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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 3804505" data-attributes="member: 1213">The helicopter lands at the Trust hanger North of the city, and Mr. Black leads the group out of the helicopter and into the hanger.  "We'll switch to the plane to get there faster.  The rest will fly back in the chopper."  He leads you to the plane that Optic flew there, and takes the stick.  The jet gets to the Trust HQ rapidly, and Star and Optic (who remain staggered...it takes an hour for that to wear off) are helped to the couches in your wing of the base.  The TV screens go on, and laptops are distributed  that interface with your phones.  Alphas Black, White, Blue, and Pink join you.  The news on the television comes in piecemeal..."...the truck bomb did leave most of the museum intact, thanks to the building's force field....""...a lone charred body was found in the truck, and DNA tests are being conducted to help identify the perpetrator.""...In other news, terrorists seized a seaside resort in the Philippines...""...captured a number of buildings in Sri Lanka's capital.  The superterrorist The Tamil Tiger was spotted...."  (Shouldn't he be striped? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )"...surrounded a Christian neighborhood in Beirut, then systematically...""...31 charred bodies were found in an apartment complex in Southern Israel...""...kidnapped the family of the President of Columbia, demanding the release of all prisoners currently incarcerated for..."Mr. Black reports "Well, its official.  The League is toast, at least for now.  A government space monitoring satellite showed what happened at the Lighthouse.  Once they teleportaled onto the Lighthouse, they overrode the hanger locks and shield -- among other things -- allowing a space plane identified as belonging to Doc Otaku to dock with the ship, bringing reinforcements. The crew didn't stand a chance. They beamed bombs down to all of the League's bases, all of which were accessible through the teleportal network.  They may have also sent teams to loot some of them first.  We aren't sure." Blue interrupts "We intercepted some data they probably intentionally sent over an unsecured connection. It seems that they have Captain Thunder, Star Knight, Johnny Rocket, and Siren.  First, they were rerouted to the Lighthoue.  Second, the baddies built a device similar to the system's energy buffers, and set it up to receive the heroes in energy form and store them rather than them being rematerialized by the local teleportal.  They've wired it -- and this is the brilliant part -- wired it into the shield generator, so it draws power from the Lighthouse's shields.  So if the Lighthouse it attacked and the shields are worn down or disabled, the device loses power, containment fails, and their energy patterns lose their coherency and they can never be rematerialized."(BTW, Pseudo does not exist in this continuity, sicne the Grue do not exist...The Primordial is the Martian Manhunter analogue here instead)Pink says "We have some options here.  We can try to follow up the linkages between Barrington and those terrorist groups.  Maybe they know something about him.  We can follow up with others who are connected to those accounts and holding companies.  We know something about that scarf.  It is associated with a Jordanian warlock whose followers committed mass suicide in 1971.  Perhaps that was Barrington's identity at that time and we can make something of it.  Then there is Doc Otaku...we know where his base is...the problem is that its in Chinese territory and guarded by the Chinese military...they seem to like having access to some of his innovations, and tend to see eye to eye with his hatred for the Freedom League and penchant for blowing up parts of Tokyo with giant robots."</blockquote>

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