No idea.

For captures, I'll decree that the Decepticons could not capture Hal. 1) He's 'In Contact With G'nort' 2) Mogo is right there behind him 3) the rules could go either way based on the scenario as to whether Hal's the last man standing or not, so GM fiat (based on 1&2) is that he can't be captured.

Hm... could have led to a rescue mission to save him. Of course then he would not be earning any points till he was freed and I am desperately trying to upgrade so I can increase the size of my teams.

Does my capture on the other side stand?

turn 14a:
1) Hal makes a break for it. Rolls for Breakaway gets a 6. He changes to soaring mode and moves to P24 (soaring).

Green Lantern Corps:

1) [18] E Katma Tui - 89 J7
2) [13] John Stewart (V Arwyn) - 43 H5
Total: 132

Vs.

The Zealots:
1) Krargg (V Hydra Officer) - 24 KOed
2) Seran (V Kobra Fanatic) - 24 KOed
3) Furhak (V SWAT Specialist) - 22 koed
4) Goram (E HIVE Trooper) - 22 captured!

Total: 92 pts

-And-

The Green Lantern Corps:

3) [13+2] R Unl Green Lantern*,^ - 90 (1/7) P24 (soaring) @14

* w/ Force Field - 10 (?)
^ w/ In Contact with G’nort - 10

Total: 110 pts

Vs.

The Starfighters:

5) CyCore (U Bat Sentry) - 67 (4/7) F18
6) Blitzking (U Bat Sentry) - 67 (4/7) K21
7) Valius (U Bat Sentry) - 67 (Koed

Total: 201

Map: Marvel 3

HO: P7, P8
LO: J9, J21, J23

Well, I gave you the chance to escape and you took it.

I can't chase you down since you have willpower on that last click and since you're in soaring, you can't make an attack next turn either so it looks like that's game.

Thanks. Hal's second click isn't bad but I would much rather not start on it. Besides, it makes sense that with G'nort and Mogo backing him up he would fall back and get help rather than fight to the bitter end. Thanks for the game, it made me rack my brains trying to come up with a way to beat the 3 Bat Sentinels. At least I got one of them and knocked the other two down to 1/2 their clicks. Until this game I never realized how useful Force Field is. I will have to use it more often!

Two things:

1) It's the last issue of the arc, so damage wouldn't have crossed over if you'd chosen to stand and fight.

2) The capture you made still stands.

...and did you ever use the omni-perplex boost from ICwG? I didn't notice it coming up-- could have been helpful

Yeah, that would have probably helped.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHGGGGGG!!!!!!! I can't belive that I missed that! I was just going with the using G'ort's PC! That would have been an extra, what, 5 or 6 clicks?!? I don't think I could have gotten all of them but at least one more would have gone down. Sigh.

Don't worry about it. You'll have fun next issue, so it's all good.

Ah well its all for fun right?

Individual:
[18+2 more for capture!*=20] E Katma Tui 5 IXP, 0 IAP
[15] R Unl Green Lantern (Hal) 3 IXP, 3 IAP

Guest
[13] John Stewart (V Arwyn)

Team
[46+2 more for capture*] 12 TXP, 0 TAP

KO’s & Captures

Ko's
Krargg (V Hydra Officer) - 24
Seran (V Kobra Fanatic) - 24
Furhak (V SWAT Specialist) - 22
Valius (U Bat Sentry) - 67

Total (137)/4 = 34.25 TAP = 35 TAP = 8 TXP 3 IXP

Captures
Goram (E HIVE Trooper) - 22

Total 22 * .4 = 8.8 TAP = 9 TAP = 2 TXP 1 TAP

Totals for this game:
Individual:
R Hal Jordan 3 IXP 3 IAP
E Katma Tui - 5 IXP 0 IAP

Team
12 TXP, 0 TAP

Old Totals:
R Unl Green Lantern, 26 IXP, 1 IAP
E Katma Tui, 14 IXP, 3 IAP
LE Leg Jade (Jennifer-Lynn Hayden), 11 IXP, 1 IAP
R G’nort, 1 IXP, 0 IAP

Team
Team: 143 TXP, 1 TAP

New Totals:
R Unl Green Lantern, 30 IXP, 0 IAP (2 more IXP for E!)
E Katma Tui, 19 IXP, 3 IAP
LE Leg Jade (Jennifer-Lynn Hayden), 11 IXP, 1 IAP (9 more for E)
R G’nort, 1 IXP, 0 IAP

Team
Team: 155 TXP, 1 TAP

*I just reread the rules and realised that captures are 4 pts not 2 like Koes. Also that it is +4 to def. not +2, good thing I rolled high enough that it didn't matter!

