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> > And she doesn't really need the remaining two.  Even
> > with just one gem she could have beaten Kagato - if
> > he didn't already have a contingency plan available
> > that would have stopped her no matter how many gems
> > she had (i.e. set his bridge up to drain
> > the power of the gems).
>
> Off-topic, but I really have to question that
> assumption that Ryoko could have beaten Kagato.  She
> couldn't or didn't bother beat Kagato for 4300 years,
> 700 years prior.
>
> I always figured that Kagato overrode her Masu with
> his will (Masu follow strongest will as explained
> OAV2) like when he turned her into stone during that
> battle.  She only reverted back with Washu's help in
> the dreamworld(her even stronger will).
>
> Another example of this is when Ryoko merging with
> stone and becoming giant Ryoko.  She grabbed Kagato in
> her hand but when she tried anything, she simply fell
> apart (again, I assume an override of wills with the
> Masu).
>
> I always wondered on Washu's assumption on Ryoko being
> able to defeat Kagato - because even Washu was
> surprised during battle with Kagato's tech - more
> specifically the gems he developed for the Souja,
> which, according to him, could pull far more power
> than Ryoko's gem.
>
> Of course, not everybody is complety honest or
> infallible :)
>
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Tonight's Dumb Question:  Did the gems augment Ryoko's physical strength, or
just provide exceptional energy to broadcast, i.e., energy blasts, energy
needles, the stone giant, etc.  Any of the canon sources ever say exactly
how the power was applied?

I'm thinking of Ryoko's push-pull contest with Ayeka in Ep 7., how the
latter (with her GXP-style body strengthening) was able to hold her own with
the former (even though Ryoko was only down to one gem).....

Jeff

Jeffery (Jeff) Harris
JLHOnami@mchsi.com