Or both? They tortured here to get her compliant so that they could take her back to China and engage in brainwashing. She broke the first vehicle. They tortured her again to get her compliant so that they could get her to China and engage the brainwashing. She broke the second vehicle. They finally destroyed her armor and were going for number three when Lily rescued her.
That's sensible, but should be a bit more explicit if that's how it actually happened.
Thinking back on it, that fits with what I remember. However I also recall the Yangban being divided into groups, so the powers never went below a certain strength anyway. Though I could be wrong again.
To, y'know, be able to take her somewhere secure?
Not without killing her. High end self biokinetic, remember?
Mostly column A, but Column B in the "wear her down enough that she stops breaking the vehicles".
Yeah. YOU try to shoot something out of orbit that can render itself indestructible. And has cloaking options. And has supersonic speed options. And has firing accuracy enough to not miss against things with superhuman speed. They have to hit her. All she has to do is not be shot at for two seconds and she can get off a few good shots.
Emphasis on "try". What's easier- finding three people hiding some unknown place on the entire planet, or "interrogate" the team member that might know where they are?
If she was so much trouble, why not just kill her?
She still had enough armour to be seen as 'barely held together in some areas'.
So it was more "hold her in place and hammer her with our powers" than "try to extract information at our leisure"?
Or people can remember "unreliable narrator is unreliable" and read between the lines.
Well, yeah, but not all of them. Seriously. You don't need over a hundred people to torture a single person. Sure, they certainly assigned a fair number to work as guards. But not *every last member*. That'd just be idiotic.
As I recall, the boosting power is one of the ones that got divvied up, so each member in the squad is very very slightly boosting all of the powers of every other member of the squad - that is, every power including each member's sliver of the boosting power. It's the recursion that makes it so effective despite being split up like that.
It removes members of Pantheon. Who have been killing members of the Yangban right and left.
Are you saying that killing a member of Pantheon gets rid of that member? I must be misreading you.
Canon!Lung was also a lot of trouble. So for that matter was canon!Cody. Evidently the Yangban are willing to put up with a lot of shit if it means they potentially get access to a strong power.
Sorry... Let me rephrase that, because it's coming across wrong.
Also, that. She'd be a boon for them.
there's the one where Taylor triggers with a body snatching power and immediately jumps to Emma.
CUI Spy: "Hah! They let me right into their most heavily controlled location!"
Oh, sure, like you've never thought about Lung in a bikini.
You have to go through a screening process that involves being unable to lie. I don't think that's possible without MPD
You're just jealous that you didn't write it first
I've written lots of twisted shit.You're just jealous that you didn't write it first
Yeah, it was.
Well, y'know, there's really no practical way of screening millions of colonists for spies. So it's virtually guaranteed that China could have a spy on Avalon, if they thought it would give them useful information.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or if you genuinely forgot about the whole ... immigrant screening processes that they do. The short questionnaire that determines if people can go to Avalon or not.
Taylor: "What are you talking about? I'll just monitor all communication on the planet in real time."
Unless someone had a Master or Thinker power to turn someone else into a spy. Unless China discovered some leverage that could convince someone to become a spy, after they immigrated. Unless one of the immigrants was disaffected after moving to Avalon, and decided that they were willing to spy.
They... have brain monitoring tinker tech as part of the screening processes? On top of that, they have real time surveillance of the entire world. I mean, I can't say that they can give a 100% guarantee that there will be no spies, but at some point it becomes cost prohibitive to try and get spies in there.
