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

Vaermina · 2025-10-07T06:24:55+0100

Mr Zoat said:
"They're not daxamites. They're robots."

Ah, so that's what happened to the Annihilator that Orange Lantern revived and then just ignored.

Bigking321 · 2025-10-07T06:36:06+0100

Either that or a braniac plot i guess.

Vaermina · 2025-10-07T06:40:33+0100

Bigking321 said:
Either that or a braniac plot i guess.

Na, Mr Zoat is using the non-Kryptonian version of Brainiac.

Z000 · 2025-10-07T06:41:36+0100

Vaermina said:
Ah, so that's what happened to the Annihilator that Orange Lantern revived and then just ignored.

i though Paul destroy that one ?

CrazyNoVa · 2025-10-07T06:44:49+0100

Vaermina said:
Na, Mr Zoat is using the non-Kryptonian version of Brainiac.

You mean Milton Fine?

Chojin Patriarch · 2025-10-07T06:50:11+0100

Mr Zoat said:
27th July 2013
04:25 GMT

"They're building a warship."

I frown as I step away from Cara Yat. A curious Arisia walks closer to check on her.

Daxam is building a warship? That's a sudden swerve for a xenophobic isolationist government. I'd say something happened in the last eighteen months, because I suspect OL would have noticed that. Heck, Superman might have when he visited.

"How? You mean, on the surface?"

Arisia looks down at Cara Yat's injuries. Her eyes widen and her hands go to her mouth as her stomach undulates.

Right, no Ring-based control of biological functions. And this might well be the first severe injury she's ever seen...

"Hang on. Not on the open wounds, Aris-"

Lantern Stewart deploys a construct bucket just in time.

"-ia. Sorry."

Not the best showing for the rookie...

"What happened?"

"The Daxamite party started a fight on the Watchtower. They lost."

Which was a foolish move no matter how you look at it.

"Ah-. Damn it. Okay, no, they were flying around in space."

I frown. "That shouldn't be possible. Did they..? Have some sort of lens deployed between Daxam and their sun? Something altering the wavelength of the light?"

Or did the personnel have tiny sunstones strapped to them? Powered armour, maybe?

"No, nothing like that."

"Jet packs?"

"Not that I saw. I didn't want to get too close in case they had Superman's super senses or something."

And even with a stealth system, the ship isn't exactly covert.

"No, no, you were right to be cautious." Okay, sunstones… Might do it, but the red light should-.

Wait. No, it can't be that simple.

...They don't have to make a giant lens...

I turn around, walk passed Arisia as she cleans her mouth out with water and crouch down next to Cara Yat. Should be… I pull the environmental shield generator off her overalls. Ring, check the settings.

Compliance.

"OH-. Damn it."

...When every person can wear one.

"What?" / "What?" / "Mgphg."

"They're wearing environmental shields. They can set them to change the wavelengths of incoming light-."

Heh. ~~Even Cara seemed shocked. Probably cursing through her smashed face~~. Edit: Whoops, forgot about Arisia. And that does sound like 'What?' filtered through a gobful of mouthwash.

Lantern Stewart nods. "They're powerful all the time."

"As long as the environmental shield is on. Which means red light isn't going to do anything. They don't need a space dock or launch facilities because they can build ships manually, weld with their eyes and check seams with microscopic vision."

Which means the ship they arrived in could have been fresh off the production line, not an old relic.

"How are they making them?"

"It's an old design… They probably had them left over from when they arrived. In theory, they could have one for every original colonist plus a few spares."

And with super-speed... That could take days, not months...

"Can they make more?"

"If they're putting ships back into service, they probably have onboard workshops. They didn't have an electronics industry last time I was there and I'm not sure if their population is educated in how to build ships… But it doesn't make sense. They're isolationists. I checked."

And I doubt Sodam's 'abduction' triggered this. One child leaving wouldn't set this off.

"They weld crystals with heat vision?"

"What?" My eyes move from Lantern Stewart's face as I focus on what Roy just said. "No? What do you mean?"

Oh, that's a worry.

"The ship they're building looks like it's made of crystal. I mean, they're making repairs to regular ships, but the incomplete one is made of crystal. Like Superman's base in the arctic."

