The Annihilation Wave is being beaten back by a mighty coalition of empires lead by the Shiar Spartax Coalition, even as they are attacked from within by the Skrull Empire, who reveal themselves to be religious zealots working to assure the victory of the invaders from another reality. Darkseid has been overthrown and Steppenwolf has risen to claim the mantle of lord of Apokolips! Meanwhile the Justice League Galactic Division gathers their strength as they consider what thier next move is. All this may be pointless though as Lyssa Drak turns to unlikely allies to try and purify her mind from the poison that is Parallax! The end draws near, so grab you dice, your clix, and brace yourself for Chapter 8: The Only Thing to Fear!

Story:


Darkseid had lead his armies to victories and defeats. He had invaded the Green Lantern Worlds, and smashed Kree soldiers that dared challenge his might. Now, it was he who laid broken before a superior foe. Steppenwolf had shown himself for the backstabbing traitor he was, striking down the lord of Apokolips on what should have been a moment of glory for the ever growing empire. Not just that, but Algrim lay dying not far from Apokolips. The Dark Elves had stayed loyal to the Darkseid, and paid for it with their blood. Thousands of planets away, Malekith vowed vengeance against Steppenwolf.


Lyssa Drak had removed herself from Qward. She felt torn apart, her brain being constantly assaulted by the entity of fear itself. Long had she worshiped the being known as Parallax, but now that she had come into contact with it, she only felt fear. Still, by force of will she had managed to beat Parallax back momentarily, contained in a corner of her mind.

“I cannot hold it back.” Lyssa cried out, feeling the tendrils of fear working their way to the surface. “I must rid myself of this beast!”

NO! I shall be free, and you shall be my vessel! a cold voice spoke to her alone. Return to Qward, summon my corps, and let us glory in the fear brought by the Annihilation Wave!

“I won't!” Lyssa shouted, unconsciously sending out a distress beacon through her ring. “The annihilation wave will destroy everything it encounters, and I won't be responsible for that.”

Lyssa curled back, tears streaking her dark blue skin. Moments later, or possibly years, Lyssa felt a hand on her shoulder. Spinning around, she saw assembled the members of her corps the most loyal to her as a leader. The ones who had become concerned with her recent change in behavior.

“Parallax has taken hold of me.” Lyssa managed to say, feeling Parallax creeping ever closer to the surface. “I need to get him out.”

Her loyalists hesitated before one drifted forward and said, “What about the Blue Lanterns? They alone can break the connection between a Red Lantern and their ring, if anyone can break Parallax's hold on you, I would hope it would be them.”


Charles Xavier was a nervous man. He had recently uncovered the dire secret that Scar, one of the Guardians of the Green Lantern Corps was responsible for the security leak that had jeopardized the Anti-Life Equation. He had come forward with this information with the hope that it might help the Green Lantern Corps set their house in order, but so far the Guardians had taken their usual secluded route to fixing this problem.

“Xavier, we've got hostiles, incoming!” Taskmaster shouted to the Blue Lantern, pointing his ring into the sky, a green shield appearing between him and the attackers.

“Hold your fire,” Xavier said quickly, scanning the invaders, “They come in seek of help.”

“Blue Lanterns!” one of the Parallax Corps members shouted as they landed in front of the Green and Blue Lanterns. “We come in need of help! Librarian Drak is possessed by the entity of fear itself, we thought it may be possible for you to help purger her body of Parallax”

“We should contact the Guardians,” Salaak said quickly, processing the new information.

“There isn't time for that.” Xavier said quickly. “Drak is losing control quickly. Before long we will be faced with a fully unchained Parallax. Xavier placed his hands on either side of Drak's head, and quickly submerged herself in her psyche. His ring began to glow with a strong blue light.

“We should be interrogating them.” Taskmaster muttered, starring at the Parallax corps members. “They probably know where Guy is.”

