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

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random_npc said:
I am legitimately curious how they did that. That kind of damage should need a fairly advanced construct and those drain power. Maybe they used the charge to build a super dreadnaught or something?
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You get greater efficiency as your attunement and intensity increases - a Green Lantern was able to nearly rebuild a mass scattered planet at one point. While Paul is deeply attuned to his wants, he doesn't actually have very high intensity most of the time; his sanity keeps his wants from being all consuming, which makes him weaker even if he has a great deal of finesse.

This Lantern obviously REALLY REALLY wanted it. That's all that's really needed to get constructs that act on a planetary scale. It's well beyond the sanity threshold, of course.

The more interesting question is where (s)he is getting charge from.
 
Axel Fones said:
Not like anything of value was actually lost? Seems like the people finding the orange rings are either being fairly tame compared to Larfleeze or going batshit on acceptable targets.
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keep in mind this...
Mr Zoat said:
"I can't tell for certain, but I do know from personal experience that the Berrith respond well to strong displays of dominance. The shots targeted at the planet appear to have come close to large population centres without directly striking them. Given the number of them who have left, I suspect that whoever was shooting at the planet was simply making a point."
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Somebody smashed the quarantine shield, fired some pretty big warning shots and left with a good chunk of the population. This wasn't an attack, this was a recruitment drive. Somebody wants an army.
 
Norgarth said:
Somebody smashed the quarantine shield, fired some pretty big warning shots and left with a good chunk of the population. This wasn't an attack, this was a recruitment drive. Somebody wants an army.
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Yeah. My off the cuff guess is someone wants to play conqueror and just hired their barbarian army, but we really don't know enough yet to make more then the most general guesses.
 
People who can't convincingly fake superhuman intelligence shouldn't write Green Lantern at all.

Mr Zoat's doing better than most who've tried.
 
Mr Zoat said:
"-may wish to carefully consider the ongoing consequences of not dealing with these rings more promptly."
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Huh.
OL might want to consider performing a larger-scale beckoning of the type he did when recovering his ring.
Maybe if he asks Best Snek's help, he can achieve interstellar range on finding and bringing most of them back.
Or at least locating the other users.
 
uju32 said:
Huh.
OL might want to consider performing a larger-scale beckoning of the type he did when recovering his ring.
Maybe if he asks Best Snek's help, he can achieve interstellar range on finding and bringing most of them back.
Or at least locating the other users.
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He'd better ask the members of his corps to take their rings off first, or he's gonna have a new finger collection.
 
Mr Zoat said:
"-may wish to carefully consider the ongoing consequences of not dealing with these rings more promptly."
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"As Lantern Ragnar was the first indication I got that Orange Rings were loose in the galaxy, I'd say I dealt with it as promptly as could have been. Apparently that wasn't the first indication you got about Orange Rings on the loose. If you're not going to make the effort to even call and tell me about this, please stop whining that I'm taking too long."
 
Maxx Crowley said:
So Mr. Zoat. How does it feel to write Guardians better then there owners?
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o_O He writes better than about 95% of DC's official writers. How is this any different?

Ragnar said:
"Have you considered the conquences of keeping Manhunters around?"
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Considering the Manhunters have been in service for longer than humanity has existed (by a couple of magnitudes) and haven't caused any problems since their depowerment it is hard to fault the decision thus far.
 
TheLastOne said:
You get greater efficiency as your attunement and intensity increases - a Green Lantern was able to nearly rebuild a mass scattered planet at one point. While Paul is deeply attuned to his wants, he doesn't actually have very high intensity most of the time; his sanity keeps his wants from being all consuming, which makes him weaker even if he has a great deal of finesse.

This Lantern obviously REALLY REALLY wanted it. That's all that's really needed to get constructs that act on a planetary scale. It's well beyond the sanity threshold, of course.

The more interesting question is where (s)he is getting charge from.
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Norgarth said:
keep in mind this...


Somebody smashed the quarantine shield, fired some pretty big warning shots and left with a good chunk of the population. This wasn't an attack, this was a recruitment drive. Somebody wants an army.
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...aww fuck it's Sinestro isn't it
 
Breadnaugt said:
"As Lantern Ragnar was the first indication I got that Orange Rings were loose in the galaxy, I'd say I dealt with it as promptly as could have been. Apparently that wasn't the first indication you got about Orange Rings on the loose. If you're not going to make the effort to even call and tell me about this, please stop whining that I'm taking too long."
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Paul has known about the loose rings since the day he summoned them due to a vision he had from the Ophidian. It was also the whole point of the Blume episode that Larfleeze got set loose on the galaxy due to that and was looking for the rings he lost.
 
Breadnaugt said:
"As Lantern Ragnar was the first indication I got that Orange Rings were loose in the galaxy, I'd say I dealt with it as promptly as could have been. Apparently that wasn't the first indication you got about Orange Rings on the loose. If you're not going to make the effort to even call and tell me about this, please stop whining that I'm taking too long."
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They might actually think that OL and the Controllers have the same level of control over Orange Rings as they have over Green ones. Remember that Green Rings can be remotely activated/recalled/etc. So they might be surprised that not EVERY Orange Ring is under firm control.
 
Axel Fones said:
Not like anything of value was actually lost? Seems like the people finding the orange rings are either being fairly tame compared to Larfleeze or going batshit on acceptable targets.
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every day the rings are being used without training, is another day for these ring users to go off the deep end. It would be great if they were all as stable as at least Ragnar, but when even good people like Robin go insane from just one use, that has bad implications for the free range rings floating around.
 
You know, they are just lucky. I gotta check, but I seem to recall that the Orange light used to flat out absorb green constructs. Though maybe that was part of the assimilation thing. Paul probably just didnt/doesn't want it as much as Larfleeze.
 
GilliamYaeger said:
...aww fuck it's Sinestro isn't it
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Huh. Sinestro with an Orange Lantern ring would be interesting. Quite feasible for someone to have gotten one of the random Larfleeze rings OL called, and tried to go kill Sinestro. Sinestro is the sort to actually figure out the energy absorption ability of the Orange light, and feeding Yellow constructs to keep his looted Orange ring fueled... Plausible, at least. We've seen from Grayven that the Yellow+Orange ring combo works, and Sinestro is *far* more skilled with the lights than Grayven.

Edit: oh, Sinestro could just convert one of the Green personal lanterns he's looted into an orange one, like Paul did.
 
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Maxx Crowley said:
You know, they are just lucky. I gotta check, but I seem to recall that the Orange light used to flat out absorb green constructs. Though maybe that was part of the assimilation thing. Paul probably just didnt/doesn't want it as much as Larfleeze.
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I'm probably misremembering, but I recall a WoZ that explains this is a high level technique, to assert ownership over others' constructs.
 
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