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thelegion2017-09-08 09:41 pm
relativityspeaking) wrote in thelegion2017-09-08 09:41 pm
Post-Mission Debriefs [video] [right after the missions]
[When Kid Q shows on screen, her costume is singed, she's got a few bandaged burns, and she's got a very rakish eyepatch (which will fortunately be temporary). Beyond looking about as dinged up as they all are, she's beaming. And yet exhausted.]
[That doesn't mean she's got a whole motivational speech prepared like usual.]
I'm gonna try to make this as motivational as usual, but seeing as I only slept 3 hours over the past three days, I make no promises. [She gestures "no" dramatically with her arm.]
To start with, the nanovirus cure has successfully spread over Colu and caused all the converted Coluans to turn back. There was still unfortunately a death toll - currently the count's 435. Unforunately, while the disease wasn't fatal, and most of the mechanoforms aimed for conversion over killing, in the panic there were accidents and some Coluans were violent towards each other.
It's not ideal, but given the number of converted we were facing, all things considered, it could be a lot worse.
That shaking you all felt was Brainy using the Brainaics' technology to shift Robotica, Earth, and Colu back to their proper places in the galaxy. Apparently, the Lunar Debris Field got scattered in the process, but that's actually a good thing. RJ Brande is already overseeing the construction of a lunar construct that can replace it to make sure the tides and other influences the moon had on Earth remain intact.
Without the debris field there, Legion World no longer has to stay in orbit around Earth anymore to counterbalance it so it doesn't fall into Earth. That means Legion World is mobile again, which will make some of our operations a lot easier.
Brainiac 5 is fine and recovering in Medbay. I'm told the cure wasn't 100% successful due to his infection being caused by a different strain from the main nanovirus, but the worst of the effects seem to just be some limited cybernetics.
Brainiac 8 was...neutralized. On my order. [She says it firmly.] I sent a Legionnaire in as backup if the main team couldn't safely detain her and unfortunately, that proved to be a necessary on the mission. I'm told that after she was killed, she ceased to exist, because what the sprock is time travel anyway? The Legionnaire that was ordered to do it did so in a way that's acceptable to both Legion leadership and the Science Police.
[And no she's not throwing Widowmaker under the bus by calling attention to it being her. It'll be in the Legion-only confidential mission case file, but only the team can read those and not everyone bothers.]
Brainiac 6 was incapacitated by the removal of his emotional inhibitor and he's currently with Brainy, getting checked out in Medbay. We'll be getting him into some heavy-duty counseling with Dr. Ryk'err. Brainy's already petitioned the courts and been granted emergency custody. Where it goes from here is going to be depend on a lot of things.
[Like, y'know, if they can get him to stop trying to take over the galaxy.]
The entire Coluan Council has been taken into custody and charged with child abuse, among other crimes. Some former Coluan Councilmembers have also been arrested on...older child abuse charges. [She's hesistant to get much more into that. That's Brainy's business.]
I've already spoken with the president, and she's sending a team to create a provisional government to take over until a new Coluan council can be put in place. She's urging UPgov to institute a full censure of Colu. UPgov special investigators have already been dispatched to start digging into basically all of their biz - especially some of those Colugov bioweapons labs and weapons caches that we came across during the conflict.
The Roboticans have already withdrawn from Colu, at the urging of the Coluans. Despite the Roboticans sticking their necks out for them, things are still...tense. And they're possibly going to get even tenser now that Cortana freed Computo from B8 and B6's grasp. For those that are unaware, he's the AI that gave the Roboticans their sentience, after Brainy created him. Only the Roboticans came after he went down a long road of organic genocide - one that destroyed my home planet. [This is where she chews on her lip a little.] After Brainy helped him evolve to a higher state of consciousness, he ceased being the same sentient he was before - but much of the rest of the galaxy doesn't see it that way. Especially my people.
So that's a time bomb waiting to go off that we may have to defuse.
Also on the home front - another Herald revealed himself. Bill Cipher, aka the Devil, possessed Invisible Kid and made it clear that he was the one responsible for sabotaging the device that dimensionally displaced most of our team before any of you displacees ever got here - using Lyle's body to do it. That's why Brainy could never find a flaw in his designs and why our footage from the incident didn't reveal the presence of a saboteur. What we we thought was Lyle checking Brainy's work like he asked was really Bill using him as a puppet while he sabotaged the device. It was Lyle's quick thinking the second he came to that kept the sabotage from being fatal, because he managed to fix the device so it displaced instead of vaporized everyone.
Lyle was seeing Dr. Gym'll to try to figure out what had caused the blackout, but Bill didn't leave any traces in medscans. He wasn't detectable until he hitched a ride again.
The team that faced Bill managed to destroy him, and it looks like it was for good. And Captain Mystery, who got launched out an airlock, is fine, like some of you have already seen. He was back on his feet and mission-ready in a few hours.