A surge of energy filled the air, blasting the assembled lanterns back from Lyssa Drak. Xavier had succeeded in freeing her from Parallax's grip, but he had also given form to Parallax itself.



Event: All HSR events are silver age with no tactics allowed unless specified by the event. The highlander rule is also in play, no duplicate characters unless they are generics, unless specified by the event. For Questions on these rules, please see the FAQ at the bottom of the page.

A few key words are used specifically when setting guidelines for team building. They are:

Character:A character refers to one person. Captain America is a character, Iron Man is a character and Thor is a character. Characters should be Proper Noun characters, not generics. This means that a figure like Avengers Prime is actually three characters, even though it is on one dial. Some characters, like Madrox or Ultron, can have many figures even though they only take up one character spot.

Generic: Generics will always be preceded by a keyword. An example can be seen below with Hydra Generic. This means that any number of hydra generic figures can be used.

Active Roster: Active rosters are the teams that are currently active in the story. When a team specifies it must be built from an active roster, any combination of the characters on that roster can be used. The active rosters also have any special effects a given character has. Relatively few characters will have special effects, but some will.

The Only Thing To Fear

Team 1: Parallax

Point Value: Any

Team Build: Parallax is comprised of any one figure that represents the entity of fear. Some good suggestions would be: Parallax, Cul Borson, The Serpent, Any of The Worthy, etc.

Parallax gains the Quintessence Team Ability, and gets +2 to all combat values.

Team 2: The Lanterns

Point Value: Twice the Point Value of Parallax

Team Build:
Charles Xavier
Sinestro Corps Characters/Generics
Blue Lantern Corps Characters/Generics
Green Lantern Corps Characters/Generics

Read this only if you are going to play away from your collection, otherwise open this when the scenario tells you to, and build this team then.


Special Rules:

When Half of the Lanterns (by points) are KO'd, read the following:


For this game, you will need Fear Tokens, Will Tokens and Hope Tokens. These tokens work by the rules below:

Fear Tokens When a character misses an attack they are given a number of fear tokens equal to how much they missed the attack by. When a character has 5 fear tokens, they join Parallax's team. A Sinestro Corps member can remove one token from each adjacent character as a free action to increase the Sinestro Corps members combat values equal to the number of tokens removed until the next round.

Will Tokens When a Green Lantern Corps member survives an attack (either by evading the damage, or by living through the damage) he gains a Will Token. When a character with Will tokens would be KO'd, instead remove all the will tokens and heal the character that many clicks from their first KO click.

Hope Tokens When a character Successfully makes an attack, they gain a Hope Token. When a character with a Hope Token would be given a fear token, instead remove a Hope Token.

Do Not Reveal Until Told To Do So


Results:
Did the lanterns defeat Parallax?

THE WAR OF A THOUSAND SUNS CHAPTERS

Galactic Conquest Round 8

Standing Armies This means as your empire gets bigger, you will have to have more points used in defense.

Limits on Attacking You can only attack with 400 points plus 200 points for any additional lanes leading to the target planet you control. An Example of this would be to look at Thanagar in the Shi'ar Empire. If the skrulls attack, they could send 400 points from Gigantus, plus an additional 200 from Chnitt. But if the Shi'ar attacked Gigantus, they could only send 400 points.

Limits on Defending You can only send 500 points to defend any one planet. This planet gets an additional 200 points if it has a path through planets you control to your home world. So Korugar has a maximum of 500 defense points since it isn't directly connected to Qward.

Protect the Homeworld! Your homeworld can have as many points dedicated to defense as you want to spend, no cap is in place for your final planet.

CHAPTER 8 BATTLES

Moord
200 Shi'ar
200 Kree
200 GLC
600 JLGD
200 Nova Corps
V
1700 Annihilation Wave

(0,0,0)
300 Shi'ar
400 Nova Corps
V
400 Skrulls

Gigantus
400 Shi'ar
200 Kree
200 GLC
200 Nova Corps
V
300 Gigantus

Skrullos
400 Kree
200 GLC
V
800 Skrulls

Halaa
400 Kree
V
400 Apokolips

Special Rules:

Death to Yonn-Rogg!: This team must contain both Yon-Rogg and Queen Agapo, as the attack interupts the royal wedding. The Result of this battle will not determine if Halaa changes hands. If Queen Agapo or Yonn-Rogg are KO'd, they are killed instead. Report if either of them are killed in the results!

