Mr Zoat
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It was episode 98: Low Politics; where Manga Khan shows up to expand his business the Cluster Corps, all while Paul is dealing with politics from the UN and Atlantis, since Venturia has decided to peacefully separate from the greater kingdom and hires the Orange Lantern Corp to act as peace keepers while in the process. This happened due to Paul hiring archmages from Venturia to deal with sentient eyeball from the eyeball gauging planet of Tillettit, whom had a deal with the local religion which were wiped out by Paul and his new recruit, and Paul doesn't see the political issues as major problem because the only threat Manga Khan poses is introducing too much raw material or advance schematics to any potential buyer regardless of the consequences.
There was plenty of friction between him, King Orin, and Kaldur due to how he off hand he was about the situation because Manga Khan while technically a lantern under his command wasn't doing anything against corps rules especially since Venturia seemed ready to secede which could cause instability for the rest of Atlantis if other city-states decided to follow their example.
I always figured the only reason why Icon decided to avoid the situation that his specialty in law didn't cover galactic business and marketing, or he saw the situation with Manga Khan as too much of a head ache to deal with, and unlike the situation with Xor who could be dealt with reasonably trying to deal with multiple nations with no united laws or regulations regarding space trade wasn't.
7th April
17:48 GMT +2
"You know more about interstellar economics than anyone else on Earth."
"No, I… Don't think-" I frown. Who… Would..? "-I do."
Wait. Arnus would. I mean, I.. think he was more a corporate lawyer than a criminal lawyer anyway. Sure, he'd be a little out of date, but the broad principles should be the same. And Ploutos should be able to fill in the gaps. Yes, I can dump it on the pair of them.
"Ring, contact Icon."
"'Icon' not on Earth."
…
Oh.
"Ring, contact Rocket."
"In progress."
I raise my left hand to the side of my head as it rings.
"Yeah?"
"Rocket, Orange Lantern h-."
"Are you why Nazigirl's been followin' me around?"
"Only indirectly. You're-. Um."
"Yeah? You wanna finish that sentence?"
"The most admirable black person she's met, and she thinks that you alone can break decades of racist cultural programming?"
I hear her huff.
"Okay, yeah, great, but the economy in Dakota City ain't so great and most a' the criminals I arrest are black too. It's not.. like, the best image she could get."
"Okay, but every criminal she's ever arrested before was white, so I doubt that she'll draw a conclusion based on that."
"Fine. What were you callin' for?"
"It occurred to me that Arnus' experience with interstellar relations would make him the man to take a lead on this whole business with ClusterCorp. Do you have any way to contact him?"
"Ah… No."
"Raquel, I don't like to call a team mate a-."
"I'm not supposed to contact him. Ah. Especially if you're asking."
"Why?"
"I ain't suppose to tell you unless the world's ending. Is it?"
"No, this isn't even-. Do you know if he's coming back soon?"
"Paul…"
"Okay, I-. Clearly don't know what's going on here. If you get in contact with him please mention the ClusterCorp situation?"
"Sure."