I already sent a team to Earth to investigate what happened to the real Babbage, and thank the gods, he's still alive. He was the only survivor of Brainiac 8's rampage against the archaeological team that found her, unfortunately, and his mechform was heavily damaged and buried under debris, but his memory was still intact. The Roboticans are downloading him to a new mechform. I don't know if he'll want to rejoin the team - that was all Brainiac 8 from the start. Every single interaction we had from the moment "Babbage" returned to the team was really Brainiac 8. All of you are strangers to the real Babbage.
Due to Brainiac 8's deception I've sent a security team to sweep through Legion World to unearth any other possible traps and dispose of any hazardous materials B8 might have left behind. The "gifts" she gave some of you have already been confiscated. We found out that one that she gave to Cub had kryptonite inside, which is radioactive and dangerous over long periods of time, but fortunately, Dr. Gym'll said we caught it early enough that he'll be fine.
[That was...a lot of information. She practically falls into her desk chair.]
Oh, and no less important than everything on Colu or on Legion World - some great news: the team dispatched to Takron-Galtos successfully contained the Spectre and they prevented a prison uprising while the security systems were down due to the Brainiacs' digital rampage. So that's one chapter we can finally close.
[She pushes a hand through her hair.]
So, all told, everything was a mess, but we also knocked the Brainiacs right back down the second they stuck their heads up, got a child out of the hands of his abusers, and swept both the Spectre and a Herald off the board.
Also, we're not dead. Always a plus.
[She finally breathes out and slumps slightly.]
That's all I got.
[That doesn't mean she's got a whole motivational speech prepared like usual.]
I'm gonna try to make this as motivational as usual, but seeing as I only slept 3 hours over the past three days, I make no promises. [She gestures "no" dramatically with her arm.]
To start with, the nanovirus cure has successfully spread over Colu and caused all the converted Coluans to turn back. There was still unfortunately a death toll - currently the count's 435. Unforunately, while the disease wasn't fatal, and most of the mechanoforms aimed for conversion over killing, in the panic there were accidents and some Coluans were violent towards each other.
It's not ideal, but given the number of converted we were facing, all things considered, it could be a lot worse.
That shaking you all felt was Brainy using the Brainaics' technology to shift Robotica, Earth, and Colu back to their proper places in the galaxy. Apparently, the Lunar Debris Field got scattered in the process, but that's actually a good thing. RJ Brande is already overseeing the construction of a lunar construct that can replace it to make sure the tides and other influences the moon had on Earth remain intact.
Without the debris field there, Legion World no longer has to stay in orbit around Earth anymore to counterbalance it so it doesn't fall into Earth. That means Legion World is mobile again, which will make some of our operations a lot easier.
Brainiac 5 is fine and recovering in Medbay. I'm told the cure wasn't 100% successful due to his infection being caused by a different strain from the main nanovirus, but the worst of the effects seem to just be some limited cybernetics.
Brainiac 8 was...neutralized. On my order. [She says it firmly.] I sent a Legionnaire in as backup if the main team couldn't safely detain her and unfortunately, that proved to be a necessary on the mission. I'm told that after she was killed, she ceased to exist, because what the sprock is time travel anyway? The Legionnaire that was ordered to do it did so in a way that's acceptable to both Legion leadership and the Science Police.
[And no she's not throwing Widowmaker under the bus by calling attention to it being her. It'll be in the Legion-only confidential mission case file, but only the team can read those and not everyone bothers.]
Brainiac 6 was incapacitated by the removal of his emotional inhibitor and he's currently with Brainy, getting checked out in Medbay. We'll be getting him into some heavy-duty counseling with Dr. Ryk'err. Brainy's already petitioned the courts and been granted emergency custody. Where it goes from here is going to be depend on a lot of things.
[Like, y'know, if they can get him to stop trying to take over the galaxy.]
The entire Coluan Council has been taken into custody and charged with child abuse, among other crimes. Some former Coluan Councilmembers have also been arrested on...older child abuse charges. [She's hesistant to get much more into that. That's Brainy's business.]
I've already spoken with the president, and she's sending a team to create a provisional government to take over until a new Coluan council can be put in place. She's urging UPgov to institute a full censure of Colu. UPgov special investigators have already been dispatched to start digging into basically all of their biz - especially some of those Colugov bioweapons labs and weapons caches that we came across during the conflict.
The Roboticans have already withdrawn from Colu, at the urging of the Coluans. Despite the Roboticans sticking their necks out for them, things are still...tense. And they're possibly going to get even tenser now that Cortana freed Computo from B8 and B6's grasp. For those that are unaware, he's the AI that gave the Roboticans their sentience, after Brainy created him. Only the Roboticans came after he went down a long road of organic genocide - one that destroyed my home planet. [This is where she chews on her lip a little.] After Brainy helped him evolve to a higher state of consciousness, he ceased being the same sentient he was before - but much of the rest of the galaxy doesn't see it that way. Especially my people.
So that's a time bomb waiting to go off that we may have to defuse.
