Mr Zoat
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Thank you, corrected.Setting my robots to it?
Letting my robots do it?
Follow up, then/than same sentence?
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Thank you, corrected.Setting my robots to it?
Letting my robots do it?
Follow up, then/than same sentence?
Fastness?
Wasn't Paul always going to do something about Sinestro? He needs his head to make a blue ring for Starfire and he knew he needed to stop him from making a corpse because Vril gave him the idea.
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*immediate enemy.Wasn't Paul always going to do something about Sinestro? He needs his head to make a blue ring for Starfire and he knew he needed to stop him from making a corpse because Vril gave him the idea.
That gets easily taken down in cartoons.
The only time he was a real menace in a cartoon was in that Superman Animated episode.
Sure but Young Justice isn't exactly known for being fluffy lighthearted stories. If there was a DC canon where Sinestro is ten pounds of fuck in a three pound bag, it's probably this one.
Against Green rookies? Sure?
Against a guy so good with the orange light that he is basically made of it and is freaking hard to kill and keep him dead?
It turns out that this monastery prefers to store the bodies of believers until they can be transported to the Source Wall, reuniting body and soul before their creator.
Not Sinestro?"
The monk shakes his head. "I would recognise him. It was a Spider Guilder."
So is Sinestro lending his ring to people now? Kalmin said that he only made the one, but… How hard would it be for other Weaponers to make more once they'd seen it done? Sinestro would certainly be able to contact them; heck, in the comics he just straight up enslaved them and forced them to work on making rings for his new... Corps.
into an energy being would could jump from machine to machine.
didn't notice any sort of Guilder monitoring device when I went though the monastery. Given
So either the Guilder was monitoring the area, or someone in the monastery back on Karax tipped them off.
You know, if I recall right, the Sinestro Corp Rings don't power themselves off of their wielder's fear, but draw more so from the fear of their opponents, though mastering their own fear certainly helps them in cases where they can't draw on the opponent...
A colossal orange dragon claw appears around the ship, tears through the shields without apparent effort and then pushes.
So the assault was definitely not bloodless.One more thing to add to Sinestro's ledger. Presumably whoever did this had assumed that any aid would take some time to arrive, even a Lantern, and they could be long gone. Even OL took a few seconds to arrive after Onik's signal went dead. Very quick movement on the attacker's part, certainly.27th August 2012
09:14 GMT
The last of the surviving robots -now firmly under my control- marches out into the monastery's space dock. I finish patching up the armour and defence turrets of the upper portion of the monastery as the monks continue laying out their dead. It turns out that this monastery prefers to store the bodies of believers until they can be transported to the Source Wall, reuniting body and soul before their creator.
If the attacker, Sinestro or otherwise, knew what they were doing, Onik would be kept in some sort of catatonic state to prevent him forming desires. That will make tracking him via the Honden difficult."A Yellow Lantern."
Now with the immediate threat to people under my protection dealt with I rather need to get on with rescuing Lantern Onik.
Explains the Guild bots. But how did they get a Yellow Ring? Has Sinestro already begun the work of making a Corps? Is this guilder exceptional, or is there a whole Spider Guild base of Yellow Lanterns out there? Multiple? This bodes ill."Ah-. Yes. I thought it was just some sort of teleportation system, but then I saw the sigil of fear on their chest."
"Not Sinestro?"
The monk shakes his head. "I would recognise him. It was a Spider Guilder."
So no ersatz Fantastic Four in this timeline... And hopefully not ever, since it didn't end well for them. Only Terri Henshaw survived... As for the Weaponers... Varnathon could easily have made arrangements in the brief time he ruled...So is Sinestro lending his ring to people now? Kalmin said that he only made the one, but… How hard would it be for other Weaponers to make more once they'd seen it done? Sinestro would certainly be able to contact them; heck, in the comics he just straight up enslaved them and forced them to work on making rings for his new... Corps.
Manhunters. He convinced Hank Henshaw to work with him by promising to find a way to kill him. But Doctor Henry Henshaw 16 is an astrophysicist happy employed by NASA-. Or he was last time I checked before the Sheeda attack. But he definitely didn't go into space and get turned into an energy being would could jump from machine to machine.
Probably as part of pursuing a code 1963 ('Subject escaped into an interdimensional vortex.') Though I doubt the Guardians would have appreciated him poking the Anti-Matter universe.Anyway, Old School Weaponers would have died before working for an alien under those conditions. But given how far they'd fallen… I mean, Varnathon would have taken a cash payment, and the others… Yes, I could see it.
And of course as First Lantern I'm sure that Sinestro could have gotten his hands on a portal to a parallel universe at some point.
Plenty of them to be wanting greater power... It's a plausible theory.Right. We're fairly close to a couple of big and old Spider Guild Septs here. The Green Lantern Corps has made it clear that continued expansion at the cost of others will not be tolerated, but that doesn't mean that they won't launch the occasional raid just to test the defences. I could easily see a Guilder making a deal with Sinestro to break the status quo. Or just taking a natty weapon. I doubt the Guildmasters would commit to something big without some fairly convincing proof…
But they're a highly internally-unified culture that invades peoples' homes and eats them, but who have never quite made it into the top tier. They wouldn't be a bad place to start if he wanted an Army of Fear.
Yes, indeed. I have to wonder who knew Onik was coming here. Surely he'd have mentioned it to the abbot of the Lanternist monastery. Big honking red flag..."Do you have any idea why you were targeted?"
