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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.]
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[personal profile] notwithoutafight 2016-05-14 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
How the heck is he at full power and not us? [ Well, the "us" who had powers in their home universes. Videl is currently more powerful here than she ever was back home. ]
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[personal profile] notwithoutafight 2016-05-14 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
We've established that he eats planets, but why? How does he even metabolize a planet? What is it about floating chunks of rock that keeps him alive? [ And there's still that question of 'is he alive?' that Rich so wonderfully answered earlier. ]
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[personal profile] fourstars 2016-05-14 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll... get back to you on that...

[ Because he can comprehend the scale and it's hitting him in a way that he hadn't been expecting and the only thought that was going through his mind was how much he wishes his father was here but he can't rely on other people and how in the world were they going to fight this? ]
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[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-05-15 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno how fast he moves. Most of what I heard about him back home was "be glad you're not fighting him."
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[personal profile] googledox 2016-05-15 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
They appear to be. Given that our perceptions of the entity show him in many different forms, that means absolutely nothing.
Edited 2016-05-15 04:30 (UTC)
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[personal profile] googledox 2016-05-15 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
I've never failed an exam in my life.
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[personal profile] legionnpcs 2016-05-15 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. As long as that last part is definitely true.

I'll come find you.
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[personal profile] whyarewehere 2016-05-15 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
It's okay Brainy. I won't delve into this clearly traumatic, angle-related memory you've repressed.

[Because acting like this is obviously going to help with the catastrophic planet devouring situation. Obviously. At least it's making Grif feel a tiny bit better for a few seconds.]
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[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-15 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
If we can find an area of space with several worlds of nonsentient life, he'll stay there. Not permanently but he tends to make a beeline for the next nearest world with abundant life instead of being picky. Stardust complicates that by purposefully looking for worlds with sentient life but if there aren't any immeditely around him, he will take the time to eat ones without sentients first before moving towards systems with occupied worlds.

I checked the starmaps [He attachs a copy so everyone can see.] And it looks like Braal's the next system over from where the planet we showed up on is.

That fits his MO.
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[personal profile] googledox 2016-05-15 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Another factor to consider is that we're more likely to find a way to re-contain the Spectre with magic or artifacts native to our universe. Galactus is a threat from outside it.
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[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-15 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
At some points, it was even days. The fact he's got both Stardust and Surfer with him at the same time is a bad thing. The last time I saw that, he was weakened from the Annihilation war and feeding more frequently because of it.

I'm hoping it's just something that happened again, but if not, he might be from the time period he was at his most hungry.

And there are two reasons life still exists in my universe. One is that the universe is an awfully big place, with an awful lot of systems and planets. The other is the Surfer. He's been one of his major heralds for ages and he has a lot of respect for life. When he's not fighting against Stardust he tends to lead Galactus to as many worlds without sentient life as possible.

He doesn't even want to be Galactus' herald but he's taken it on time and again just to make sure that whoever was his herald was leading him away from eating sentient beings. By doing that, he's probably saved billions and billions of people.
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[personal profile] googledox 2016-05-15 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
You do have a point. At some point during this endeavor we will probably be afforded the opportunity to get some readings.

Survival and the protection of civilized worlds is our first priority but if we can safely obtain some scans, analysis might prove fruitful.
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[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-15 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Haven't the faintest, although the power cosmic is...

It allows for a level of reality manipulation. It's possible the nature of his power made it harder to mess with by whatever does this too us.

If Galactus has enough power to give his heralds powers and whatever brought us has the same amount of power, maybe it meant they were on equal ground.
Edited 2016-05-15 04:45 (UTC)
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[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-15 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
That part's weird. He sort of tears the planet apart and turns it into energy and sucks it up through these giant siphons.

I don't think he needs his ship to eat worlds but it's a giant tool that helps him do it.

He converts all the matter into energy somehow. And somehow living things have more of it than rocks and stuff. That's why he likes snacking on worlds with more complex lifeforms the most.
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[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-15 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
The latter.

He can eat a world in days or less. It just means he's full for a few months -- usually.

At the speed he can go, he'll be at Braal soon. His resting period between feedings would help give us time after he feasts but Braal would still be doomed.
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[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-15 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, I needed to get the Silver Surfer's attention!

I got my butt kicked but it worked. I was able to convince Surfer to help.
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[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-05-15 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
You...actually sounds like you've seen stuff as weird as the stuff I've seen.

That's new.

[He kind of likes the feeling. It's strange to have seen all the weirdness and know that not everyone is going to understand what it's like.]
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[personal profile] whyarewehere 2016-05-15 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
And you think you can do it again?

The talking to the Surfer part, not the arresting part. The arresting part is still way stupid.
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[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-15 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
It's worth a shot.

We definitely need a backup plan, and we might have to take down Stardust to have a chance of only Surfer being able to make a call about redirecting Galactus, but I ought to try at least once to just ask. Before anything happens where someone could get hurt.

[His brows furrow]

Even with Stardust there, Surfer's got seniority. He might be willing to call things off without us needing to risk ourselves taking Stardust down first.
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[personal profile] whyarewehere 2016-05-15 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
You want to talk to him.

[Grif is just confirming this stupidity he is hearing.]

You want to go up to the literal herald of the fucking apocalypse and ask him nicely to please stop.
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[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-05-15 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
It worked last time.

And even if the answer's no, we have a history. Surfer'd probably at least let me walk away alive even if he refuses to do it.
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[personal profile] whyarewehere 2016-05-15 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
You're going to die.

This isn't me being a pessimist, Rich. This is actual, real life fact.

[Rich, not Superman. He's being serious.]
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[personal profile] ringslinging 2016-05-15 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Something in this universe managed to contain him in the first place, so there's got to be a way to slam the lid back on the jar later.
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[personal profile] fourstars 2016-05-15 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
I'd like to help with that, after this is all over. I mean, first we need to figure out how in the world we're actually going to deal with this, but... after that, yeah.
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[personal profile] fourstars 2016-05-15 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
I think there's something else we probably need to consider.

We woke up in Phelolu, which is full of background radiation that... probably had some kind of effect on our bodies. [ He doesn't like this idea, but it's the only thing that currently makes sense. ] He didn't.

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