User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 204 "Salvage" discussion/@comment-71.126.65.16-20120524040940/@comment-89.100.119.198-20120820235546

I think they're going to go Blue Beetle on it.

>Firstly, Darkseid is allied with intergang. If he was the partner, either they'd be gone or at least not getting new tech, which they obviously are. And the partner didn't know about the Appellaxian, Darkseid would have, because it was Appokolipian tech that woke it up.

>Kroloteans recognise him as being similar to their competitor, who is the partner.

>He talks to Superboy about the invention of the scarab as a massive, unbelieveable breakthrough. I think this will later be found to have just been an alien discovery, claimed as invention.

>And the obvious sonic cannon link.

What I think they're going to do is have the partner be the leader or villian of an advanced alien race that invented the Blue Beetle scarab. Blue Beetle would be considered obsolete to them. I don't think we're going to be seeing the six leaguers coming back soon, although we may see Hal and Guy reporting some trouble. Obviously this was the plan: get the big guns in trouble, so they'll go off Earth, and trap's a waitin'.

Still unsure of what their exact end game is, the partner has probably promised the light some ultimate tech he's not going to deliver on in order to get to something of strategic value to him. That something could be tech, or a person, or the Earth itself. Really could be anything at this stage. Either way, I'm saying he's gonna have Beetle tech.