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Starro, My Destination
Jun. 28th, 2015 09:06 pmOften defeated by the heroes of Earth, the creature known as Starro the Conqueror had not been seen in many years. Instead, after his last defeat and exile from Earth, Starro drifted through space for eons, eventually crash landing on the small, backwater world officially designated by the United Planets as "Stq-L 4", for its position as the 4th planet around star Stq-L. As at the time of its discovery, it was still in the local version of an industrial revolution, official policy was hands off, to not initiate any form of contact until the planet had become space flight capable in a few hundred years.
Less than ten years later, a representative from the planet, now called "Starlaxia", strode into the United Planets headquarters and delivered a petition for membership, a Starro on its face.
What the United Planets quickly discovered, however, was that Starro had not completely seized control over the world. Instead, it was working in quiet symbiosis with the people of the planet to accelerate their development, and in return, was more than satiated by having an entire world's population's worth of mental energy to absorb. It shared its knowledge with them, helped to regulate deviant mentalities and the like, and in return, it was well fed and worshiped. Make no mistake--every man, woman, and child on the planet plays host to a Starro-spawn. But the UP was unable to find anything overly actionable with the situation, to the discomfort of many member worlds. But better the devil you can watch, and Starlaxia was reluctantly admitted into the UP.
Three days ago, Starlaxia went dark.
When the Legion is sent to investigate, they find what seems like the fact that Starro has finally reverted back to its old ways and had seized total control over the planet. In a swift battle, many of the Legionnaires are quickly taken over by Starros themselves. Only Drake and Andrew, along with 1/3 of Triad, manage to escape.
And as they are forced to battle their friends and a whole entire freaking planet's worth of people, they ultimately discover that Starro is just as much a victim in this as they are. A lone mutant member of the population, possessed of undreamed of psychic powers and undreamed of sociopathy, has seized control of the whole through his Starro-spawn.
And the Legion may not be able to stop him without killing all the Starros.
Do they have the right to make that choice?
Is Starro the lesser of two evils?
Less than ten years later, a representative from the planet, now called "Starlaxia", strode into the United Planets headquarters and delivered a petition for membership, a Starro on its face.
What the United Planets quickly discovered, however, was that Starro had not completely seized control over the world. Instead, it was working in quiet symbiosis with the people of the planet to accelerate their development, and in return, was more than satiated by having an entire world's population's worth of mental energy to absorb. It shared its knowledge with them, helped to regulate deviant mentalities and the like, and in return, it was well fed and worshiped. Make no mistake--every man, woman, and child on the planet plays host to a Starro-spawn. But the UP was unable to find anything overly actionable with the situation, to the discomfort of many member worlds. But better the devil you can watch, and Starlaxia was reluctantly admitted into the UP.
Three days ago, Starlaxia went dark.
When the Legion is sent to investigate, they find what seems like the fact that Starro has finally reverted back to its old ways and had seized total control over the planet. In a swift battle, many of the Legionnaires are quickly taken over by Starros themselves. Only Drake and Andrew, along with 1/3 of Triad, manage to escape.
And as they are forced to battle their friends and a whole entire freaking planet's worth of people, they ultimately discover that Starro is just as much a victim in this as they are. A lone mutant member of the population, possessed of undreamed of psychic powers and undreamed of sociopathy, has seized control of the whole through his Starro-spawn.
And the Legion may not be able to stop him without killing all the Starros.
Do they have the right to make that choice?
Is Starro the lesser of two evils?
