SigmaAtom's Guide to Roles and Formation

In ORS, I teach a couple of classes. One of them is my class on Roles and Formation. Most enjoy knowing they are on the same page as the rest of the league. And if they are new the information becomes invaluable to them, as many MMOs do not have a controller class in the same way we do in DCUO. Some of this is re-worked from the old guide that sorely needed updating and some proper formatting. 08.Dec.2017.
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Hi

Thank you for agreeing to take my class, I hope you find it enlightening. :)

Today we are going to learn about Roles and Formations. In the 'Charge' [Formation] we have [Assault] Tank, DPS and [Support] Healer, Controller.

[Assault]

Tank

First into the fight. highest defence. the tank leads the charge of the formation and should know maps well, a basic grip of the storyline helps too. the whole group follows the tank as a pinnacle of formation. can grant control immunity. They are a human shield through drawing aggro & fire. Many are Speedsters, but not all.

DPS

general fighter and/or heavy weight. does quest and story items. protects the controller and healer, does crowd control (killing mobs) good all rounder. dps's move around a bit but should try to stay in the centre behind the tank, as the healer and controller should line up with the tank. An easy way to remember a DPS's job is: Damage. Protection. Story. Create damage, protect [Support] and do the story, in that order.

DPS doesn't mean that; it means Damage Per Second but this is an easy way to remember it.

[Support]

Healer

keeps everyone alive. essential. group shields. buffs.  stays second last in the charge and has the controller as bodyguard. should not be made to fight, if any dps's let hostiles stray a combination of the healer and controller is used to take down the hostile.

Controller

Last in the Charge. Restores energy: keeps the energy fires burning. The Tank and Controller are the 'bookends' of the Formation stays last to protect the Healer, if you see me waiting for you and your a dps.. kindly move!. ill want to protect the healer first. the controller restores their energy by Power over Time and buildups of weapon discharge, then shares it with the group; the healer gets to heal the dps get to fight and the tank can grant defence to themselves or others. Many are flyers but not all.

If the troller can't see the healer they can't power heal them, some tanks will say that the Healer should go at the back, last, but this breaks the ability to power heal + BG (bodyguard). not all trollers fly, but I found many many do.. with good reason, you can see the whole fight from the sky easily.

Mindset:

If you are [Assault] .. don't worry about your bars too much, your health bar should be pretty much near max all the time, and you should be PoT'd at all times, if one DPS is being a power hog, then that's not the Controller fault. The power the Controller has is not for you but for the Healer to keep the group alive but so long as the Controller has PoT'd (Power over Time) the group; they have done their job. Have confidence that both health and power are coming. Support are working on it.

If you are [Support].. don't worry, you don't have to know the story, or know the map, just follow the group and let them get on with their jobs. IF you are Controller and have a late group member, let the whole group know what's going on and why you have to wait.

Basic Strategy:

[Tank]

The Tank's job is to keep the whole group alive, if your group wiped quickly, and the healer & troller were empty, the tank did not draw enough aggro.

The Tank's primary concern is the whole group's health. Healer buffs can also help the survivability of the group. human shield distracting mobs/enemies by drawing the aggression toward them (aggro).

The Tank is the *only* one who should open doors or trigger 'open door events', He/she should wait for the whole group. No DPS's should trigger the event.. why? because the group will die. It also grows the Tank's confidence, that they can do their job without a DPS taking it off them.

[DPS]

If someone is knocked out, it is primarily the controllers job to save knockouts, DPS and Healers *do* help however take a quick glance around and ask yourself ' Am I going to be dragging aggro around the map endangering everyone if I go to save a knockout?' if the answer is yes; then let the troller handle the pickup, if they are worth their salt, they have worked on zero aggro and can slip in and save the knockout with a very low chance of being harmed. PLEASE don't open doors.. I can't say this enough times; please, let the Tank BE a Tank. :) 

Simply put, the DPS's primary concern is dealing damage to mobs. Protecting support yes. but killing firstly. Story yes... but. you get me. :)

[Support]

Support in general are not there to draw aggro, in fact it's a very undesirable situation. Support should work on not drawing any aggro from mobs and bosses, this keeps them safe so the DPS can continue their job of damage and not have to run over to save them from mobs etc.

[Healer]

The Healer's job is similar but with emphasis on keeping the tank alive. Buff's to keep the DPS happy and hitting hard. Tank comes first and the healer should always reserve a little power for the tank.

[Controller]

The Controller's primary job is to keep the Healer alive. Debuffs are secondary, PoT's/Recharge thirdly. (second and third can be interchangeable depending on the situation, but never the first) always keeping enough power for the healer to keep everyone alive (meaning also and primarily the tank).

DPS's *should* be PoT'd and HoT'd at all times. The Controller can use debuffs on enemies to control the group's power eating by lowering defence, controlling the healer power out with weapon smashing and increasing the group survivability. The Healer can add buffs raising the protection and abilities of the group, increasing survivability and help alleviate power eating.

At times I've seen more and more healers wondering off and ranging.. this is an upsetting trend, and I feel bad every time they die because of this, if they had stayed close I could have protected them and revived them from knockout.

Symbiosis 

The Tank and Controller have a symbiotic relationship in regards to keeping the integrity of the formation.

The Healer and the Tank have a symbiotic relationship in regards to the group's health and survivability.

The Controller and the Healer have a symbiotic relationship in regards to the Healers survivability and power needs.

[Tank-Controller]

The Tank should wait until all group members are in the trigger spot/door until proceeding, the controller should wait on the last group member to keep them with the group. When the tank checks his map, he/she should see no blue blips off map, if he does, it means 1 or more of the group have fell behind and the controller is probably there waiting on the lagging group member, and the he (the tank) should tell the group to wait.

I have seen LOADS of DPS's triggering a door event, only to die, becuase I was the ONLY Troller in the raid. They needed me but I was busy collecting an errant DPS, so why would another DPS trigger the door event? the healer is almost certainly going to die without the controller present, then the tank then the DPS. you need to wait for the group to be whole.

[Healer-Tank]

The healer should keep a keen eye on the Tanks health, because as soon as the Tank dies, the job of healing is going to get a LOT harder; if not impossible.

[Controller-Healer]

The Controller is the Healers bodyguard, not just that the Controller is responsible to ensure that the healer has enough power to heal the group.

[Healer-DPS]

If the Controller is KO'd then the Healer becomes the one to save knockouts as they should have the least aggro.. this is FAR from an ideal situation, because if the healer dies the group dies. The DPS should note when the Controller goes down and one should stay by the healer, but not too close, causing less burn (damage) than the others to save the Healer from knockouts.

In short..

Tank and DPS are [Assault] and Healer and Controller are [Support].. think of them like.. a band. The Tank is the Singer, the DPS are the Guitarists, the Healers are the Bassists and the Controllers are the Drummers. We work together so we 'ROCK!'

We at ORS hope you have found this class informative. If you would like to leave a donation the tip jar is on the desk as you leave the ORS Office.

have a great and bizarre day!

Sigma.

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P. S if anyone has any improvements, please PM me :)

The Flying Potato.. or how to fix Gadgets powerset and make it like Sorcery

Hi guys

So since I have came back the stats revamp had time to settle in a bit before I came back.. what do I think?

Nature is a bit weird with all the SCs, Mental DPS is a bit useless as is Gadgets, although I do like the bombs now.. ohw I just want to say to the person who thought up making Turret explode after 1 min of inactivity.. I'm impressed, I didn't think the Flying Potato could be worse, but you just swooped right in there and showed me my error! Why was this approved? so I can't even have a shred of company? flip.. DB you seem determined to say that Gadgets is most certainly NOT a pet power, so I guess the next power WILL be a Controller Class Pet power right?.... right??

How could we make Flying Potato even worse?

Give him a little fanfare trumpet when called, to put a finer point on his uselessness.
NO!.. A 1 minute cut scene for calling him DURING the fanfare! little flags pop out his sides!

How could we make Flying Potato better?

Make him a Tank pet like Guardian, he doesn't need to DPS just be good at tanking.

Then stop Drone being a SC and make Drone like Watcher giving out charges instead of priority heals.

'But Sigma there's no DPS pet!'

Okay, then if the player is in DPS stance then Drone is like Fury and Crystal and if the player is in Controller stance then Drone is like Watcher.

I'd like Gadgets to be as fun to play as Sorcery, I hate magic RP dispite this I have loads of fun playing as Sorcery because the powerset is so well put together.. however not just that, but this completes the Pet Trifecta, not only for each class, but for Meta (Earth) Magic (Sorcery) and Tech (Gadgets).

For every bit of distain I have for the direction the team have taken with Turret, I have unequivocal admiration for the AI programming of Guardian.. wow.. he's like a novice human Tank, I.. just wow! for any AI to be close to human-like is just amazing and the team have outdone themselves with his AI.

please, never touch it! please. it's remarkable. The only thing I've never seen him do is 'turtle' which I may have missed.

So as you probably guessed, I'm thinking 'nick Guardians AI and put it in Turret, make everything he does a Taunt. Use battle display to PoT and heal him.'

job done!

Sigma

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I just feel so intensely that it's dragging on and dragging on, it's been what? 2 or 3 years? right now Gadgets is boring as flip. apart from the bombs which are pretty cool, only fun thing about Gadgets right now. Before Metal and Gadgets were like twins, but since the stats-revamp it broke them up and they don't need mirrored, perfect time to get us our controller pet powerset!

Powers I am enjoying are.. Electricity, Sorcery and RL. I've been back now for a month or so, today was the first time I almost DD'd, third on the scoreboard, that was with Sorc.

It's so bugging me that the Trifectas aren't finished so we can move on.. The Pet Trifecta and the Lantern Trifecta.

