Ed wrote:How is it so easy to gain access to vulnerable areas of Chi-Town? Where does this so-called regular human being, get their access to even a minimum security area?
Aw, come on...
everybody has spies spying on everyone else. It's the nature of states to do this.
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I'm talking about non-security areas, the trash-heap wasteland underneath Chi-Town. Of course, spies get caught, that's part of the risk in that job. I certainly wouldn't tell the spy
why I want this information, or even what information he's actually looking for.
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How does your plan overcome the restriction against teleporting into environmentally sealed spaces?
You can't seriously be telling me that Teleport (Superior) can't teleport into a building...?
How do you prevent every psi in Chi-town from having clairvoyant fits regarding the inimment attack?
You don't. Can they find and disarm that nuke in 30 seconds, though?
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( a lucky Telemechanic would be a serious PITA for my plan
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What happens if the nuke detonates in an armored area designed to compartmentalize and limit blast damage?
That would definitely be an irritating problem, indeed!
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Dark Brandon wrote:1) Nukes arn't common. You don't go to the walmart and pick up a nuke while buying school supplies.
This is a world where super-mecha weapons are sold on every street corner. A nuclear device is
trivial in design compared to what's available in Rifts to random wilderness vagabonds.
2) The people of chi-town are not evil, just the government. If you did that total annialation of so many innocent people, do you really think you'd get away with it?
3) That is so evil, you won't just have CS soldiers trying to stop you but anyone who has any sense of compassion, meaning other mages and psionics.
I never said this was a
moral course of action. Certainly, this would be an evil act. But what should they do, just lay down and die instead? That's just silly.
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4) Chi-town use to have mages work for them many many years ago. There may be a better than average chance there is some form of passive magical protection about the city.
That is a definite possibility. I wasn't aware of this, to be honest; I must've missed it someplace.
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Though I don't know how many magical defenses that could prevent this are permanent in nature; they'd have to be, without any magic practitioners to refresh the enchantments.
5) Nukes only do 1 or 2 D4x100 MDC. You'd take a portion of the city, no doubt, but all you will do is just terrify the masses, because we see how well terrorist attacks work today, thereby giving CS even MORE power over their city.
Wow, they seriously like to underpower stuff like this, don't they. So... the Tsar Bomb would only do 2d4x100 MDC? oO Of course, the point of the weapons I'm referring to (ER weapons) is not blast damage, but rather direct-kill through radiation exposure. These devices are
designed for use against heavily armored targets that would be resistant to a 'normal' nuclear attack. They're commonly known as 'neutron bombs'.
6) Do that and you may end up losing the support of cyberknights any good being that is fighting for you, and maybe even pull in Quebec into the fray.
Well, Quebec already came into the fray on the CS's side. And yes, many of their good-aligned allies would probably desert them after an act like this. However, if you've eliminated the enemy...
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7) finally, CS has nukes of their own. I don't have all the CS war books, but I believe I heard someone say they tried to use them against tolkeen once, and they got swallowed. this time, they probably wouldn't aim for the city, but outside the city. The nukes have a 50 mile radius so there's no need to hit the city right on.
True enough, it would probably lead to a very unpleasant nuclear exchange. I would consider this sort of action a last-ditch thing by Tolkeen... not that the war should ever have gone as badly for them as was written.
And yes, I do realize the whole SoT thing is purely at the GM's discression. This is just pure sophistry on my part.
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