That makes two ruses to protect Earth though doesn't it?



Faite has a far more mysterious plan. It may be helping the Hooded Hood, but then again it may be interfering with him. Of course if it's the latter he should be used to it by now, he's been playing this game of chess with her since forever.

Of course the Z'Sox have no idea what happened, have no one to blame, and will have no choice but to blame it on some huge cosmic accident they can't explain. Or maybe solar flares.



Yuki is far from crazy, she's not going to stand at ground zero of a nuclear attack and dare it to hit her. But she would climb aboard the missile and try and change it's navigation while it's in-flight.

What's funny though, is that Anna might do the same thing - she would be terrified doing it instead, but she knows she can, so she would if she had to.



The history I posted in this week's story is a clue. The Alliance wants to guarantee two things: Technical superiority (they believe it's the only thing preventing another massive galactic war), and security. If either or both are threatened, they may react with swift and terrible violence.

On that note, we'll see how they react to the discovery of salvaged Dimensional Dreadnaughts making the rounds.

Of course that's all in perspective, because even with all their technology it would have taken them months to wipe out every last Shee-Yar, while the Carnifex did it in a day.



I did notice though that the Hooded Hood tends to choose people who are less aware of what's going on under the surface. That's probably why he doesn't choose Lara, who seems to have some awareness of large-scale plans, or the Psychic Samurai, who might scare even the Hood a little since she sees through people so easily.

Then again, occasionally it might be fun for him to use actual truth and logic to get someone with a hightened sense like that to cooperate.