With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
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GhostKing 666
Bringing Nightmares to life evey minute
In honor of the star trek reference in this chapter, and because this quote begs for this clip to be posted, I give you the opening for Enterprise.
Tactical Tunic
Glorious Burgerman of Eagleland
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- Holy Terra
HogarthThree
Mostly Harmless
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- USA
Don't forget the pile of orange power rings there. Leaving those "just laying around" doesn't seem wise on multiple levels. I think we're going back to the cave.
I'm now wondering how many of those rings have associated personal lanterns... Or is that not going to be an issue now that the OLC CPB is up and running?
Cherico
Machine
this is probally one of the best and most meaningful days in controller history.
Their not showing it but this is a very major deal, Paul has just secured earth an alliance with the controlers or at the very least their protection. Which means that fighting off the reach will be far easier.
Their not showing it but this is a very major deal, Paul has just secured earth an alliance with the controlers or at the very least their protection. Which means that fighting off the reach will be far easier.
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- Bay Area
That's ridiculous, you're not following tradition properly. Clearly the proper name for Orange Corpsmen is "Greedies".
Lcpoketoon
High Powered Dreamer
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- Somewhere between Wonderland and Oz.
You know one of the Mandates for the OL Corps could be they have the job of protecting the universe from certain object that are to dangerous to have out and about, but that are also to dangerous to destroy. They build a Massive Vault/Museum to keep the things safe, and teach the younger Greedies.
ok. One scare doesn't mean anything.
I'm reasonably sure that Oa would be covered with Interdiction fields, but it manages to serve as the base for the Greenies.
Lantern FTL works by, essentially, popping through the demiplane of their associated emotion. For Green Lanterns, that's Will, for Orange it's Avarice, etc. With control over a Central Power Battery, I'd expect that they'd be capable of only permitting FTL through the associated demiplane which is only accessible through their Light.
That way, only Orange Lanterns could FTL to Maltus. Anyone else would get fucked.
Chaoswind
Lord of nonsense
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- Latin America
I have been thinking about possible recruits for the Orange corps... Wouldn't clones make good initial recruits? Their young souls (arcane construct as per Hinon explanation of Paul resistance) would be slightly more resistant to orange corruption, also people with high amounts of the other emotions would also make good recruits.
To me, it seems like the best orange recruits would be those that are ultimately stronger with other emotions aside greed and would even work as a failsafe.
Lantern recruit 12 is getting overwhelmed by orange? Remind him of his Loved ones, recruit 8 is getting overwhelmed? Remind him of his goals, recruit 2 is getting overwhelmed? Remind her of her rage.
They would have to be abstract and long term, but that should work.
To me, it seems like the best orange recruits would be those that are ultimately stronger with other emotions aside greed and would even work as a failsafe.
Lantern recruit 12 is getting overwhelmed by orange? Remind him of his Loved ones, recruit 8 is getting overwhelmed? Remind him of his goals, recruit 2 is getting overwhelmed? Remind her of her rage.
They would have to be abstract and long term, but that should work.
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Doesn't that imply that Green Lanterns should instead be called "Willies"? =)
Also, doesn't Paul need to ... his personal lantern with the central power battery?
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- Hampden Park
Zero.
I'm at work and so don't have sound, but is that the fixed credits with Archer's theme, or the original one with that 'Faith of the Heart' rubbish?
Kerrus
Fractal Insanity
The latter, I assume, given the comment reply was to 'it's been a long road' which is the opening line of the song.
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- Hampden Park
Fixed version below. Probably. It says it is but as I said, I don't have sound.
Hear how the increases in the advancement of the technology goes with the increasing complexity of the music? Yeah.
Edit: Sorry, wrong video. Replaced.
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Makes sense, but who are the Greeblies?
Keebler elves with orange rings?
They really want cookies. And if nothing else, the Cake Man has proven the effectiveness of orange rings at producing baked goods.
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- Right here, where else would I be?
By that logic, wouldn't the Greens be the "Willies"?
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- U.S.
It's official, Greenies are now known as Willies. Someone needs to head to Oa to make sure the guardians know about the name change.
Progress!
How many Rings is Paul wearing and what happened to the other ones?
Snark unto others as you would have them snark unto you.
Or a modern translated: If you act like a self-entitled git, expect to be sassed.
Simmr001
Aquaman 2018 Fan Club President. I prefer Bob.
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- Crawley, West Sussex
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someone never played that awful ocarina of time level in the desert
An issue previously considered.
To be fair I got the feeling she was flirting with paul a bit, and Paul being Paul didn't notice... so that might have irked her a little.
I'd doubt it. The last thing the Controllers would want right now is toopen a second front against another galactic power. While Paul on his own is still 'techinically' a 'free agent' (yes its fig leaf at this point but still justifiable) his actions in breaking out someone could be denied by them. IF he had a darkstar with him though, Controller Plausible deniability becomes much harder.
It's true that it's not going to happen because the SI doesn't see a Martian physical body as being more desirable than his current buffed-up human bod. I'm pretty sure the access to the data could be written off with a throwaway line like "I pull up the copy of Mr J'aarkn's data that I passively scanned in passing that one time", or even "Ring, collate all information observed about Martian shapeshifting and design me some exercises." As for difference in powers, the SI has already taken actions to make sure he's not reliant on the ring (or any other one thing) for some things, and there's certainly no reason to refuse to take on board redundant powers. Particularly ones which are species-inherent, meaning that even if the SI was stripped of his ring(s) and every other piece of technology, he'd still have those abilities. Bonus points for being able to do those things without draining ring charge.
The Renegade is probably more overt about this, with the Sword of First and Second, aero discs, a Father Box, the Venom Buster, and New God awakening meaning he's still fairly capable even without a power ring, and to a certain degree even without the discs and Box. The Paragon has his gun and flight belt, but more subtly the initial physical changes (and subsequent maintenance) made by the ring have still resulted in him being very fit and healthy, most likely able to keep pace with Olympic athletes. Not necessarily to a superhuman level, but certainly to peak human. His anti-scry tattoos, too, are very close in equivalence to implants more than clothing or equipment. And he actively worked to grow a soul he didn't have before; that's a fairly integrated component to add.
All in all, in any universe, he's not above altering his appearance fairly significantly, even as far as his apparent species. And a Martian physiology would allow him to look more human than Grayven currently does - or switch back and forth as he desired.
Alas, from a narrative perspective, although it wouldn't change too much about what he could achieve in a story, it does make it more difficult to temporarily depower him as a character in order to raise tension. Although it is a DC universe, so alien tech or super-science capable of handling Martians is probably lying around everywhere anyway.
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- Hampden Park
He did that just before he joined with the Ophidian.
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