#and unfortnately one of the parts of fixing it

[sporkandpringles]

I've also been doing research for about 5 years on this subject in service of several fix-it fics I'm working on and here's what I've found: I don't think we get any canon answers for the Laurentian system. Memory Alpha has an aside that suggests the writers may have intended it to be the solar system Rura Penthe is in, and therefore the fleet was there because they were responding to the Klingon distress call after Nero broke out of prison. But this was never established on screen, and Memory Alpha even notes that this isn't consistent with the rest of canon, since Rura Penthe is established in the Undiscovered Country as being part of the Beta Penthe System. Still, I think it's odd that the whole fleet was sent there. How many ships do they have? Did they all need to go? Plus, seems like that's leaving a lot of space wide open for attack. Bad tactics, guys. It's nine ships, actually: The USS Antares, the USS Armstrong, the USS Farragut, the USS Hood, the USS Mayflower, the USS Newton, the USS Odyssey, the USS Truman and the USS Wolcott. As for Vulcan's defense system, we know Nero tortured Pike with centaurian slugs (which force you to tell the truth) to get the codes for Earth, so I'm presuming Nero tortured Spock Prime after he captured him for the codes to enter Vulcan airspace without flagging any alarms. Would have been nice to get some kind of confirmation of that, though, if that was what was intended. I, too, think it's weird that Vulcan doesn't seem to have any defenses. Or at least the movie doesn't mention any. I've seen some fics decide that not all of the wreckage the Enterprise flies through is from the Starfleet ships, but some of it is also Vulcan ships. Others have suggested the ionizing pulse from Nero's plasma drill not only disables communications and transporters, but makes take-off from the planet impossible somehow. Others still have suggested that Vulcan became extreme pacifists and have disbanded their fleet, but I find that unlikely. Another thing I find frustrating is how no one saw Nero coming. I know JJ Abrams likes to pretend it's a 1 day trip from Qo'noS to Earth, but even at such ridiculous speeds, the Narada doesn't appear to have cloaking technology, so someone should have flagged it when it crossed over from Klingon space into Federation space, whether that's a space station or nearby starship. I did read a fic once where the deal in the Laurentian system was one of Starfleet's deep space warp-particle detectors was mysteriously destroyed, which was why it was so important to go check on, and which ultimately allowed the Narada to slip by undetected, but again, this is not brought up in canon, either. As for the technological advancements, my favorite headcanon is that scans of Nero's ship were taken during the Kelvin incident. This allowed Starfleet to reverse engineer much, much faster warp drives. Which might also account for the small size of their fleet, since all the old ships would have to be mothballed since they'd be so ridiculously slow compared to the new drives everyone is suddenly making (the klingons got access to this tech, too) they'd be essentially useless. It also (indirectly) caused an aesthetic shift, probably for mundane butterfly effect reasons. So, anyway, I've given this matter a lot of thought. Hope you enjoyed!

I have watched the 2009 Star Trek at least three times but I'm still confused on some points. Some of them, I'm aware, are just "the writers didn't think this through," but taking the movie seriously, I have some questions.

WHY was the whole fleet in the Laurentian system anyway? Do we know?

Did Vulcan have an automated defense system with codes and everything like Earth had, and if so how did Nero get through it?

Did Vulcan have ANY defenses, in fact, but the eight Starfleet ships from Earth?

The AOS looks much more modern and shiny than TOS. Is that just aesthetics, or are there any specific technological developments in the Kelvin timeline that don't exist in the prime timeline yet?

It's for a fic of course 🤫

[cass1x1]

gysella x konu 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐊𝐄

The touch was so subtle, Konu was fairly convinced he was the only one aware of it. She barely grazed him, but it told him enough. Gysella had become near-fluent in Cayvish, but in the interim, they truly had learned how to communicate nonverbally. The simple touch was faster, and it said enough. Konu tilted his head toward her, keeping his face toward the dignitary out of respect, and nodded. She knew. She squeezed his arm, and then dropped her hand back into the folds of her skirt.

With that bit of assurance, Konu felt his confidence burgeon inside him. Gysella was an excellent political mind, and he’d learned that, more often than not, he could trust his judgement. Especially so when her instinct matched his own. Out of the corner of his eye, on the side opposite Gysella, he could see his mother whispering with her astrologer. A bad sign, in his opinion, as the astrologer’s own judgement was oft unpredictable. 

