Sapphire wakes up on... the surface of the moon? It's white and dusty and gravity feels weaker than it should. The sky is dark and she can see the Earth and Sun in the distance. Her right hand bears a glowing indigo ring, her left holds a similarly colored staff.
The emails are from someone named 'XX' or 'Dubbilex', mostly mundane day-to-day stuff. He seems to have occupied an administrative or leadership position within Cadmus.
Ring, tell me about the six Genomorphs variants. Also why did one of your responses mention five variants and another six?
The ring provides images and descriptions. G-Trolls are huge, elephant-like quadrupeds used for heavy lifting and brute strength. G-Dwarves are smaller, with tentacles suitable for more detailed work. G-Elves are human-sized, nimble, with claws, used as guards. G-Sprites are somehow capable of generating an electric field, they are kept in jars and used to power the facility. G-Gnomes are small, monkey-like telepaths, used for communication and 'programming' for other projects.
The G-Goblin—there is only one—is a tall, slim humanoid, capable of telekinesis. His name is 'XX'.
"There are six extant variants, of which five are widespread. There is only one G-Goblin."
There's something there. Unless she misunderstood they're all sapient and yet the sprites are fine being kept in jars. Even for a eusocial species that seems strange they must be communicating somehow.
Ring are you capable of detecting telepathic connections and is scanning for them likely to be detected if so?
"Telepathic connections can be detected, but not reliably interpreted. Scanning unlikely to further increase risk of detection."
Do a scan, I'm more interested in how many there are and any patterns in the connections than the contents at the moment.
"Compliance."
The ring displays a map of nodes and the connections between them. If she spends some time to observe, she will discover: there are about a hundred nodes, mostly sporadically connecting to each other. Several are occupied connecting continuously to a single other node each. One of the nodes is behaving very irregularly, rapidly connecting to several of the other nodes, then staying isolated from the rest of the network, on an irregular pattern.
Please label the nodes with their species. She fully expects the exceptional node to be XX.
Nearly all the nodes are G-Gnomes. Some of them are continuously connected to G-Trolls, G-Dwarves, or G-Elves. The irregular behavior is from Dubbilex.
Guy said that the other lanterns follow the Guardians first and foremost maybe that would give the league reason to intervene or Guy.
Ring did the information that Guy Gardner sent us include the Guardians laws?
Hmm, if the Genomorphs are hiding things how might they be doing that.
Ring can we map the entire complex and compare it to Cadmus records of the layout using scans with similar risk of detection as those we've already done?
"Compliance."
According to the official plans filed with the city, Cadmus Labs is a small two-story building, with no mention made of its 52 sub-levels. Cadmus’ internal version of these plans is much more accurate, although it has some errors, particularly in the lower sub-levels, which have some rooms and hallways that look almost organic. There is also a sizable cavern deep below Cadmus, connected to the floor above by a few obscure passages.
After the league does whatever they're going to do. If that doesn't address the Genomorphs what can she do.
Can you protect me from telepathic programming attempts? And can you do that while still allowing telepathic conversations?
She chuckles, yeah that was a long shot. Which species of Genomorphs can speak verbally?
She's now out of ideas, she decides to walk around the park while waiting to hear back from Batman.
After another twenty minutes or so, he calls back.
"Would you mind coming up to the watchtower? We'd like to speak with you, and this is best done in person."