I KNOW I have to WAIT on a Lantern Healer but Gadgets is SO easily fixed!!
PLEASE someone out there.. hit the batpole and rescue my sanity!

Everything you ever wanted to know about Krypton but were afraid to ask.. or Kryptonian RP fun.

[Role Play]
Sigma:

The story of the death of Krypton is often told well..

I was there went Jor-el first beseeched the Council, so moving was his words, so careful his sentiment, I honor him and the ones gone by naming our league The Order of The Red Sun, to remind us all the lessons that Krypton and Jor-El had to teach.


I knew Jor-El's aunt; Zana-El, may God's rays rest upon her, treated as the El's are, like the princess she was. I met Jor-El once, it was after his speech when his aunt approached him to warn him to be careful of his intentions in front of the Council. She introduced me and we spoke briefly but he spoke passionately of his love for Krypton and righteousness, I told him the technology of Krypton was strange .. that it seemed unnatural. When the Kryptonian crystals destroyed the planet, I knew, and remembered that conversation and my friend whom had died.

I was actually in the next system on Xenex, which is.. was a Kryptonian moon colony, the first colony. We saw the flash, a point of light in the sky as the core exploded. The Xenos like the Daxamites are descended from Kryptonians. When the Kryptonians abandoned the Monarchical system, Dax-El the Father of the Daxamites and his family colonized Daxam. The Xenos felt they were an abandoned people, so they gave up having either monarchs or a council..they did not even employ the caste system, and when Krypton tried to enforce it upon them, the Xenos fought back and won, as there was much unrest on Krypton about the whole matter, instead they are a theocracy. Since the time I was there, the Xenos have left and scattered from the moon. Xenex was the principal colony and asif a capital city to all other colonies outside of the Rao system. Every colonist of every Kryptonian colony are of the caste Xen and could legally call themselves this, but as stated their last name does vary due to their culture, familial & personal beliefs. The friend I was visiting was Vana-Xen, she was looking for transport to Havania and a place to stay.

Vana-Xen told me:  'Kryptonians don't like Daxamites and see them as backwards thinking, like 'hillbillies', Daxamites think Kryptonians are stuffy, pompous and self righteous. Xenos don't mind Daxamites but think of Kryptonians as traitors and if a Kryptonian defends the Council in the presence of a Xenos, they will attack them, Daxamites see Xenos as failed experiments and instantly have pity on them.'

There are things of old seldom spoke..

The members House of El, are the last of the principal noble house of Krypton, and while Kara-el is the oldest of the House El, Kal-El is the descendant of the most senior member of that house (Jor-el); Zod and his men while kryptonians are not of noble birth, but are sworn to protect the nobles. This is why General Dru-Zod feels such deep internal conflict.. to attack the 'charge' he is sworn to protect is, even to himself, treason.. even though at times he threatens Kal-El.. he never tries to fully kill him, he can neither lower himself to be the traitor and hypocrite nor give up hope that Kal-El will one day be the first Prince of New Krypton.

While Dru is a Kryptonian supremacist and in many ways could be considered a fascist, those are ideals that do not lend themselves easily to hypocrisy. As odd as that sounds, lowering himself to human standards is not an option. I agree with Dru-Zod on a few points, he is right that Krypton shouldn't die and that abandoning the ideals of Krypton is no way to learn from it's mistakes. But the methods he employs, I do not agree with and have told him myself, he noted my protest.. I was surprised when he remembered me from his childhood.. he called me as he did then 'the Starman'.

But I digress.. of the caste system, each caste are family;

Krypton's caste system I explain thusly:
You are born into your job, it is assigned by your lineage.

The leaders and scientists are of the House of El,
the artists and custodians are of the House of Van,
the engineers and hearthsmiths.. those who build are of the House of Ur,
the priests, timekeepers and chroniclers are of the House of Pax,
the farmers, chefs, and miners are of the House of Bet,
the soldiers and Cromsmen..  soldier-philosophers are of the House of Zod,
the world builders and colonists are of the House of Xen.
The Noble Houses were El, the primary noble House, then Xen, Ur and then mid-noble Van.

There is one name they are forbidden to take.. Rao, as this is their name for God.

The House of Pax is exempt from being either noble or worker caste as they are the Priests of Rao.
There was some debate about female priestess' they debated it for hundreds of years, then eventually there was an agreeable compromise, some of the House of Pax were given the Outlyer, which was a vast tundra on Krypton, there they made a huge kind of monastery and if anyone honoured the 'new way' they may come and worship there also.. none are turned away, and if you return to your city, you are welcome there also, none are turned away. Priestess' would visit the cities.. you could see them acting like nurses to the children.. it was nice. Before any of this females were not allowed to have any part of the priests portion, and could only be timekeepers and chroniclers. Members of the House Pax are free to marry and not forbidden to stay to caste, they may marry from any House, however they must give up their order.. this is why out those who take this option many many are females.

Jura-Zod, Dru-Zod's mother was Zana-El's bodyguard, from the time Zana-El became chief of the genetic council, I got to know Jura-Zod as a friend too. Impressive combatant and a great passion for righteousness..

She would talk sometimes about how angry little Dru would get if he didn't get his way. Zod's father however was ice cold and refused to speak to me.. I got the feeling he would kill everyone if he could only find the justification to do it.. believe it or not Zod is an improvement on his father. Dru is named after his mother, and his father was the head of the House of Zod, the Chief Supreme Guardian of Krypton, General Zal-Zod. This title passed to Zod upon his father's death, some years later.

Jura was nice.. serious but nice, I was sad to hear of her passing, she was a good friend, may God's rays rest upon her. I attended Dru's 10th Shopnah.. for humans' it's like a mix between a spelling bee and a birthday party.. he came best in show. Jura was very proud.

There are also 'rogue' family names inherited by lineage, these came from mixed marriages with Daxamites and Xenos, as Daxamites and Xenos did not have the caste system.

I would guess Dru-Zod is very surprised the head of the House of El has a surviving heir.. so surprised that it fascinates him, the idea that Kal-El could be the linchpin restore Kryptonian society.

Zod's forces are not all of the House of Zod, some are rebels who joined forces with Zod on hearing of the Council's failure. All Houses except Pax have joined Zod's cause, but none from the House of El, which Zod feels he needs to restore Krypton. There are less than 20 members of the Kryptonian House of El remaining, and Kal-El is suspected to be the last male of his House.

Some of Zod's Cromsmen act like priests and healers towards Zod's men.. he does not however allow them to lead bystand to Rao, only a priest or head of House may do this, so he does this himself..
Zod finds this very shameful, as it is traditionally a priest but necessary as he has none of the House of Pax to fill this role. It is shameful to him that his Cromsmen act like priests, they should not being doing this out-of-caste behaviour for a sacred act and shameful to him that he cannot provide all his men need,  I'm using 'men' as a majorative, I say 'men' but as you know the caste system has no differation between genders except as explained the House of Pax.


The House of El has many facets that it was the original house of Royalty, as it was on both on Daxam and Krypton, this is why Mon-EL is a prince of Daxam. Even though Krypton has 'done away with' the royalty aspect of governance, it is still very present in the minds of Kryptonians, that should a member of the House of El be of high prestige, he or she is STILL treated as royalty, Krypton changed to the caste system, but in this, there was still a council of Kryptonians who were held absolute in judgement.

Lara was Kal-El's mother, her caste was Van and like all others in her caste she was forbidden to marry outside of it, but Jor-El asked special permission of the Council for them to marry and it was granted, but for the remaining time, everytime Jor-El went to the council, they dismissed his requests and treated him less than is usual for an El, .. in fact I think they treated him more like a member of the House of Van.

Jor-El was once one of those council members until he married then he explored the sciences, his decline from a Council member was slow one.. he didn't just get up one day and he was fired, Council members can't fire other Council members without a law being broken.. allowing him to marry a Van was a political move for most of the Council.. then it begun.. the ignoring him in passageways when he said hello, not inviting him to Council adjournments or notifying him of Council meetings, it became very awkward for him.. eventually Jor-El got the hint and just resigned.
As his father was head of the House of El.. and was elderly it was pertinent in the Councils minds to reduce Jor-El's prestige within the House .. and as Jor-El was young this made for easy sport as he was not familiar with such twisted politics, it was easy prey.
He was 35 years old, like 19yo is to humans. to think he was only 55 years old by the time.. Krypton.. so young.
An easy way to remember Kryptonian aging is whatever age a Kryptonian is they would be considered approximately half their age if they were human.. Kal-El being afaik 32 years old at present, is only 15 in Kryptonian culture.. a teenager.

Dru-Zod is 105 years old.. I wonder if he got to complete his final Shopnah before the end of Krypton. The final Shopnah is the most important one.. you are bathed by the priests and timekeepers and dressed in gold.. females may request that the males including the priests are not present until the dressing is complete but they *must* allow the priest to wash their face and hair with special oil called Rah-hom-nah.. the bath is this oil, a genetic blend of all comparative genes in your 'pool' it is seen a 'birth of life'.. the final Shopnah is like a wedding to your life.. you are married to your adult life. Most final Shopnahs occur around a Kryptonians 80th birthday.
It's beautiful, I have attended three including Zana's daughter Mara. We obviously don't see the bathing, but the dress is a *bit* revealing as it's only meant to be family members attending. The scene is amazing though, a golden room with special crystals all refracting light so much that it unites again into white light.

I told Kara about this and she just said 'eioeww.. so you mean I was meant to take a bath in my dead relatives?' to which I replied..'no it's not like that.. you aren't actually related, it's not ashes.. these are synthetic genes made for just for you, only in that bath but yes they have every combination of every gene in your House'.. she replied '.. still. eioiew.'

She's still young, should I lose hope or keep it? She's 30 years old.. 14 years old by Kryptonian culture. She also thought it sounded like 'a creepy disco' which kind of shocked me being honest, as the light is nothing like that. It's like everything you see is rainbow of bokeh, with the gold reflecting the light it's not dark. It's beautiful.