Somebody double check the math?

I forgot this last arc so I am going to go ahead and do it now. I will apply it after my training however.

Old Totals:
R Unl Green Lantern, 30 IXP, 0 IAP (2 more IXP for E!)
E Katma Tui, 19 IXP, 3 IAP
LE Leg Jade (Jennifer-Lynn Hayden), 11 IXP, 1 IAP (9 more for E)
R G’nort, 1 IXP, 0 IAP

Team
Team: 143 TXP, 1 TAP

Hal rolls a 5,5=10! wow ok makes up for forgetting last time. 2 TXP 2 IAP
Katma Tui rolls a 3 IAP (I assume with only one figure she only gets a single roll)
Jennifer-Lynn Hayden rolls a 6,4=10 also! 2 TXP 2 IAP
G'nort rolls a 4. 1 IXP

New Totals:
R Unl Green Lantern, 32 IXP, 2 IAP (Enough for E!)
E Katma Tui, 20 IXP, 2 IAP
LE Leg Jade (Jennifer-Lynn Hayden), 13 IXP, 3 IAP (4.25 more for E)
R G’nort, 2 IXP, 0 IAP

Team
Team: 155 TXP, 1 TAP

I will upgrade Hal after my training to the E version. I will also use 10 of my original Feat Build Points to get the Force Field Feat for him.

New Totals:
E Unl Green Lantern (Hal) *, 0 IXP, 2 IAP
* With Force Field
E Katma Tui, 20 IXP, 2 IAP
LE Leg Jade (Jennifer-Lynn Hayden), 13 IXP, 3 IAP (4.25 more for E)
R G’nort, 2 IXP, 0 IAP

Team
Team: 155 TXP, 1 TAP



Build squad size calculation:
E Unl Green Lantern (Hal) 125
E Katma Tui 89
LE Jennifer-Lynn Hayden 74
R G'Nort 70
Total 358 Points = 350 / 2 = 225 points! Yay bigger teams! More points possible! Only took me 6 months to get there!

I will leave squad makeup to the discression of the editors as I enjoy playing all these figures.

End Post:

John and Katma piled the unconscious bodies of the fallen radicals, picking through the AgriCorps camp as they went. The damage was significant, but not overwhelming; within days the terraforming project would be back on schedule.

“You'll take them back to Oa?” John asked.

“Yes,” Katma said as she shackled the terrorist they had captured. “This one will go in for questioning. We'll find out what they want and why they've been attacking you.”

She paused and looked at John's face to try and read his expression. “And I'll take Frozz back as well. He'll receive a proper burial, I promise.”

“I'm sure he will,” John sighed, sitting down heavily on a crate nearby. “It puts a wrench in the project, though. Frozz was deep in this work-- anybody who replaces him will have a steep curve to get caught up with where we are.”

“Then maybe...” She paused and watched him, wondering what he would do when she finished her thought. “Maybe someone should recommend that you be placed in charge of the restoration.”

“Me? But I'm a--”

“It would have to be someone of rank, of course,” she continued, walking ahead of him as she pretended to think it out. “Someone the Guardians would not be inclined to deny. If there were someone who, having recently been put in an uncomfortable position – and being respected and esteemed enough that their voice carried some weight – that person might be able to leverage their seeming emotional distress as a means to receive a small but valued favor.”

“Why would you do that?” he asked, watching her with the same inquisitive gaze she had given him.

“You think I should be the one?” she said to him, and he almost couldn’t tell whether she was joking. “Well, I suppose I would do in a pinch. And for a project this important, only a man deeply knowledgeable about the process and intimately familiar with the setting and the workers would be able to move the terraforming forward at the needed pace.”

“Needed pace? What's your hurry?”

