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Kid Quantum II / Jazmin Cullen ([personal profile] relativityspeaking) wrote in [community profile] thelegion2016-06-28 11:27 pm

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

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.

[personal profile] leverageintceo 2016-06-29 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
The Potato Job had nothing to do with the First Contact Job.
kingtyrantranger: (Unsure)

[personal profile] kingtyrantranger 2016-06-29 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Let me guess. You had to dress up as aliens to rob a guy.

[Please tell him he's wrong.]

[personal profile] leverageintceo 2016-06-29 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
No, we just made him think that he'd made contact with aliens and that they were coming to abduct him. He acted totally crazy in front of the people he was trying to sell stolen designs too, and the guy who actually designed the thing was able to talk to the buyers.

I dressed up as a mysterious government agent. I'm good at being deadpan and vaguely unsettling.
kingtyrantranger: (Clueless/huh?/got nothin')

[personal profile] kingtyrantranger 2016-06-29 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
Somehow that doesn't seem as [insane] intense as The Potato Job.

[She doesn't have to try very hard at the 'vaguely unsettling' part at least.]

[personal profile] leverageintceo 2016-06-29 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
It involved more grifting and hacking and less out-right theft, but convincing someone that they are about to be abducted by aliens at any moment is no easy task.

Slightly more hitting, though.
captainbuzzkill: (050)

[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-06-29 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
I'm going to temporarily change my superhero name to Understatement Lad just to point out that last bit is an understatement.

[personal profile] leverageintceo 2016-06-29 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure why you'd need to change your name for that.
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[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-06-29 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
For a whole lot of extra emphasis.
whyarewehere: (K)

[personal profile] whyarewehere 2016-06-29 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah no, I'm not surprised by that.

[personal profile] leverageintceo 2016-06-29 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
About convincing a man he was about to be abducted by aliens, or me being good at unsettling and deadpan?

Because if the last surprised you, I would have concerns about your observational skills.
whyarewehere: (O)

[personal profile] whyarewehere 2016-06-29 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
The you pretending to be a creepy secret agent thing. Cause I know, and I kiiiiind of prefer when you're not doing it in my direction.