"That-. That design of ship was use long after the Daxamites left Krypton. They shouldn't have a ship like that."

Shit. External influence. And evidently one capable of overriding their own impulses? An Eradicator?

"Well, more bad news: someone gave them access to a boom tube. Doctor's Knight's pretty sure he picked up the residue of boom tubes being active in their system."

"Could he track where they went?"

That's even more worrying. That means there's a good chance Apokalips or New Genesis are involved.

"We followed it back here."

"'Here' as in..?"

"Jupiter. Under the clouds."

Sneaky, sneaky.

"Okay. Okay. Send the image to Har-Zod to see if he recognises the ship class."

"Right."

Well, something is about to hit the fan.

"Anywhere other than Jupiter?"

"That was the first one we checked."

Multiple signatures? How many different systems were they jumping to? Possibly still are?

"So… The ship that came here for the custody hearing didn't come from Jupiter because that's well inside the interdiction field."

"I thought it didn't work on boom tubes."

Would have been kind of suspicious if they just showed up in-system with no sign of approach.

"No, but they flew in from the wrong angle. We'd have picked up a ship leaving Jupiter, turning around and then flying back. Our in-system security's not that bad. Did you actually get to the surface?"

"Not with people with kryptonian powers flying around. J'aarkn tried reading the minds of the ones in space from a distance but he couldn't get anything."

Welp, bang goes that plan.

"Ah, that's fair enough. Between the distance and the theta wave state, it would have been difficult. Can Doctor Knight tell if it was his Mother Box which made the boom tubes?"

"Ah… Hang on-. He says it matches, but he doesn't know whether that exact pattern's unique to him, or it's just what they're all like."

Since presumably, he wasn't actively scanning for Boom Tubes on New Genesis. Annoying...

I nod as Arisia flies back into the meeting room with Ken Lee. "Right. Let me know what Har-Zod says."

"Will do. Arsenal out."

I lower my hand, looking at the three prisoners. Arisia is twitching and Lantern Stewart's generating some kind of medical construct. He looks my way. "Lead carbonate?"

Given what you saw about their environmental shields... Their reserves would have been too high to wait them out.

"It works." I put a chirurgical construct around Cara Yat as the other two continue with their pained wheezing. "Cara Yat, I am going to excise the dead parts of your flesh, and then attempt to regenerate some of your injuries. I wish you to understand that I am doing this purely to keep you alive in the short term and I am more than happy-."

...To let her suffer? Understandable.

Lantern Coutara puts her right hand on my left shoulder.

"Why.. don't.. you go and see if Lantern Taranna needs any more help. Take Lantern Yat with you. Or send him back to base; he doesn't need to get further involved. Up to you."

This is exactly the sort of situation they were trying to avoid involving him in, after all...

His eyes dart from me to his mother and back again. "I-I wanna go help Taranna."

Lantern Coutara considers for a moment, and then nods. "We will go to the airlock together."

Just be careful, kid.

I glance back to check that they're clear, and then begin working on Cara Yat. Kryptonians can regenerate remarkably well when solar powered, but dead tissue is still dead. I also know enough about daxamite physiology to dose her with an analgesic that won't diminish her mental-.

Dosing her with red sunlight to weaken her durability wouldn't help either, as that would reduce her self-healing. Tricky process...

My ring shimmers.

"Yes."

"Illustres! The-they're-!"

Oh, joy. Now what? The rest of the ship crew?

"Calm down, Taranna. Focus."

I hear her take a breath.

"They're not daxamites. They're robots."

...Huh. I wonder if they were stowed in addition to the organic crew? That could be a lot of Kryptonian warbots running around then.

Something very concerning is going on with Daxam, then. An Eradicator, perhaps, taking control of the 'traitorous' colonists and seeking to restart the Conquest? That honestly seems the most likely thing. Which bumps this up from a mere custody battle into them trying to recover a 'lost son of Krypton'. This is going to be troublesome, then...

boo600 · 2025-10-07T08:53:43+0100

Chojin Patriarch said:
Not the best showing for the rookie...