“There are families numbering in the tens of thousands who are homeless and bereft. I'm sure they would appreciate this world being made habitable again with all possible speed.”
“Well,” he sighed, rubbing his neck and standing. “I wouldn't mind taking over this post. Looks like the rest of the camp will be fine – Frozz protected them all, and we were here soon enough to stop it before it got worse. Give me the chance to get this place up and running again, and you'll be amazed at how fast she'll grow.”

“I will do that,” she smiled softly. “And when we know what these people wanted, I will come back to tell you myself.”

“Thank you,” he smiled back, and she nodded in return. Taking flight, she wrapped the prisoner in an emerald bubble and flew away. He watched her and then stared at the starry sky before he turned back to help the others survey the damage to the compound.
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[We have you now!] the lead robot spoke, as two of them flanked Hal.

“Take a hike, Starscream,” Jade screamed out, flying in from out of nowhere and blasting one of the remaining machines to pieces.

[It has come!] the last howled in fear as Jade approached. [The bringer of the end... the bearer of the light!]

It transformed back into a starfighter and flew away at an amazing speed, and Jade let it go, watching with confusion and surprise.

“Huh,” she said with a shrug. She turned to Hal. “Do you Green Lanterns always get that kind of response when you go around?”

“No,” he said flatly, waving G'nort over.

“Psh – no need to be testy,” Jade laughed. “Just 'cause I saver your butt, and all. It's just part of the job.”

“You didn't 'save my butt.'” Hal frowned, cocking an eyebrow. “I had everything under control.”

“Oh, yeah – sure you did. Just letting them get a false sense of security, were ya? When were you gonna unleash the fury, Jordan?”

“Oh, it was coming. Believe it, cupcake.”

“Suuuure it was,” she laughed. He tried to hold his serious face, but a smirk broke out that he couldn't control.

“So what did Mogo tell you?” he asked as he, Jade and G'nort began to fly away.

“Oh, well, he pretty much just helped me through the stuff I'd been dealing with lately, y'know? It's been more than a little weird out here, and I don't always know what to do with it all. It gets, like... heavy, you know what I mean?”

“Yeah, I remember how out of my mind I was when I first came out here,” Hal smiled. “It took me a little while to get my head straight and adjust to the new life.”

“Yeah, it's that kind of stuff. But there was some other stuff, too.” She hesitated, then went on more quietly. “He said that there was this, um, darkness that was all around me. Like something pure black that was in my orbit like a moon that spun closer and closer until it would collide with me. He said that if that happened, everything could end.”

“Everything?”

“Yeah. I think he meant everything everything. But then he also said that I had a light inside me that was as bright as the black thing was dark. That if I could find that, then the moon would be repelled into the sun.”

“See, that's exactly why I don't go to Mogo for head shrinking,” Hal sighed, shaking his head. “He always talks in circles, and none of it means anything. That and I don't need my head shrunk.”

“Yeah. Right.” Jade didn't press the issue, and when she didn't offer some kind of comeback, Hal knew that she had a lot on her mind.

She didn’t make any attempts at conversation on the trip back to Oa, and he obliged her the time to think and contemplate.
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The first thing Sin'nus Roe saw when he opened his eyes was the ground beneath his cheek. It was an olive drab color, and specks of dirt blew over earth the consistency of clay. It was cool under his body, but hard and uncomfortable. He hurt all over.

His clothes were gone, but he wasn't concerned for his modesty. His only thought was the pain in his gut – the fire that rolled through his insides as if he were burning alive. He felt more awful and sick than he ever had in his life, and it could only mean one thing.

He was alive.

Roe tried to push his body up off the ground, but didn't have the strength. Instead, he rolled himself onto his back and stared up at the night sky. His mind boggled at what he saw; nothing was right about this place. It was all wrong. The vastness of space swirled in the heavens above, but it wasn't black or the deep blue of nebulae – it was red like swirled pools of old blood. The stars were specks of glowing blackness and violet.

“What is this place...?” he wondered aloud, testing his vocal chords and finding them raw and ragged but serviceable. He could feel his minds neurons popping and crackling as he desperately tried to get hold of where he was.

“You were banished from your universe,” a voice told him. As it spoke, he remembered. The trial, the sentence... the tortuous pain of the banishment.

