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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 3746310" data-attributes="member: 1213">Highlights from the notes, aided by a translator device that Shooting Star finds:1.  Control Freak was mostly studying up on various academic journals  regarding cryptography and computer security.  He was also researching something of his own, apparently a specialized device targeted towards bypassing a security system with a very specific set of specs.  From what she can tell, the target system is extremely advanced, and it seems to incorporate magic, alien technology, and standard super-science.  There are references to an "Operation Perdix."2.  Barrington was reading about a variety of artifacts,  especially about the Freedom Museum of Natural History and an exhibit they have of artifacts found long ago in Iran.  He seemed particularly interested in something called the Eye of Hell, circular  crystal about a centimeter thick with very complex faceting,  surrounded by a gold ring with some symbols on it.   There is extensive information about the security systems and personnel at the museum, and a bit about its history.One interesting wrinkle that Barrington was reading up on wast the political controversy that ensued when the Construction Workers Union tried to get an injunction against its construction because Dr. Metropolis and Daedalus were going to use their own powers and devices to build it rather than union labor, and by law no public building could legally be constructed by non-union labor.   The supers prevailed, because members of the Freedom League are exempt from all laws that limit use of powers or super-science so long as they are working for the public good, and the court ruled that the closed shop restrictions on construction activities constituted a limit on powers and the building of a museum served the public good, and was thus they were covered by that immunity.    The articles also point out an interesting fact relevant to the installation of the telepoters in your homes:  they are probably illegal, since all but the reddest of states have banned the research, transport, sale, or possession (with grandfather clauses for the few existing devices around) of Matter Assembly technology, and the Federal Government has banned the transport of such things across state lines.  The laws were aggressively pushed by unions who feared that the development of such technology would make entire categories of jobs, especially in manufacturing and construction, obsolete.  The teleporters probably count as Matter Assembly technology, even though they cannot create new things.  A strange addition to this pile of papers was a newspaper article from a couple weeks ago about a high-ranking Construction Workers Union official named Norman Rae being accused of grabbing a woman off the street, taking her into  a job site, and raping her, as well as a more recent article indicating that Rae was proven through DNA evidence to be innocent of the charges.He also has some political tracts and speeches in Farsi, mostly very religious and even apocalyptic in tone. 3.  The dossier on the White Knight is very detailed, though it includes little more than the dossier that the Trust already has on him.  It does, however, detail his known associates, and imply that many of them are headed to Freedom City.  Associated include:Faust: A wizard who sold his soul to the devil in return for powers and eternal life, but who must constantly steal souls, life energy, luck, and even destiny from others to compensate for the funcitons his own missing soul, and to pay the devil to keep from devouring his real soul.Nekro-Panzer:  A technologically-enhanced zombie who has been upgraded many times, who was originally created during WWII by Kreiglock.  He is very big and strong, and one hand is connected by a chain and can be fired like a tank cannon, while the other can turn into a machine gun.Blitzkreig: A very powerful mutant with electrical powers, super-speed, and the ability to use both to manipulate weather.Nacht-Krieger: An assassin made of shadow, of unknown origin but associated with white supremecist causes, as well as with the mysterious evil mastermind Overshadow.</blockquote>

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