!"
With a tremendous booming crash the wall to our right flies apart, bricks shooting right at us! Kaldur and I both throw up barriers to block it and I stick a construct platform under our feet as the floor starts to tip and crumble! As the building starts to subside I get a momentary glimpse of a huge red eye moving upwards through the rubble and metal, before it vanishes in the dust.
Shit! Ring, building schematics. Compare to sonic scans. Construct construct construct! The wall turns orange as the rings light it up in an attempt to prevent the building collapsing any further. A sub-basement, it was in a sub-basement. They must have dug it out and lined it with.. something. Scan for bodies. No one? It must have made its thralls get out of the way. Optics? Yes, there's a Star Hunter in the sky over the building. Still can't scan the bastard thing. This must be how magic users feel about me.
"Aqualad to team! Is everyone alright?"
I tune out the affirmatives as I try and shore up the building. Some rooms I give up on, letting them collapse and crumble into the chasm the Star Hunter left in its wake. In others I fuse brick and metal, taking girders out of subspace to create a stable surface.
There's a loud bang followed by a series of metal-on-concrete clangs. A quick optical check shows that the Star Hunter has torn apart the vessels containing the frozen Star Conquerors with its telekinesis, throwing the containers aside carelessly while its smaller kin recover from their imprisonment.
"Aqualad, if I'm going to stop it getting away, I need to get up there."
He nods. "Go. We will follow."
I abandon my construct, don my power armour and phase through what's left of the wall before flying upwards. The Star Hunter isn't exactly like the ones Guy showed us, but he did say there was a good deal of variety-. Daghh! Its eye focuses on me and I feel the telepathic assault against my mental defences. Less powerful than some of the things M'gann's tried in training, but the Star Hunter doesn't appear to have to focus completely on me to pull it off. Ring, extra psi-baffles. Ah, that's better. Right, railgu-.
The warehouse on the far side of the road collapses as a second Star Hunter pulls itself free.
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PostwarGryphon
Traveller of Planes
- Location
- Australia
Don't you just hate it when a boss battle calls in his clone just when you think you're about to win?
- Location
- US
Snek time?
- Location
- California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
It's not that bad.
But yeah, this is about the time when you call in the League.
- Location
- Oblivion
Doesn't he have a bunch of anti psychic chaff he could be tossing around to screw those things over?
- Location
- Hampden Park
He has grenades that generate a telepathic shock, but they're designed to work on normal Humans. Not telepaths with multiple brains.
Typo:
"They"
Not much, it's apparently hard to make. Plus what Mr Zoat said.
- Location
- Oblivion
What does he have to lose by trying?
Worst case absolutely nothing happens, best cause it disrupts their abilities and they crash and burn.
If it works for only half a second it's enough to let a crumbler round through. Can the praxis demons eat them?
NexysDhyArchen
Throne Breaker
Wouldn't that mean the extra brains are getting extra feedback from a single grenade?
- Location
- Hampden Park
Thank you, corrected.
A small delay in using other forms of attack.
- Location
- The Outer Plane Of Munchkinry.
better idea, can a assimilated Star conqueror control the praxis constructs?
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I suspect that it's impractical for him to assimilate them. Given the odd way that when Grayven tried assimilating some Starrotech the assimilation stalled, I'm of the opinion that as all Starro are part of one Starro-mind trying to assimilate one is trying to assimilate them all, and trying to assimilate an entire interstellar civilization in one go is beyond a single Orange Lantern.
Silverias
Seeing is Believing
- Location
- Squiddy Places
- Status