MISSION: GET TO ZE CHOPPA

[initiatesnpc]

Date & Time: August 23rd, 2753 (OOCly forward-dated to the 1st)
Location: Uruguay National Defense HQ
Characters: All transports!
Summary: All transports are sent back to Uruguay to download a self-aware AI before it gets bombed out of existence by an early incarnation of the UE. Time distortion effects will be set right either on the way there or on the way back, according to player choice.
Warnings: violence, action movie tension, 3 terabytes of foot fetish porn.

The Transporter drops the entire transport population into what will quickly be established as Home Base, a mile from the vast, sprawling facility that is Uruguay's National Defense HQ. The low roar of helidrones moving above is pervasive, but the black ships can only be glimpsed here and there through the thick cover of trees overhead. If you keep calm and quiet, it's likely you won't be spotted. It's the UND HQ their attention is on, after all.

The population is quickly sorted by attending Initiate employees according to who volunteers to fight and who volunteers to protect, along with those with enough skill to access the computers, and those with enough skill to get them there. The fighters move out first, off to intercept the early UE's ships and ground troops, and to draw the automated defense systems of the facility alike. They'll be in a crossfire, and neither side will be happy to see them there.

The techies and their escorts are sent out far more quietly, in groups of three. Their task is to sneak past the front lines and into the facility itself. There might be alarms and automated defense drones, so those escorts may well be called on to earn their keep. The Initiative can't give any information about which building will house the AI's mainframe, that information was long since lost to history. All they can do is send out enough people to hope that one of them manages to find it.

And remember — as soon as the UE troops withdraw, there will only be minutes until the bomb drops. Everyone would do well to work fast.



[[ Mission information is here, and the techie/escort teams, along with their hacking results, are here. Each techie/escort group will have their own established thread, but Team Distraction and Team We'll Stay Here, Thanks are welcome to thread where ever and however they like! The newbie log that goes up on the 1st will also encompass the arrival back in Exsilium, if you'd like to play that out as well. ]]

Comments

[gevurah]

Batwoman. [ So there's no Gotham or Batman in his world after all. ]

[queenoftherock]

[Stephanie wasn't kidding when she said it was a franchise.]

Friend of Batgirl?

[gevurah]

[ A little too intimate a word for that. ]

We're on the same side.

[queenoftherock]

I can see that. Gotham?

[gevurah]

Got it in one.

[queenoftherock]

Who are you, really?

[gevurah]

[ She says nothing. ]

[queenoftherock]

[Not surprised.]

Batwoman, then.

[gevurah]

Secret identities for a reason. [ She taps the "forehead" of her mask with a slight smirk. ]

[queenoftherock]

[That makes him smirk a little.]

I can see that. [A beat.] I'm really not the Green Arrow you know. [Firstly because he's sure as hell not 60.]

[gevurah]

What do you call yourself, then?

[queenoftherock]

Depends on who you ask.

[gevurah]

I'm asking you.

[queenoftherock]

I have no name.

[gevurah]

I don't know how "hey you" will work.

[queenoftherock]

[Well, 'the vigilante' isn't very nice... mostly.]

They call me 'The Hood.'

[gevurah]

Straight to the point, I see. [ But she wonders why not Green Arrow. ]

[queenoftherock]

[Because it's a lame name and he doesn't really have any use for a formal name.]

People around me can be uncreative.

[gevurah]

[ But a classic!! ]

The media, you mean.

[queenoftherock]

People, media. Police.

[gevurah]

Police aren't always so understanding. [ Hence why she avoids them. ]

[queenoftherock]

Very rarely they are.

[gevurah]

But they do whatever they can. [ It's not always the best, but they try their damn hardest. She's probably more willing to admit that than any other vigilante.

Or perhaps it's because she's been on the "other" side before. She'd been the Brigade XO at USMA. Her parents had outstanding military careers. She's seen what drives good people to protect and serve. ]

The Hood fits, at least.

[queenoftherock]

It's what they call me, so I go with it. I'd rather they call me that than anything else.