Kryptonians marry between the ages of 20 and 25, any older and it's considered *very* embarrassing. If you can't find a spouse on your own you have the option of going to the priests who will try to find a match for you.. none of this is obligatory, no more than humans using dating sites, a priest will suddenly out of the blue come and want a quick chat to you about everyday banal things, this is him in secret checking if he thinks you are suitable match then he will leave and say nothing. If you are both considered a match you both will get a love letter from the Priest in a non sexy but passionate way of how he believes you are a match and inviting you both to to come to Temple for the bystand and service to Rao.. afterwards one asks the other if they would like to go for food or neither or both.. there is no obligation to say yes, but most Kryptonians will at least try this 'date' as they are flattered by the effort taken to attract them.

Kryptonians allow each other dual-marriage, that is if one spouse asks the other and they agree, they can marry another person and remain married to the first. For whatever faults.. in the Kryptonian caste system, divorce is pretty much unheard of on Krypton. I will note that marriage is seen very differently than on Earth, marriage is seen as a skill you learn, like to humans learning to ride a bicycle or tie their laces. You may love each other or appreciate each other.. marrying purely for love on Krypton does happen but then again many learn the skill of care with their partner and then they fall in love with each other later.. because the time taken and the care and skill. This is also why Kryptonians marry young, because it takes time to learn those skills, and hastens their maturity.

Mentally, 20-25yo's, compared to mighty intellect of their fellow Kryptonians are very young, the caste system speeds this understanding, and ensures that the people produced are ready to deal with harder tasks than marriage, which humans struggle with.

Superman, Kal-El.
All the Earth know of him.. but what are his motivations?
Does he not care about Krypton?
He has shown in many many instances preferring Earth to anywhere else including Krypton.

WHY? Why is it so easy for him to disregard his heritage? Is it solely his upbringing.. or could it be in his eyes.. Krypton as a society failed and he keeps his thoughts secret. Although I don't entirely agree with him.. I can see some of Zod's points. Kal-El knows he is meant to be the next 'prince', but that seems to mean nothing to him. What are his true motives other than protecting the Earth? I trust Kal-el's intentions towards the Earth.. but towards his own people, if he ever became their prince?.. I am not 100% sure I would trust him with this.

Would Zana-El his great-aunt approve of him having non-kryptonian children?.. I don't know but the question goes round & round in my mind that the Kryptonians are so depleted, could he not marry both Lois AND a female kryptonian noble? One marriage for love and the other to restock the nobles?
I'm no way suggesting Kara his cousin or Alura his aunt, but there are Ur's and Xenos and Daxamite EL's he could marry to restore his lineage. But humans would never accept him having two wives, as I see on TV the women are quite angry about even having one husband.

I'll admit I don't know but I feel Zana-El would find him selfish and self-serving to not even consider a dual marriage. And while the taunts Zod throws at Kal-El about Lois being his 'pet' and an unfit wife are unpleasant, what I feel Zod is really saying is Kal-El thinks like a little child and only of himself.

Kandor is a bottled city. Using Kryptonian science, one city of Krypton was saved.
I heard rumors Brainiac had done this.. but I knew of a secret technology developed by Zor-el of shrinking large objects, but when I first heard this, it was in mid stages of development.

I mentioned Zor-El, he is Jor-El's brother. Alura is now his widow, their daughter is Kara-el who on earth is known as Supergirl. Alura is the leader of Kandor, She pardoned Zod and Ursa for their crimes. Alura is of the House of El, not by marriage but by birth, she is Zor-El's fourth cousin, by Zana's great-grandfather.
I have spoken in passing a couple of times to Kara about her great-aunt .. she smiles politely to me because she never really knew Zana, this was after Zor threw Zana out of his workshop for visiting him while he was busy and she never returned. Zor-El was named after Zana.. the insult of being thrown out wounded Zana deeply. She was so upset when we spoke she let slip about the aforementioned shrinking technology. In Kryptonian culture being named after someone gives you.. a 'twin' like status together. They call it a 'life-bond'.

(Sigma remembers the 'original timeline' and does not realize things have changed, in the original timeline; Kandor was shrunk by Zor-El and placed in the phantom zone inside a secret crystal, years later Brainiac hearing about the death of Krypton and learning of the shrinking technology, travelled back in time and stole Kandor, using the technology Zor-El developed. When Superman and Supergirl freed bottled Kandor, Brainiac travelled back in time once again and bottled Argo City, he remained with his younger self, Brainiac still owns Argo City. The removal of these two cities destabilized Krypton all the more, which sped up the decline by around 50 years, in the first instance Supergirl was shrunk by her father and put into Kandor, in the second timeline there was not enough time to complete the shrinking project, so Zor-El used some of Jor-El's birthing chamber technology combined with a rocket to earth to save Kara-El, it was all very rushed and not Jor-el's field so he miscalculated the time dilation. Unknown to Superman, Supergirl and Mon-EL, Brainiac also bottled and owns the Daxam 'Temple of the Ancients' with around 1000 yellow sun powered Daxamites in 'sun chambers' forever sleeping.)

Jax-Ur Zod's Scientist, he is also a noble, but is completely devoted to Zod's ideals. I suspect he pretends to be Zod to further Zod's cause, a body double where people are not sure what the original looks like. He just tells them he's Zod and they believe him. He is a member of Non's original team, Non's 'lab assistant' on Krypton, their engineer, there he studied everything Non and Jor-el did.

I learned Non had become mad, such a shame for such a meek man.. I did not know him myself but Zana-el would send him food with little messages to remember to eat and not work too hard.

Non's full name is Non-Ur, he began as an Engineer but was so talented in the sciences many El sought to work with him, they did not interest him, until he met a young Jor-el. Non is also a noble, but driven mad by regret. Dru-Zod does not see him as a candidate for restoring the nobles due to his insanity and while his House is noble; is not El.

I mentioned Non's madness.. such a shame. Non has been driven mad by both the Phantom Zone, and the Kryptonian Councils betrayal of him and Jor-El, their betrayal meant billions of lives perished on Krypton, as Non and Jor-El were the only two to tell the people the truth of Krypton's imminent destruction. Ursa was the next to find out when she interrogated Non and Jor-El, many Kryptonians believing the Council's lies for a long time, she took the proof of Non and Jor-El's discovery to Zod, which in turn led to a revolt on Krypton.

Billions of lives could have been saved if the Council had approved Non and Jor-El's plan for evacuation of Krypton, however even knowing the truth, they refused to sacrifice their technology, status and lifestyle.. A very flippant reason.. it was politically unsustainable; that if they led the evacuation of Krypton the remaining Kryptonians would have banished them to the Phantom Zone for losing Krypton in the first place.

It was evil and self-serving.. and Zod killed them for it. The remaining Council members and a few powerful custodians imprisoned Zod and his forces in the Phantom Zone moments before Krypton's destruction. For millennia.. no Kryptonian had killed another Kryptonian, it was beyond forbidden, this is another reason Zod cannot bring himself to actually *kill* Kal-El.. this is why the Phantom Zone exists as a prison, because murder of their own kind is abhorrent to them. Zod broke this rule nearing Krypton's end..he was not the first as I heard of rumors that had surrounded his father, but I imagine it still chokes him.
Non was still standing with Ursa as his guard from earlier.. he went in too, whether the Council meant it or not.

Zod often taunts Kal-El that Jor-El was a traitor; this is false in his eyes, he does it as an insult but not how we simply understand it; in fact he does not believe Jor-El was a traitor at all, or how could he bring himself to have company with Non. no, it is a feign; a soldier taunting a noble that the other nobles are fighting amongst themselves... this is lost on Kal-El, he does not realize the significance, because he was a newly minted coin by Jonathan and Martha Kent, as shiney upon the Earth that coin might be.. by Kryptonian standards, Zod finds his intellect.. lackluster to say the least.

Zod chooses his words carefully, as do all Kryptonians, for Zod.. Kal-El's innocence of what Zod's remark signifies, also could show that Krypton as a society was a success; that Kryptonians are NOT inherently smart but it was Kryptonian society and the caste system that made them smart. This would give Zod great pleasure being of the soldier caste. But also a crux that to rebuilt it must be the perfect likeness of itself.

Zod is a serious man. He would not state Jor-el was a traitor without assigning equal blame to Non.

Ursa is Zod's wife. Ursa was the person given charge to arrest Jor-El and Non for treason, however she discovered that they were telling the truth, she freed them and reported the truth to Zod. Zod started a war on Krypton, believing that the Council had hidden the truth, this is also why he doesn't blame Kal-El for Krypton's destruction.

Zod believes in the caste system absolutely, and the thought of 'breeding for choice' disgusts him.

Daxam still exists after the explosion of Krypton but 1/3rd of the whole planet is a burnt wasteland, like after a nuclear war would be on earth. Krypton and Daxam were much like The Earth and Mars are but closer together.

Last year I returned to Daxam for the first time since Krypton's destruction. I don't know many Daxamites but have a couple of acquaintances.. I visited Sim-Vur he is a priest of Rao on Daxam, he said 'things have just gotten worse since we last seen each other.. the royal family have gone a little mad to be honest, they often talk to all of Daxam in their decrees about conquering the galaxy.. however alarming this is, the more alarming thing is we haven't just abandoned Daxam and gone off to seek a new home.'

I know Sim-VUR as a wise person in the matters of Daxam, he is very long lived and has seen much. Normally saying the royals 'have gone a little mad' would be treated with the highest order of treason.. but he is so old, nobody minds him or bothers him when he says these things, he could probably even say this in front of Queen Rhea-EL and she would just call him 'you old coot!'. The killing of priests is forbidden on Daxam, and is punishable by abdication and banishment, but that doesn't mean it has never happened, BUT Sim-VUR is the OLDEST priest and if Queen Rhea killed him the priesthood would come out in force to act on that law.

