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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 4297874" data-attributes="member: 1213">Optic and the plane's sensors meanwhile can see more details of what is going on in the bubble and the base.  Some of the guys in the bubble are getting into vehicles, while others are setting up emplacements just within the shield.  Mostly defensive machine guns and lots of mortars.  Optic happens to be looking closely at the tower when a group beams in, and notices that the field around the top of the tower deactivates for a split second to allow the beam through.  Meanwhile, in the base, he sees that guards have donned battlesuits and taken up defensive positions within the base.   Some of the base's railguns attack the shield bubble, but they fail to penetrate it.  Optic spots two group of battlesuits cloaking and exiting through opposite sides of the base, after which he loses track of them.The forces in the bubble begin to move, and it is clear that they can leave the bubble freely.  Interestingly, Optic does notices that some individuals did, through swinging their arms when walking or turning/reaching backwards, reenter the field temporarily.He also spots five important-looking individuals leave the tower, and cross-references them with the Trust database.  There is a black woman in a leopard-skin outfit and a beret.  Looking her up, its the Libyan Leopard, a Libyan government super with the power of massive growth.  Next to her is the Egyptian-affiliated super The Pharoah, who wears a King Tut-style golden mask and headdress and otherwise wears very little and shows off a very strong body.  He is known to be a powerful warrior with sand and necromantic-type powers.  Then comes the Saudi-royal-sponsored Guardian of Mecca, a masked super in flowing white robes who wields a scimitar and sits atop a horse made of pure electrical energy.  Finally comes the Jordanian super The Efreet, whose mostly fire-based powers closely match the mythical genies' ablities.Not only is it known to be a powerful group, but it may be an extremely ominous sign that they are assembled here.  If these supers represent their sponsors, it is likely that Barrington has persuaded much of the Mideast to join his cause.</blockquote>

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