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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
- Thread starter Mr Zoat
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- Tromso, Norway.
He's a tall, blond, blue-eyed ubermënch. I'm not sure why this is a surprise.
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- Ashtabula
He's a black haired alien. I highly doubt he'd fit in. Where did you get blond?
CrackedCosmonaut
I am not angry.
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You can find blondes on Tinder...
But I wonder if they have a Metahuman Tinder? I'd call it Uber...
and that makes me wonder if they have Uber for flying super science cars..
CrackedCosmonaut
I am not angry.
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Hence why you need an intellect like him to check.
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- Tromso, Norway.
...I was thinking of Captain America and for some reason merged the two, still, I'm fairly sure Superman dates to the period where fascism was extremely popular.
Does Ranx have a soul? I assume that memories would be backuped in it. There's also whatever Krona used to look at the Alpha event.
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That's not quite how that works. General modes of thought and the strongest influences, yes. Specific memories, generally not.
Helps if you know where to look.
Hmm, ok. But, wait, how does that work then? When you die, all that's left is soul. At least some afterlives support fully cognizant denizens, and, in fact, you generally need to do something to the dead person in order to make them forget stuff. Does full memory imprint only happen at the moment of death / does living status somehow distort memories recorded in the soul?
Of course, the soul backup might not be better than the brain itself, I haven't accounted for that. Yes, that probably solves the issue.
That shouldn't actually be that hard: Ranx isn't small, and you just need to view progressively earlier moments of its history.
Other possible methods:
1) Magic, specifically looking it up in Destiny's book like Zatanna tried to do with Paul's name
2) Magic, using Ranx as the focus, summon the spirit of his first commander. Might not work, depending on the soul composition of said commander, what afterlife for them looks like ,etc.
3) Time travel - build a small probe that will travel back in time, "one step at a time", ie, essentially, it'll experience time as it is, but backwards. Place it in Ranx's core or some secure vault, and let it roll back to Ranx's creation. Then have it snap back to the present. Unlikely to work, and a large technological project.
4) Talk to people who should know / remember. Endless, maybe some Maltusians, elder demons, people like that.
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- Hampden Park
No. If arrangements haven't been made, you can lose a lot when you die.
Get your afterlife insurance today!
Ranx is very small compared to the universe, has stealth systems and has changed his general appearance several times. But yes, it is possible.
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- Earth Prime
A psychic using some sort of object reading/psychometry should probably be able to dig results back up.
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- Hampden Park
Ranx doesn't have much of a magic field. You'd get flashes, but it would be very hard to get anything useful.
In other news, I've just finished writing this episode!
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- Earth Prime
Ranx is also mobile. Earths magical field extends at least far enough into orbit that Zatara never complains about his powers failing on the Watchtower, so putting Ranx in orbit and getting said psychic to work on him there might work.
That said, are psychic powers necessarily magical?
I wonder what Ranx's thoughts on self-replication are. He'd make a great sector house, and a forward base for OLC, but if there would be more of him, he could become a cornerstone of OLC, instead of another wierd recruit. And cloning oneself with an orange ring should be if not easy, then doable.
Also, I just love the idea of multiple sapient and sentient self-adapting and modifying space stations starting their own species.
And maybe Paul could get a Ranx to park in Sol and offer its services to superheroes and those Who Wang to starting using space?
Also, I just love the idea of multiple sapient and sentient self-adapting and modifying space stations starting their own species.
And maybe Paul could get a Ranx to park in Sol and offer its services to superheroes and those Who Wang to starting using space?
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There are a number of ways to induce instantaneous communication across interstellar distances with the tech and other things at Paul and the Controllers' disposal. Ranx wouldn't have to self-replicate additional instances; he could build additional space-cities that share a linked and networked AI core and be a hive mind in constant communication with all distributed processors. Not only is Ranx the fleet of forward-bases and sector houses, but he keeps the whole Darkstar/OL unified forces connected. Heck, if civilians live on some of his instances, they also have constant connection to everybody.
And he's a friendly mayoral figure to all those residents. Could literally be friends with everybody who lives aboard him, individually. Talk about responsive government.
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- The UK
If you're using them for psychometry, they apparently are:
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- Hampden Park
No, it wouldn't. You need power there to make a readable imprint in the first place.
Covered at some length in the Renegade parts of the story.
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Ah, okay. So magic relies on exotic energies but otherwise follows causal rules. "I know this because of magic" doesn't work to magically divine something if there wasn't magic around to record it.
You did say "parapsychics use magic," but that doesn't mean that all psychometry is parapsychic. I take it from this discussion that this IS the case, but "I'm not a parapsychic; I'm a psychic" was a possibility for somebody doing object reading, at least to my understanding, without that clarification.
Science
If you're reading this, omae wa mo shindeiru.
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- Killeen, TX
Yeah, I'm shipping them hard. OL wants to fill this "wonderful war machine" with his "crew".
shepsquared
Erratic Aussie
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Now put into some sort of code and post it all at once!
It'd be ironic it if the planets evacuated by Ranx started seeing the sentient space station as a symbol of HOPE.
Extra-irony since this universe's creator of the blue rings is Kalmin the Weaponer of Qward, who'd love to see a power ring be given to a literal war machine.
Kalmin would also appreciate BlueLantern!Ranx's crew and inhabitants empowering the space station with their hope, as the concept is very similar to how a warrior ought to have FAITH in his weapons, tools, and equipment (see "Rifleman's Creed").
Rifleman's Creed: "This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My rifle, without me, is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill me."
Grayven and canon Hal Jordon proved its possible two power rings of different colors, albeit nigh-impossible to use them simultaneously.
A close parallel to BlueLantern!Ranx is Metroplex from the G1 Transformers, a city-sized robot who is the Autobots' greatest and final defense. Quote: "His fellow Autobots take immeasurable comfort in his very existence and the knowledge that regardless of what evil comes, Metroplex is out there to back them up."
Link: Metroplex (1986) - Autobot Battle Station - www.tfu.info
He's from the thirties, yes. He was also created by Jewish immigrants and was explicitly anti racist from the word go.
weredrago2
"Cowabunga, Shadow the Hedgehog..."
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So we're both in agreement that Ranx needs a robot mode, then? Forget Metroplex, we can make Ranx transform a big dinosaur like Trypticon! That'd be even cooler!
"ALL WILL BE WELL."
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So we're both in agreement that Ranx needs a robot mode, then? Forget Metroplex, we can make Ranx transform a big dinosaur like Trypticon! That'd be even cooler!
"ALL WILL BE WELL."
C'mon, if we're going full ridiculous, just transform it into something like the SDF-1 so it can punch it's enemies with aircraft carrier arms.
Chaoswind
Lord of nonsense
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Continuity error, it was Tia the one that decided to bring up karma first.
Unless this was commented upon by Paul even earlier when they where having that chat in the Cafe? In with case it happened 'off screen' for a lack of a better word.
In regards to Ranx original creators... Well he is clearly a battlestation of some kind and he previously lacked the ability to go FTL (IF Guy was telling the truth) or the ability had been damaged and recently repaired... Anyways I don't know shit about DC, but i think it would be interesting to make Ranx tangentially related to the overall plot by making him related to the previous worlds that hosted the life entity.
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