Till Death Do Us Part: While Yonn Rogg and Agapo are adjacent, they each gain +1 to their defense. When one of them is KO'd, roll one die and apply the following effects to the other:

1-3: Grief: This character gains -2 to their combat stats.
4-6: Rage: This character gains +2 to their combat stats.

ACTIVE ROSTER

Generic: means any generics with this keyword
Character: means any character with this keyword

Active Rosters From Tale of Two Worlds
Justice League Galactic Division (Superman: Docsilence)
Special Ability: The JLGD travels independent of hyperspace lanes. They can move to any planet anytime they want. They cannot control a planet, the most they can do is liberate a planet, creating a neutral status where the planet rules itself. They can force a regime change by attacking a throne world, but it would be extremely difficult to do. They always bring 600 points to a battle.

Superman
Captain Atom
Starbrand
Mary Marvel
Phoenix
Quasar
Martian Manhunter (Gains power cosmic)
1 DC Character not on active roster
1 Marvel Character not on active roster

Annihilation Wave (Emperor: Darth Norris)
Empire Points: 1700. This Empire Gains 1500 points per turn regardless of planetary control.
Generals: Slattern (Mrs. Mikkisaur)
Special Ability: The Annihilation Wave can make as many attacks on the Galactic conquest phase as it wants. During battles, the Annihilation Wave gets twice as many actions as normal. ( 6 in a 300 points game)

In addition to this, the Annihilation wave can send 600 points through any phase lane, and can send an additional 300 points for each additional phase lane. For defense, the Annihilation wave treats all planets as if they were homeworlds.

Annihilus
Slattern
Brood Queen
Dracula
1 Marvel Character Not on Active Roster
2 DC Characters Not on Active Roster that are either monstrous or from other worlds
Generic: Vampires
Generic: Kaiju
Generic: Brood
Generic: Monster

Green Lantern Corps (Emperor: Rurouni82)
Empire Points:4100
Generals: Guy Gardner (silverstreakhg)
Special Ability: All Characters without the Green Lantern Keyword gain the following trait:

CONSTRUCT: When building your force, you may attach a construct (Lantern) to this character by paying its point cost. Give this character a power action and replace the construct with any other construct, up to 2 points higher than the original construct. If this character has no action tokens and the new construct is a lower point value than the original construct, this is a free action instead.
Daredevil

1 Mutant Character from Marvel
1 Tech Hero from Marvel
1 Redeemed Villain from Marvel
3 Marvel Alien Characters
Character: Green Lantern Corps
Generic: Green Lantern Corps
Character: Blue Lantern Corps
Generic: Blue Lantern Corps
1 Mutant from Marvel turned Blue Lantern
1 Other Hero From Marvel turned Blue Lantern


The Shiar Spartax Coalition (Emperor: Baron Impossible)
Empire Points: 2300
Generals: Cosmic Boy (Dark_Knight)
Gladiator (Jaysol)
Star Lord (Kaden)
Special Ability: All battles fought on a Shi'ar Spartax Coalition world gain the following effect during the battle:

The Imperial Guard Arrives: When Defending, the Shiar Spartax Coalition gains 200 points of reinforcements at the beginning of the 10th round of combat. These characters start in the Shiar Spartax Coalition players starting area, and do not have first turn immunity. These characters must have the Shi'ar Imperial Guard or Legion of Super Heroes Keyword.