"I assume that the Guilder was seeking Novice Onik. Though how they knew in advance that he would be here, I don't know."
'Once is happenstance', sure... If another of your Lanterns is attacked, then you've got a case. Still thinking the abbot was involved, for my part.I didn't notice any sort of Guilder monitoring device when I went though the monastery. Given the damage, I'll have to take their word for it that their network wasn't subverted. So either the Guilder was monitoring the area, or someone in the monastery back on Karax tipped them off.
Or it was pure chance.
To be fair, I rather think it might have been hard to hear in the noise of combat.
That is an especially good question.I access the monastery's monitoring network, but from the images I'm getting it looks like the Guilder didn't say anything out loud at all. Can't really get a good idea of their skill level from how well they overran a monastery full of scared monks, but I'm not seeing anything too scary.
How did Onik lose?
Or he surrendered to protect his old friends, since he came from this monastery. Don't discount the possibility of hostages. The problem is the sheer speed of the defeat, though. Onik was talking to OL, after all, and didn't sound worried or panicked...If he was caught in the middle of confronting his fears, and the Guilder could detect that, it certainly would be plausible. Otherwise… Onik doesn't have all that much combat experience. He might have been overwhelmed. Or outfought by someone trained by Sinestro. I'm certainly not afraid of a random Guilder with a ring.
I see Xor caught up. But no sign of Dul or Toren? They didn't think to tell them about this? I would expect the Sector Green Lantern to at least want to know this happened."Illustres to Lantern Xor. Finished the lower repairs?"
"Yes, Illustres."
"Work with the monks to repair their monastery. Defend it if necessary. I'm going after Lantern Onik."
The joy of having one of the seven biggest sticks in the Spectrum... And she likes him, for good measure, unlike some of the Embodiments..."No support?"
"I'll have Onik, once I find him. And we're never entirely alone."
The question is, where would Onik have been taken? Would the leadership of the local Guild worlds want that kind of attention?"As you will, Illustres."
Right, that's the monks looked after. Guilder space is in that direction. Core worlds… There, border territory where they tolerate alien traders across there…
And too many desires to clearly pick out Onik, even if he were conscious. Because if he was conscious, you'd expect him to be resisting his captors...Those places are usually fairly fear-filled. Aliens are tolerated but they aren't protected. Cannibalism is perfectly normal, Guild worlds being 'good' places to offload slaves without specialist skills. There are always buyers, even if the price isn't all that good.
Honestly, the fear's so intense that I'm not sure that I could pick out a Yellow Lantern.
Playing bait it is, then. Make a big showy entrance, get everyone's attention, and see what crawls out of their holes.
Bonus: plenty of freed slaves who will be very confused as to why their captors turned around..., reappearing on the bridge of a slaver ship with packed holds. I don't bother mucking around, I just send a beam of orange energy into both brains of the members of the slug-like species that are running the ship before having my ring savage the ship's computer for recent news. No mention of a Lantern, but they have some data on Guilder space that I lacked. No crew outside the bridge, so I set the auto-pilot to fly the ship back to Karax-controlled space. Then I
I rather suspect it would be hard to speak the Spider Guild's native language without multiple tongues and jaws... Thankfully, you don't have to try.step out
and reappear outside of the ship before warping towards… Chughraghahh. I suppose that I can just about pronounce that. As I approach I feel the interdiction system try and stop me or slow me down. Spitefully, I push it away, a reaction which will most likely cause the emitters to explode quite enthusiastically.
And here come the fireworks.And then the warp ends and I'm there, in the high orbital plane above Chughraghahh.
And there's the largest ship in the defence fleet.
And there's the area of densest habitation.
Only a 7/10 from the judges, I'm afraid. Not the fanciest orbital drop (I prefer the Sydney Colony Drop from Gundam, personally,) but style points for throwing it bodily rather than using manoeuvring thrusters.A colossal orange dragon claw appears around the ship, tears through the shields without apparent effort and then pushes. The ship deforms as it drops, and moments later the friction causes the now-unshielded outer portions and leaking atmosphere to catch fire. The ship wasn't designed to ever enter an atmosphere, but all things considered it's doing fairly well. For a first attempt. The dust cloud when it hits isn't quite as big as what I got from the Citadel Complex, but it's a respectable first attempt.
Sounds nasty, sure, but the guilders are not nice people. Remember, perfectly willing, able and happy to eat other sophonts. Not much of a moral hit from working over that sort of jackass."This is the Illustres of the Orange Lantern Corps. I believe that the Guild has one of my Lanterns. And one of its own Lanterns. Until they are brought before me I will keep killing until every one of you disgusting insults to sentience on this miserable rock are dead, and then I will move on to the next world. I am not interested in your surrender. Get me what I want or die."
Well, it might take a few minutes for their chain of command to sort itself out, since you smashed their (presumed) capital. With their flagship...Shots plink of my construct armour from one of the monitor stations, so I make that my next target. A claw forms and squeezes, inflicting critical structural damage before a flick of the hand tosses the station downwards.
"Take as long as you need."
Thank you, corrected.
Snakes have terrible throwing arms.I'd have gone with a giant serpent constricting or piercing it, myself. Seems more on-brand.
Weird how he isn't particularly orange-level possessive about "his lantern".... would have though orange would have imparted some effect on his words in that last line of dialog