Mr Zoat
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No. Created objects come with certain limitations. Much like how his railguns can't fire as fast as he wants them to but require an electrical charge.
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No. Created objects come with certain limitations. Much like how his railguns can't fire as fast as he wants them to but require an electrical charge.
I think that should say "this shield is a 'part'".Because this shield in 'part' of a being with wants and desires of their own, permeating the ship. Which means that I should be able to-
That should all say 'percent'.
That should say 'can'.Because he's not wrong. While doing this has weakened the shields to the point where their guns could damage the ship. But I don't trust Reach ships enough to tolerate them 'danger closing' me, and this ship isn't contributing much to the fight at the moment. New God ships have afford to have fixed position prow weapons because boom tubes allow them to reliably bring them to bear, but that means that their other weapons don't have anything like the power. Or default power, because the New God inside can ramp it up my focusing on it.
That should all say 'percent'."Identity theft in progress. Fifty nine perfect complete. Sixty five perfect complete."
I think there should be a comma there, so it should say: 'but added to the fire of the surviving Reach ships,'.Turrets rotate and open fire. Not very well, as the ship master is still trying to fight me, but added to the fire of the surviving Reach ships the other New God ship actually starts taking damage. A slightly lucky hit does something to its prow weapon, and its own turrets start to fire only sporadically as part of the power system is penetrated.
That should say 'percent'.
This reminds me of the fake invasion training, only this time, Paul gets to keep his assimilated space ships. How useful will this be Mr Zoat?"Grayven will scour you from the universe!"
"Perhaps."
"Identity theft complete."
"But not today."
Thank you, corrected.I think that should say "this shield is a 'part'".
That should say 'can'.
No, I think that's okay.I think there should be a comma there, so it should say: 'but added to the fire of the surviving Reach ships,'.
Technically, he hasn't assimilated the ship. He assimilated the New God controlling it along with its metaphysical energy networks. It'll be reasonably useful. It's got good guns, a boom tube generator and a decent sublight acceleration.This reminds me of the fake invasion training, only this time, Paul gets to keep his assimilated space ships. How useful will this be Mr Zoat?
have -> can
Although that would require you to get some of whatever special isotope of 'Radion' is used by the New God-killing weapons. And I imagine that both New Genesis and Apokalips guard the secret of its origin very closely...1st January 2013
21:37 GMT
I talked it over with Mr. Free once, whether there were any weapons which New Gods are particularly vulnerable to. Turns out that the only thing that he and Barda could think of is weapons using something called 'radion', and that it was only used in a handful of places on Apokolips due to the obvious danger it posed to its rulers. According to them they've never even seen one. I've kept half an eye out for one… Maybe add a radion round to my railgun ammunition varieties? But that does mean that railgun fire probably isn't the best solution here.
Quite a big target, but I expect you're doing that for a reason...I make a ship-scale railgun anyway as I dive, trying to keep one New God ship between me and the other while also making it so that only one facing's worth of guns can target me at once. And as a third factor, trying to ensure that those guns also have the option of shooting Reach ships instead. Because while I am going to try and ensure that they survive, I don't like them enough to actually take undue risks with myself and they're the ones who chose to delay.
Ah, going to try something more esoteric as your main thrust, then.I load a mage slayer, because that should disrupt the magic they use in extending their soul through their defence systems. But that's not where the main attack is going to come from.
I erect a large ablative shield construct.
After all, the guns can only traverse so fast, no matter how they operate. And Lanterns are very small and very agile compared to a ship."Last chance?"
A ragged volley of blaster shots fly in my direction, but I'm using the ring to calculate the angle of the ship's turrets and even at this range dodging around them is relatively simple. The volley isn't coordinated, and viffing around it isn't hard. They'll improve, or prioritise me once they've seen me actually do something. These ships weren't involved in the engagement when I faced down Grayven, so they may well not be aware of what I can do.
And even a tiny threat can take out a vast vessel, given the right attack, or a little luck.I had wondered if I would be able to destroy the Absolute Dominion by myself. Evading the hyper blaster is easy for any Lantern; it's an anti-capital ship weapon. It's secondaries and flak, enhanced with the strength of Grayven's soul, would be the issue. That and whatever other systems he has, which make it a bit imponderable. But if the main advantage of the ship is its magic aura sustained by its master, well…
I've got a way to deal with that.