Jason of Sparta
Character: Legion of Super Heroe's
Character: Shi'ar
Generic: Spartoi

The Kree Empire (Emperor: TheGoodReverendJLang)
Empire Points: 4300
Generals: Queen Agapo (thelovelymsziehl)
Captain Atlas (Mendes23)
Special Ability: At the beginning of each game, the Kree player may use the following ability:

The Supreme Intelligence Knows What to Do! Choose one character, that character loses their team ability.

3 DC Character's Who are Kree
Character: Kree
Generic: Kree

The Parralax Corps (Emperor: Parallax)
Empire Points: 2300
Generals: none
Special Ability: All Characters without the Sinestro Corps Keyword gain the following trait:

CONSTRUCT: When building your force, you may attach a construct (Lantern) to this character by paying its point cost. Give this character a power action and replace the construct with any other construct, up to 2 points higher than the original construct. If this character has no action tokens and the new construct is a lower point value than the original construct, this is a free action instead.

Lyssa Drak
1 Marvel Villain
1 Mutant from Marvel
1 Tech Villain from Marvel
1 Corrupted Hero from Marvel
3 Marvel Alien Characters
Character: Sinestro Corps
Generic: Sinestro Corps

The Nova Corps (Emperor: Greth)
Empire Points: 4000
Generals: Booster Gold (Leigionarre)
Special Ability:All characters on this team gain the Nova Corps keyword and if they do not already have a trait with this name, the following trait:

Share Through the Worldmind: Friendly Characters with the Nova Corps keyword can use sidestep, but with a locked movement value of 1.
3 DC Alien Characters
1 DC Earth Character on the Corps
1 DC Green Lanter Corps Member (He becomes Both)
Character: Nova Corps
Generic: Nova Corps

Apokolips (Emperor: MidKnightDreary)
Empire Points: 3300
Generals: None
Special Ability: During the Galactic Conquest Phase, Apokolips can send his troops to a planet regardless of the phase lanes. During the battle, the Apokolips player may use the following game effect:

Boom Tube Entrance: At the beginning of your first turn, the Apokolips may give all of his characters a move action that uses Phasing Teleport as a free action. If he does so, he must then immediately end his turn.

Gorr the God Butcher
Sentry
1 Marvel Earth Villain
3 Traded Children
Character: Kryptonian (Not Superman)
Generic: Kryptonian
Character: Apokolips
Generic: Apokolips

The Skrull Empire (Emperor:Missing Lynk 75)
Empire Points: 2000
Generals: The Super Skrull (Dstructer)
Special Ability:

Cultists of the Wave: Give a Skrull character a power action. This character can use Perplex, but only to target characters belonging to the Annihilation wave. This use of Perplex does not require line of sight or range.

Group Worship: Give a power action to five Skrull characters. These actions do not count towards your action total for the round. Select one character belonging to the Annihilation Wave, and select one standard power. That character can use that power until the beginning of your next turn.

3 DC Characters who now have Skrull origins
1 Member from the Justice League (gains skrull TA)
1 Member from the Avengers (gains skrull TA)
1 Member from the Defenders (gains skrull TA)
Character: Skrull
Generic: Skrull

What shall I make of the status of Sakaar?

Well, you own Sakaar. I assume you don't have much interest in owning MORE than Sakaar. What you make of it is kind of up to you!

Cool! Thanks! I shall ponder the next step!

Although is an official Warbound roster coming, or shall I keep rolling with it how I see fit? If it's the latter, I'll be sure to add in some of the people other folks used, too.

Thanks for including suggestions for those of us who don't have a Parallax available. Got a few worthy... Worthy figures available. Although I might use Darkseid as a stand in since he's off the board it appears, and I never got to use him in a match (my own fault, but man, I never did get around to making good use of Thanos before he croaked, now Darkseid...)

