Event Pre-Planning: Assault on the Entropy Bomb Factory

[the_overseers]

[If you can see this post, please do not let others know that you can, this is exclusively for those of Command Unit rank or High Councilor rank only. The general event information will become publicly available around May 1st.]

Who: Sgt. Morrison, Commander Ramirez, Senior Councilor Ksthellixis, Senior Councilor Macarius, Bill, all High Councilors and Command Unit members.
What: Planning a counter-offensive against the Children of Entropy.

Around noon, you all receive the following summons: "This is Sgt. Morrison. If you are receiving this notification, please report immediately to my office. Your attendance is mandatory, and this is a first priority summons."

Upon entering the office, you see Morrison sitting at his desk, flanked by Senior Councilor Macarius, Commander Ramirez, and Bill. There is a video screen active with Senior Councilor Ksthellixis's looming visage, the details from the background indicate that he is at his estate on the Outer Rim.

"I have important news," Morrison says. "We have located the base where the Children of Entropy are manufacturing their entropy bombs. We intend to capture the facility and as many Children of Entropy as we can."

[So this is how this works. There will be a number of threads to discuss how to best deploy the Agents and Enforcers in various roles. After all the planning, this will go public and the others will have an opportunity to give input as well. Ideally, once this conversation is done the Command Unit and High Councilors will have a set plan to present to the rest of the compound.]

Comments

Councilors and Intelligence

[the-overseers.livejournal.com]

THIS MISSION MUST BE CARRIED OUT QUICKLY. I KNOW THAT IF SYLTHERIAN AND THE TRANSCENDANT REPUBLIC GET WIND OF THIS, THEY WILL DEPLOY DIVISIONS 0001 AND 0002 TO SMASH THE BASE AND LEAVE NONE ALIVE. NOT ONLY WILL THEY TAKE THE GLORY FOR THEMSELVES, BUT THEY WILL USE THIS AGAINST US AND OUR DIVISION TO SHAME US AND POSSIBLY EVEN ADD FUEL TO RUMBLINGS THAT WE BUNGLED THE AETHR MISSION.

I WILL NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN. IT WILL BE THE DUTY OF THE COUNCILORS AND THE DIPLOMAT CORPS TO RUN INTERFERENCE. I HAVE NO DOUBT AS WE BEGIN REQUISITIONING EQUIPMENT SYLTHERIAN AND THE TRANSCENDANT REPUBLIC WILL SUSPECT SOMETHING IS UP. WE NEED TO DELAY THEM AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, BEFORE THEY CAN FIND OUT WHAT WE'RE UP TO BEFORE WE'VE CAPTURED THE BASE. ONCE WE HAVE THE BASE IN OUR POSSESSION, WE CAN EASILY SWING THE SHAME BACK TO THEM, EVERYONE KNOWS HOW THOSE DIVISIONS OPERATE AND WE CAN MAKE THE POINT THAT THE SECRECY WAS NECESSARY SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT DESTROY IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT WE CAN USE TO OUR BENEFIT.

I SUSPECT THE INFILTRATION UNIT WILL NEED TO BE THE FIRST ONES DEPLOYED. IDEALLY WE CAN GET SOME PEOPLE ON THE INSIDE TO GET US A LAYOUT OF THE STATION, AND IDEALLY DO SOME SABOTAGE BEFORE THE ATTACK.

Re: Councilors and Intelligence

[highondaylight.livejournal.com]

Masking of large scale equipment requisitioning will not pose exceptional difficulty. I believe I may have found a good route for some bureaucratic routing that could buy us as long as a month before it gets to general observation... Particularly if we have a couple choice Agents "expedite" the routing by carrying things from point to point personally.

Given we'd only need a week? I think we can handle that.

Re: Councilors and Intelligence

[faithfultenko.livejournal.com]

In regards to the Syltherians, it will be vital to ensure their backs are turned while we strike. If I may propose an idea? We should spread false rumors, claim that we have located a base somewhere far away from where the real one lies. While they concentrate their attention on approaching this false base, we can move in quickly and take out the real base ourselves.

[toturithefirst.livejournal.com]

An interesting proposal, but would they take it well once it came into light that it was a fabrication?

[faithfultenko.livejournal.com]

If they fail to see through our deception, then is it really our fault for deceiving them, or theirs for striking without confirming the veracity of the report? After all, we are meant to be "bunglers," are we not?

[toturithefirst.livejournal.com]

Very true. Do we know the speed at which they can investigate it though? If they move to attack and find nothing, they would definitely be on alert and looking. Perhaps this measure is best employed right before the attack to throw them off?

[faithfultenko.livejournal.com]

A wise idea. And they may be more eager to jump to conclusions should they gain any suspicion at all of what we are up to. Obviously, that would not be the desired result, but in such a contingency we can use it to our advantage easily.