TheInkredibleKaptainKaiju Wrote:Despite the Crystal Gems' best efforts, Homeworld now seems closer than ever. Even after fighting off a different alien invasion, BAINE finds themselves spread thinner than ever now that the Diamonds begin to make their final plays, in addition to an old enemy on Earth maneuvering towards their endgame. Caught in the midst of a war on two fronts, how will BAINE survive to fight on?

tealruby Wrote:She’s not only a superhero from half a century ago. She’s also the daughter Hermione never knew she had. Wait, what?

(06-08-2024, 09:04 PM)In an edit, Norgarth Wrote: Beware of Chicken (original flavour)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/beware-of-chicken-xianxia.910799/page-1916?post=102133776#post-102133776

Dr. Zyn ch'Mordan Wrote:While (the first Coalition of Planets) conference was to be the dawn of a new era, humans have often said that it is always darkest before the dawn. Darker, uglier forces were gathering while the government put together their plan for an interstellar alliance. The most consequential of these ultranationalist movements was Terra Prime, under the leadership of lunar mining industrialist John Fredrick Paxton.*

* Arthur Wolfman, Dark Heart: John Paxton and The Terra Prime Movement (Orion Press, May 2175).

(...)

Terra Prime also inspired copycats and imitators on several Coalition worlds among those who resisted these increased entanglements. Perhaps the most consequential of these were the Sons of V’Las on Vulcan.** This group was formed from the enmeshing of two groups: those members of the old le-matya faction who resented having their careers destroyed as a consequence of T’Pau’s rapid drawdown of the High Command and the Argosy, and those from the isolationist L-Langon faction who wanted to withdraw from the quadrant entirely.

** P’Saria, Daughter of B’Sayl, The Extremes of Logic: An Inquiry into the Sons of V’Las and Subsequent Movements, (Vulcan Science Academy Press, February 2273).

(06-08-2024, 06:16 PM)Shepherd Wrote: http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14508&pid=222929#pid222929
Isekai by Moonlight (Sailor Moon insert).

Yrsillar Wrote:The general’s flames threatened to sear her without ever once intending her harm. Because the general believed in bringing people together too. No matter what they wanted. No matter how dear the barriers were. No matter how they screamed as their chains were broken.

What would Ling Qi do if the White Sky recoiled from this day in horror and retreated to their borders? What would she do if conflict between the Celestial Empire and the Polar Nation came to blows?

(...)

That was the searing truth the general’s fires would not let her ignore.

This was power.

Spoiler

In the end, peace was only possible because the Celestial Empire and the Polar Nation alike were wary of one another's power. If one grew weak, or was perceived as weak, that would change.

Her method was fundamentally an ephemeral act of trickery and…

No.

(...)

She would not be like the general. She would not lose the ability to feel because the general was wrong. Power was not so simple as that. The world was not simply a game of domination. Power was required for action; it was not required for respect. If people spoke and were bound by the right chains, respect would remain, even if power wavered back and forth, as it always did, as it always must. No one and nothing lasted forever, and no power was excluded from that.

Below, countless tons of stone groaned. Another glittering world of illusion was sundered by a blade of realities.

She had made this, and so she had no right to refuse to witness it.

Casualfarmer Wrote:It was a welcome reprieve from the heavy topics we had discussed with the Lord Magistrate yesterday. I had seen both pride and worry on his face.

On one hand, he had a lot to be proud of. His son took out a slavery ring. I was damn proud of Tigu for helping with that. I’d have to do something nice for the guy when I saw him.

On the other hand, the only reason he was in that position, according to what Lady Wu had told Meiling, is because somebody in her family was trying to fuck around doing skeevy politics shit.

Let me tell you that pissed me right the hell off. And while I wasn't going to go all ‘line extermination’, there was definitely going to be some finding out.

And not in the cultivator fashion either.

In a rather more mortal sense.

Namely by telling the Azure Jade Trading Company that the Wu family of Pale Moon Lake City had offended me.

tealruby Wrote:Hermione’s had fun meeting Americans in Hollywood, and in this issue she gets to meet one more. Somebody whom she’s read about and heard talk about as the two heroes haven’t been in the same city at the same time, let alone done a team-up. That’s about to change, as Hermione gets her cape on (finally!) for a fresh team-up in Gotham City.
“Hey, you’re the new Green Lantern, right? I’m Stephanie.”