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No, that's correct. Mkaing him leader is one thing.
BACK TO WORK, SLAVE EDITOR!
Thank you, corrected.glares
"flak", and possibly additional instances ("flack" is an unrelated word referring to publicity or publicity agents)
I can't figure out what "luck effectives" is supposed to mean. Best I can guess is that you meant "lucky" and "effectives" is jargon/slang for "ships that remain effective".
juluuni
Yes, power rings have instant detection.While this is true, dodging would require superluminal detection capability -- which is to say, exotic active scans, because passive scans are also lightspeed (at best) and non-exotic active scans are half lightspeed at best. (Unless the turret telegraphs its shots enough that you know where to dodge before the shot actually fires, but by the rest of the descriptions that's not likely the case.)
Thank you, corrected.either 'until a good' or 'having taken place'
'shield is gone'
I generally write two segments Saturday and Sunday, and one on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So, Tuesday and Thursday I guess.Do you ever take holidays? Because, apart from four instances that I can remember, you've been posting every single day for years. Or are they pre typed, and posted even on your holiday?
I don't have a particular number in mind. I assume the SI has about five or six. The Renegade has Ra's and Savage.Mr Zoat, exactly what and how many Construct-Lanterns do Paul and the Renegade have at their disposal? Cause unless Paul went to those other fleets and immediately assimilated their near brain dead crews, he shouldn't have that many. Related to this, how many other Orange Lanterns have Construct-Lanterns in either timeline? I only remember Komand'r having a single Citadelian Construct-Lantern.
I remember him also assimilating Brain and Klarion. Also, is Nabu still a construct that teaches Zatara?
I certainly hadn't forgotten about him. No.Soo... Anyone else remember that Dr. Morrow is among his constructs? Paul was letting him hang around with Red Tornado. I just pictured him getting panic dumped with the rest of the constructs in this fight.
Do you have a spreadsheet somewhere where you've recorded everything he's got? Or is it all just memory?
If I had a spreadsheet I wouldn't keep forgetting stuff.Do you have a spreadsheet somewhere where you've recorded everything he's got? Or is it all just memory?
I think you missed the boat on that, but if you can point to one I haven't corrected yet I'll do that right away.
But who the flack cares?!? *jk*
Of you could do what I do... start using a spreadsheet and then forget to update it.
Or we could just update the wiki, and Zoat could use that.Of you could do what I do... start using a spreadsheet and then forget to update it.
Sorry, my name has already been in this thread and it wasn't that clever.Or we could just update the wiki, and Zoat could use that.
I had a thought.. What if Paul's surname is 'candles' just because they give light, like a lantern? And it has nothing to do with Zoat's last name. It could all be a long con for a stupid pun.
I hope it is. I love stupid puns, and I love long cons even more. Just the thought of them makes me shiver, with antici-
Sure, I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm pointing out that it's an exotic active scan. Those Lantern-scan alarms are probably going bananas.
There are a whole bunch in the latest update. I didn't even bother quoting all of them. Here's one from the post just so you can have a link:I think you missed the boat on that, but if you can point to one I haven't corrected yet I'll do that right away.
Sorry, my name has already been in this thread and it wasn't that clever.
Blame my ancestors.
Oh my. Is this the first time OL has dropped an F bomb?
the Coluans; they don't really need computers to speed up their decision making.
Is
and -> and I
Slowly making progress, eh? Man, Threllian should be proud that his people's fleet are giving the Illustres of his Corps so much trouble. Or annoyed that they're still so strong. At least the damage adds up.25th August 2012
05:40 GMT
Okay, that's not necessarily too bad.
Through the rent in the shields I get a better scan of the interior of the ship, marking out the rupture emitters, shield generators and the location of the crew. A heartbeat later and the shield is back up, but I got what I need. And it's a little weaker now.
LIIVI, for those unaware, is an Imperial Assassin from the 40k fan-story 'Love Can Bloom.' Suffice to say, I'm still assuming they're moving to target him in response to his poking. Or the shock to their systems OL's been causing with his 'yank desires away' trick has set them off on prearranged targets early...Dox wouldn't have sent me now if it was a last minute thing. If the other fleets are attacking that means that they're doing so early. Something that was causing them to remain where they were hasn't been dealt with as their Reach overlords would have preferred. I hope. If they were literally just hanging around to act as a distraction to me… Then as LIIVI said, I'm performing the useful action of tying up a significant quantity of enemy materiel.
To be fair, a heavily compartmentalised system is probably safer in boarding actions, by allowing each part of the ship to ignore boarders as needed. Especially if each section has its own units to fight them. Never mind the deflection or prevention of electronic warfare attacks.This ship doesn't seem to have a dedicated self-destruct system. Probably because if it comes to it then it's primary weapon system can tear it apart easily enough. Power generation is also decentralised. There isn't anywhere where I could score a knock-out blow with one hit. Other than by rupturing the entire hull, but… Yes, even then, individual sections might well maintain power and be able to operate their guns. We don't really have ships like this in L.E.G.I.O.N. because our member worlds wouldn't be able to build them, not because they're not good enough.
Yes, still big guns targetting a somewhat squishy human (under the shields and armour...) I suppose if he could continue this unmolested, he could wear them down very slowly.
I guess the juluuni fleet wasn't judged valuable enough to warrant scarabs. Or he simply killed them so quickly they couldn't activate.-trick with the construct crumblers. There's a slight hesitation it the tracking system and exacerbate it by firing a couple of physical crumblers as well-. I've hit the shield envelope just fine, but the flak took out a few of my constructs rather than just ignoring them. Flak turrets destroyed-.
