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The Legion [Mods] ([personal profile] letsgolegion) wrote in [community profile] thelegion2016-05-13 02:15 pm

WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD - Mod Plot [Network Post | 1]

[They get a transmission from the outpost orbiting the planet where new displacees appear, the battered remains of the planet Phelolu. It's a priority distress call, so the message is received by every Legionnaire and all major posts on Legion World.]

[The commanding officer of the response team is a Carggite, Dr. Trez. All three of her grey-haired selves look shaken. Behind her, the main viewscreen of the outpost is cracked and consoles are sparking. The outpost has clearly come under heavy attack.]

Mayday mayday, this is Legion Outpost Phelolu, we are under attack by a 10X10 threat! I repeat, it is a 10X10 threat. Do not send a response team. I repeat: do not send a response team! We'll leave monitoring equipment on for surveillance but all personnel is evacuating the outpost.

Over!

[And that is the only message they get. She quickly reforms into one self, and leaves the console, helping a crew member that's fallen. The entire command deck shakes once. Then again. Fortunately, all members of the team escape the command deck and the hatch to the threshold room closes.]

[By the time the hull rips open, it's plenty of time for them to have escaped through a threshold gate. It's hard to see what causes the breach. There is only a flash of silver and all of a sudden a chunk of it is gone. More of it gets ripped away, and there's a brief flash of something blue and sparkling. With another flash of silver, the whole deck explodes and the camera view is lost. The monitoring system shifts to an external camera as a default so that they can see the field of wreckage outside. There is only a small, barely functioning hunk of the outpost left. The rest is a debris field that's obscuring the view of the planet. Ice dust from the vaporization systems creates a huge cloud that the barely functioning lights reflect off in the void.]

[That's when they see it looming out through the debris field. It's an incomprehensible being, a force of nature, and each sentient's mind must try to make what sense of it that it can by assigning it some kind of image. To many humanoids, what they see is the face of an impossibly huge man.]







[Despite the fact that it should be impossible for any sound to vibrate through the void, they can hear him speak, his voice thundering impossibly loud. Everyone who hears it hears it in their native language, two simple words that spell out the doom of civilizations:]

"GALACTUS HUNGERS!"

[Silver and sparkling blue streak by again and they see now what the cause of the streaks are. One is a man that looks like he's made of liquid silver, riding a silver surfboard. The other is a ethereal and graceful-looking alien with a staff, who looks like she's made out of stardust. As they attack the last of the outpost with a wave of cosmic power, the feed cuts out.]
iamresponding: (bucketless - beseeching)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Less than a few millennia usually.

It only quiets him down for a little while. Months. Years, if we're lucky.

If we find some alternate method of force feeding him energy maybe we can figure out a way to sate his hunger for longer, but he doesn't rest long between feedings usually.
Edited 2016-05-13 21:50 (UTC)
iamresponding: (bucketless - unsure)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
His heralds are tied to him. They draw their power from him. The way they chewed through that outpost like it was nothing suggests they're at full power at least. And it's unlikely he'd give them that much power if he wasn't at full power. He'd keep more of the power cosmic for himself if it'd been diminished somehow.
iamresponding: (bucketless - neutral)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Not so much. I don't think we can fix this one with really good takeout.
captainbuzzkill: (015)

[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-05-13 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Mine started normal, got weird last summer, and...I guess it still hasn't stopped being weird. Because the summer ended but I'm here now.

[Another shrug.]

But the upside is things like this don't scare me as much anymore.

They probably should. But they don't.

[It's not really a good thing they don't. But he doesn't realize that yet. For now, he's just happy it means he's not gibbering incoherently right now.]

[personal profile] leverageintceo 2016-05-13 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
...Aww, you still believe in things being fair! That's adorable. Never lose that.

[While the words might seem condescending, Parker's expression and tone are those of complete sincerity.]

If we can find a giant punchy robot, you can have first crack at it, okay?
whyarewehere: (D)

[personal profile] whyarewehere 2016-05-13 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
There's definitely a God. I know because he hates me.
iamresponding: (bucketless - neutral)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it kinda...does that to you.