While Daxam had the same technology as Krypton in the interim, it diverged.. Daxamites don't just throw a crystal on the ground and it builds a house for them, which was how Krypton eventually exploded too many crystals invading their planet, Daxamites have special laser technology, they send drones in search of mountains and rock formations that fit their desired requirements and the drones use the lasers to burn away the excess rock.. can I just say this is; in my humble opinion, a much smarter way of doing things, I have no idea why Kryptonians think Daxamites are 'hillbillies'.

About Krypto the dog.. I don't know but I find this very odd that Krypton had dogs and strongly suspect that Kryptonians had been to Earth long ago.. I suspect genetic experiments very long ago as even Daxam has elephants... it's weird.

You sometimes see elephants in their iconography, they are a symbol of power much like lions are on Earth. If you go the Royal Necropolis, which is a huge and vast structure, you can see Kings and Queens riding elephants in war.. I don't know if they found a way to *actually* do it but in the icons depicted their trunks jet fire.

Some Lantern & RP fun!

Hi guys

Thinking about coming back to DCUO.. played the last couple of nights (Oct.2017) .. see how things go. I like the new artifacts, I feel freer knowing PS3 will be getting dropped and this game can continue, makes me hopeful for new cities.

Anyhoo..

Lantern moralities are actually quite complicated..  we see this with the Red Lanterns; they are acting in violence towards others we would normally sympathize with; however they do it in righteousness that they were so wronged.

[HEADS UP: This has turned into a bunch of RP stories which I am digging even for my own fun. You have been warned!]

The order the Lantern Corps were created by canon is HERE
Orange Lantern Corps*
Star Sapphires
Manhunters
Red Lantern Corps
Green Lantern Corps
Sinestro Corps
Blue Lantern Corps
Indigo Tribe

-- Blackest Night --
(both are displaced)
Black Lantern Corps
White Lantern Corps
--
(hidden)
Phantom Ring

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*(existed before the Controllers came to Okaara) These were most likely the First Lantern Corps, utilizing I imagine the component of ownership and desire to be a 'caretaker'.
much as described in the Animated Series, I think it was comicbook-accurate, what happened was;
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[RP: Role Play]
Everyone has their own versions of this mysterious story, The Guardians, The Controllers, Larfleeze, Green Lantern half heard rumors.. This is my version, me Sigma. Before I ascended, I met a guy.. a Red Lantern. He was chasing this Yellow Lantern across one of my home moons, while I was there searching out crystal deposits for light refraction to help meditation. He caused an explosion that knocked me to one side, he took one look at me and thought I wasn't a threat and he didn't care.. I got angry and tapped in my innate Cosmic powers.. and gave him such a slap it knocked him out. Without rage his ring powered down, I created an atmosphere and other stuff to keep him alive. When he woke up his ring wouldn't fire again.. so we sat and talked. His name was Canfleeze, and he told me this story..


Orange Lantern Corps

Some Malthusians were experimenting with emotional energy and created a Lantern Corp to police the universe. They believed the first corps emotion was 'Guardianship', The first corps were known as 'The Guardians' this is where the Malthusians that became the Guardians got their name, the corps was successful for a time while the Malthusians oversaw the running of it, as time went on, some of the Malthusians started to lose their emotions and so empathy blinding them to the truth of what was happening, unbeknownst to everyone, these peaceful Orange Lanterns had been a trick by Ophidian, who was biding their time, waiting to amass enough Lanterns to caused a civil war, so they would kill each other over greed of the rings. When the Guardians came to Okaara, they found everyone, even all the Malthusians dead, they suspected Krona as they found evidence he had been there already.

Years later, Larfleeze met someone saying that they had an old map to a powerful treasure, he and his brother and two other friends, all of whom were thieves and adventurers, followed the map to Okaara. Eventually they found the Orange Central battery inside a cavern temple.. while looking around a ring jumped out of the battery towards Larfleeze.
Putting the ring on, he became the first being imbued with the power of avarice in a very long time.  He began to collect all the rings from around the cavern, then he noticed his brother and two friends, he goes wild with greed and hate.. shouting 'MINE MINE MINE.. not yours. you can't have it!'
One of his friends picked up a ring and says 'what IS this??' Larfleeze jumped towards him, knocking down and over the edge of the precipice into the lava far below.. Larfleeze is shocked 'you all saw that!! I didn't mean to do it.. but he was stealing my ring!!' the three of them just stand there in silence looking at each other. 'Larfleeze will fix it!!' and he sends one of his rings down to the body which is almost completely burnt out and next thing, his friend pops up as an Orange Lantern. 'You see!! You see!! Larfleeze fix it!!'..'now get out of my home!!' Canfleeze grabs him and says 'You've gone mad! I don't care about the stupid money any more..lets just go home!' Larfleeze says 'This IS my home!' Canfleeze has the mighty-mighty power feelz and grabs his brother and says ' I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE STUPID MONEY..I WANT MY BROTHER BACK!' their friend comments..'this is messed up right here.'

One of the Guardians receives a comunque that their presence is requested on Okaara, knowing the last state the planet was left in, when he shares this news, the Guardians find it slightly alarming.

They go and meet Larfleeze for the first time. Larfleeze has something they want, they have something Larfleeze wants. they make a Treaty.

Larfleeze will rule and own the Vega system but will not attempt to leave.
The Guardians will never interfere with Larfleeze again, and will also take Canfleeze and their friend to safety.

The Treaty was signed by both parties, also a hand print.

Canfleeze is raging mad at Larfleeze, imagine his face so angry, eyes fixated with rage at his brother for abandoning him as he is trapped in a bubble and flown away by a Guardian, we look at Larfleeze, who seems slightly worried by Canfleeze's anger.

I also told Canfleeze a couple of stories about my life.. about the Controllers taking my people hostage and the fight back against them.. after that his ring seemed to fire, I stopped palpitating his blood for him and released the atmosphere.. we parted ways on good terms. I haven't seen him since. The Vega system is actually vast and like a quasi-galaxy. One of my parents is from there and owns a planet and two moons. Feeling doubtful? If you ever see Larfleeze without his armor.. you'll see he has a small stripe on the (right if you're facing his back) left hand side of his back (if he is facing you) ..this afaik from his people, is a family marker, Canfleeze had the same marker but it was purple and not white like Larfleeze. I'm 90% sure they were *actually* closely related. Brothers, afaik cousins have the marker in the same place, but it can be much wider or can duplicated or triplicated, having a different colour again; afaik, means they were from the same 'litter'.

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The Star Sapphires were meant to be heroic in nature, this is what the Zamarons intended, however what they didn't know was The Predator is evil and try as they might, they cannot escape that.. moreover they actually CANNOT escape that, he brainwashes then locked inside crystals.

With Carol Ferris being their #1 Lantern at least those who wish to be heroic can feel inspired by her.

[RP]
Beta actually knows a Sapphire called Ryceen, She told Beta that The Predator regularly takes over her mind, but other times she pretty free to think and act as she pleases.

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Manhunters

[RP]
? .. I fought a lot of them since I came to earth but before that I had never encountered them.


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Red Lantern Corps

[RP]
I've known Analeez since she was a kid, she goes by Bleez now, funny story she told me, when Atrocitus first asked her name, she was so shocked at the amount of blood everywhere and was about to say 'blood'.. but then it came out as 'Bleez'. I was friends with her cousin-uncle Ton-gaz, the 'black sheep' of the family, with crazy ideas that the Havaians should leave their planet and all go adventuring, and anyone who didn't was a woose. Right shame what happened to her. I got pretty mad myself when I heard.

I met up with her a few years ago.. with her trademark slap me in the face, that's she's been doing since she was 5yo. Despite that we talked for ages caught up on all things galactical and personal, I occasionally stared at her de-plumed wings, she was a little annoyed but didn't say anything.. I guess I might of deserved that slap?..but then again it's only natural to be curious.. flip! when she was a kid, she used to try to put her hand in my mouth to 'try to see the stars'..because my skin is a map of the stars. When I told her stop.. she'd slap me.

At one point in the conversation I began to tell her the origin story of the Red Lanterns..and she said 'Nooo Sigma.. that's not how it happened! you're a little foolish if you believe that!' sniggers...under her breath 'idiot!' 'what was that Analeez?'.. 'nothing Sigma' with a half hidden smile, pride bubbling underneath.

'Atrocitus told me the story himself.. and while I admit it was many years ago, I feel there are *key points* many others miss when telling the story..

Atros was a healer on his planet Ryut, he worked a very normal job and came home to his very normal family whom he loved very much. The Guardians had been experimenting with the Manhunters.. *they lie* when they say Krona was renegade during that time, it was sanctioned, we have proof! but yes, years later he became a true renegade & betrayer of his own people, which reveals & betrays to us the nature of Malthusians. The experiments were in alternate fuel sources for the Manhunters, as a few had came back damaged, Krona was given the task to repair the initial design fault in the power supply. He failed. He thought it was fixed but he had not ..not only that, he made it much much worse!

Atros' wedding ring was an old artifact, given to him by his wife on their wedding, they thought nothing more of it; than it was old and had a strange symbol on it. Atros was coming home from work, but at that same time in his sector some of the Manhunters whom Krona had foolishly installed a new power source had infected the other Manhunters, they descended on Ryut killing everyone indiscriminately, upon finding his wife and daughter dead, Atros became incensed. He began searching the streets for Manhunters of which there were many but he saw one whom had a small piece of the cloth of his daughters dress snagged in between it's elbow joint. He ran over to that Manhunter and began smashing it, until there was only the head left, when he cracked the head in two a strange red light came out of it, he was screaming 'AGHAGHAG' at that moment his wedding ring, an inert Orange Lantern Power Ring fired up, not with the light of avarice, but with the Red Light of Rage!! His rage mixed with the faulty rage powered Manhunter had ignited the ring. He understandably went on a killing spree. The Manhunters were too many and wiped out his sector. He saved the lives of four of his friends.. they became 'The Five Inversions' a group committed to doing away with the accursed Guardians.

