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"No, Mister Mayor. It's just that in my line of work supervillains tend to just… Show up. Um, we're ready when you are."

For some reason this reminds me of that episode of Captain Planet where a car manufacturer was unveiling his high-tech efficient car that could "travel miles on an eyedropper of gasoline" and then Hoggish Greedly sabotages it so he use the factory to make a bunch of gas guzzling road hog cars.

Or stage an attack on it that's intended to fail.

Or they pull an Ozymandias and summon a giant squid or cosmic horror on top of the generator so that the public associates Bleed tech with opening portals to lovecraftian realms.
 
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The time jump made me think about when Paul's year is up. I hope he considered that there are different ways to measure one year since he received the lantern. He may want to be sure that he waits a bit extra before doing anything which would break his vow.

I mean, I don't think Gaea is a rules-lawyer, so he probably doesn't need to worry about accidentally needing to serve one galactic year, but he should be sure to check whether it is a leap year in his current reality.

I would call it unlikely at best that an Earth deity would use a non-Earth year. That said, he has considered the problem. Among other reasons.

He nods thoughtfully. "So… When is it you're leaving?"

"Haven't picked a date yet. My obligation to remain ends on… In the middle of the night on the fifth of July, Eastern Standard Time. I'll probably leave-" Depending on how things go with Nabu. "-a little after that. I mean, heh, I'd hate to go through all the trouble of keeping my oath and then mess it up by working out a time zone difference wrongly."
 
Because it's going to be cheaper to fill up a battery than a petrol…" I frown. "Hang on, I have an app for this." I pull out my phone and press a few buttons. "Gas, yes, because it's a liquid and that makes perfect sense.
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to take guff on abbreviating the word "gasoline" to "gas" instead of "petrol" from a dialect that puts an s on math. No siree, Bob.

On the one hand, I like ParaPaul and his modernization efforts. On the other, we're so close to series finale and the Nabu fight. I don't know how much more I can handle. Maybe this will be an entire episode about Paul helping to fight legal challenges from the energy sector, and no villains show up.
 
In Paul's place I would have put in something about "oh, and the technology we are using today has also been developed in parallel by Dr. Sivana senior, *insert list of super geniuses here* *insert large amount of time here* years ago, but was rejected by patent office, so it's not actually alien".
"No, I'm not joking about that. If you're interested in what else the man developed that could have revolutionized your lives along with descriptions of how life on Earth would be so much better for everyone if various corporations weren't led by shortsighted imbeciles, you can find a complete list at at www.whatweshouldhavehad.org. Seriously, if even half the stuff he'd developed was in widespread use today, one of the world's biggest problems would be figuring out what to do with all our spare time."

Edit: Fucking software won't let me get rid of the url tags.
 
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While I didn't read every Hardware and it's been ages, I remember Alva confronting Hardware with something along the lines of "There are things I want to do. Sometimes people get hurt getting me what I want. You're a genius, figure out how to get me what I want without people getting hurt, that's fine with me. So here's a promotion Mister Vice President, and a retroactive pay raise."
I seem to remember that he then sold the company to Lex Luthor and retired scott free. Hey, I never said he was stupid. He saw that he wasn't going to win and he talked the superhero into helping him escape punishment. And even at his best, Alva never had Luthor's ideological streak.
I think the word you're looking for here is objective.
Nope.
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to take guff on abbreviating the word "gasoline" to "gas" instead of "petrol" from a dialect that puts an s on math. No siree, Bob.
Why? Were you only doing the one equation?
On the one hand, I like ParaPaul and his modernization efforts. On the other, we're so close to series finale and the Nabu fight. I don't know how much more I can handle. Maybe this will be an entire episode about Paul helping to fight legal challenges from the energy sector, and no villains show up.
No, this episode is setting up the finale.
 
For some reason this reminds me of that episode of Captain Planet where a car manufacturer was unveiling his high-tech efficient car that could "travel miles on an eyedropper of gasoline" and then Hoggish Greedly sabotages it so he use the factory to make a bunch of gas guzzling road hog cars.
Wouldn't the car manufactorer have backup blueprints and such of the vehicle? Sure, the test prototype being destroyed would suck, but he could rebuilt it, no? Or sell the blueprints to another car company, which builds it instead, in exchange for a large sum of money.
 
Wouldn't the car manufactorer have backup blueprints and such of the vehicle? Sure, the test prototype being destroyed would suck, but he could rebuilt it, no? Or sell the blueprints to another car company, which builds it instead, in exchange for a large sum of money.

Ideally, yes. Though actually if the manufacturer was able to make a car that could run on a really small amount of gasoline, it stands to reason that he already invented an engine to run it. Logically, having an engine that can drive a car for miles on a few drops of gasoline means he could probably make a gas-powered generator or some other device that is equally efficient. Then again, this is a setting where the Planeteers already have their solar-powered flying car thing that was presumably magicked into existance by the spirit of the Earth. So his car engine could have been secretly powered by imagination or some kind of Maxwell's Demon the guy summoned or whatever.

