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

[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.

[kingtyrantranger]

Just so long as it isn't potatoes.

[Then again, her universe would probably have the aliens set themselves on fire as a 'hello'.]

[leverageintceo]

The Potato Job had nothing to do with the First Contact Job.

[notwithoutafight]

First fungus and now potatoes? What kind of messes do you get yourself into?

[whyarewehere]

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

[kingtyrantranger]

It's kind of weird how this universe ended up with all the cute aliens.

[headinjuries]

We have some cute ones back home.

[ One of which said she hated him but supposedly in teenage(alien)girlspeak that means she has a crush on him? HE'S HOPING! ]

[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.

[kingtyrantranger]

Can't say I've seen a pretty alien. Er. In my world, at least. Most of them just look, y'know. Kind of monstery.

[Well, there was Scorpina. She was kind of cute, except also totally evil. Kinda hard to crush on a girl after she'd hit you with a sword. Especially when she turned into a giant scorpion monster.]

[iamresponding]

There are some really, really good looking aliens back home. I had a thing for a while with an alien woman who was one of the Zen-Whoberis.

She, uh, she didn't really wear much in the way of spandex.

[Where did Understatement Lad go? Because there's an understatement that needs to be called out.]

[the_civilian]

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

[kingtyrantranger]

Yeah, subtlety seems lost on most aliens in my world. Then again, so does not knocking over buildings.

[notwithoutafight]

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

[kingtyrantranger]

The ones who don't wear armor, yeah. Mostly.

[fourstars]

I mean... technically, Cell was naked...?

[fourstars]

... Does an elastic rubber composite count?

[kingtyrantranger]

Is it anything like what we wear in the Legion?

[ringslinging]

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

[kingtyrantranger]

There's a bunch of different groups there wearing mostly the same stuff. That's a pretty good sampling, isn't it?

[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?

[iamresponding]

Man, our worlds really are close alternates.

[kingtyrantranger]

Nah, the only aliens I've ever seen have been the guys trying to take over my planet. That might skew my results a little.

[deafleppard]

Maybe the aliens are on to something.

[kingtyrantranger]

Wouldn't you get cold just wearing spandex, though? I mean, space is cold.