Post-Mission Briefing [video]

[relativityspeaking]

[When Kid Q goes on the comms for the post-mission debrief, she is smiling. Smiling smiling smiling.]

I'm happy to report that both of the recent missions were a complete success. After we weakened Tsarista by breaking out of all her story scenarios, we managed to re-capture her in an omnicom. Some of our allies from Sorcerer's World have given us some assistance in providing better magical protections around her prison.

[Her smile widens slightly and goes mischievous.]

If anyone wants to see the pictures we got of Brainy turned into an adorable forest creature, Timber Wolf is making the rounds.

As for the mission against the Herald and the Council, War and the Council-members are currently in Science Police custody. After she's fast-tracked for trial, we've made arrangements for her detainment to be on Legion World, like the Joker, to prevent any possible corruption at Takron-Galtos from allowing her to escape. The recording equipment Brainy sent you into the mission with successfully captured video of War despite the surveillance-disrupting nature of her powers. We've provided all the evidence to the Science Police, and they've obtained warrants to pry into the Council-members' affairs. They're currently making dozens of arrests all over the UP, of various corrupt government officials, dirty cops, and other individuals responsible for colluding with Chronoblivion.

[She's beaming.]

Not only did you stop the Council-members themselves, you've made it so the Science Police have been able to uncover an entire web of individuals that they've been working with, significantly weakening Chronoblivion's ability to interfere in the UP government and Legion affairs.

We still have to worry about the Herald spying on Legion World, but we have some leads on ways to stop him and one of our next missions should give us the tools to do it.

Things are going to be different from now on. Now that we've gone on the offensive, we're not going to stop until we take Chronoblivion down.

In other news, the two hostages you rescued? They were two of our missing Legionnaires, Rokk Krinn, aka Cosmic Boy, and Lyle Norg, aka Invisible Kid. Brainy's scanned them thoroughly to verify their identities and they're the real deal. They've verified that the missing Legionnaires are alive, currently trapped in a pocket dimension with strange preservative properties that've made it so they haven't aged or needed things like food and water. This crystal dimension actually allowed them to view our universe -- so they've apparently been keeping an eye on the team, watching our fights. (They promised that they've only watched things we've done in public.)

Recently, they were able to work together to free Rokk and Lyle, and they've spent six months relative time wandering through the multiverse, through dimensions where time ran differently, trying to get back home. When they arrived back in this universe, they were unfortunately picked up by corrupt Science Police officers, and taken to the Council-members. Fortunately, they were able to resist telepathic interrogation.

If the Council-members had successfully made the hand-off, they probably would've been tortured and killed, and the information they knew about the missing Legionnaires could've potentially been used by Chronoblivion's forced to find and kill our missing friends.

Not only did you make it so two of our own came home safely, you may have saved the entire team that we lost. And now that they're here, Brainy has enough information to start working on bringing our missing friends home. It's going to take time -- weeks, months, maybe even a year -- but now we know for sure they're alive, rather than taking Joker's word for it, and we can start working on it. If we can get them home in time, we might be able to enlist their help before our final fight against Chronoblivion.

You all did something incredible today, and undertook actions that restored balance back to the UP government, protected the team from future sabotage and interference, saved two Legionnaires just trying to get home, and protected close to 20 missing team members.

I'm proud of you, Legionnaires.

Comments

[thedreamisdead]

If they were able to resist telepathic interrogation from the corrupt personnel there, why are we so certain they are who they actually say they are?

[Don't let America interrogate your veterans.]

[rokketmann]

I think the answer is because we trust Brainy when it comes science.

[ Cos thinks she's raising a valid point and wants to help with any doubts. ]

But since you asked, resisting a telepath is like trying not to hear someone talk. You have to make so much mental noise that finding anything useful is hard. It's obvious when someone's singing the same song in their head or picturing a steel wall to count the rivets. I have nothing to hide here.

[thedreamisdead]

Mm.

[Not exactly her favored answer, but she can't find a fault with Brainiac 5 when it comes to science. He's obviously her superior in pretty much every area involving that. Except maybe the sweet science.]

You people teach different psi-resistance methods than I'm used to hearing. Wonder if that's technique or a difference in how your telepaths work?

[unrecovered]

Huh. Good to know.

[googledox]

Affirmative. I've run extensive scans of Cosmic Boy and Invisible Kid, and by every possible metric -- DNA, power scans, even dimensional resonance -- there's a 100% match.

There are also more subtle, ah, behavioral cues that would be difficult for imposters to imitate.

[thedreamisdead]

[She glances down off her screen. That's right, Brainy, she just ran you through a lie detector.]

