Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34954086-20130320032310/@comment-5624498-20130320210050

Well, let me think about some of these topics:


 * The Light's partnership with Apokolips: I suspect it's Darkseid's way of trying to expand his influence and he may see Vandal Savage as one of the few out there who is his equal, given that Savage is immortal (for practical purposes) and that Savage's mindset is about "survival of the fittest" which may fit with Darkseid's philosophies. And while Savage doesn't necessarily want Earth to be a wasteland, he does want the people of Earth to be subservient to him, just as the people of Apokolips are subservient to Darkseid. I would wager that Darkseid lending his tech to the Light and its allies and agents is more about finding out whether or not they know how to put them to proper use.


 * Why the Reach were pulled in: First, their research into the Meta-Gene, which the Light has likely acquired and can use for its own agenda. Second, to serve as a public cover while the Light's real partnership with Apokolips continues. The Reach seemed to pretty much be the "fall guy" and a means to further distrust aliens in general. And the Light keeps their alliance with Darkseid a secret so, to the average Earth being, the Light (with Lex as the public face) just seem to be geniuses when it comes to technological advances (whether the Light develops it themselves or just gets it from Darkseid).


 * The League and The Team: I suspect we would get the "changing of the guard" in which older members of the League are either retiring, scaling back their involvement or getting involved in business across the galaxy, while the senior Team members are promoted to the League and now have to take on greater responsibility, and the current junior Team members are now the Team leaders. While the Team works side by side with the League, it's the League members that take a higher profile with the public while the Team keeps a lower profile.


 * Continuing the previous point, I can see the three Green Lanterns and Icon being the primary Leaguers who are having to address issues across the Galaxy. Perhaps a couple others. That necessitates that certain Team members join the League to keep the League's public ranks strong. I would imagine it's Aqualad, Tigress, Bumblebee and Guardian accepting promotion. For the first two, it's the League realizing how much they accomplished on their deep cover mission and, for that, they deserve to be in the League, and for the latter two, they are getting older and the League believes it's time they move up. Two other possibilities: Blue Beetle (given that the public knows about him so it's just time to promote him) and Superboy (who comes to terms with the fact that he needs to take on a larger role). That leads to Robin (Tim Drake) rising to become Team leader. Nightwing is not a member of the League or the Team but works with them as an independent agent.


 * Plot points: The obvious one is the Team investigating what is going on with Vandal Savage and Lex Luthor and finding that they have to do more than just address issues on Earth. Likely subplots would be: Team members promoted to the League serving as mentors to new Team members, certain Team members learning what really happened to Wally West and potentially a Team member or two who has some connection to Apokolips.


 * Suggestions for new Team members: Arrowette and Spoiler would be obvious picks -- or Stephanie Brown becomes Batgirl should Barbara Gordon take on the role of Oracle. Could possibly introduce Supergirl as having been discovered somewhere in the galaxy and having to adjust to life on Earth. If you want to do another nod to Superfriends, you could always pull in the Wonder Twins but have them tweaked as they were recently in the comics (suggestions: no catch phrase but they must be touching each other in order to shape shift, Janna needs to study an animal to change into one, Zan needs to study an object or creature in order to take the form of one and he has his limits as to how big a form he can take, they have telepathic powers but have to learn to develop them further in order to do a telepahthic link ala Miss Martian). And maybe it's time to get Blue Devil more involved, so bring in Red Devil. I'd suggest Cyborg but I think he might just be one of those who goes directly into the Justice League.


 * The Light looks to replenish its ranks by adding members from throughout the cosmos, as their way of trying to prevent the League from easily tracking down the new members.


 * Knowing what the YJ creative team would do, there will probably be another Team member who has a family connection to a villian and thus you would have another subplot to explore.