He and the group invaded Oa and were captured by the Guardians.. don't believe the Guardian lies about 'the empire of tears'.. the empire was merely groups of enemies of the Guardians, with Atrocitus as leader.

He formed an uneasy friendship with Abin Sur over the 'Blackest Night'.. hmm the way Atrocitus talks about Abin, it always reminded me of you Sigma, if he would have lived, I enjoy imagining you both being friends.'

'I can tell when Atrocitus recounts the story .. you are imagining me instead of Abin'

rye smile: 'no comment.'

I can tell when Analeez is around me.. I kinda make her forget about all the awful stuff she's been through and we're like when she was a kid.. I mean her ring never powers down, because basically she's just like that, always kinda angry, you want to have heard her if she didn't get her food on time.. oh.wow. But yeah, she seems lighter. She was with Vice once when I met her.. I was so ashamed she might be embarrassed and not acknowledge knowing me, until he punched me in face and she said 'This is Sigma.. he is one of the beings of the Netherwer, the race of carto-emographers for the Otherworlders, an Infinite Atom, he could give Brainiac a run for his money.. do that again and he will snap you in two!'

That's kinda sweet right? smiles.

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Green Lantern Corps

[RP]

I've met a lot of GLs since I came to earth.. a few reservist friends. Don't have *too* many great stories.. Hal never remembers that he's met me before.. but Guy does, he always says 'HEY!.. it's the weirdo!'.. man! I totally regret taking off my helmet to prove him wrong, but he said he didn't believe I was 'galactic being'.

I overhear them around.. talking about things I know about, then if I'd try to correct them, I imagine they'd be all like 'hey! we know what we're talking about.. who are you? you seem *new*'. hmmm

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Sinestro Corps

[RP]
I always call them 'Yellow Lantern Corps'.. I mean, why break a theme??

Erm.. I kind of know Amon Sur, through strange means I'm not wanting to share... but I don't know where to go from that.

Okay, okay, I met him by accident on an off-world rock/metal/discord/hybrid concert, the line warden put us in the same line to the same door.. man he is brutal when he gets down, we had a good laugh, punching each other in the face. When we were leaving, we both went quiet and left. okay.

Two months later and randomly same thing again, again we had a good laugh, chatted during a break; He told me Sinestro as White Lantern resurrected him in secret during Blackest Night, and he's sticking to his Corps ever since, I told him about Analeez. Then we rocked out and upon leaving we went quiet.

When I see him around, I know he recognizes me and kinda holds off. We both know we coulda been friends, but ..our moralities in the great scheme of things didn't match up so.. I always wonder if he acted on the info I gave him about Analeez, he's never said anything, but I get the gut feeling he did.. and knowing him he cut them in half.. coz he's psycho like that.

Anything else? OHW
Beta told me that Tera hit on Lyssa Drak.. he told her:

'Whatever you do, don't hit on Lyssa Drak in the communal bathrooms on Ranx. Wow that chick just about up lost her mind!'

Yeah Tera.. smooth.. place to meet chicks : communal bathroom.
Senior officer too.. jackpot!
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Blue Lantern Corps

[RP]
The Guardians themselves tend to avoid the Atoms, like they have some innate aversion to us.
With 2 Guardians around the BLs pretty much 24/7 it's been difficult to 'mingle'. I am hoping when their ranks expand, I can meet more, perhaps I can make a BL reservist persona.. I would like that.

Met BL Kyle Rayner a couple of times ..but no stories yet.

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The Indigo Tribe

[RP]

Munk is one cool dude.. I really got on with him, we talked about meditation and music, he can't *really* fight.. I mean Indigo-1 Iroque, she can fight, I fought alongside her few times, but didn't really get on with her, she was a bit stand-off-ish.

I have an acquaintance who's a Indigo Lantern, his name is Thyluki, good dude. I was bodyguarding him during the cleansing of the other Lanterns, see him around he always says 'hi'.

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Black Lantern Corps

[RP]

So when Nekron heard there were Atoms involved during Blackest Night, he tried to grab me for his Black Lantern Corps.. OH MAN! The Spectre showed up and just about knocked him on his rear with a mighty punch to the face! it was SO cool!

'You have not the justice to take this one Nekron!' BAM! punch to the face!

Later on Nekron got him back for this incident.

Oh.. you *may* not know.. for each Lantern Corps they have a 'Guiding Entity', Ophidian for Agent Orange, Ion for the GL's.. The Butcher for the Red Lanterns.. MAN! I met him, he is a stone cold psycho, he *will kill you*. I was lucky enough to be with The Spectre.. (its part of our initiation rights to meet each Entity in person), Well.. for the Atoms, our Entity is The Spectre, the Spirit of God's Vengeance, the Vestment of His Justice. Our job is to create a field of neutrality and peace so that justice can be seen and done. Like if you were to put non-white objects on a totally white table, they would be clearer to see.

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White Lantern Corps

[RP]

I haven't met any per~se, although meeting Kyle when he was a BL was pretty rockin'.

Oh! I met the Life Entity.. that kinda counts right?

He/She.. I dunno, I think it's 'she'.. She talked me in a very strange way and started giving me visions, a tree covered in blood, a planet with an asteroid on fire sinking into the surface, the Source Wall ablaze with light, An old man withering to nothing.. years later and I still don't know what it means.

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The Phantom Ring

[RP]

Oh man! This is a story.. so long long ago the Guardian Rami created the Phantom Power Ring, he was banished until he could destroy it, which he was finding very difficult, he even sent it to the Atoms in case we could destroy it, this was during the time of my predecessor, The Atoms tried to help as best as 'we' could but no luck.. also Omicron publically said 'This is nothing more than a child's toy' which stirred up the novices, and so put pressure on The Atoms to get rid of the ring by sending it back.

which eventually 'we' did.

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The Infinite Atoms

[RP]

I'm Sigma.. one of the beings of the Netherwer, the race of carto-emographers for the Otherworlders, an Infinite Atom.

We have the innate ability to map emotions, and can do this spatially, not just that, every cosmic power, like gravity, force, light, space.. even time to a lesser degree we can tap into.

The Otherworlders are the beings beyond the Source Wall, they originally asked my people to emotionally map the regions of space that would become the Source Wall.. well, that's if you believe the legends, of which some facts line up, some don't. The Netherwer are beings created from space itself.. much like Adam was created from clay, we were created from space, and being made from space, we are tuned to the ultra-natural.

Long ago the Malthusian Controllers tried to enslave us, as they wanted to break through the Source Wall and thought we would aid them by our enslavement.. they failed. We almost wiped them out, but after the rebellion against the Controllers, whom had developed a gravity technology to try to kill us, our peoples were depleted.

I was chosen from few, not many to replace my predecessor.

The origin of The Atoms is a strange one, and I mention the Netherwer existed before this:

Long long ago in the future, The Spectre tried to take control of the entire Green Lantern Corps, thinking this would show him the justice he felt he needed at that time, but the Guardians fought back and overcame him, rejected he traveled back in time, to create his own 'corps'. Billions of years in the past, he found a small galaxy and taking 13 prime individuals, he gave them an axis of the fabric of reality.

                                                            OmegaAtom                                                        
                                               Prime Principle of Organization                                          

                              ZetaAtom                                        AlphaAtom                                            
               Prime Principle of Fallacy                    Prime Principle of Reason                                                          
                TeraAtom                                                                    BetaAtom                                  
       Prime Principle of Chaos                             Prime Principle of the Ultra-Natural                                            
         GammaAtom                                                                     DeltaAtom
   Prime Principle of Reaction                                                 Prime Principle of Duty                                
         ThetaAtom                                                                            KappaAtom
Prime Principle of Forgotten Knowledge                   Prime Principle of Discipline                                        
          PhiAtom                                                                               EpsilonAtom                      
   Prime Principle of Self-Enrichment                             Prime Principle of Community                    

            RhoAtom                                                                        SigmaAtom                                    
  Prime Principle of Self-Reliance                                  Prime Principle of Cooperation                                                                                                                

There are only 13 Atoms, each chosen from the Netherwer.. asin~ not every Netherwer is an Atom, but every Atom is a Netherwer. The Netherwer are monastic people, we mostly reside at the Lighthouse Galaxy, but we can go as we please, as it is our nature to wander.

As an Atom, I am allowed to leave the boundaries and on serious occasion I am allowed to visit 'The White Room' it is a room adjoining First Heaven, if I need to speak to a specific Angel or the Lord the Most High of All. I have to date been to the White Room three times. First was to ease the worry of my people, that we had never died before.. when the Controllers killed some of us, it was abhorrent to us, as we do not die.. I *had* to check that our people were in First Heaven and indeed they were. Second time I was summoned. Third time was to retrieve Barry Allen's soul for the Otherworlders.

The Otherworlders

The Otherworlders are beings from beyond the Source Wall, they work for Angels, who in turn work for God. They are also known as 'The Guardians of the Speed Force' as they enter there and create order. They are not the Netherwer's bosses, our bosses are Angels, however they out rank us and so we treat them with special respect.

This is why The Spectre chose us.

They are made of 'Anti-Space' and patrol the outer rim of the Speed Force and the Source Wall.
They did not created us, as we were created by God as ultra-natural beings of creation.
They are much like 'The Monitors' but the jobs are slightly different inasmuch as the Monitors patrol threats to existence, and the Otherworlders patrol and maintain order to what is there.

