IN BRIGHTEST DAY - Mod Plot [Network Post | 1]

[relativityspeaking]

Listen up, Legion. Unfortunately, our little vacation from catastrophe is apparently over. (Surprise surprise.)

The Legion outpost around Phelolu just registered a new incursion through the rift, made up of several groups of people, all of them apparently armed with different colored power rings, not unlike the one that used to be wielded by your fellow Legionnaire, Hal Jordan, and not unlike the ones wielded by the various Lanterns of ancient galactic history.

The outpost was attacked by yellow and red ringwielders, but was successfully defended by ringwielders with pink, purple, blue, and green rings.

The outpost staff sent us the footage they captured.

[Footage briefly plays, showing the view outside the outpost of several groups of Lanterns fighting each other, glowing in various colors. The ones bearing yellow and red rings look terrible and sinister. Some of them look like they're mostly made up of claws and fangs, and the reds spew flaming blood at their enemies, burning some of them alive.]

[The violets are beautiful as they fly around with their crystalline powers -- and er, slightly scantily clad. The indigo tribesman are few but an impressive force on the battlefield, redirecting ring energy with their staffs. The greens and blues seem to work together very well -- green constructs bolstered by blue energy -- as if the blues were made to support the greens. After a successful defense is mounted for the Legion outpost and the red and yellow lanterns are dealt considerable damage, with many of them successfully captured, first the yellows retreat with stargates and then the reds.]

After the yellow and red Lanterns retreated to locations unknown, the contingents of pink, purple, blue, and green Lanterns contacted the outpost and were diverted to Legion World, where their situation was explained to them. Between Brainy's scans and their own words, we've determined that they're from the 21st century, in a slightly alternate universe, rather than our universe's own past. (And also an alternate to your universe, Jordan).

There are rumors that the Lanterns all retreated to the edge of the universe back in ancient times, and we believe that the reds and yellows may have left to seek out any of their counterparts that exist in this universe in the 31st century. If they find them -- and the location of the power batteries that would let them link up and recharge their rings -- we could be looking at a renewal of the ancient war they all used to fight.

The other contingents of Lanterns are allied together and asking for the Legion's help in stopping the reds and yellows. The greens think they already have a lead on where the ancient Green Lanterns settled in our universe. They think it might be on the remains of a once living planet called Mogo, who was a Green Lantern, and think they know where to find him. The pinks can apparently detect something similar and think they can find the power source that the pinks of this universe used to use in ancient times.

I'm going to be leading a team to go with them, as an escort and to help mount an offense against the reds and yellows before they return to wreak havoc in civilized space. The Lanterns we'll be working with aren't familiar with this century or any of its politics, and they're also even unfamiliar with some of its species since they didn't exist until certain worlds were colonized.

The team I bring has to be prepared to wield any rings we might be able to get our hands on. After seeing the power profiles they were able to give us, we're going to need all the firepower we can get. Our own powers might not cut it.

Questions, concerns, protests, or letters of resignation because an ancient space war is restarting and who needs that nass -- go.

Comments

[ringslinging]

Violet and indigo. Not pink and purple.

[ Hal's not a huge stickler for precision, but the other lanterns are going to be referring to themselves as such, so might as well make sure everyone's clear on the terminology.

He's leaning in toward the camera as he talks, though. This is big. Not just because he knows what they're dealing with this time, but because he's wanted to find the remnants of the Corps in this era, and - ]

You said once living? Do we know Mogo's dead, or is that just speculation?

[ Mogo was a true bro. Mogo needs to be okay. :( ]

[googledox]

Actually, according to several scientific and multispecies-friendly color spectrums, it's sprink and plorgo, which probably have no direct translation from Interlac to other languages.

[relativityspeaking]

Everything is pretty fuzzy because most of what people know about the various Lantern Corps was relegated to legend.

But one of the firmest sticking points was that the Green Lanterns disappeared after a Green Lantern that was a sentient planet died.

I'm sorry. This is a different universe than yours, but I know that's probably still hard to hear.

[whyarewehere]

Can I just say I'm really glad I don't work at Phelolu?

[legionnpcs]

Highest paid post among all the staff. And that's even counting the ones that suit up in radiation suits to clean out parts of the engine core.