This time I spot the Scarab Warrior before they can attack, my lance of orange energy forcing them to break off their charge and evade. Another new one. Three Scarabs represents a significant expenditure of resources; Reach resources that they actually care about. Ordinarily they'd be a higher priority target than this fleet. But I suppose that we've proved that we can beat Scarabs; the jury's still out on this fleet.
Can't help trying it out for yourself, can you? I mean, for all you know, something about their systems could turn it against you.The Scarab Warrior hangs back, their overdeveloped thruster array keeping them mobile enough to avoid anything short of a dedicated attack on my part. Their actual weapon appears to be a scaled-up version of the construct nullifier, so the counter would appear to be a physical barrier. Straight forward enough.
If I've worked out a way around their flak defences, the next step is piercing the hull. I know that Threllian recommended avoiding gravity weapons, but I want to see-.
Sounds like they're trying close-range jumps to try and get him. I suppose if they squashed him between two ships, that might be enough to slow him down...Ship! I
leave
at once, a new target on the other side of the fleet finding itself the object of my assault. This time the flak targets and destroys almost all of the oncoming attack constructs, apparently prioritising time-to-target.
Ah, Threllian again? What's he got now?
Time to get trippy again...I-.
And there the ships are again and I'm
moving
again. I think the crew are recovering. And if the other fleets are moving then the solution is obvious. I
Two more of the remnant fleets, I see? Caught in mid-transit, by the looks of it.follow the thread
into a command centre inhabited by aqua-skinned humanoids with minor cybernetic grafts, lashing out and pulling
and moving
to empty space, the ships matched to the known profiles of a scaly-skinned humanoid species accelerating away as I pull their desires and
And reading that description immediately makes me think of Hanar... Or Flumphs.then
pink blobs with numerous pseudopods appear for a moment before losing all motivation
Looks like a lucky hit. Better capitalise on that, then.as I return
to the fleet I was fighting moments before and pushing the desires at them. The closest ships vanish, reappearing a moment later much further away, presumably as the drive to move overwhelms them. That gives me a clear view of one of the Scarab Warriors who appears to be.. jerking around aimlessly. I
Heh. Going for simple, eh? I bet Guy will have some ribbing for you if you ever show him this...head
towards them, car crusher construct appears around them and ramming closed.
If I remember the briefing right, Threllian's people were prized by the Reach for the brains. And only the brains, because they were impressive organic supercomputers...Now the ships, and this time a little faster.
Illustres?
Comparing primary weapons fire now to primary weapons fire immediately before I left… Yes, slower and the prediction is less good. A bit of a surprise that they're doing manual targeting but I suppose that it could be like the Coluans; they don't really need computers to speed up their decision making.
At least it's getting easier to cut through the defences."Here."
And that's the turrets on this side of the ship gone. Armour plates behind me and crumbler ram!
Weak internals because I doubt anyone could get this close without being destroyed. Makes sense, really."Busy."
I keep pushing the ram forward, sundering the hull and smashing into the meat of the ship. There's a flare of purple as I hit one of the fracture generators, and a section of the ship's interior evaporates. Relatively weak internal armour, probably not worth knowing. Ring, find me biology.
Ah, not good news for the mission?
And this is why he couldn't just linger inside a ship. Precise targetting plus guns that can ignore solid objects plus confined space equals killbox.It seems that while the Reach might have considered the brains of Threllian's people to be top notch, they weren't anything like as impressed with their bodies. They're directly integrated into the ship. Their life support if directly connected so I can remove them and stow them… Or wreck the ship around them and come back for them lat-.
The ship before me comes apart as it's impaled by purple lances. They don't seem to have specifically aimed for the crew, but-.
Doesn't do too well when it doesn't have the mass of an anthropoid body, does it? It must have been desperate to fight him.Something hits me, my constructs collapsing and my armour shuddering at the impact. What was-?
A brain. The Scarab-. From the Warrior I just killed, it survived and attached itself to one of the spare brains. It visibly reconfigures as it loops around, generating some sort of energy field that.. my ring is struggling to analyse.
Yeah, they're not going to stand still for you...I respond with rapid pulses of destruction, and… They hit home, but are visibly drained of power as they do. Right then. It may have a shield but it doesn't have a gun, and there's enough ship hull around me to shield me from flak from the other ships. I generate a singularly projector construct and take a shot… Which bends away from the target and.. sort of stays there. Right, they're familiar with gravity-based weapons. And they're small and mobile but I'm pretty sure that a construct-generated laser would-.
And the fight goes on. A pity he won't be able to get as much biological data as he'd like...And they're gone. Gravity teleport…
I'll keep my guard up, but there are still a lot of ships here.
It's only been a few minutes. Not even Dox is that fast, OL."Okay, I've got a moment. I've got a method for destroying these ships but I don't think anyone else in the Corps could do it. Does Dox have new orders for-"
Dodge.
"-me?"
Oh, that's not good. Either they're running, or they're clearing the line of fire...Not as yet.
"Then I've-."
A ship on the far side of the fleet vanishes. Then another. Then-.
Okay, not quite an explosion, but fairly on mark for a typical Paragon cliffhanger.Gravity stabiliser!
A ship shakes, then is reduced to drifting, its fracture cannons going dead. The other ships manoeuvre slightly, then-.
Fuck!
Wait.... There's a wiki?!?
The one post I didn't correct was that day's post. Thnak you, corrected.There are a whole bunch in the latest update. I didn't even bother quoting all of them. Here's one from the post just so you can have a link:
And an FAQ. It discusses how Zoat is using Mantling.