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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5922474" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>It depends on the door.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Many doorways into secured areas probably would be considered to be modern portcullises.</p><p></p><p>Some would also work much like airlocks- you open the outer door, pass through, then wait until the first one closes and locks before the inner door is even unlockable.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>From past experience, I know that some secure locations, only persons over a certain clearance ever see the area beyond a certain point. In many cases, the outermost guards don't have that clearance. So, unless he's lucky and arrives at jussssst the right time, he won't be able to get that "reliable" description without doing a little investigation.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's true, he's not.</p><p></p><p>But even so, a breach of the sort you describe is unlikely unless the LeShay is actually receiving visitors. Someone getting the invader back at the wrong time may just get himself shot at. Secret Service does NOT mess around- I've met a few who were just this side of psychos- they don't shoot to wound and they have some interesting ordinance at their disposal.</p><p></p><p>Far, far better that he meet the POTUS at an event as the "plus 1" of a big campaign contributor.</p><p></p><p>Look, my point isn't that the scenario is impossible, just that there are enough ways things can go wrong that the outcome is not a given. As a "Lone Gunman", the LeShay cannot really afford to make too many mistakes, even though its powers are formidable*, because the nature of what we have at OUR disposal is both powerful AND alien to it.</p><p></p><p>Simply not understanding or accepting that a single weapon located in another country or somewhere under the sea could be fatal. If he thinks <a href="http://budk.com/ProductImages/500/A06-BK1516.jpg" target="_blank">Tomahawk</a> when the speaker is talking about a <a href="http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/weapons/missiles/tomahawk.jpg" target="_blank">Tomahawk</a> he may, in the words of Dave Mustaine, "wake up dead."</p><p></p><p>Even assuming he does take over the world, he can't rest on his laurels. There are IEDs in the world as powerful as some military ordinance, and "The Resistance" would probably not shy away from using them. A classic: a shaped charge was used to deform and launch a thick plate of copper at a heavily armored car in an assassination about a decade ago- the blast made the plate into a heavy, near molten airfoil that traveled at hypersonic speed into the car's side, sending the car flying sideways through the air in multiple burning pieces. (There was also a banker killed in similar fashion.)</p><p></p><p>Why did it work? Becsuse the leader in question was so confident in his safety that he never varied from his routine paths on official business. They knew where he would be at that time right down to the minute.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>* assuming, of course, magic works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5922474, member: 19675"] It depends on the door. Many doorways into secured areas probably would be considered to be modern portcullises. Some would also work much like airlocks- you open the outer door, pass through, then wait until the first one closes and locks before the inner door is even unlockable. From past experience, I know that some secure locations, only persons over a certain clearance ever see the area beyond a certain point. In many cases, the outermost guards don't have that clearance. So, unless he's lucky and arrives at jussssst the right time, he won't be able to get that "reliable" description without doing a little investigation. That's true, he's not. But even so, a breach of the sort you describe is unlikely unless the LeShay is actually receiving visitors. Someone getting the invader back at the wrong time may just get himself shot at. Secret Service does NOT mess around- I've met a few who were just this side of psychos- they don't shoot to wound and they have some interesting ordinance at their disposal. Far, far better that he meet the POTUS at an event as the "plus 1" of a big campaign contributor. Look, my point isn't that the scenario is impossible, just that there are enough ways things can go wrong that the outcome is not a given. As a "Lone Gunman", the LeShay cannot really afford to make too many mistakes, even though its powers are formidable*, because the nature of what we have at OUR disposal is both powerful AND alien to it. Simply not understanding or accepting that a single weapon located in another country or somewhere under the sea could be fatal. If he thinks [URL="http://budk.com/ProductImages/500/A06-BK1516.jpg"]Tomahawk[/URL] when the speaker is talking about a [URL="http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/weapons/missiles/tomahawk.jpg"]Tomahawk[/URL] he may, in the words of Dave Mustaine, "wake up dead." Even assuming he does take over the world, he can't rest on his laurels. There are IEDs in the world as powerful as some military ordinance, and "The Resistance" would probably not shy away from using them. A classic: a shaped charge was used to deform and launch a thick plate of copper at a heavily armored car in an assassination about a decade ago- the blast made the plate into a heavy, near molten airfoil that traveled at hypersonic speed into the car's side, sending the car flying sideways through the air in multiple burning pieces. (There was also a banker killed in similar fashion.) Why did it work? Becsuse the leader in question was so confident in his safety that he never varied from his routine paths on official business. They knew where he would be at that time right down to the minute. * assuming, of course, magic works. [/QUOTE]
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