Basically, they're job is to do what the Atoms do but outside the Source Wall.
There are two conjoined Source Wall/s the inner and the outer.. the outer ecompasses the multiverse and the inner is a mirror and compasses each universe, my people built both.
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Power & Disharmony


Each one of the Infinite Atoms have unfathomable power, they can shape reality, ...and I am no exception. Being The Prime Principle of Cooperation, I can take names and make them into real persona's of myself, every powerset of the Multiverse and every style of power I have within me, Sigma Prime.

The Galaxy itself is a 'lighthouse' of balance sending out calm amongst the cosmos. very few races live there, and the ones who do, are at peace.

What happened?.. a war. I was not the first Prime Principle of this kind, and amongst these ancients, I am very young being only a few thousand years old, whereas many of them are millions of years old. The Prime of Cooperation was retiring to Heaven, and I was chosen as his replacement.

I did not harmonize with my compatriots quickly enough; taking over ten years to master the arts, and still failing. Omega tried to help me, but this 'disharmony' was agony to the other primes, and eventually Zeta's mind snapped and he incapacitated Alpha, quickly joined by Tera who used his Chaos to incapacitate as many as he could of the 'opposing' side.

Kappa and Epsilon were incapacitated, while fighting back, Gamma was deeply injured.

I fled to earth, and found the Justice League Watchtower.. there I met new people who taught me the value of cooperation in a light I had never seen before.

Tera chased after me with an idea to kill, hearing this Beta followed Tera and found us both on Earth.

Back home in the galaxy..

Omicron, Secondary Principle of Disillusion, who was Omega's challenger should he fail, had taken over, Delta was fighting him emotionally but it was very difficult and painful for him.  Omega was, of course, still active and fighting for control, but with so much disharmony.. it's difficult to encourage  peace to perpetuate peace.

I have the power to generate another being, each one from a persona, and that being has the power to generate more beings from each style of power, each persona has to have a lot of work put into it and crafted, as I only get back what I put in.



Sigma Prime.

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I imagine going toe to toe with Brainiac, all 15 Sigma's with anywhere between 2 to 10 armories each. prolly about 50 Sigma's overall hehe, Sigma is a bit like FFVII Cloud Omnislash with all the swords.

I have effectively..

Hi

I have effectively left the game. 6 months is too long to wait combined with Time Capsule gambling and people over taking me with SP in leaps and bounds, leaving me wondering how much they spent..yeh.. much more besides.

I gave up. it finally happened. I stopped hoping they would open up Central City as a proper City like Gotham and Metro, I (and others I have spoken to) had assumed that each DLC would be a new city to play in, I assumed that from Launch.. and when it didn't happen I just kept hoping, this hope died sometime in the last three weeks. Areas are too small, for me to justify how much I spend/spent to support this hobby.. I can get a whole WORLD for that much, never mind a city.

I am down to around an hour a week from 10 hours a day.

About TC's well.. they seemed to 'fix' the problem then un 'fix' it. I have no idea what's going on there. They were meant to be removing the 'trash' aspect of TC's then the next week they put it back in.. i have no idea.. but I had stopped playing before that situation took place.

I fell out of love with DCUO.. and with the new fighting system that is laughly called 'stats revamp' I don't imagine I will ever be back. I will log to spend the prestige for any remaining league members, say hi to any friends maybe hangout.. but this as a hobby for me has died.

It's a shame.. they fixed so many systems in the last DLC, and made much needed quality of life improvements for legendary members..but the idea of ;

1. No Lantern Healer.. and I'll be honest, I realized that it wasn't just 'a' lantern healer I wanted.. but the one I outlined on these pages, it is so crystal sharp in my mind and heart, that I couldn't accept another, it's specifically how I laid it out, THAT'S what I want and NO other. With the fighting system changes coming.. that Lantern Healer can never be, even if by some luck and/or prayer some dev pushed my ideas to fruition, the new fighting system is set to nerf everyone.

2. DayBreak doesn't make Cities. I had talked on the forums (2012 before the move to Pro7) about what I expected from new DLC.. including the opening up of Central City, this is a very old topic, that folks on the forums are well familiar with, but it's 2017 and they ain't goiny do it. the idea isn't going to happen. ever. likewise when I suggested Coast City and gave them a way to do it for near as you can get to free. What I truly expected: for each new City to be the size of Little Bohemia and for every DLC to be a new City. I realized in the last while what I got was: a small amount of content that did not justify the price tag I was paying.

3. PS3 is strangling this game with hardware limitations that I should not have to put up with as a PC user. I know the PS3 user base is somewhat sizeable, however of those, most are children aged 10 to 13 years old. not even legally playing the game. I'm done with that stranger danger babysitting nonsense.. if they want a babysitter they can pay for one. It was meant to be my hobby, and while for the time we have been merged I have been kind, I'm Catholic and believe in being kind to children, I DO want to play my hobby normally with other adults.

4. I don't enjoy being around others in this game anymore.. the DLC's are anti-social in nature, and while I do see DayBreak trying to fix this, they do more harm than good. IF any DB staff read this I'll explain how it works inside that world.. Yknow Gotham Wastelands? people regularly TO THIS DAY* hang out on top of the mausoleum hoping others will land and help them beat Raven as an OW raid boss. DB response: make Raven harder to beat. FLIP ARE YOU STUPID! it brought us together, we made friends!! I personally made around 5 to 10 friends because of that roof and people hanging out and talking. Sorry if I exploded there.. but I forgot DB had done that couple of years ago and suddenly remembered. .. no, no, no, no. DB don't understand how to help people be 'social'.. people need Raven to progress past the doldrums of T5 into their cr 90's.. having a high cr dude come and help you means that T5 is grateful and means you *might* make a friend..but I digress slightly, the main reason, and I do mean *main* is that Gotham Wastelands doesn't feel 'cheap', it's a huge open world, like Metro and Gotham, no invisible barriers in strange claustrophobic places .. its properly sized. which is 'freeing'.. realizing DB don't do 'Cities' ended my love for the game.

5. I have every powerset leveled. can even you imagine what that would be like to relearn every powerset, in a system you don't believe in?.. upsetting. hard work. heart crushing.
 no. I'm not doing that.

So you see where I am coming from, selfish or not, I can't continue supporting this game.
I will keep my chars as premium. no harm there, I have already bought everything else, max inventory slots etc, except max char slots, which I will probably buy once I am a few months out of membership and have not been feeling guilty about not buying stabilizers. OH.. I forgot to explain that..

I have been feeling guilty for months, while not buying stabilizers.. see as this is a hobby, I know and believe it NEEDS to be supported, so when the Devs ask something of me, I believe in having their back, which in turn does many things in the community, to many to list here, but basically the propagation of my hobby.. Devs say 'we need this to do this' community says 'yes we'll support you to keep our hobby going'.. well with Time Capsules, something sinister happened, I mean I paid what? around £1000 total over the months?.. I'm not sure but it was a small fortune. Did I want the stuff in the capsules? no. not really. I was doing it because 1. there was nothing else to do. 2. I believed I was supporting my hobby. 3. They dropped more often, and so reminded me that the Devs needed me, but made me feel like a shill instead of DB boosting promethium boxes which cost me nothing to open.
By the end it 'felt' like a neighbour you don't know well, coming round to your front door and asking to borrow money. NO WAY you should be making me feel bad about your LACK of value for money!

Sigma



*(it happened tonight, while discussing why I was leaving with a friend)

Daxamite 'Blue Fire' NPC Powerset..

Hi

just a quick little note and some quick thoughts on the Daxamite Fire powerset.

It would be identical to the Kryptonian Fire we already have in the game, I know many of the legends chars use the flight abilities, but they are all Fire based chars.

I would make the Daxamite Fire blue, and instead of giving self heals the heals would heal also the group, pretty straight forward. restoration based.

Mon-El, Dev-Um and Rhea-El, would be able to use the flight abilities also, but since this moves them around and we don't want that as healers better to use the basis of normal Fire. In DPS stance they would be identical to Fire, except keeping the colour blue.

Enflame = HoT
Immolation = Priority Heal
Eternal Flame = group shielding for upto 16 players. SC cost 50%.
Burning Determination = group shielding for upto 8 players.
Flame Cascade = Dropper/low cost burst heal
Backdraft = Catcher/if 2 of the party have low health in the next two mins it will be automatically topped up to full health.

6 powers for 6 slots. done!

New Krypton III

New Krypton III

Duo

While investigating the damage Zod did to Metropolis Superman falls strangely ill. Zod also had a plan for Kalel, similar to the one done to Lor-Zod, Red Kryptonite for Superman..We join the duo outside of the Science Spire where Superman is attacking the general population. His clothes are different, somehow reversed in colour scheme.

The duo *try* to subdue Superman, but only succeed in making him go inside of the Science Spire.

Inside Lex Luthor is there, he is shocked at Superman's behaviour, while the duo try to subdue Superman further, Lex goes to retrieve his LexCore Battle Armour, which he refers to for the first time as 'LexCorp Apocalypse'. Once Supes is at half health, Lex returns to fight alongside the duo, once Supes is at a quarter health, Lex says 'I knew this would happen again!' in reference to Zod's guardsmen who broke in before. Lex triggers a handheld device and a large cage made from green Kryptonite falls and surrounds Superman.

Lex turns and says 'well done!.. if there's anything left in the insurance budget, I will be sure to send you both a token reward and a letter of gratitude.'

Lex is referring to the investigation reward,: a chunk of red kryptonite on a plinth. Of which he is the one who send you the reward and the message, the last investigation node is hidden in the elevator shaft  to the left as you enter the room, however it does not open until after Superman is caged.


