The Renegade stole the Omega Men's thunder and basically called them terrorists who don't care who gets hurt in their crusade. As Komand'r and Koriand'r are two such people who were caught in the crossfire, the Omega Men aren't exactly held in high regard by Tamaraneans. Even Ryand'r, Komand'r and Koriand'r brother, isn't liked that much by his people because it was his actions that directly led to his sisters' enslavement and torture.
The anti-life got ponied so he came out ahead there.
Thank you, corrected.
No, I think that's okay.
Ah, I see enlightenment gives you a bonus to the school of Clear Communication.
Thank you, corrected.
Makes one wonder if they are already compromised to some degree...
Yes? You knew they'd be there. The official you communicated with made that quite clear. Is the concern that they've slipped some agents in without the Gyuanites noticing? Because that would be a given either way.
I would probably be thinking 'Well, shit. Flashback to his last death or about to go on a murderous rampage? Hell, why not both?'
Probably something like 'Oh, I'm sure they won't try anything, we're too valuable an ally to risk antagonising.'
Wise man, not wanting to be too close to the clearly mad person.
I take it just flying down under their own power would be completely out of the question... Probably a bit hard to track a Lantern who doesn't want to be noticed.
OL... Oh, fuck it, I can't even be mad.
OL gonna OL.At least the lady knows how to multitask. Probably not a good idea to let OL out of her sight, after all. Who know what trouble he'll get into without a minder? Not that having a minder will stop him...
To be fair, consider the last few diplomatic missions you've been on. If the Gyuanites have been getting the Reach's side of that, they're probably expecting you to fly up and rip the roof of the Diplomatic Offices...
And nothing would scare them more. Heck, they might start shooting the second you open the door.
...Ouch, Drusa, ouch. On the upside, you've probably got a better life expectancy than most around OL. He likes you, so he'll endeavour to keep you alive.Not improving your position here, Lantern.
Well, that's good.
Great, she's playing Xanatos Speed Chess, using imaginary players. And yet she's got OL pegged so well.
Given Dox asked you not to? No, you'll wait for them to get spooked and try something.
Then you'll have the moral high ground of a self-defence claim...'Want the end, want the means' indeed. I guess she spent the last week in transit building up a solid psychological profile of her boss, then.
Because a Scarab on-planet would be a gross violation of the Gyuanite's hospitality, and a feather in OL's cap?
Since you can get anywhere you like quickly enough anyway. Plus the trip gives you time to remotely observe Gyuanite Desire Networks, eh?
All the while the pilot is quietly praying to whatever he, she or they believe in for mercy and a greater likelihood of survival...
Stop poking the rookie, OL. But I suppose that would be her initial suspicion of intent.
Ah, she's good.
OL's like a walking bomb. Him merely existing in the same star system is intimidating, especially to the Reach.
So they'll be looking to covertly locate and scan him? Just to be sure it's not a clone, robot or shapeshifter?
Oh, sneaky, sneaky. Now, who do you look like, I wonder? Lantern Drusa? OR just a generic grunt Lantern? Ooh, why not make yourself look like Mr Spock, for the lulz?
Hope they don't pull out the big guns right away? Because I doubt your personal shields are up to OL's level.
...Okay, now you lost me. Are you counting on their paranoia sending them into a spiral of 'oh, shit!' as a distraction? Or just as a prank?I think it will be a way to lower the Reach's guard, as they will think Paul was never there and it was always a fake, before Paul reveals himself and subverts whatever they were going to use against Lantern Drusa.
Good assumption given the Reach's methods.
Prank for sure. He is a Discordian after all.
Didn't Zoat say at one point that any world that life evolved on is thaumically active to some extent?
Thinking about it, this could make them more paranoid later, knowing that any Orange Lantern could be the Illustris.
Yet. They don't have any of those yet. But LEGION and Grayven (actual Grayven, not Renegade) are demonstrating how useful magic is in war, and the Reach are adaptable. So just like the proliferation of anti-scry wards on Earth, eventually they will adapt, and it's going to be very annoying for OL when they do.
Which is going to be rough for the Corps, when the Reach changes their tactics to "maximum overkill" against all Lanterns, because any of them might secretly be the Illustres.
The problem they have is that they sort of can't. They have no native magic ability, and they can't do what most empires do and recruit from conquered people becasue they generally end up wiping them out. Certainly, they don't leave them with enough mental freedom to do any magic worthwhile. The only option left is hiring from outside their territory, and... They're surrounded, magic users are hard to get hold of anyway and no one likes them.
Wouldn't scarrabing a few magicians work? It's far from an army but would give them a few specialists. We also know they have more subtle mind control techniques they can use on worlds they are on, which against isn't gonna give them an army but would give them willing researchers who can supply the magic scarabs.
If Jaime Reyes is representative, no. The scarab wouldn't be able to control the host's soul any more than it could control his mind.
Your renegade counterpart already tried that.
self-deprecating (twice)
If they have an internal battery they should function anywhere. They just won't recharge on their own.
What?