He cleared his throat. The astrologer’s whispers stopped, though his mother remained close, as if expecting him to continue. “I think,” he began. The dignitary straightened, as did Min and the other guard next to him. Commanding a room was something that had stopped feeling strange a long time ago, for all the practice he had. “It would be best to act swiftly, to prevent a worsening of conditions in Mornta.” He turned to Min. “We have a battalion stationed to the north of Mornta.” It wasn’t precisely phrased as a question, but he grunted an affirmative. He turned back to the dignitary, catching Gysella’s eye on the way. She reached out again, this time brushing his hand, so light he may have only felt the fabric she wore rather than her skin. 

“We will send an engineering contingent, along with the supplies and money needed. There will be a battalion escort for them. The General will send word when the contingent has departed. Any further questions can be addressed by the General.” Min stepped forward, offering the dignitary a bow in what Konu assumed was Mornta fashion. Min was good at remembering greetings from all the various territories. Konu supposed that was part of his job. “If no further judgement is needed, we may adjourn.” If his mother wanted to speak then, she held her tongue, offering her own bow before slipping out of the room. The dignitary and Min both bowed to Konu and Gysella before leaving as well. When the room was empty save for the two of them, Konu dropped back into his seat, letting out a soft sigh.

Gysella’s fingers danced over his hand, and he smiled. “You’re cold,” he said, dropping into a more normal register for him. Switching in and out of being King was getting easier. “Would you like to call a warm bath before dinner?”

She murmured something in her own language, the specifics of which he could only guess at. He’d gotten no better at the Golden Tongue, unfortnately. “You did very well,” she added in Cayvish. “The engineer contingent should fix the problem quickly.”

“I thought so too,” he agreed with a small smile, curling a hand around hers. He was warmer, at least. “So, about that bath...”

[stinkyratshadowgod]

Crazy Storyline Apex Theory (Part 2)

(Part 1 here)

Okay so you’re probably wondering what i could add with a second part? Well this second part is going to focus more on the new storyline mission story that was added yesterday and how i probably know whos the mole

Well first of all i want to shout out the person that posted a theory that talked about how none of the legends are the spy, and it’s actually an outside force (i recall being Hammonds Robotics, but i can’t find the original post) because thats going to help me explain my theory (also you have to check part 1 for more context and watch out for spoilers)

Well to catch up with what happened: -Crypttane moment -Octane and Gibraltar having a good time -Paranoid Loba -Revenant hacks...Hack -Everybody starts to suspect about Crypto -He starts to panic because the situation is similar to when everybody thought he killed Mila (poor boy)

You got everything? Good :)

The first thing i got suspicious over was actually about my baby boy Revenant, idk about you but he seemed a little...off, “Why do you think that?” Well:

1-He doesn’t care

It’s pretty common knowledge that Rev doesn’t give a *cahem* “doodoo fart“ about the other Legends, no, about ANYTHING. The moment he realised that hes a immortal simulacrum, at first he went full sicko angy mode against the workers of Hammond. Now, a lot of fecking years later, he seems to be more calm, but only caring about killing and nothing more.

But apparently the writers go “Yeah he doesn’t care about anything but hes willing to go after Octane, the artifacts and hes willing to hack Crypto’s drone just to scare Loba and the other legends” and while yes the last part is what Revenant loves to do with his eternal existance, the other parts don’t add up (and i swear to god that if next Tuesday Revenant tries to stop Loba from killing him, even tho thats all he wants, i’m going to riot).

So heres what i’m proposing: What if...that wasn’t actually Revenant, and maybe, just maybe, theres a bigger fish in the story than we first thought

2-Hack (i’m refering to Crypto’s drone)

Thats the part that most intrigued me: Hack getting hacked (it’s ironic, isn’t it?). Crypto told us that the drone is unhackable, but ask yourself: “Why he thinks that?” My proposal is that Crypto is a top tier hacker, and he developed the drone, so hes pretty much knows the drone’s weakness and he worked on fixing those weaknesses, but let me blow you away: He created Hack and he was a top tier hacker sINCE THE START (and by that i mean when he was Tae Joon Park) In the Crypto “Tales from the Outlands”, he was a pretty good hacker, so thats why in the start of the short Mila said “This place isn’t bad, but it’s still not as good as that shop down street (can’t believe they went out of business)” thus implying that Mila and Crypto had diferent hidding spots, aka: Tae had a target on his back because of his hacks even before Crypto. Also in the short, when Tae is running from the Sindicate agents, he uses the drone the same way we use in games 

