Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board RIP Vee/Varalent

I happened to be on the boards on a "hot" afternoon when the MMB was rocking and rolling in the days when there were dozens of posters going ape and an equal amount of alt IDs doing the same.

Vee screwed up and posted as the Emerald Empress.

Until then, in late 2003, only Semi knew Vee was the Empress. It was a closely guarded secret. He told me "Semi is laughing his ass off over my screw up", and I was laughing right along, feeling like some voyeur detective who stumbled onto a state secret. By now we had become friends--so many of us, in those bright early months of Legion World, but for me especially a select group of posters who I'll always associate with those times: Abin, Semi, Kippers, Icey, and so many others. And Vee.

He said the cat was out of the bag and he might as well admit it. I begged him to reconsider. Instead, I said, let's craft the Empress a long role in LMB history. He loved the character--so let's make her an essential part of the lore.

And if you posted 2003-2006, we did exactly that.

The Office of Security, Thora's invasion, Miss T's Civil War, the Good the Dark & the Dead and of course, her farewell, in Infinite Crisis. Vee had a guiding hand in them all, and sometimes, only in the cigar smoked back rooms.

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He loved the LMB lore. The continuity, the hilarity, the ironic awesomeness that could evoke a nostalgic love for a series that had long ago basically told you to fuck off.

A lot of us shared that then and still do. It hurts to think we've lost someone who shared that same passion.