Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34954086-20130320032310/@comment-1895174-20130320042324

Zergrinch wrote: (1) Teleporting Sphere to Earth. Can't be as simple as testing a boom tube! I wouldn't be surprised if it was an obscenely well-calculated plot to spy on the Team, perhaps the JL. Zergrinch wrote: (2) Supplying Intergang with Apokoliptian weapons. What, they needed gold? Perhaps part of the plot to get Sphere on the in. Zergrinch wrote: (3) Supplying League of Shadows and Bane with Apokoliptian weapons. What for? They're just hired thugs. "Business as usual." Zergrinch wrote: (4) Supplying numerous Father Boxes to the Light. Those can't be cheap. Well, for one, never doubt how much money Lex has. On the other, maybe a trade ("Business as usual"). Zergrinch wrote: (5) Sending Gordon Godfrey to Earth. He then discredits the League (Why?) And builds up the Reach, even appearing in a commercial for them. And then he tears down the Reach and Tseng. And then he builds up Luthor. I'm not seeing the logic behind his moves. They're not all consistent with the effort to make Lex the new UN top honcho. Extreme anti-alien/anthropocentric views to discredit some members of the League (read: Superman). With the fallout of the Reach invasion, maybe some of those views take hold in the general public, and, with Lex, the saviour of mankind, in charge of the UN, who's going to stop him from in some way apprehending those aliens in the League? I can hear it now:
 * The Reach tried to take over our world, and they told us they were here to save us! Those aliens in the Justice League have been telling us the same thing for years! How can we trust them? Why should we trust them? They hid a space station from us! The only people I can trust are upstanding people like our very own Secretary-General Lex Luthor! He saved us from the Reach, and he'll save us from those aliens in the League!

Something like that. Meanwhile, televangelist Justin Ballantine sings the praises of "new gods". Zergrinch wrote: (1) Partnering with Darkseid. Come on, there's gotta be a catch. Power. How they plan to one-up him...who knows. Maybe they have a secret stash of radion somewhere. Zergrinch wrote: (2) What was phase two? Giving Warworld to Darkseid? So they take control of the League. So they can send the six to wreak havoc on Rimbor. So that they will attract the Reach to Earth. So that Mongul will come to Earth. So that they can give Warworld to Darkseid. What??? Maybe Darkseid wants the Warworld to use against New Genesis? In return, they help get the Light recognized off-world as rulers of the Earth. With Lex in charge of the UN, and Vandal Savage's show on Rimbor, they are in a way the most politically powerful Earthicans around. Zergrinch wrote: (3) Why did they call the Summit? Was it to distract Black Beetle while they steal away the key? If so, what would have happened if Kaldur wasn't there? I thought they stole the Key before the Summit. Maybe they weren't planning on betraying the Reach quite so soon and wanted to save face.