I imagine that showing a car company the blueprints to your perpetual motion minivan could get awkward when they see a bunch of pentagrams where the battery is supposed to go, or instead of an engine it just has a drawing of an engine but somehow still drives around if you believe in it enough.

Regardless, the crime takes place in the Captain Planet world, so naturally they can't have nice things. If the good guys managed to revolutionize the industry with their tech, then the show would be over.
 
Is Nobel Peace Prize a thing here? Because it seems to me that Paul is definitely going to be in the running for it. I mean, leaving aside Khandaqi situation, which is controversial, he was intrumental for ending Korea-expy conflict, did more for the environment than anyone, ever, co-sponsored what is likely most important piece of civil rights legislature in USA since abolition of slavery (I wonder what the situation in other countries is concerning non-human intelligence, and what a political fallout would be when, say, a Chinese (assuming they are treated as property) combat robot flees to USA and claims asylum), was the key figure in initiating and widening of Atlantis-USA trade / relationship, started an arcanotech revolution that will shortly drastically improve transportation and energy production... And that's leaving aside all super heroics he did! And the Cake. That (getting said prize) could definitely be an interesting thing to happen. Especially if he's able to push for some super genius (like Sivana) to finally get Nobel Physics Prize, for Hugo Danner to finally get his chemistry prize, and for Baroness Paula von Gunther to get her medicine one for purple healing ray (which Paul publicized). Speaking of Nobel Physics Prize - how does it work? I mean, if it was me, and I knew that there was a supervillain who successfully developed, I don't know, teleportation, while I was to get Novel Prize for theoretically showing the possibility of said telportation on a quantum scale? I'd decline the prize and advice the committee to award it to said supervillain / to the charity dedicated to helping said villain's victims.

Some other thoughts:
1) Has Paul checked up with Switzerland about the Cake Vault? Because if I was him I'd check up to see if it wasn't being used like a giant demon summoning chamber or something. Those things happen, after all.

2) Paul covered energy and transportation, and is in the process of covering manufacturing with that nanofabricator thing he has in development. Medicine is also covered (purple healing rays). So... food production (assuming nanofabricators can't make it, and constant purple ray bombardment can't be used to drastically increase production) is pretty much all that's left of the basic civilization needs.
 
I mean, I don't think Gaea is a rules-lawyer, so he probably doesn't need to worry about accidentally needing to serve one galactic year, but he should be sure to check whether it is a leap year in his current reality.
Going by how magical oaths usually work I wouldn't be surprised if Gaea is the biggest this side of a D&D game. :lol
 
Some other thoughts:
1) Has Paul checked up with Switzerland about the Cake Vault? Because if I was him I'd check up to see if it wasn't being used like a giant demon summoning chamber or something. Those things happen, after all.
Presently it is being used as a tourist attraction. It was that or use it for storing all of the black sheep.
will we see Grayven meet Paul one day I think that would be fun or maybe Orion
The SI will be meeting Orion in a few years. Even gives him a power ring.

Grayven meets Orion at a similar sort of time, on a diplomatic visit.
 
Is Nobel Peace Prize a thing here? Because it seems to me that Paul is definitely going to be in the running for it. I mean, leaving aside Khandaqi situation, which is controversial, he was intrumental for ending Korea-expy conflict, did more for the environment than anyone, ever, co-sponsored what is likely most important piece of civil rights legislature in USA since abolition of slavery (I wonder what the situation in other countries is concerning non-human intelligence, and what a political fallout would be when, say, a Chinese (assuming they are treated as property) combat robot flees to USA and claims asylum), was the key figure in initiating and widening of Atlantis-USA trade / relationship, started an arcanotech revolution that will shortly drastically improve transportation and energy production... And that's leaving aside all super heroics he did! And the Cake. That (getting said prize) could definitely be an interesting thing to happen. Especially if he's able to push for some super genius (like Sivana) to finally get Nobel Physics Prize, for Hugo Danner to finally get his chemistry prize, and for Baroness Paula von Gunther to get her medicine one for purple healing ray (which Paul publicized). Speaking of Nobel Physics Prize - how does it work? I mean, if it was me, and I knew that there was a supervillain who successfully developed, I don't know, teleportation, while I was to get Novel Prize for theoretically showing the possibility of said telportation on a quantum scale? I'd decline the prize and advice the committee to award it to said supervillain / to the charity dedicated to helping said villain's victims.

Thing is, Nobel Prizes are only awarded to living recipients. In fact, they famously refused to hand out a Peace Prize right after Ghandi got assassinated to make clear that he was an "unofficial, we just didn't get to him in time" winner.

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