- Aug 18 00:24:28 * Now talking on #miami_ic
- Aug 18 00:24:32 * You are now known as Tyler_Xu
- Aug 18 00:26:13 * Dire_Goblin is now known as Max_Dimick
- Aug 18 00:32:20 <ShepherdsPie> The pilots are called into a debriefing room one by one by Rottstein. First Tyler, then Max, then Delphine, and then Rose. Takeshi, who is currently on watch, is absent from this meeting. Nothing is said until all the pilots find themselves a seat. Rottstein holds up a single piece of paper and slides it to Tyler. She then looks to the rest and says, "Dr. Brillig has told us where NERV...
- Aug 18 00:32:22 <ShepherdsPie> ...Central is located."
- Aug 18 00:33:35 <Tyler_Xu> "...Why now. Until just a short while ago he was resisting interrogation."
- Aug 18 00:33:56 <Max_Dimick> "...Really? Why?"
- Aug 18 00:34:42 <ShepherdsPie> Rottstein looks the Tyler for a second, then looks back to Max. "He cracked."
- Aug 18 00:34:55 <ShepherdsPie> "Maybe."
- Aug 18 00:35:34 <ShepherdsPie> One of the displays turns on showing an image of the open ocean. "This is where he said it would be."
- Aug 18 00:36:01 <Tyler_Xu> "Smells like a trap." He takes the piece of paper and looks at its contents.
- Aug 18 00:40:12 <Max_Dimick> "So, where is it?"
- Aug 18 00:41:20 <ShepherdsPie> "That is what I though as well, however..." She zooms in the image of the screen to the point where the movement of the waves are visible. "This is a live feed from one of our satellites." The image then moves to the left, following the waves until the waves seem to desync, as if everything past an invisble line is a second ahead of the rest of the waves. "There appears to be an area in...
- Aug 18 00:41:21 <ShepherdsPie> ...which all the waves are a second behind."
- Aug 18 00:43:43 <Tyler_Xu> "Obviously hiding something there... Maybe the US military can get their own satellites over the area. Theirs should be secure."
- Aug 18 00:49:23 <Tyler_Xu> "...an enormous oil rig sitting in the middle of the ocean with an entire city built into it." He muses as he reads the slip of paper in his hand.
- Aug 18 00:51:27 <ShepherdsPie> "We tried that, however..." She brings up a different display which shows a still picture of very similar scene, "It appears that this phenomena is on every satellite we can use, furthermore, it appears that this goes back as far as twenty years." Another image is opened up, another satellite photo dated twenty years ago.
- Aug 18 00:52:53 <Adrastea> "Some sort of ground-based field effect..."
- Aug 18 00:58:46 <Tyler_Xu> "Possible. Something that large couldn't be hidden just by hacking and overlaying."
- Aug 18 00:59:11 <ShepherdsPie> "That is the assumption, however..." The images disappear, and are replaced with an image of a map of the entire planet. "There appear to be eleven other areas in which the phenomena takes place." Twelve areas on the map are then tinted red. "This is... worrying to say the least."
- Aug 18 01:00:02 <Tyler_Xu> "And he only revealed this location?"
- Aug 18 01:00:30 <ShepherdsPie> "Correct."
- Aug 18 01:01:19 <Adrastea> "Are they all the same size?"
- Aug 18 01:02:18 * Tyler_Xu leans back. "Central... isn't just a single location."
- Aug 18 01:02:25 <ShepherdsPie> "The exact same size."
- Aug 18 01:02:56 <Max_Dimick> "Or maybe not all of these things are Central."
- Aug 18 01:03:28 <ShepherdsPie> "It's also possible that none of them are Central." She adds.
- Aug 18 01:04:04 <Tyler_Xu> "Was thinking of that too, max." he sighs. "And if we assume that, the real central isn't on earth."
- Aug 18 01:06:13 * Max_Dimick gazes at the map intently. Maybe there is some kind of pattern to the anomalous areas?
- Aug 18 01:09:08 <ShepherdsPie> The area appear to be randomly placed, but all of them are somewhere in the open ocean.
- Aug 18 01:10:47 <Adrastea> "Maybe they're all former oil rigs..."
- Aug 18 01:12:20 <Tyler_Xu> "Did he mention how many personnel were on that base?"
- Aug 18 01:18:06 <ShepherdsPie> "Of all of them, there is only one that had an oil rig built on it previous to the twenty year mark." The image zooms in on one of the areas off the coast of Greenland, "The Principality of Sea Land Two: Electric Bugaloo..." She face palms and continues, "A country founded as a practical joke on the internet. It was assumed to have been destroyed in second impact."
- Aug 18 01:19:12 <ShepherdsPie> "He did not state how many personnel were apart of the base, but if he description of the base is correct, it probably numbers in the thousands."
- Aug 18 01:20:21 <Tyler_Xu> "Where are they getting all their personnel from..." he muses.
- Aug 18 01:23:29 <ShepherdsPie> "It is possible that they make them all."
- Aug 18 01:25:20 * Tyler_Xu curses quietly at the news
- Aug 18 01:26:02 <Max_Dimick> "This is going to be... interesting."