Yeah, I never even came close to owning a Parallax...

yeah, this is the closest I've ever gotten:

so yeah, I definitely appreciate the alternate suggestions. great idea

Sakaar has never been a beautiful world - at least not in the memories of anyone currently living upon it. It's been a charred hellscape for as long as Darkseid counted it as one of his minion worlds, and the Red King kept up appearances - save for his own luxurious capital city, which was really just his palace. However, a green light has broken through the cracks of the earth of this world. No, not the Green Lantern's Light, but rather the Worldbreaker. The jade giant from another world who arrived as the ultimate warrior, and has risen to become the ultimate liberator. Parademons and Kree soldiers alike littler the battleground of the savage three-way slugfest. Colonel Yon-Rogg had tried to strike a deal with the Hulk, speaking to him of his Earth history and revealing to him a family he had not known - a family in Darkseid's thrall on Apokolips. Of course, Yon-Rogg tried to extract a price from him, and the Hulk has never been a deal-maker. He has been known to do the exact opposite of what he knows he should do just because someone else had tried to tell him to do it. His response of "Help or don't" was about as agreeable as he's capable of being.

But when jittery Kree Privates saw the monsters of the Warbound, some presumed they were among Darkseid's hordes, and paid for that mistake with their lives. If there's one fault the Warbound have after honing their bonds in the Red King's gladiator pits, it is that they don't often know when to stop fighting.

The would-be conquerors from Hala have been driven off, and the had-been conquerors from Apokolips have also been expunged. Before the latter hordes had left, though - and perhaps weakening their resolve enough for them to be defeated - the word came buzzing through the Parademons that Darkseid had been overthrown. Perhaps even killed.

"By someone named Steppenwolf," says the Bi-Beast, as he sorts through the communications that OMAC intercepted from their now ex-tormentors.

The Korbinite lifts an eyebrow ridge. "I've heard that name. If he has actually usurped and killed Darkseid, that gives more credence to him than his reputation would suggest."

"What's - *kik* - what's his reputation?" Miek asks.

"Scuttlebutt in the pits was that he was none too subtle about his intentions toward disloyalty, which I took to be foolhardy," Bill responds.

"Perhaps it was all a ploy to make Darkseid underestimate him," Killraven interjects. "Seems to have worked, regardless."

"Any news of Caiera?" asks Thundra, standing near her daughter Lyra, whose green skin makes plain her paternal origins, although the time-tossed twosome gave Hulk little choice in the matter. Lyra was conceived through future science and stolen cells before she was brought here by the same chronal event that stranded her mother and Killraven here, and while she feels a vague kinship to the Hulk - and perhaps some kind of responsibility to him - she has no interest in the concept of his 'fatherhood.' For her part, Thundra is much more interested in the fate of the Furies.

"No," comes the even response from the enigmatic OMAC.

"Then we must form a raiding party to find her. We must liberate those ladies," she states, authoritatively.

"And find my brother," Lyra says, more to herself than anyone else. While she has no desire for a paternal authority figure, somehow a brother - an equal - strikes a chord within her.

"Send a message to Steppenwolf" comes the booming voice of the Worldbreaker, to which Bi-Beast and OMAC quickly begin prepping a transmission.

"Release Caeira and her child or be destroyed."

Bill turns to regard the Worldbreaker. "We are in no shape to start another war."

Miek chirps in contrast. "We are Warbound. We *kik* are always at war."

I suppose I do have the rare from WoL:



But i'm probably gonna use Cul Borson:

Quick clarification--can Team 2 include Green Lanterns as well? (Sinestro Corps and Yellow Lanterns are both listed, but I see Fear, Will, and Hope tokens, which makes me suspect "Yellow" is a typo.)

Steppenwolf sits upon his throne, the ruins of Darkseid's clearly displayed before him. A message is sent. "Darkseid is dead. I, Steppenwolf, am now the ruler of Apokolips. Let us consider this... a fresh start. All are welcome to try for peace, except the vile Kree. Some may be required of you, but you will find my demands more than fair." He ends the message, then looks to Omega Red. "Give the warbound what they ask. Tell them that they shall be amply rewarded if they turn their warmongering on the Kree."

Yup, yellow should say green!