Still, well done spotting and hitting the projectiles. I assume they're larger than the standard railgun shot...I fire a token mage slayer and then fly towards the closest ship at best available speed. I heartbeat later I fire a second token mage slayer, forcing the ship to point their point defence systems at the tiny projectiles rather than fire them all at me. I grunt quietly as both are melted by the ship's gunnery before I can judge how much effect they actually have. The ones that do fire at me chip away at my shield construct, but point defences are designed to do small amounts of highly accurate damage at my construct is merely mildly ablated.
Ooh, something unexpected?"Tell me, does Grayven have anti-Lantern protocols for his followers? Because last time I did this to Sparta's fleet-"
Gehh!
Seriously? He skipped across the shield? The other joy of being so small in space combat. ...And suddenly I'm reminded of the Star Trek/X-Men crossover, where Gladiator of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard punched the Enterprise's combat shields... And damaged them significantly.That's the shield envelope! Looks like the boundary is a little imprecise, ow! And the-.
Turret-.
Best not to get distracted, OL. One mistake here and you'll probably be waking up in that backup body above Minosyss.Move!
Okay, they spotted that I stopped long enough to point a turret at me, and that's where my shield construct went, but now I'm in a position to actually do what I meant to.
Oooh, sneaky!Because this shield in 'part' of a being with wants and desires of their own, permeating the ship. Which means that I should be able to-
"-Assimilate-"
Good plan. Yoinking a New Ascendant shipmaster, and presumably control of his ship with him. Or her. Whoever.-it just fine.
"Identity theft in progress. Four percent complete."
Ah, not going to go all OL's way that easily.I feel the strength of the shield, and I feel it weaken almost immediately before the ship master… I assume, realises what I'm doing and pushes back.
"Resistance detected."
My Ship Is My Castle!
"Identity theft in progress. Three percent complete."
Which raises questions about how independent the crew are during this whole situation. And how deeply they subsume themselves to their captain's command.Which is fine, because apparently that distracts them enough that they don't order more turrets to fire on me, and I can move enough to avoid the one which hit me the first time. Construct armour can deal with the point defence, which… Yes, they're getting measurably weaker as the ship master focuses on forcing me out of the ship's metaphysique and less on the gunnery.
My Castle Is Inviolable!
"Identity theft in progress. Two percent complete."
Which would be quite disorienting, certainly. Even more so for someone who's not expecting it, and unlikely to be trained in resisting it.I feel my self get pushed back a little, as I expected.
I Shall Smite-!
"Consume."
And now their metaphysique isn't just being attacked from my physical location but from everywhere, from itself, the places they believed they were secure, their own mind.
Om nom nom. I expect this will be a tasty morsel for Best Snek. You're going to spoil her, OL.Respect to them, they don't panic, but they clearly don't know what the correct response is. If there even is one. So their power and influence goes down the Ophidian's gullet and-
"Identity theft in progress. Twenty three percent complete."
Which is probably making the other ship very concerned.-out of the ship. Out of the New God's soul, too.
The colour of the hull is changing as well, a faint orange glow shimmering through the area covered by the ship's shield.
Boy, they can't help complaining about the rescue, can they? You really sure you can't let them take a little more damage, OL? Soften that attitude..."Reach ships, please focus fire on the other New God vessel."
"What fire we have left."
"The alternative is that you take cover behind this one, and I don't think you're that manoeuvrable."
Yeah, seeing him busy with this might make an enterprising gunner think 'We can take him!'Because he's not wrong. While doing this has weakened the shields to the point where their guns could damage the ship. But I don't trust Reach ships enough to tolerate them 'danger closing' me, and this ship isn't contributing much to the fight at the moment. New God ships have afford to have fixed position prow weapons because boom tubes allow them to reliably bring them to bear, but that means that their other weapons don't have anything like the power. Or default power, because the New God inside can ramp it up my focusing on it.
Because the other option is not pleasant, I hope he realises...Usually.
"Identity theft in progress. Forty one percent complete."
"Ship master, strike your colours and I will intern your ship along with theirs."
Your choice, kid."Never!"
"Identity theft in progress. Forty seven percent complete."
A mission kill, but not totally lost. I expect OL can recover them at his leisure once the other New Ascendant ship is dealt with...Because wanting something strongly when someone is using desires to eat your soul isn't a clever thing to do.
Another Reach ship is reduced to wreckage, but it's… Reasonably intact, and I see the faint orange glow of survivors trying to reach the escape pods.
...Excellent.[/burns]"Identity theft in progress. Fifty nine percent complete. Sixty five percent complete."
"Weapon control available."
Ah, well, then. While the other ship's master is not doubt trying to force it to repair itself (and his crew working on the physical side) that's not good during a live-fire combat...I want the other ship destroyed.
