Previous Post Quote: Quote: But a real soldier, at least an officer, is expected to intelligently interpret orders and to refuse illegal ones. Quote: If Mr. Epitome had orders to neutralize the Lair Legion he just might. Anna would refuse outright, which is the difference between the two - Anna won't set aside her feelings to follow orders. I don't think Epitome would blindly follow orders either. He has acted against the LL sometimes - such as when he stole a sample of human-Hallie's blood for the government as a counter to the Shoggoth and other elder-beings - but he would require good evidence before turning on the team these days. Quote: That's what I meant by tipping point. The LL is already teetering on the edge of the govt believing it's way too dangerous. If Lara joined, it would fall right over that edge. Not implying that she's so much more powerful, it's more like pouring a glass of water into a bucket that's already overflowing. I'm not sure how much more dangerous Lara would make the team though. Jarvis has pretty much Lara-like powers back in the day, including flight and teleportation and a link to one of the fundamental forces of the Parodyverse, the "Jarvis cosmic". He was on a team with a dragon, a Celestian-powered sea monkey, Space Ghost, Donar, Yo, Starseed (another cosmically powered acolyte of the Gah! force) and a bunch of others. The team has been as strong since but never stronger, and that alone wasn't enough to bring down official reprisals or restraint. I think the actual tipping point is where we are now with a crisis of confidence in the Legion's leadership and reliability. It's not the power levels - the team's pretty much always had the capacity to blow up or conquer the planet. It;s whether they're trusted not to do it. In that sense Lara would be a stabilising influence, not more provocation to eliminate the heroes (which is why she's conveniently absent). Quote: I'll decide whether to start posting the Faite story this week or next (if it's this week it'll be alongside the last Zephiir's Prophecy chapter). Noted.

> >I don't think Epitome would blindly follow orders either. He has acted against the LL sometimes - such as when he stole a sample of human-Hallie's blood for the government as a counter to the Shoggoth and other elder-beings - but he would require good evidence before turning on the team these days.


I'd go so far as to say that even in the blood incident, he didn't actually work against the team. My intention was always that OPS confiscated Hallie blood sample from the hospital after it became clear that it could defend the country from elder-being attack. No one on the Legion even thought about the sample of blood existing until Hallie realized it could possibly cure Vizh, so it's not like they even took it from the Legion.

When she came and begged him for it, Epitome wasn't able to return the sample since it was too important to National Security, what with a fairly great old one sleeping under US soil. So he was never working against the Legion, so much as putting his country first.

Of course, there is the fact that they could use that blood against the Shoggoth is he gives them reason...