Well, that's reassuring. Do you have these for every one of us?

[googledox]

Yes. DNA scans, power scans, and dimensional resonance scans are all data gathered when you first arrive.

[thedreamisdead]

That's useful information to know.

Be careful with that DNA. That's Justice Department property.

[googledox]

You needn't be concerned. After the incident with our mole back during the accords on Talok IV, I've taken personal responsibility for the security of all of our medical records.

The DNA scans are strictly for medical and identification purposes only. Having a record of unaltered genetic code is useful for gene therapies or treatment of radiation poisoning. As for identification, there is a whole race of shapeshifters in this universe, and DNA records are also sometimes necessary for, ah...identification during potentially disfiguring fatal incidents.

This data can be deleted when you all leave.

closed to America

When you say it's property, do you mean that facetiously or literally?

[thedreamisdead]

I've never doubted the Legion's ethical qualifications.

[In a world with telepaths and mind-reading machines, however, security is always a concern.]

I can see why so many people were concerned about Durlans, but I don't doubt you people have measures effective against them. I do wonder, however, if our DNA was changed by the Time Trapper to allow for our powers. That would be something interesting.

[The possibility of having the Justice Department clone her to help end food shortages, for one thing.]

Privated to Brainiac 5

Little of both. I'm not Justice Department property, but my DNA sequence would be if they decided that I was worth installing into the cloning program. Which, if I come back and maintain my super powers, seems somewhat more likely than before. I'm not exactly popular in some circles.

My people don't have the same hang-ups about cloning that your cultures do. Much of the Justice Department is supplemented by clones. My... Well, I suppose you could call him my mentor, if not my friend, Dredd is a clone. I've met several of his clones as well. They're still people and can make their own choices and decisions, but he also doesn't get a word in about what they use his DNA for.

[whyarewehere]

Clones?

[ Grif says it through a mouthful of spacefuture doritos. Super important questions here, guys. ]

[googledox]

Cloning leaves behind subtle genetic indicators, and even if the cloning method was exceptional enough to avoid that, the dimensional resonance scans wouldn't match.

[thedreamisdead]

Clones wouldn't carry the same behavioral patterns. They're different people, even if they look the same.

[whyarewehere]

I'm gonna pretend I understood that and you just said "not clones".

[whyarewehere]

Clones with good acting classes.

[rokketmann]

And Kid Quantum's always had good judgment. It’s how she got elected in the first place.

[ Trust was a lot to ask of someone you're meeting, which is why he suggested trusting sentients she knew. ]

I don’t know how you’re used to dealing with telepaths, and I’m not a telepath, so I’m not a good choice for the trickier questions.

[ Ordinarily, Rokk would direct her to Saturn Girl for more information. It doesn’t sit well that he’s back on Legion World, and she’s not. ]

If you’re really curious, you could ask Dreamer. She’s spent time on Titan. Or I can recommend you some articles on telepaths and the history of the Titanians.

[googledox]

[He rolls his eyes slightly.]

Yes, Grif. Not clones.

[whyarewehere]

If you ever need me for a translation gig, you know where to find me.

[thedreamisdead]

[She bites her tongue. Not because she doubts Kid Quantum's judgement, but because she's supposed to have violently disagreed with the woman's judgement in public and it's best not to go to nodding right after that.

She hates political games. But there you go.]

I'll ask her about it. I appreciate the offer, but there's only so much that reading can tell you about how psi-powers function.

[unrecovered]

"Behavioral cues."

[He buys the science. What he can't quite figure out is why Brainy felt the need to add that on.]

[rokketmann]

You're welcome. It's Agent Washington, right?

[ He wants to hit the ground running with the new (to him) members, but hasn't had time to do more than look at names and images. ]

Private

[thedreamisdead]

Give the man some privacy, Washington.

[googledox]

There are certain behavioral tics and knowledge they have that would be difficult to replicate.

[atippleoftransparency]

[Unmuffled snickering.]

Oh, is that what that was? Testing my 'subtle behavioral cues'?

[googledox]

[Grife. With Lyle being gone so long, he forgot that he could no longer get away with saying certain things without the requisite teasing and Lyle calling a spade and spade.]

[So he squeaks. Outright squeaks indignantly.]

I just meant that there are certain very subtle behaviors that would be difficult to telegraph unless someone took extremely detailed records of micro-expressions. There was also shared knowledge between Rokk and Jazmin, and between myself and you, that was kept very, very private. So short of a full replication of your thought patterns via cloning, which is easy to discount with genetic scans...