Adrenaline junkies, the whole lot of 'em.

[kingtyrantranger]

Is my universe the only universe where aliens don't run around in spandex or swimwear?

[leverageintceo]

We haven't had any alien contact in my universe yet, so I don't know what they run around in.

[whyarewehere]

No. Oh my god, if they did I think we all just would've died from having to look at them.

[iamresponding]

Eh.

[Rich does a 50/50 gesture.]

Back home, some do, some don't. [A pause.] Also, some do and you wish they didn't. Some don't and you wish they did.

[the_civilian]

No aliens that I'm aware of. And I'm pretty sure I'd have heard about it.

[notwithoutafight]

What, do they run around in the nude, then?

[fourstars]

... Does an elastic rubber composite count?

[ringslinging]

Hey, judging what all aliens wear by looking at Lanterns is like judging what all humans wear by looking at the NYPD.

[frickingguardian]

Naked, regular clothes, barely counts as clothes, power armor...I've seen it all. It's probably weirder that yours don't. What are they, shy?

[deafleppard]

Maybe the aliens are on to something.

[the_fuzz]

Does anyone know if there are any differences in the rings beyond the different colors?

[kingtyrantranger]

Well, other than some of them making scarier things? The red guys look spewy, the pur-excuse me, Indigo ones seem to be using everyone else's colors with those staves, and the blue ones don't seem to be doing much other than making the green guys stronger. Or at least I think that's what's going on, the green guys that don't have a blue around don't seem as impressive.

I dunno, though. That could all just be cosmetic.

[ringslinging]

Okay, gather round, kids. Time for Emotional Spectrum 101 with Professor Jordan.

Green is willpower. It's at the middle of the spectrum, so green rings have the least influence on the wielder's mental state. You can do a lot with them if you want it badly enough, but you have to have exceptional willpower to use them well. And...I'm not sure if the ones these guys brought along still have the yellow problem or not, I'll have to talk to Kilowog.

One step out, you see a little more influence on your mental state.

Yellow runs off of fear. That'd be why their constructs tend towards the creepy.

Blue is hope. They don't do a lot on their own, but they can supercharge greens, and do some pretty crazy stuff if there are enough people hoping for it. I saw Saint Walker and Warth turn a dying star's clock back billions of years with the hope of the system's inhabitants.

Moving outward again - mental influence gets a little stronger. Indigos are compassion; they can teleport and mimic the abilities of other rings. Not sure if there's much more to it than that; they were the last ones to the party back home, so I don't have as much experience dealing with them.

We haven't seen orange here, but that's avarice. There's just one. [ A beat, almost an afterthought - ] Usually. They kind of eat their own, with the whole avarice thing. [ Another beat. ] ...I mean that figuratively, but Larfleeze has some pretty weird taste in food. Who knows.

Anyway, on the outside, you've got the ones that have the strongest effect on their users. Red is rage. Most of them are in mindless berserker mode. That stuff they're spitting is their own blood, which is fiery and continues burning even in vacuum. Don't get hit. Do not get hit.

Violet is love. They...well. They can get a little brainwashy.

I've used all of these, even if it was only briefly. Except indigo and violet, but I've fought alongside indigo and both alongside and against violet. So if anyone has trouble with them, there's a good chance I can help you out.

[notwithoutafight]

When's the training for using these rainbow rings? I don't really want to be figuring this out in the middle of a fight.

[fourstars]

... You took the words right out of my mouth.

[relativityspeaking]

Provided we can even get our hands on any, we're going to have to rely on the different Lanterns we'll be allying with to teach us.

For the greens, their group leader says he's one of the head trainers of the Green Lantern Corps and we also have Hal, so there's that at least. The others seem to have positions of leadership, so they should be able to teach us a few things on the go.

[deafleppard]

Sure, I'll take this over Galactus.

[got_gud]

I am inclined to agree.

...As long as there are no more black holes involved, this time.

[whyarewehere]

This does look like a much more even clusterfuck than that was.

video;

[ex_eraserhead411]

I couldn't hope for an easier means to identify friend and foe.

Unless a lantern could conceal their colors.

Also--may I speak to you on a private line?

locked to Aizawa

[relativityspeaking]

It is pretty sprocking convenient, I will say that.

And sure, this is now secure.