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Time to see whether Zoat makes them actually half way competent or not.
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Time to see whether Zoat makes them actually half way competent or not.
Is any of that in reference to the animated series?It's a case by case basis, often seems to be an aspect of the powers themselves.
Cyclops and Havok are more than immune, attacking each other in fact only supercharges them. They are both solar powered, so they absorb each other's energies.
However, Cyclops isn't immune to his other brother Gabriel's powers. Or at least not immune when Gabriel wasn't using solar energy, whereas Gabriel was immune to his brother's attacks, because he can absorb any type of energy.
Captain Britain was shown to be immune to Psylocke's telepathic dagger, since Captain Britain absorbs magic like Superman absorbs solar energy, I conclude from that Psylocke's psychic powers in fact function by manipulating magical energy. Since Brian isn't a mutant it can't be a "mutant siblings can't effect each other" thing. And Psylocke definitely isn't immune to her other brother's powers, since he used his matter manipulation powers to bring her back from the dead.
Emma Frost's sister Adrienne was immune to her telepathy, on the other hand Emma's daughters the stepford cuckoos share a telepathic hive mind, which certainly wouldn't work if they were immune to each other's telepathy.
Now I'm imagining all the hilarious accidents that are going to happen because they may think pornography is real life.
Though it may help them in some ways.
It helped Castiel.
As funny as that would be it's unlikely as J'aarkn was a mostly competent researcher that just happened to get to involved with his subjects.
Ah, right. Thank you.My apologies, I had meant to be clear.
You typed that you didn't know if the "closely related mutants are immune to each others powers" was a thing in the comics or not, or just a thing from the cartoon.
So I was answering that- Yes it is a thing in the comics, but it's a tendency not a concrete rule.
True, but maybe some of the Martians didn't read the full report and just stopped when they saw the porn, so some hilarity may still happen.
If someone finds a way to block his Instant Transmission ability and he cannot quickly return because he is on the other side of the galaxy, yes.With his ability to teleport everywhere, can he really be considered ever "being away"?
I think the issue here is, is Charles Xavier American or British?
Not quite vitriolic best buds, are they? Guess Kaldur's still a little put out over the whole secession thing OL stuck his nose into.
Did Paragon really stick his nose in it? As far as I am aware he just started talking to them and heard them out, then acted as a neutral 3rd party to send messages with. Not really his fault. He didn't do the wrongs to Venturia by the Atlantean Crown, nor did he make them choose self-governance. It was something that was going to happen either way.
Which chapter was the events of Paragon Venturia by the way? I can never remember when it happens and I want to read it again.
"breached".
Thank you, corrected.
No, that's valid.
There are several allies and the backs belong to them.
Thank you, corrected.
At this point, he's basically a fixer.
There has to come a time OL gets to flex. Every time he's either defensive or just runs off to do side work something big comes up. It's getting kid of repetetive.
Ah, the pleasure of having DWIM capable subordinates."There's a list of known problem areas. Go where you need to and do what you need to. Dismissed."
I wonder how long it will be until the Reach sends a dedicated and skilled assassin or even kill team of scarabs to try and kill Paul since he is the most powerful Lantern in OLC.
Frankly, the fact that the Orange Lanterns arn't accompanied by Construct drone Battleships is just a sign of stupidity. While Legion fleets and armies are still needed, OL's should bring their own immortal respawning fleets with them.
Yeah, planet-killer-scale weapons usually need a lot of support systems and enormous power systems to fuel that destructive power. It's why the Death Star and its' ilk were the size of small moons. Even when they built the superlaser without the station, it was still a dozen or so kilometres long... Grayven also probably feels the need to compensate for something else, too...8th July 2012
17:19 GMT
"You rang, sir?"
Even really big space ships don't actually look all that impressive. In space, scales are wonky. The near-infinite blackness is so incredibly vast than any finite space within it cowers into insignificance. Dox's command ship isn't huge as spacecraft go. It's certainly far smaller than the Absolute Dominion; a battleship rather than a dreadnought. But unless you've got some pressing reason to have a power generation system that big, dreadnoughts generally aren't good value for money. Grayven does, Dox doesn't.
