Opening Discussion: World Crises

Members not present at this meeting include Great-Man, the Terror, Starman, and Mr. Terrific. Great-Man is a clone of Superman, the Terror is a scary sleuth and scientist, Starman is the son of Starman with a gravity rod, and Mr. Terrific has no super-powers but is a master of all skills. Yes, including archery.

GREEN ARROW:

Conner Hawke opens the meeting with two minutes of meditation and zen calisthenics.

Once everyone is seated around the big (or small) JSA table, Green Arrow uses his gavel arrow to bring the meeting to order, and reads the new and old business items on the agenda.

"Of old business, item one: is there anything to discuss about the climate re-stabilizing itself? Is there anything the Justice Society can or ought to do regarding the missed growing season?

"Item two: Lexcorp harvesting the antimatter should be investigated to see what evil scheme the President of the United States has in mind for this material. This might be a stealth or espionage mission, purely fishing for evidence of a crime we have no reason to suspect is going down.

"Item three: The failure of the Zeta Beam tubes of course hampers our ability to respond actively and flexibly to worldwide threats. However, I live at an Ashram, free of all material desires and worldly goods, and therefore have no idea how even to start looking into a solution for this one. At the moment, we have the Arrowplane, the Martian Manhunter's saucer, and maybe the Batplane. The chair will entertain a motion to assign a subcommittee of the whole to discuss the possibility of flying to a friendly alien planet that sells used spaceships and buying two or three more from a used UFO salesman, to flesh out the JSA ability to project force globally. Does anyone know if the planet Rann, or the planet Oa might have used aerospace vessels for sale? Also, I am hoping to borrow a spaceship on the weekend, to see if I can get a date with the Bee Queen Zazzala the hiveworld Korll. (Reference photo: http://www.scifiwright.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Queen-Bee.jpg)

"Item four: aliens steeling candy is a Silver Age type crime my mother, Moon-day, warned me about. This is a mission that may rely on speed or maneuverability rather than super-strength or monkey-strength, depending on the numbers and strength of the alien robots. Also, it is not clear from the report why the robots are thought to be designed by an alien rather than by a young super-scientist child with a sweet-tooth.

"Item five: disappearing elephants. Also an investigation mission, until we discover who are what is behind it. It could be anyone from time-travelling zookeepers from the far future years after the Great Disaster of the 40th Century, when Elephant Men rule the Earth, to the Apes of Ape City, poaching elephant for their own super scientific purposes, to elephant-nappers from Skartaris at the Earth's core. Or people could be doing this. Earth people. Consequently, this mission requires a certain degree of delicacy, knowledge of jungle survival, and quickwittedness. Also an ability to pick up an carry elephants might be useful.

"None of these investigations seems to me that it will require the whole team at once. Therefore the chair will entertain two motions: First, do we split up? Go in pairs to investigate each thing? Second, who should be assigned to which?

"The floor is now open for motions and for debate on which missions to do, and who should be sent."

Hawkgirl raises her hand.

Assuming she is recognized (Mom and Dad are real sticklers on rules), she says, "Well, Opal City is Jack Knight's territory. I know he doesn't make many meetings, but he's technically one of us. You'll want to check in with him when you go."

"Also, I would very much like to know if the Sun is in the exact position it was before--and if not, what that means long term..."
"Oh! and are the little alien sweet-snatchers actually harming anyone--or is it a property crime?"

Monkey king:
"Present... I'm sorry, what happened to the sun?
And is there anything I can do about it? or is Great Man moving the sun not all that bad? How did he move the sun anyway? is it not a plasma? I do not get any of this."

Hawkgirl:
"If it's off by a few degrees, it could have long-term consequences for Earth. Certainly, sea levels have risen and fallen a lot through the years. But those changes were gradual things. Mostly. Aside from 'The Little Ice Age' and 'the Year without a Summer,' but that last one was caused by a volcano, and at least we got Frankenstein out of it," chatters Hawkgirl breezily, further muddying the waters.

(Monkey King was not in the JSA during the adventure of Earth Two, but everyone on Earth knows that Great-Man moved the Sun by flying into it, preventing a collision between Earth and the antimatter Earth-2. Then he put it back.

TV news theorizes Great-Man's bioelectric field is so supercharged that he repelled the Sun's electrically-charged core. So although he spread his arms and dug into the thick swirling plasma of the core, he could have done just as well folding his arms, or turning his back and taking a nap. But that would be a boring panel.)

Monkey King:
"I do not have Monkey strength, I have God Strength. and I am pretty fast.I think I can handle the Candy case. Might need help thou."

The Shade:
An icy voice comes out of the darkness. "There is no need for speed in this case, What we must do is set a trap for the thieves. We should get together a horde of candy that they would want to steal, then once they come to steal it, we jump them. If we do that we could capture them with ease. If we did need speed, swift would be the best chose.

Swift:
Hmm. We definitely need scientists. Anyone know any? I'll encourage some of my children to become scientists, but that is only a long term fix.

How about these elephants? Poachers? Or...something more devious?

The tally, then, is:

MISSING ELEPHANTS: Swift expressed curiosity.
CANDY ROBOTS: Monkey King and the Shade have ideas.
ANTIMATTER CLOUD: No interest in immediate action.
SUN POSITION: No one thinks we need to rush right out into the Sun.
TELEPORT TUBES: No one has said they have a spare ship to lend Green Arrow this weekend.