He had watched his body unmade, and though he was whole again, he was certain that something in him had been lost. Perhaps it was lost forever, but he couldn't feel anything about it one way or the other. He merely noted its absence and added it to the list he began formulating of the evils he had suffered.

“Yes, you have indeed suffered much,” the voice said, as if it had read his mind. It was smooth and measured; comforting and somehow familiar. “They cast you aside. You! The greatest and most wise of them all.”

“They...?”

“The Green Lantern Corps,” it hissed. “The Guardians of the Universe.”

“Jordan!” Sin'nus spat. His mind may have been unresponsive to him, but he remembered the betrayal of his greatest student – perhaps his only friend. Had they ever truly been friends? It seemed forever ago, and he found it hard to recall happiness.

“Yes,” the voice agreed, soothing him by validating his loathing, his growing hatred. “You gave him everything, and he betrayed you utterly. But you can still have your vengeance. This is not your end.”

Sin'nus drew himself to his knees slowly and with great pain. He had to force his nerves and sinew to respond; had to drive memories of movement back into his tortured muscles. When he was kneeling, he saw feet before him and looked up into the darkened silhouette of the voice.

“Vengeance,” he said, his tongue enjoying the taste of the word. “Yes... they must suffer as I have. Jordan must suffer...”

Memories surfaced, and confused him. He was greatly confused – nothing felt right, here; especially his own mind had become alien to him. It was as if his blood flowed backward. He remembered Hal Jordan.

“He was... my friend...” Roe whispered, and his lips felt dry. It was as if his body fought his feelings. “I taught him. He didn't understand-- didn't realize... He could--”

“He deceived and denounced you,” the voice insisted, and the words pounded Roe's skull into submission. “He is a usurper; a turncoat. An arrogant child, he seeks to supplant you. Traitor, I name him. He must die.”

“...must... die...”

“And the Guardians with him,” the voice nodded, reaching a hand out to the weakened and tortured Sin'nus Roe. “And when the Corps is no more, we shall bring order to the Universe.”

“Yes,” Sin'nus said, a smile growing on his cracked lips as he took the hand that was offered to him. “Destroy them all... bring order to the Universe. My order.”

“Our order,” the voice corrected as Sin'nus took his feet. “You were cast out of their number, and Sin'nus Roe was killed. You have been remade in the fires of the Anti-Matter Universe. You are born again on Qward.”

“I will return to them,” Roe growled, arching his back and standing to his full, dominant height. “I will be the bringer of death. I will be their unmaker. All will fall before me,”

“The Green Lanterns will at last know fear,” the voice spoke, booming over the horizon. “The Guardians will feel terror before their ends. You will bring it to them, and then deliver unto their immortal bodies true death.”

The hand of the voice reached out to Sin'nus, and in its palm rested a yellow ring. It flared to life, glowing brilliant azure and lighting up the face of his deliverance.

“You...?” he said in shock.

“Your body will remember itself when you hold your power again,” the man said. “Take what is yours. Christen thyself in the yellow flame.”

His hand reached out and the former Green Lantern felt the ring under his fingers. His life was flashing through his mind – his long life of service. Korugar. Home. His devotion and love of the Corps. His pride in his accomplishments. Friendships made, justice brought to lawless lands. Dead worlds brought to life. His students – Hal Jordan and Katma Tui. His happiness.

One by one, they were discarded. One by one, he burned them from his mind. He felt the wall of calm and peace he had spent a lifetime erecting in his heart torn down by his own hands, and as the flames within leapt to life, he reveled in the freedom and power of his hate.

He took the ring, and let its power enter him. Sliding it on his finger, he was awash in yellow fire that burned as hot as the sun. He laughed at it as his will forced it down. Within moments, he was master of the yellow ring of power. The flames died, and Sin'nus Roe died with them.

“Name yourself,” the voice spoke.

A cruel smile spread on his face. He would be that which they had always feared in secret silence. He would be the bringer of their death.

“I am Sinestro.”

In the distance, beyond the mountains of the Qwardian desert, unseen hordes began to chant his name. It boomed over the night as Sinestro rose into the air on a pillar of golden flame.

The voice laughed. It was finally time.

To Be Continued...