Also on the home front - another Herald revealed himself. Bill Cipher, aka the Devil, possessed Invisible Kid and made it clear that he was the one responsible for sabotaging the device that dimensionally displaced most of our team before any of you displacees ever got here - using Lyle's body to do it. That's why Brainy could never find a flaw in his designs and why our footage from the incident didn't reveal the presence of a saboteur. What we we thought was Lyle checking Brainy's work like he asked was really Bill using him as a puppet while he sabotaged the device. It was Lyle's quick thinking the second he came to that kept the sabotage from being fatal, because he managed to fix the device so it displaced instead of vaporized everyone.
Lyle was seeing Dr. Gym'll to try to figure out what had caused the blackout, but Bill didn't leave any traces in medscans. He wasn't detectable until he hitched a ride again.
The team that faced Bill managed to destroy him, and it looks like it was for good. And Captain Mystery, who got launched out an airlock, is fine, like some of you have already seen. He was back on his feet and mission-ready in a few hours.
I already sent a team to Earth to investigate what happened to the real Babbage, and thank the gods, he's still alive. He was the only survivor of Brainiac 8's rampage against the archaeological team that found her, unfortunately, and his mechform was heavily damaged and buried under debris, but his memory was still intact. The Roboticans are downloading him to a new mechform. I don't know if he'll want to rejoin the team - that was all Brainiac 8 from the start. Every single interaction we had from the moment "Babbage" returned to the team was really Brainiac 8. All of you are strangers to the real Babbage.
Due to Brainiac 8's deception I've sent a security team to sweep through Legion World to unearth any other possible traps and dispose of any hazardous materials B8 might have left behind. The "gifts" she gave some of you have already been confiscated. We found out that one that she gave to Cub had kryptonite inside, which is radioactive and dangerous over long periods of time, but fortunately, Dr. Gym'll said we caught it early enough that he'll be fine.
[That was...a lot of information. She practically falls into her desk chair.]
Oh, and no less important than everything on Colu or on Legion World - some great news: the team dispatched to Takron-Galtos successfully contained the Spectre and they prevented a prison uprising while the security systems were down due to the Brainiacs' digital rampage. So that's one chapter we can finally close.
[She pushes a hand through her hair.]
So, all told, everything was a mess, but we also knocked the Brainiacs right back down the second they stuck their heads up, got a child out of the hands of his abusers, and swept both the Spectre and a Herald off the board.
Also, we're not dead. Always a plus.
[She finally breathes out and slumps slightly.]
That's all I got.
video
I've spent some time in 21st century Earth due to time travel. Isn't Penthouse some kind of prurient skin mag utilized by the desperate and lonely?
video
The articles aren't bad if you're into that whole thing. The letters are where it's at, though; some months are really good and detailed.
[A pause and--]
Are you calling me "desperate and lonely"?
Re: video
I think it would be more disrespectful to you if I pretended I wasn't, so yes.
[He's at least not going to lie about it.]
That said, it's understandable that, due to circumstance, you might lack someone to copulate with. I was well into my twenties before I ever found someone...compatible. So, aside from the use of pornographic materials, there's nothing to be ashamed of.
video
Whoa, whoa, whoa. For one: I've copulated - who the hell calls it that? - with tooooons of people. Lots. More than you can count. [Lies.] Want proof? Ask Grif if I copulated his sister, because I'm pretty sure I already know - and lived - what the answer's going to be.
For two: I will never ever be ashamed of my "pornographic materials". I've watched and owned enough that I'm basically the Google of porn at this point. Some people like sports; instead, I like watching people bang. And no, not because I'm desperate and lonely; some of that shit is hilarious, with the right music and really bad script.
video
[He briefly looks down at Six to make sure he's actually still sleeping through the conversation, and when he looks up at Tucker again, is eyes narrow in interest.]
You just...watch pornography. All the time. Do you watch anything else? Any other forms of entertainment?
video
Um, not that Tucker would ever know that. Nope. Never.]
Not all the time; I do go out and do stuff. Back in Blood Gulch I had a lot more time for it, but I get around to it when I can. And of course I watch other stuff! Every hear of Tarantino? Guy's a fucking genius!
But yeah, I watch a lot of porn; how's it different than any other movie out there other than the budget's waaaaay smaller, the acting is pretty much on par with The Room, and there's a lot more naked time?
no subject
[Why yes, Brainy did research a hell of a lot of sex-related science when he finally got a boyfriend.]
no subject
[Just for a day, though; his love affair with the genre ran deep, after all.]
I will tell you this: desensitizing and not getting aroused with every day scenarios? That's never going to be a problem I have. Ever. E-V-E-R. So there's a flaw in your science right there, fellow dad.
video
[ There's a definite note of warning here. ]
video
[Probably more than he likes you at the moment.]
If I was lying, I'd say you have a lot more reason to be pissed at me.
no subject
[ There, he'll elaborate. ]
no subject
[Just a reminder. Also, the sulky dickishness is at new levels here.]
video
[ Guess who can't even begin to be bothered by "desperate" or "lonely" as adjectives. ]