I mean, they're 'just' supposed to be 'cops.' Cops with godlike power policing civilizations, cops dealing with all sorts of species and all sorts of crimes, but still cops. It's not the worst thing in the world if the rookies are still sensitive to the pain of people who are superficially similar to them.

Chojin Patriarch said:
An Eradicator, perhaps, taking control of the 'traitorous' colonists and seeking to restart the Conquest?

Probably. They're the only Kryptonian robots that keep pulling that kind of stunt, at least as far as I can recall.
Although I'd be surprised if the ones in the station are robots, given all the lanterns- wait. They didn't scan them, did they? Ok, back to the paranoid drawing board.

Mr Zoat · 2025-10-07T09:32:52+0100

Chojin Patriarch said:
Heh. Even Cara seemed shocked. Probably cursing through her smashed face.

Ah, no, that was Arisia.

Darko · 2025-10-07T10:00:31+0100

Mr Zoat said:
walk passed Arisia as she

"walk pass"

Mr Zoat said:
They ship they're

"The"

Mr Zoat said:
ship was use long

"used"

Mr Zoat said:
His darts dart from me to

"He darts from"

Mr Zoat said:
"They're not daxamites. They're robots

Fuck. Eradicators.

Ngamer11 · 2025-10-07T11:23:15+0100

I just recently remembered that the members of the Justice League are considered intergalactic criminals to those who are aware of what happened on Rimbor. Perhaps now that Earth is getting more intergalactic scrutiny the League can learn of this early and be forced to leave to be put on trial.

CrazyNoVa · 2025-10-07T12:58:29+0100

Ngamer11 said:
I just recently remembered that the members of the Justice League are considered intergalactic criminals to those who are aware of what happened on Rimbor. Perhaps now that Earth is getting more intergalactic scrutiny the League can learn of this early and be forced to leave to be put on trial.

Considering how much the Earth is depending on the League to function right now, that would be incredibly inconvenient for the human race as a whole.

Wheenesss · 2025-10-07T13:17:20+0100

CrazyNoVa said:
Considering how much the Earth is depending on the League to function right now, that would be incredibly inconvenient for the human race as a whole.

But it would be incredibly convenient for outside forces seeking to fuck with Earth. I don't think the Eradicators would do that but it's not outside the realm of possibility.

Mr Zoat · 2025-10-07T13:17:42+0100

Darko said:
"walk pass"

Nearly.

"The"
"used"

Thank you, corrected.

"He darts from"

eyes, actually.

Fuck. Eradicators.

The kryptonians are just about the only species who wouldn't, should they have that functionality.

Ngamer11 said:
I just recently remembered that the members of the Justice League are considered intergalactic criminals to those who are aware of what happened on Rimbor. Perhaps now that Earth is getting more intergalactic scrutiny the League can learn of this early and be forced to leave to be put on trial.

'Intergalactic' means 'between galaxies'. So far everything in this story has taken place in one.

Even on the scale of a single galaxy, only a very small proportion of people know what happened and the ones looking for the Justice League are looking in the wrong places. They assume that the attackers must be violent expansionist warlords, so they looking in regions experiencing a high degree of unrest. There's a pretty decent chance of the SI running into such people in the Reach Periphery.

Clell65619 · 2025-10-07T13:19:23+0100

Mr Zoat said:
"Calm down, Taranna. Focus."

I hear her take a breath.

"They're not daxamites. They're robots."

Well, this is getting complicated. Brainiac? Or his Daxamite cousin Clockworkiac?

Ngamer11 · 2025-10-07T13:33:53+0100

Mr Zoat said:
'Intergalactic' means 'between galaxies'. So far everything in this story has taken place in one.

Even on the scale of a single galaxy, only a very small proportion of people know what happened and the ones looking for the Justice League are looking in the wrong places. They assume that the attackers must be violent expansionist warlords, so they looking in regions experiencing a high degree of unrest. There's a pretty decent chance of the SI running into such people in the Reach Periphery.

This is good to know. That hopefully means Paul will learn of this, realize that this is not good for the League, and then think of a plan to fix things before telling the League about it. My personal theory is that he'll just bribe the judges like what normal people do on Rimbor. The League wouldn't do it because of their moral principles, but Paul doesn't have that holding him back.

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