Alert

Our team step out of their safehouse* when they receive a communication* That:

Rhea-El*, Bizarro Ursa aka 'Mala', Titano, Amazo as K-Man, Brainiac hacked Cyborg Superman, Black K Bizarro. (Heroes)
Rhea-El, Dev-Em * Titano, Eradicator empowered Jorel AI*  Ra-Ya*, Blue K empowered Mon-El (Villains)

'The K Bounties' are in the area, and should be investigated.

At the Queensland Boardwalk* In Little Bohemia the group accidentally come across five of Zod's Kryptonian guardsmen.. just standing in a circle on top of the ferris wheel chatting, hanging out. They get spooked when the team approach and fly off.

The team pursue them, but after finding them standing around in a rooftop for the second time, the same thing happens again.

The third time, we come across them and Jax-Ur surprises us with an attack, and all six attack.
After the battle things wind down, and it seems our work is done.. except we are surprised by Black Zero!  Zod's forces rally and the team fight them all!

After the fight, Black Zero boasts ' I was doing you a FAVOR by coming to destroy the earth quickly.. haha! it was a mercy!.. because the one who is coming will not be so merciful HAHA.. (under breath) stupid humans'

OW 'Riot'

During Ursa Non and Grodd's time at the Oan Science Cells, they caused a lot of disruption ..

We receive a communique from Oracle/Calculator 'Calling all JLA JSA, Legion of Doom, SSSV, Rogues.. EVERYONE.. ANYONE! come to CAO Dam in Metropolis, this is URGENT drop everything! come. now.'

We arrived and EVERY single hero and villain is there, the full JLA full JSA, Full Legion of Doom, every human Lantern.. and in the distance one solitary figure floats high over the distillation reservoir .. 'thanks for coming.. we face an insurmountable threat that we all will need every ounce of strength and guile to beat.. Superboy Prime. oh dear.'

We have a scene where Zod sides up to Superman, Zod is wearing his black and silver version of Superman's suit with a Z on the chest, he said..'I did not know my acts would have such grievous consequences ..(touchingly) Kalel I am truly sorry.' All the others of Zod's ranks are wearing the same suit, while the 'El family' wear S and appropriate colours*.

The situation is this: anyone can join, if you are Acro or SS, a GL will imbue you with the power of flight. you can make groups of upto 16 people per group, Superboy Prime is NOT stat clamped in any way, the lower you are, the quicker you die. As many groups can fight at the same time as there are people willing to make groups. It's in 'real' Metropolis, so level one's might wonder in, but it's all part of the experience. The community AS A WHOLE gets to have a crack at Superboy Prime.

He emanates light* that he absorbed while in the Cells. and depending on which light, determines when the groups should attack.

Red = don't attack just block or he will heat vision you into oblivion.
Green = again no. He will suck vast amounts of people toward him and kill them.
Blue = no, this boosts his defence even further.
Purple = yes, attack now while he is healing.
Violet = no, if you attack now he will debuff anyone who attacks and it takes ages to go away.
Yellow = yes attack now, while he PoTing himself.


I am basing this experience for players on.. back in the day 2012, you would make two raid parties and go fight sub-avatar.. it was AWESOME fun, load of people whose level was prolly too low just went and destroyed him :) the above is an evolution of that idea.

Rewards:
Uncapped scaled armor.
Gold Plan for making old gold items into scaleable gold items.
Random FOS Pet trinket
Purple K (currancy)

*(the relevant faction PD or NC)
*(Daxamite equiv to Superboy)
*(like PZ FOS instance)
*(female kryptonian scientist who was trapped in the Phantom Zone, formerly Jor-El's assistant, now Alura's chief Scientist)
A clean version without grodd's troops. see below.
in fact the whole of Little Bohemia is 'cleaned'.

From Lex Luthor or Supergirl.

*Rhea-El Mon-El's mother. who would LOVE another planet to rule, as per the 'New Daxam' supergirl storyline, in our story Daxam still exists but 1/3rd of the whole planet is a burnt wasteland, like after a nuclear war would be here on earth.
*Power Girl and Mon-El have a S clasp for their capes.
*(changing vanilla auras would be easy to see)

I did a mockup of Superman's reverse outfit :

New Krypton II

New Krypton II

I actually have it all planned out in my head :D.. erm.. if anyone wants a read.. then read on. if not TL : DR :)

New Krypton II

Zod invades Metropolis

Duo
Ursa was spotted at Stryker's Island, and we are enlisted to investigate, outside we see charring of the building, and loads of dead mobs. the place has an eerie stillness/silence.

We enter Stryker's and follow the trail of destruction, inside the 'Doll Room' are many Kryptonian Guardsmen lead by Jax-Ur. He commands that the duo are vanquished, a fight ensues, and only when the duo win does he take part. Jax-Ur is smart, and in this story is Zod's chief scientist*, he uses both kryptonian technology and abilities against the duo, but after a hard fought battle, he was no match for the duo.

Further in to Strykers, the duo come across Ursa, she is with Grodd telling him that 'Zod has a plan', suprised by the duo she and Grodd attack. Once fought, Ursa and Grodd teleport away, as the duo barely escape with their lives, as Ursa has been on earth long enough to absorb much yellow sunlight, and her power shows this.

Alert
We receive a communication that Ursa, Grodd and Non have attacked Oa, and are trying to 'break IN to?!?' as Guy Gardner puts it, the Oan Science cells. We arrive and the ceiling has been ripped off and a stasis field put over the cells, many Lanterns of differing corps are trying to escape through the hole in the ensuing chaos, including Krona who instantly attacks the group and the corps follow his lead, after the fight, the stasis field destabilizes and a strong wind starts to move the group around and then suck them up into the Oan sky.

When above, the group sees what has been happening, Non has been fighting many GL's by creating whirlwinds and vacuums, and even though there must be around 40 GL's.. Non is winning. The GL's see the group and recognize they are powerful, if any of the group need it, a GL imbues them with the power of flight. After fighting Non, the group can see inside the cell chamber that Ursa, Grodd and someone else is making their escape, the group return to the chamber to foil whatever this 'plan' of Zod's is. The groups fight with the exception of the mysterious person, who is shrouded, halfway through Non recovers and joins the fight, the group win but barely, 'Ursa shouts at Non: Leave him! he has done his task.' And .. as the group arrests Grodd... he gently laughs.

Raid

Zod has decimated Centennial Park .. The Superman statue lays sadly on its side diagonally heat-visioned in two. The surrounding buildings have scorch marks on them, the team are joined by Superman, Supergirl, Powergirl, Superboy, Bizarro, Alura, Mon-El*, Martian Manhunter, giving us two sets of raid parties.

Zod has around 40 Kryptonian Guardsmen*.. everyone of them with a NAME. No red shirts here. This is Zod's Elite Guardsmen (and women, relax it's just a saying).

Zod shouts 'Kalel your experiment of kindness to these humans has failed, I have asked you many times to join me but still you resist, when will you take your rightful place as a prince of our people? never, as you love the animals, and champion them even in their filth* and idolatry'.. Superman answers ' I do believe in their right to *choose* who they are.. and I accept that I have not always shamed them for looking up to me, they needed a hero as every child does'..Zod replied..' you speak of choice and of children, but YOU are the one whom locked MY OWN SON away from ME and his mother! You speak like the animals! no thought, only emotion!' Superman is shocked, as he realizes what Zod and Ursa have done..

The whole scene explodes in battle.. Zod Ursa Non Jax-Ur, Zod's Elite Guardsmen.. and Lor-Zod!

The battle is furiously fought, Lor-Zod is MUCH more powerful than his parents*, Superman begs 'please..don't do this Lor!' .. but Lor answers ' You're quoting me when you send me away?? I begged you! hahah'

..when the battle is near fought,  .. there was an important reason Bizarro was on the team, aside from being friends with Supes, Biz is immune to the full effects of Green Kryptonite, as is MM and Mon-El, Bizarro pulls out a huge chunk and flies at Lor-Zod and makes him eat it, while MM and Mon-El hold him down. With Zod's team exhausted they flee..

We have a scene.. Power Girl turns to Mon-El and says 'hey handsome!" Supergirl answers 'hey hands off!' Power Girl says 'I got enough kisses for everyone, relax.' then she blows a kiss at Supergirl. while Superboy says 'This is great, we're hardly ever together like this.. like a family.' Superman and Alura chuckle..

END of New Krypton II

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*In many stories Jax-Ur is like Zod, I would suggest he pretends to be Zod to further Zod's cause, a body double where people are not sure what the original looks like. He just tells them he's Zod and they believe him. He is a capable fighter like Zod even though he is a scientist, and I would suggest him as a member of Non's original team on Krypton. Note, Non has been driven mad by both the Phantom Zone, and the Kryptonian Councils betrayal of him and Jorel, their betrayal meant billions of lives perished on Krypton, as Non and Jorel were the only two to tell the people the truth of Krypton's imminent destruction. Ursa was the next to find out when she interrogated Non and Jorel, many Kryptonians believing the Council's lies for a long time, she took the proof of Non and Jorel's discovery to Zod, which in turn led to a revolt on Krypton. Billions of lives could have been saved if the Council had approved Non and Jorel's plan for evacuation of Krypton, however even knowing the truth, they refused to sacrifice their technology, status and life-style.. A very flippant reason.. it was politically unsustainable, that if they led the evacuation of Krypton the remaining Kryptonians would have banished them to the Phantom Zone for losing Krypton in the first place.

*(Supergirl's Daxamite BF)
In DCUO I would make Daxamites the Healer equivalent to Kryptonian Tanks. both powersets the same Fire but balanced differently.
Superman = Tank/Everyone specifically not listed = DPS/Mon-El = Healer/Martian Manhunter = Controller. Krypto is guarding FOS. OR make him Iconic, a legends style Kryptonian with a pet of Krypto.
NPC's have proper health and defence, save knockouts and fully act like human group members.