[Poor kid. This is a hell of a first mission for some of these newbies.]
iamresponding: (bucketless - eyebrows)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, I'm thinking right now he hates all of us.
ringslinging: (i wish my penis had an off switch)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you.
ringslinging: when you have to ask to resend the nude pics. (it really ruins the moment)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Look, don't ask me to make sense out of the theology. I'm Jewish-Catholic and lapsed in both.
iamresponding: (bucketless - beseeching)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Like the actual God?
ringslinging: when you have to ask to resend the nude pics. (it really ruins the moment)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't say "lunatic" so much as I'd say...really, really disproportionate sense of retribution and black-or-white morality.

Which by some definitions I guess would still qualify for "lunatic."
ringslinging: WE DON'T HAVE MORAL STANDARDS (YOU HAVE TO STOP TELLING BARTENDERS)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
We've both been dead, why is God the hard part to swallow here?
whyarewehere: (D)

[personal profile] whyarewehere 2016-05-13 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Grif is late to the party because his reaction was to look at his comm, shut off his comm, and bury his head under his pillow long enough to pull himself back together. His hair's a mess, but he's calm.]

Alright, I've prepared an official summary of the situation based on my research:

WE'RE. FUCKING. BONED.

[Panic is uncool. Defeatist wisecracks are much cooler.]
iamresponding: (bucketless - wry grin)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
As the resident Galactus expert, I have to say this is an entirely inaccurate report.

We're super fucking boned. You didn't put enough emphasis on how boned we are.

[But at least he's almost laughing. Thanks, Grif.]
kingtyrantranger: (Clueless/huh?/got nothin')

[personal profile] kingtyrantranger 2016-05-13 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Can't we just use those T-gates to move Galactus somewhere uninhabited if we're going to be going this route? Can we make them that big?

[It probably beats the giant robot suggestion.]
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[personal profile] kingtyrantranger 2016-05-13 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
If I had my choice, I'd rather go for a dinosaur, but a giant punchy robot works just fine for me.
whyarewehere: (J)

[personal profile] whyarewehere 2016-05-13 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I will defer to my colleague in his area of expertise.

[He laughs just a little too quickly.]

Fuck.

Nice knowing you, dude. It's been real.
iamresponding: (bucketless - beseeching)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I was probably reformed by something cosmic out of stray molecules or something.

God is God.

[He flails slightly]

God can't exist in a universe where there are cosmic death engines and universes where death died and Lovecraftian monsters just --

[It bothers him. After everything he's seen.]

How's there a God that lets giant cosmic monsters eat whole planets? And lets monsters like Annihilus kill billions and billions and billions and billions?

And you're telling me you had a direct line to the big guy? Seriously? That he exists and you had a direct line to him. What the hell, Hal?
Edited 2016-05-13 23:05 (UTC)
iamresponding: (bucketless - wry grin)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Look, statistically speaking, making sure I didn't go down without a fight has gone down in my favor in the past. And statistically speaking, I must be freakin' lucky to have survived encountering him three times so far.

And here's the kicker: each time, the people who were with me? They survived, too. The people who evacced with me made it off the planet. My friends that helped me face down Annihilus survived the Galactus event. The evacuees on Orbucen...

They all made it, too.

So, I'm not saying we're not screwed. But I plan on at least trying to make it to surviving encounter number four. And if we all work together we've got a much better chance of that. I'll be your good luck charm.
Edited 2016-05-13 23:14 (UTC)
ringslinging: if it was in a beer can (he would drink pee)

[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-13 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't...think I had a direct line?

Don't ask me what God's thinking. I don't know. Some of the time I was the Spectre's host I just remember like I'm watching from the outside in, and a lot of it I flat out can't remember at all. It's a blank.

I don't think we're meant to be able to wrap our heads around it.
relativityspeaking: (Aside)

[personal profile] relativityspeaking 2016-05-13 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
That still counts.
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[personal profile] googledox 2016-05-13 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
That would perhaps be possible. There are threshold gate projectors that can create gates that can move entire fleets. They're typically used during emergency situations or battlefield conditions.
whyarewehere: (D)

[personal profile] whyarewehere 2016-05-13 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Now you're just making me look like a jackass.

[He scrubs his face with one of his hands in a gesture of frustrated nerves.]

I'm not good at this planning shit. Pretending to make plans and then not doing anything is more my speed.

[It's funny because speed is the only thing he has going for him.]
iamresponding: (bucketless - unsure)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-13 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, it's just --

It means there's possibly actually a God, like for real, and I stopped believing a long time ago.

Makes me angry.

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