Mission Update!

[lucetimods]

Droid Sabotage - Begins September 21st (fyi: we pushed the date up by one!)
Field Leader: Steve Rogers; Security: Alia Shepard, Sophie, Rogue, Greg Lestrade, Gai Tsutsugami, Masaomi Kida, Leonhardt; Stealth: Trafalgar Law, Fujiko Mine, Nara Shikamaru, Albert Silverberg, Loki; Technicians: Donatello, Artemis Fowl II, Daisy, Tony Stark; Programmers: Robert Hastings, Pascal, Doctor “Eggman” Robotnik, Raine Sage

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Comments

[castbytheglyph]

Pascal has gotten around security devices in the past, so perhaps rather than blowing the door or kidnapping Kidston there could be a group effort to bypass the wing scan altogether and get the door open some other way. Though when Kidston notices the door has been opened without her help then all hell will break loose.

Getting her perma-drunk on tranquilizers and keeping her with the group as they work seems to be the safest option, even if someone will have to end up babysitting her. If they open the doors any other way then there are going to be security personnel all over them sooner or later, even with the distraction going on with the other team.

Re: Science Team?

[fowlplots]

As a former criminal mastermind Artemis has no reservations about kidnapping someone just to use their body parts, since in canon once he pretty much PLANNED for cutting off a man's thumb just to get into a super secure safe. But considering the whole death/mutilation aspect of cutting off someone's wing he'd be more likely to suggest attempting to reprogram the wing scanner to recognize the wings of one person in their party, if only because a kidnapping can get messy in a high security situation especially if they're caught.

As for structural weaknesses to introduce, changing the carbon bonds in the alloy would definitely be a place to start. Drastically changing the amounts of alloy components might get noticed faster, though. So Artemis would recommend changing the formula just enough to lower it's breaking point to make it more easily damaged. There's also the question of how they might try and sabotage the batteries.

Re: Science Team?

[daisy023]

For the batteries, a defect could be introduced that overheats the mechanism. The battery is an effective productor of perpetual energy, something that by all means should be impossible to the first and second laws of thermodynamics. (But again, shifts!)

It could be either made so that the battery delivers far too much energy that it could fry the motherboard (a defect in PC's -- hence why there is a safety lock that shuts a computer down if the cooler stops working... which could be toned down from the droids, by increasing the temperature tolerance, perhaps), or ruin it just a little so it gardually loses energy in combat situations.

Even the tiniest leak of energy that forbids the battery from being a perpetual energy mechanism could have serious effects on the droids.

[alloys]

Tony would favor sabotaging the batteries himself. It's a very subtle tactic and the fact that the battery is breaking physical laws will drive him crazy. Batteries are a part of the droid he'd be especially interested in studying, too, so this is likely where his focus will be. It'll give him a good look at part of what makes 'em tick, and that's what he wants.

Re: Science Team?

[complicatedliar]

Loki's entire argument is pretty much going to be: The whole point is for the mission to be a success, right? Then why faff around with it when there's a quick, efficient way to get the job done. Particularly since it sounds like leaving Kidston alive isn't really going to do the "good" side any favors. Killing her achieves two purposes, in that it gets them into the room no muss, no fuss, and it also deprives the bad guys of a presumably valuable resource.

I want him to be in on this part of the mission since that's really the place he's going to be any fun to play in.

(And as I just realized, he can use an illusion to disguise himself as her as well...)

Science Team?

[fowlplots]

I think the major flaw with Loki disguising himself as Kidston is that the FFA scanner goes for genetics and I don't think even Loki could change how his DNA reads.

The arguments against simply cutting her wings off would be largely moral and based on whether they're any better than the malnosso if they mutilate someone to further their own goals.

Re: Science Team?

[complicatedliar]

Oh no, he'd be disguising himself as her to hide the fact that she's dead/incapacitated.

Yeah, those arguments don't hold a whole lot of water with someone like Loki. ^^;;

Morals are all well and good until they get you killed or make you fail a mission. Unnecessary risks and all that.

Re: Science Team?

[complicatedliar]

Though of course, the best way to keep him from killing her and still have him play decoy chief programmer to keep things nice and covert would just be to put someone with him.

[daisy023]

I admit I exaggerated on the "perma-drunk" thing, but I meant more as getting her knocked out first and foremost before beginning their plans. Since the target is the most paranoid of the group, and there may be quite a ruckus with Team B, having the tranquilizers work ASAP would be for the best.

Perma-drunk... may not end well. /has memories of that Undergrads quote on why are hazings no longer done.

Still, having someone babysit her would be for the best, perhaps -- treating her as a POW in the middle of the Op. (No weapons given, observation of the target, keeping her out of lines of fire, etc).

..... Come think of it, in The Fall of Reach, they stuff an Insurrectionist Colonel into a crate when they tranquilize him. Could that be attempted?

[castbytheglyph]

My bad, I meant it in the same sort of way. Just keeping her out of it long enough for everything to come together. Though the idea of Kidston coming to and babbling incomprehensibly about the droids whilst still under the effects of tranquilizers is terribly amusing.

- If not a crate then maybe some sort of closet or small room they can lock her in and bar the door, providing every single room down there doesn't need some sort of intense security mechanism to be bypassed or whatever. I can edit my mod question above to reflect this if it's something the team would consider.