Ranx: For when you need to absolutely dominate the spacelanes within a system... I'm guessing Dox's flagship is only Star Destroyer sized, rather than the ridiculousness of the Executor. Or the clearly-compensating-for-something Supremacy.On the other hand, it's not exactly small. Far bigger than any Earth-built ocean vessel, and quite a big more comfortable to live in. Among more primitive species it's generally considered a good thing to keep the mass down for easier acceleration, but once a species has artificial gravity they've generally got the ability to futz around with mass in such a way that it's a non-issue.
I suppose if we had a pressing reason to go really big we could just get Lantern Ranx to detach his recent additions and use him.
Presumably magic-based shields. Those seem to be the only thing that gives OL any trouble when Greediporting. Good idea to have them anyway, just in case someone else figures out the trick and isn't so pleasant as OL is."Yes. Come aboard at once. I'll brief you myself."
"Do you have the shields working yet, or can I teleport?"
"Teleportation is acceptable."
God, can you imagine being that unlucky recruit (or chain of recruits?) "I can't take it any more! He's... He's insane! His species is insane! His whole planet is insane! And they all see the insanity as normal!"It's a bit of a two-edged sword in our situation. Me popping up when he doesn't expect it undermines him, but me demonstrating the ability to do something that our enemies can't stop buoys up our side's confidence. The subtle implication that all of our Lanterns can learn to do what I can. And that's technically true. But… I don't know, maybe I need to select an acolyte for dedicated one to one tuition, because as far as I can tell none of our Lanterns has made any real progress in my direction.
Heh. That's why you put him in charge, isn't it, OL? Because he has the temperament and character to give a damn about these details, whereas you'd get bored after the first one and wander off...I step out
and reappear inside Dox's ready room. Dox himself doesn't look up, continuing to scroll through reports so quickly that the writing is a blur to me even with my ring's translation feature. Brand might have been able to persuade him not to overload himself, but Dox can still safely take in information far more rapidly than just about anyone else. A moment later my view of the text stabilises, but is reduced to a baby-talk summary as my ring tries to compress the information while still keeping the outline.
Yes, good to see you too, Dox. Surprised he hasn't already gotten the report on Colu on his consoles there. Unless he wants to hear the inefficient version from OL...I mentally tell it not to bother as I wait for Dox to acknowledge me.
"Colu."
Yes, well, Great intelligence doesn't always mean great wisdom. Consider your little goof-up during the battle with Grayven..."Liberated. Computer Tyrants erased, and control of the planet temporarily in the hands of the Green Lantern Corps pending transition back to Coluan control."
"The same people who allowed my father to take power in the first place."
They can't keep relying on the same person to keep fixing things, especially when said clones all seem to have very different characters. Bad ends lay that way."There's a rather short list of people who could stop your father, and the former Coluan government didn't contain any of them."
"If they can't do the job then they should just clone me again and put the clone in charge."
Doesn't care much for his people, does he? I mean, he certainly has good reason not to, the way they've treated him over the years since he was manufactured. But there's honestly no concern there at all? What a.. sad way to live."Alas, people in positions of authority are seldom comfortable with confronting their limitations. Would you like to address them yourself?"
"No. They wouldn't respond well to my involvement. If we need their help in researching something you can just transport samples to them."
I'll be honest, I suspect even Lantern Gozzi might have had thoughts of that angle. But she's not an idiot. She has enough wisdom to know there were other reasons than just that."Do you..? Have a problem with my recruitment of Lantern Gozzi?"
"No, why would I-?" His eyes flick up and the data flow stops. "You weren't planning on trying to.. set us.. up in a social-?"
Yes, let's change that subject."No. I wasn't. Though now you mention it, the research I've seen suggests that it's easier to learn certain types of social interaction from members of one's own species. If you're interested in achieving some sort of rapprochement with Colu, she's not a terrible place to start."
"Fortunately I'm not. The Martians?"
Yeah, I doubt they'd waste the time needed to collect the Martians rookies during this time... As they say, 'Beginnings are delicate times'. A conflict this large, that's never been truer..."At Manga Khan's base until the fleet returns. I can bring them here faster if we can spare the wizards to ward the ships..?"
"No. It would be useful, but it's more important to keep them working on the fleet here."
"What exactly have the Reach been up to?"
Because they haven't seen the bad side of the Reach yet. Even if the NEMO forces showed it to them, they probably wouldn't believe it until they're the ones in death camps..."Everything we expected." Without looking he presses a button and calls up some holographic images. "We're screened all of the major industrial worlds in our alliance for their brute force mind control efforts: chemical, telepathic and mechanical. Countering their more subtle social engineering efforts is more difficult. We've had anti-war demonstrations in a number of places, the slogans calling for everything from isolationism to peaceful engagement with the Reach. And other things besides."
