With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

No, wyrds are untrained psykers of any power level. Most would probably be in the Iota plus range as others just aren't strong enough to routinely produce overt results.

When Britain privatised its rail network and seperated the company running the tracks from the companies running the trains, it worked for a while because the old hands just ignored company directives and kept cooperating across company lines. Then they retired, and it all fell apart.

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‘manifest psychic’
’but if’

IIRC, as they get older navigators get more mutated. I remember a novel where a Space Marine has a momentary crisis of faith because he realises that he’s fighting to protect horrible mutants, but then he realised that the mutants are sanctioned by the Emperor so they can’t be that bad.

 

And so Paul becomes the reason the Tau start implementing "Brainwashing for The Greater Good" in earnest when it comes to humanity, due to their power of collective belief.

 

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No, they were doing that anyway. Just not as well as, say, the Imperium.

 

Sorry if this has been answered, but how does the Astronomicon's existence contribute to any major world other than Terra signalling Tyranids?

Is he talking about only Terra?
Or is this a thing about how the astronomicon is more detectable in certain regions of the galaxy or certain distances from Terra(closer is better), so humans tend to settle in those regions in response to fewer warp accidents, and Tyranids tend to prefer to move to a region where the astronomicon is more detectable ?because the psykic background signal is stronger?

 

The Astronomican can be detected even outside the galaxy, so tyranid fleets that might have either bypassed us or come later are arriving faster, and when they do they’ll detect all the inhabited worlds they encounter. Since humans are all over the place that means they’ll hit more human worlds, plus the fact that the tau have weaker souls means the tyranid won’t prioritize them as much

 

That doesn't help, though astropath choirs are probably a bigger problem.

 

Sooo.... MrZoat saw the latest smurfycat movie, and P'ol is going to make a title drop?

 

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What?

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I think they mean the latest Avatar movie. I've seen it, and while it has some cool bits, the plot is as stupid and contrived as the first one.

 

Heh. First time she's seen Spectrum energy constructs in action, I see. If it helps, think of them as volumetric holographic projections with forcefield reinforcement. Not all that different to something like a Tidewall Shieldline's barrier.

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In other words: Deal with it, honey.

Trust in the things you can feel for real. The ground under your feet. The tools in your hands. The scent of other, entirely calm tau around you...

The Imperial's scale, for reference. Naturally, the Emperor would register completely off their scaling.

For reference, that's actually less-than-zero psychic talent. These are people who would see someone use a telekinetic shove and think it was a strong gust of wind.

Admittedly, for a tau, that is significantly high.

For tau technology, maybe. A power Ring is just a wee bit more advanced, thank you.

Whoops, awkward.

Sadly, people tend to have their own opinion of what they want to do, regardless of what someone else says they're best suited to...

It's been tried a few times. And usually doesn't work out great. Especially when someone gifted is born into a low-caste...

Never underestimate humanity's talent for grabbing the wrong end of the stick...

...It usually ends up with them whacking someone with said stick.

...Then you haven't really studied humans too closely, have you?

'Better to die then live on our knees'? Not an unreasonable reaction, really.

Yes, best change the subject, this might be getting a little traumatic for the young lady.

Ah, yes! Distract her with actual work. Best idea!

I assume because of the dangers implicit in her line of work, in close proximity to potentially hostile aliens.

Oh, boy. Their love life is so going to put a cat amongst the pigeons.

Roughly fifty days, going by this. So, almost two months. Boy, I was kidding about their appointment taking time to line up, but dang.

Yes, best to be very well-informed.

A gift of booze? Very sensible. I think she'll need it after dealing with P'Aul, as his empathic vision probably just suggested...

And possibly a little nausea, given what transitions can do to the unprepared person's internal perceptions. Motion sickness on an epic level.

...I wonder if P'Aul could Greediport in this universe if he learned how. That would be useful for messing with Imperials, for one thing.

Just a little bit of real-space faster-than-light travel between friends. Nothing special.

Somehow, I don't think she's entirely convinced.

I doubt a tau's biological clock ticks that loudly, certainly.

Oooh, naughty.

Let's start with a little thing called 'kissing'...

Heh. Seems Tsua'm is a bit of a xenophile, then. Or at least a little curious about 'this thing you Humans call love'... At any rate, I suppose they've got the time for a little sight-seeing, anyway. The wheels of bureaucracy grind slowly indeed. It'll also be interesting to see what P'Aul can do with the Tau genetic information...

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I assure you that filing a protest against reality...

... though Tsua'm's expression is more one of surprise.

 

I really don't get the point of this Paul dumping so much bad information on the Tau...

 

This sentence is two tense, I think changing the highlighted text to 'I'll be' would help relax it.

 

That's the thing: the tau system doesn't have higher or lower castes. She wouldn't assume that rank order was a part of it.

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Yeah I can see how “I need a freaking drink” would be a common desire after meting P’aul.

Oddly enough I feel this is the best ‘romance’ arc so far in WTR. Might just be that P’aul doesn’t have any big distractions going on. Could also be that he is pursuing it rather than simply not resisting it.
Or it could just be that Mr Zoat has more practice now.

Difficult to argue that the Etherial cast is not ‘higher’ than the others. They are explicitly the leaders after all.

-reply to Vaermina-
Many authors enjoy the opportunity to expound upon their worldbuilding. And many fans enjoy the opportunity to expound upon their headcannon/fannon.
Good authors manage to fit such exposition into their story diegetically. In this case it is info the Tau would reasonably be expected to want and P’aul would be entirely willing to give, even if from a plot perspective it could all have happened off-screen.

 

I came for the alien sex. I was not disappointed.

 

Maybe I’m wrong, but I think that the apostrophe on ‘Eugenics’ is unnecessary.

’I’ll be able’

 

This is the first romance where Paul is pursuing somebody at least as cold logic inclined as he is. They have similar communication styles and this understand each other smoothly.

 

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I'm basing my tau in their portrayal in the novelisation Fire Warrior and their first codex. The Ethereals aren't leaders in the sense of issuing commands, they just help the other castes coordinate with each other.

 

This is a Paul in a position of high respect and social authority, so his unfortunate tendency to be over-concientous to his potential romantic targets is both expected behavior and translatable by the potential romantic targets within the peerage of his social strata.

 

also, blue space babes

 

Getting some TNG vibes here.

 

Expand plz?

Also: There's a a vid just for Kirk kissing?!

 

gue'vesa

That sounds... dangerous.

 

The problem is this isn't headcanon/fannon territory.

Most of the stuff this Paul is wrong about? It's basic stuff he should have known via a twenty second wikia walk back in the day. So if we go that route this is either Zoat deciding to just not do the research and just make anything he wants up. Or this is Zoat deciding to do that thing where everyone has seen the sky as blue all their lives, but then the SI comes in and claims the sky is and always has been plaid, and everyone goes to look and discovers the SI is right.

 

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If he could do it safely, he could go anywhere he wanted. Any planet, any person, any time. Imagine how paranoid that would make certain Inquisitors. Or he could just teleport into the Emperor's Throne Room and, I don't know, install a text-to-speech device in the throne or something. He may not like the Imperium much, but helping some better leaders get in charge would certainly improve it...

 

But he can't bring people/Tau with him when he does so. Kitten will be forever alone.