Turrets rotate and open fire. Not very well, as the ship master is still trying to fight me, but added to the fire of the surviving Reach ships the other New God ship actually starts taking damage. A slightly lucky hit does something to its prow weapon, and its own turrets start to fire only sporadically as part of the power system is penetrated.
Chuckles here ain't too quick on the uptake, is he?"You will not-"
"Identity theft in progress. Seventy eight percent complete."
"-triumph!"
Looks like the fight's just about done, then...My ship's guns fire again, this time bursting through the target's shields and slamming into the hull.
"I beg to differ. If you yield-."
Though I doubt it'll go anything like Big Gray is planning it to. OL's good like that.
Well, this will be interesting. We haven't seen him nom a soul like this before. Wonder what'll happen...
Huh. I wonder what that will do to Paul's metaphysique (or his ring's, or both). Will he be able to consciously hear and/or use New God Speech, for example?Technically, he hasn't assimilated the ship. He assimilated the New God controlling it along with its metaphysical energy networks. It'll be reasonably useful. It's got good guns, a boom tube generator and a decent sublight acceleration.
Although that would require you to get some of whatever special isotope of 'Radion' is used by the New God-killing weapons. And I imagine that both New Genesis and Apokalips guard the secret of its origin very closely...
Not sure we've seen an assimilated New God before in-story, have we?
ramp it up by focusing on it.
Tanagar has it, IIRC: they had shot Grayven with it once.Although that would require you to get some of whatever special isotope of 'Radion' is used by the New God-killing weapons. And I imagine that both New Genesis and Apokalips guard the secret of its origin very closely...
Thank you, corrected.
Then they are basically cannon balls on chains so shoot them at velocity? With unconnected chain or enough slack in the chain?No. Created objects come with certain limitations. Much like how his railguns can't fire as fast as he wants them to but require an electrical charge.
Wonder will this mean that Paul will start using New God bullshit? And finaly not be fucked over any time he faces New Gods/Magic?
Wonder will this mean that Paul will start using New God bullshit? And finaly not be fucked over any time he faces New Gods/Magic?
What? OL could 'hear' Godspeech ever since he got Enlighment. Anti Life didnt work on him exactly because he was Enlighment and now Manheim version on Earth dont work because his Soul isnt conected to Earth thaumsphere but to Ophidan.Or make OL more vulnerable to New Godspeech.
Before he was blind by way of being invisible: godspeech passed right thru him like he didn't exist.
Now he might have to start rolling his dice pools against their dice pools, and I don't like the odds.
Chain chomps do their damage by biting. Yes, he could make a biting construct, but it would only bite as hard as his ring power allowed. It would be more efficient to built a crushing tool construct than making one.Then they are basically cannon balls on chains so shoot them at velocity? With unconnected chain or enough slack in the chain?
The shipmaster.Also did he assimilate the entire ship or the crew? Or just the Ship Master?
Manheim is quite a lot more powerful than the shipmasters here.
It's secondaries and flak, enhanced with the strength of Grayven's soul, would be the issue.
i thought only paul's demons could do this. where did he learn to do this himself?
He's been able to turn exotic energy sources into ring charge for a long time now.i thought only paul's demons could do this. where did he learn to do this himself?
Thank you, corrected.
Technically, this is the Ophidian doing it. He can do it himself, but he's mindful that if there were side effects he might not be able to fix them.i thought only paul's demons could do this. where did he learn to do this himself?
No. It's far less distinct to him. It's like hearing your name coming from somewhere in a crowd and not knowing where or who said it.
Although that would require you to get some of whatever special isotope of 'Radion' is used by the New God-killing weapons. And I imagine that both New Genesis and Apokalips guard the secret of its origin very closely...
That... Looks interesting? But my knowledge of physics is nothing like good enough to understand the description. Does it actually exist?Radion is a theoretical substance aka the Graviscalar, that differentiates from a regular scalar in the 5th dimension.
I personally find that too perfect to not use, although Zoat might feel otherwise, of course.
No. It's an abstraction, a tool to be used to model phenomenon accurately enough to describe, explain, predict, and possibly control what is going on. Scientists don't create models because they are true, they create them because they are useful under specific circumstances. Molecular bonds don't actually exist, but modeling chemicals with them provides accurate enough results to perform vast amounts of chemistry. There are more detailed and accurate models that you would use when greater accuracy is required.That... Looks interesting? But my knowledge of physics is nothing like good enough to understand the description. Does it actually exist?