Every polity not on their side is a potential ally of the Reach. The less trying to play neutral - or worse, trying to play them against each other for their own benefit - the better..."There will always be some idiots. Are we sure they're not largely home-grown? A war this big is something a government really needs to prepare people for."
"We have to deal with the allies we have as we have them."
Like, say, infiltrators in very good disguises. I expect that's a major threat on the borders. Reach agents lurking on planets marked for future acquisition campaigns, surgically modified as fifth columnists... Very much a concern. And amusingly like World War II-era comic hero stories..."Are you working up to asking me to alter their desires?"
"Not at.. this stage. Local dissent can be dealt with by local authorities. I want you to check that they aren't being encouraged directly by the Reach."
So no-one's going to complain too loudly if OL goes snatching people publicly. As long as he can give a good reason for it, eh?I nod. "If they are?"
"We are at war with the Reach, and any Reach-associated individual in the territory controlled by a L.E.G.I.O.N. affiliate or other ally can be legally detained with no other justification. Or killed out of hand."
Probably privateers rather than Reach navy assets, I presume. Reach vessel design is kind of distinctive, after all."Do you want them removed quietly or loudly?"
"Use your judgement. Whatever makes the largest impact." I nod. "We've also started seeing the expected increase in attacks by deniable assets, coupled with offers of Reach 'aid'."
Because, you know, space is really, really big...I frown. "Everyone should have upgraded their defensive capacities past the point where that was an issue."
"Our partners have. The people on the outer edge of the periphery zone have not."
And I doubt everyone flies level with the galactic plane, either. What's to stop some Reach ships arcing almost-perpendicular to the galactic disc, sneaking through the emptier fringes then diving back down.?That's the problem with space. It's so gosh darn porous. We can put in place interdiction systems covering every system allied to us, but that still leaves over 99% of the zone that the Reach can fly things through without any difficulty. Even in their own territory the Reach can't stop much more than we can, that's how Darkstar teams insert themselves. In theory we could track outgoing ships and follow them to their destination, but we don't have unlimited ships and the Reach are very good at being sneaky.
Guess they're not doing as well as hoped for, then. Most of the Orange Lanterns tend to be the warhammer you use to beat on enemy defenses, rather than the stiletto you sneak into their back when they're not looking... That's what the Darkstars are for, for one thing...Still, it's a lot of space for the Reach, too. And the governments of civilisations advanced enough to actually help the Reach aren't stupid; if a lot of the people exposed to the Reach suddenly change their behaviours most of them will notice that something is off.
"You've assigned other Lanterns to this?"
Ah. So, come in like the big dog and swing the big orange hammer around until everyone plays nice, huh?"Yes, but most Lanterns don't have your particular skills related to psychological analysis. We aren't responsible for everything our allies do. If their neighbours are picking fights on their own initiative due to local disputes, that's far less of a concern for us. If that happens, negotiate a treaty and make it clear that you will involve yourself if it is breeched."
A delicate juggling act. Aren't you glad you're not the one having to manage it?I nod. Coming in too strongly to protect member worlds will give them the idea that they can do what they like, which certainly isn't the case. It will also alienate other worlds and encourage them to look favourably on any Reach petitions they receive. On the other hand, we do need to be able to demonstrate that we'll have our allies' backs while the majority of their forces are fighting the Reach. And while their economies are dedicated to war-fighting.
Oh, this promises to be entertaining. He didn't even tell OL not to wreck anything that doesn't need wrecking? What's the likelihood the entire thing will be on fire within a week?Dox flicks an orange pulse to my ring.
"There's a list of known problem areas. Go where you need to and do what you need to. Dismissed."
Doesn't care much for his people, does he? I mean, he certainly has good reason not to, the way they've treated him over the years since he was manufactured. But there's honestly no concern there at all? What a.. sad way to live.
Oh, this promises to be entertaining. He didn't even tell OL not to wreck anything that doesn't need wrecking? What's the likelihood the entire thing will be on fire within a week?
brute force mind control efforts: chemical, telepathic and mechanical.
We're -> We've
Mechanical mind control? How the hell would that work? Lobotomy?
how scared he is off Paul trying to set up a play date with a fellow Coluan.