(P.S: You may argue “Well maybe he did some upgrades to the drones” and to that i say “I agree...but” the upgrades i am refering to is the buffs that Crypto’s drone receive (like the more health buff or the changes to the EMP). But as you can see, these buffs are more offensive focused, instead of defensive, aka not changes related to improving the drone’s anti-hacking system)

What i’m saying is the drone didn’t changed a lot when we first saw it in action, so the inner machinations, or in other words, the interior part of Hack didn’t changed a lot, so basically if you saw Hack in the past and Hack now, it wouldn’t have changed a lot, so the way the drone works stayed the same. You may see where i’m going and you may argue “But the only people that know how Hack works is Crypto” and then i say “and Mila”. Think about it: They both grow up together (they’re brothers), and in the short it’s presented that they’re both hacker genious (I talked more on part 1 and yes this is me asking you for checking it out since i put a lot of work in it only to Tumblr to eat it with no emotion), so the only people that knows how Crypto AND THE DRONE operates is Mila, and to ellaborate how she really know how the drone works, i call for

3-Lost Treasures

In the trailer Mila used the drone to communicate with Crypto. “How?” is still unknown, but i imagine (and how i explained in my part 1) is that Mila, knowing how Crypto’s drone works, she remotely hacked Hack to send the message, thus confirming that a) Mila could be alive; and b) There is ways to hack the unhackable, which brings me to my next fact:

A weird detail that i discussed in the part 1 of this theory is that Revenant isn’t capable of hacking (and if you try to use the “Silence” ability as a way to justify “the hack”, then i must remind you that it actually works more like a EMP than a hack. And if you try to say that “hes a robot” that would be robophobia since not all robots are good at hacking) so it’s weird that he managed to hack the drone (and the reward menu during the override event), so heres what i propose:

4-The TRUE Mole

What if Hammond is using Mila’s hacking abilities to hack the drone and then impersonate as Revenant just to make the legends turn against Crypto.

Hammond have been watching Revenant during the games for some time, so by now they know how Rev acts and speaks, and since Hammond also knows about Loba and her interest and goals, knew exactly the conflict that they are facing

Heck they even know how all the legends behave because of the Apex Games, so that would explain the mole using the diferent ways the legends speak in the first part of the storyline when they wrote the letter to Revenant 

And Crypto have been a common enemy to Hammond and the Sindicate for a long time, and it wouldn’t  be a surprise to find out that the Sindicate knows that Crypto is in the apex games (it’s a world wide famous channel, not the best place to hide and try to “find the truth”). So the suspense of who could be Rev’s spie would really make people turn against one, and Crypto unfortnally was caught in the trap

I would go as far to say that they know about the progress with the artifact and how the Legends pretend to betrayl Hammond. “How?” and for that i say that the true mole all this time was actualy Crypto.......’s DRONE. You may think that i’m going bonkers but this would actually make sense: the drone has visual and auditorial functions (shown by the “Lost Treasures” trailer and gameplay), so whoever has access to the drone theoretically has access to all the conversation that the Legends have whenever Crypto was present (because Crypto and the drone are inseparables)

Also that could draw a connection with the name “Mole”. Don’t yall think that it’s weird that “mole” is the name applied to the spy that is leaking information to Revenant? So let’s take a closer look to the animal with the informatiob that we have: A mole is a mammal that lives underground, with sometimes going to the surface; Now draws that connection with the spy mole that is theoretically hacking Crypto’s drone during conversations: They are hiding in the shadows, and whenever the Legends are done retrieving the artifact, they “pop” to the surface to listen to the conversation.

Final-Mila and her possible Legend abilities

With all that in mind, i strongly believe that there is no better “next legend” than Mila, but a Winter Soldier version of Mila, brainwashed and trained to get rid of Crypto and try to steal the artifact by the end of the storyline

And with what i discussed today, i also believe that Mila’s abilities are going to be related to mimic other Legend’s abilities (i may discuss about it in another post)

So thank everybody that read everything, if you liked the theory, like and reblog cuz i worked to the bone. Also if you have something you wanna comment or add, just DM me (Let’s hope that Tumblr doesn’t eat this post)