- Aug 18 01:28:08 <Tyler_Xu> "Yea... How do you think we should act?" he ask the commander.
- Aug 18 01:28:30 <Tyler_Xu> [*vice]
- Aug 18 01:33:16 <ShepherdsPie> The vice commander ponders, "Based on what we know, we cannot deploy to the area, so we are going to see if we can send unmanned drones into the area." She pauses and then adds, "Make sure Takeshi doesn't hear about any of this. If someone told him, he'd probably run off for the area by himself."
- Aug 18 01:34:18 <Tyler_Xu> "Max, adra, any suggestions?"
- Aug 18 01:37:33 <Adrastea> "I think drones are a good idea."
- Aug 18 01:40:34 <Max_Dimick> "A drone would alert them, though."
- Aug 18 01:42:05 <ShepherdsPie> "So, what is worse, breaking into the wrong house, or telling someone you're going to break into their house?" She muses.
- Aug 18 01:44:07 <Tyler_Xu> "Unless we can get Smith to agree to an assault on that location immediately after."
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- Aug 18 04:15:56 <ShepherdsPie> Rottstein nods, "That brings up another concern, the sheer cost of trying to attack any of the areas, let alone all twelve one after the other." She ponders for a moment, "Do you have any input, captain?"
- Aug 18 04:18:02 <Tyler_Xu> "Perhaps a limited attack on one of the bases. To do that we'll need the help of Mr Smith and the US forces for ground troops since we obviously don't have the manpower."
- Aug 18 04:19:04 <ShepherdsPie> "So, you wish to occupy the city, then?"
- Aug 18 04:20:23 <Tyler_Xu> "We still have no idea on where Julia is being held. I'd rather not blow up one of our own."
- Aug 18 04:21:47 <Max_Dimick> "I'm also pretty sure that blowing up thousands of enemy civilian personnel counts as a war crime."
- Aug 18 04:25:26 <ShepherdsPie> "Not that I disagree, but..." She pauses a moment, "The people who are in Central, the only people who know about them is Central itself. It is very possible that should we need to destroy the city, we would not be charged for a war crime."
- Aug 18 04:27:23 <Tyler_Xu> "possible. But that would likely also turn every other public NERV base against us when they hear of it."
- Aug 18 04:30:11 <ShepherdsPie> "Speaking of the other NERV bases, NERV Boston wishes to have a ... meet and greet, for lack of a better term, with us. However they wish to do so at their base."
- Aug 18 04:30:50 <Tyler_Xu> "All of us?"
- Aug 18 04:32:00 <ShepherdsPie> She nods, "The agreement would be with every pilot, the Operations Director, Vice Commander, and Commander present."
- Aug 18 04:32:44 <Adrastea> "That's...odd. They specifically don't want anyone left behind?"
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- Aug 18 04:35:13 <Max_Dimick> "I'd rather meet them somewhere on neutral soil."
- Aug 18 04:36:12 <Tyler_Xu> "That would be best."
- Aug 18 04:38:07 <ShepherdsPie> "They have stated that they will deny any requests to change the location of the meeting."
- Aug 18 04:38:25 <Tyler_Xu> "Did they say why?"
- Aug 18 04:39:41 <ShepherdsPie> "It is a symbol of trust." She says, "Personally, as suspicious as this may appear, I... I want to believe it's not a trap."
- Aug 18 04:41:12 <Tyler_Xu> "I know what you mean... So they just need all of us there?"
- Aug 18 04:41:25 <Max_Dimick> "Well, the only person from their base I know is Marcus... What can you cay about their commander?"
- Aug 18 04:41:28 <ShepherdsPie> "Correct."
- Aug 18 04:42:49 <ShepherdsPie> "Boston is..." she sighs, "It is a very strange base."
- Aug 18 04:44:38 <Tyler_Xu> "like how?"
- Aug 18 04:48:21 <ShepherdsPie> "The commander of Boston, for example..." She pauses, "Well, he likes to wear dresses because ... he thinks..." She makes air quotes, "The 'walls of gender' need to be 'torn down' so equality can 'reign supreme.' He apparently thinks wearing a dress will accomplish that, although I am quite sure that he just likes wearing a dress."
- Aug 18 04:49:35 <Tyler_Xu> "...huh."
- Aug 18 04:49:47 <ShepherdsPie> "A strange place." She repeats.
- Aug 18 04:51:08 <Max_Dimick> "...huh indeed."
- Aug 18 04:51:31 <Tyler_Xu> "Well we can have everyone else in their angels as an 'honour guard' for the proceedings. I'm more concerned about noone left to defend miami."."
- Aug 18 04:59:38 <ShepherdsPie> "That is certainly a concern." She responds, "Even if Boston is not trying to trick us, we would still be defenseless." She stays silent for a moment and asks, "Should I ask the commander what she thinks about this?"
- Aug 18 05:00:25 <Tyler_Xu> "Probably a good idea but i expect she'll leave the decision to us."
- Aug 18 05:00:26 <Max_Dimick> "She? Oh, you mean our commander."