*Zod also has a 'raid' party of 5 members but no proper healer or controller, a Tank who can also DPS while in Tank stance; Lor-Zod and the rest are DPS.. Lor-Zod =Tank / Zod = DPS / Ursa = DPS /  Non = DPS /  Jax-Ur = DPS except he uses supply drops for his raid parties support so Jax-Ur = DPS/Tech Support

* Filth = Krypton has a 'caste system' you are born into your job, it is assigned by your lineage. Zod believes in the system absolutely, and the thought of 'breeding for choice' disgusts him.
While Krypton has no 'monarchy' per se, of old both Daxam and Krypton did, Krypton changing to the caste system, but in this, there was still a council of Kryptonians who were held absolute in judgement, Jorel was one of those council members. the house of EL has many facets, and was the original house of Royalty, as it was on both Daxam and Krypton, this is why Mon-EL is a prince of Daxam. Even though Krypton has 'done away with' the royalty aspect of governance, it is still very present in the minds of Kryptonians, that should a member of the house of EL be of high prestige, he or she is STILL treated as royalty.

* He grew up on earth, Clark and Lois adopted him for a short time (4 years) but when he was 15yrs old he killed a fellow student in a moment of anger, Clark became afraid that he would get angry, snap and kill Lois, it was a cowardly move to send him to the Lanterns but he knew how powerful Lor-Zod was becoming, and its not like there are many places he could send him. sending him to the Phantom Zone would only reinforce Zod's control over Lor-Zod.

Throwback Elite.. suggestion..

Apr 8, 2017

Hi guys

I have been thinking about this for, idk, couple of years, but didn't say anything, because I didn't want to encourage stat clamping in anyway. For many players who are veterans and for newer players who missed out what it was like to play at launch or in the first year, I heard Jacob the Rebel on #askdcuo (see link, thx Trex!) ask about older content..

I have had this idea, for ages, the content could be scaled to end game and made elite, specifically, FOS 1,2 and 3 as one continuous instance, and Batcave 1,2 and 3 as one continuous instance.

Rewards would exclude green gear and include as a marked down, blue version to SM's purple, the pet trink rewards from SM's for the last boss.

You would not be rewarded ANY marks, but have a chance at each sub-boss to earn a blue scaling armor piece (FOS: Sunstone Bulwark/ Batcave: Vengeance) or Purple (FOS:Vesture of Proselyte /Batcave : Avatar Bombardier ). And upon the boss as I mentioned, you would receive the appropriate blue version SM reward, sub-bosses only drop armor, bosses only drop pet trinkets. Which pets you get would be random.

I would like to see this reset daily.. why? 'won't that cause scaling issues?'..not really because you have to be with 5 cr of max cr to enter, so much of the armor drops will be trash, except for the style and the pets. 'Shouldn't we keep the prestige of owning such a trinket for Survival Mode?' Players can easily inspect the trinket user and see he/she got the trink from Throwback Elite.. and really.. Throwback elite is meant to be 'epic'.. SM is grueling and rightly so.. Throwback Elite will be as hard as end game Elite content and be 3 times as long. So hard work like that deserves a decent reward eh?

It would appear much like Legends PVE in the Events Tab, but last 1 month then changing to the other raid. More raids of similar size could be added, like Lantern and HoF* content.

These would be for members ONLY.

The event I imagine would be easily scaleable to match max cr, meaning, once increased, it can be increased again by the same percentage once the max cr is higher. no stat clamping needed!

I played those raids at launch, i have some fond memories, some not so fond haha! (griefing on the troller) and I would love to feel that way again, stat clamping does not accomplish this, and only makes me humiliated, scaling the instances as a special elite event *ensures* I will have as a tough a time I did back at launch*, as will new players who did not get to have those experiences and felt they missed out.

If you like this idea, and I don't see why you wouldn't hehe, hit with a like to show your support.

have a great and bizarre day!

Sigma




* Trexlight's upload of #askdcuo

*A&B + Zama alert scaled to a raid then Blackest Day + Blackest Night (a black dawn combined with with a vengeance, and wayward souls upgraded to a raid)
*PC launch EU server, I joined in autumn 2011, didnt do my first raids til the next year hehe

Updated this article today (13/05/2017)
original is here : https://forums.daybreakgames.com/dcuo/index.php?threads/elite-throwback-content-event-suggestion.285755/#post-3932475

Powerset Classes.. or 'The Power of the Rhythm'

Hi

Just quickly putting these out.

Powers;

Tank

Fire
Earth
Atomic
Ice
Rage (RL)


Troller

Gadgets
Mental
Light (GL/YL)
Quantum
Munitions


Healer

Nature
Sorcery
Celestial
Electricity
Water

In order of release

Launch

Fire Tank
Ice Tank
Gadgets Controller
Mental Controller
Nature Healer
Sorcery Healer

'New' Powers

GL/YL Lantern Controller
Electricity Healer
Earth Tank
Celestial Healer
Quantum Controller
Red Lantern Tank
Munitions Controller
Atomic Tank
Water Healer

When Water comes out, it'll be 5 x 5 x 5 with all classes equal.. however nice that sounds it totally bums me out that, i'd have to wait for a Lantern Healer. Will it be Shadow Tank then Cosmic Controller.. then Lantern Healer??

I was tired of waiting last year so ill probably not be here (DCUO) by the time it comes out. I enjoyed the rhythm of '2 new powers a year'. Atomic was the last powerset in Nov 2015.

I realize the stats revamp is coming, but after they broke my heart seeing DB removed infinite combos from GL/YL.. I am not looking forward to it, to say the least.

Endless Magic content also 'plagues' DCUO.. I think this game is no longer for me. I think I came here to write an article.. but had forgotten that this game should be avoided by me now. The 4000 hours of being league staff bearing down on me like a weight.. pushing me back to DCUO. I hope common sense prevails coz this game is making me more and more miserable. I will miss my friends and the ability to make new online friends...but I can't keep doing this to myself, the whole time i'm online in DCUO im thinking about Lanterns.. and all this magic content just makes it worse as i try to avoid thinking about how boring and hippy-ish magic is to me.

A while ago, I was leveling one of my chars, was level 11 or something, and wonder woman told me of my completed mission.. i thought 'wow that was some sexy acting..what kind of reward do you have back at the police station for me?'.. it struck me as odd that I had liked this, then I started to think about the Harley Quinn voice acting fiasco .. I was motivated to compliment Susan Eisenberg on twitter and to my surprise she liked it and wrote back, I didn't want to lose our WW too, and everything I said was true, I didn't lie.

The story of SigmaAtom's RP is an ongoing development.. and things and ideas change..but lets finally get this story told.


Long long ago in the future, The Spectre tries to take control of the entire Green Lantern Corps, thinking this would show him the justice he felt he needed at that time, but the Guardians fight back and overcome him, rejected he travels back in time, to create his own 'corps'. Billions of years in the past, he finds a small galaxy and taking 13 prime individuals, he gives them an axis of the fabric of reality.

                                                            OmegaAtom                                                          
                                               Prime Principle of Organization                                            

                              ZetaAtom                                        AlphaAtom                                              
               Prime Principle of Fallacy                    Prime Principle of Reason                                                            
                TeraAtom                                                                    BetaAtom                                    
       Prime Principle of Chaos                             Prime Principle of the Ultra-Natural                                              
         GammaAtom                                                                     DeltaAtom
   Prime Principle of Reaction                                                 Prime Principle of Duty                                  
         ThetaAtom                                                                            KappaAtom
Prime Principle of Forgotten Knowledge                   Prime Principle of Discipline                                          
          PhiAtom                                                                               EpsilonAtom                        
   Prime Principle of Self-Enrichment                             Prime Principle of Community                      

            RhoAtom                                                                        SigmaAtom                                      
  Prime Principle of Self-Reliance                                  Prime Principle of Cooperation                                                                                                                  



Each one of these beings are OP, they have the power to shape reality, ...and Sigma is no exception. Being The Prime Principle of Cooperation, he can take names and make them into real persona's of himself, every powerset of DCUO and every armory Sigma has is all within him, Sigma Prime.

The Galaxy itself is a 'lighthouse' of balance sending out calm amongst the cosmos. very few races live there, and the ones who do, are at peace.

What happened?.. a war. Sigma was not the first Prime Principle of his kind, and amongst these ancients he is very young being only a few thousand years old, whereas many of them are millions of years old. The Prime of Cooperation was dying, and Sigma was chosen as his replacement.

Sigma did not harmonize with his compatriots quickly enough taking over ten years to master the arts, and still failing. Omega tried to help Sigma, but this 'disharmony' was agony to the other primes, and eventually Zeta's mind snapped and he killed Alpha, quickly joined by Tera who used his Chaos to kill as many as he could of the 'opposing' side.

Kappa and Epsilon were killed, while fighting back, Rho was deeply injured.

Sigma fled to earth, and found the Justice League Watchtower.. there he met new people who taught him the value of cooperation in a light he had never seen before.

Tera chased after Sigma with an idea to kill him, hearing this Beta followed Tera and found them both on Earth.

Back home in the galaxy..

Omicron, Secondary Principle of Disillusion, who was Omega's challenger should he fail, had taken over, Delta was fighting him emotionally but it was very difficult and painful for him.  Omega was, of course, still alive and fighting for control, but with so much disharmony.. balance was an essential requirement.

Sigma has the power to generate another being, each one from a persona, and that being has the power to generate more beings from each armory, each persona has to have a lot of work put into it and crafted, as Sigma only gets back what he puts in.


I imagine going toe to toe with Brainiac, all 15 Sigma's with anywhere between 2 to 10 armories each. prolly about 50 Sigma's overall hehe, Sigma is a bit like FFVII Cloud Omnislash with all the swords.


Sigma Prime.



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Writing that story was the most fun I've had in DCUO for almost a year! stupid magic content!