Whew! Christmas insanity now finished, work insanity now finished, back to my regularly scheduled obsessions already in progress:
Target Nations: 2nd Wave (Chile - Santiago, Marianas Trench, Argentina - Buenos Aires, Guatemala - Guatemala City, Iran - Tehran, South Korea - Seoul, State of Japan - Osaka, Philippines - Manila, Indonesia - Jakarta, Nigeria - Lagos, Egypt - Cairo, Federative Republic of Brasil - Rio de Janeiro, Pakistan - Karachi, Turkey - Istanbul, United States of America - Honolulu, Chicago, Dallas, United Kingdom - Edinburgh, Mexico - Monterey, Italy - Milan, Pakistan - Islamabad, Russian Federation - Murmansk, Odessa, Sverdlovsk, Federal Republic of Germany - Bonn, French Republic - Marseilles, Tibet - Lhasa, People's Republic of China - Hong Kong.)
The second wave came twelve days after the initial attacks, and included reinforcements for the beachheads already established in the cities hit in the previous attacks. It also included, in New York City, the first siting of one of the so-called Ancient Astronauts, a 60-foot tall armored humanoid figure that immediately began directing the construction of more advanced facilities around the area that had formerly housed United Nations Plaza and IST New York.
By this point, coordination between surviving IST members indicated that the security systems and defenses of all the IST's (as well as more than a few military and civil institutions in the target cities) had been compromised by alien agents posing as long-standing members of IST support staff (and in several cases actual long-standing IST members!) Whether these individuals had always been shapeshifting aliens or had only recently been replaced remained a mystery until after the occupation. In all instances, these individuals either sacrificed themselves or (for the few who were captured) committed suicide rather than remain prisoners. Any attempt at psychic probing activated deathblocks in the infiltrators minds and attempts at psychometry or necromancy found no trace elements to work with*.
*In the wake of the First Contact scandals that rocked the world in the wake of the Y2K War, it was revealed to certain high-ranking elements in the UN and IST leadership that agents of the Warehouse had some success at gathering information from the deceased infiltrators using a nanotechnological temporary revivification process called "Vitamin W." More shocking was the revelation that the Vitamin W process had been around (and a closely guarded secret) since the Great War. As with the existence of the Warehouse in general, this was one of the few secrets the hacker Blue Note, did not disseminate during the Scandals.
Michael R. Smith (lastfreehuman@gmail.com)
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Target Nations: 2nd Wave (Chile - Santiago, Marianas Trench, Argentina - Buenos Aires, Guatemala - Guatemala City, Iran - Tehran, South Korea - Seoul, State of Japan - Osaka, Philippines - Manila, Indonesia - Jakarta, Nigeria - Lagos, Egypt - Cairo, Federative Republic of Brasil - Rio de Janeiro, Pakistan - Karachi, Turkey - Istanbul, United States of America - Honolulu, Chicago, Dallas, United Kingdom - Edinburgh, Mexico - Monterey, Italy - Milan, Pakistan - Islamabad, Russian Federation - Murmansk, Odessa, Sverdlovsk, Federal Republic of Germany - Bonn, French Republic - Marseilles, Tibet - Lhasa, People's Republic of China - Hong Kong.)
The second wave came twelve days after the initial attacks, and included reinforcements for the beachheads already established in the cities hit in the previous attacks. It also included, in New York City, the first siting of one of the so-called Ancient Astronauts, a 60-foot tall armored humanoid figure that immediately began directing the construction of more advanced facilities around the area that had formerly housed United Nations Plaza and IST New York.
By this point, coordination between surviving IST members indicated that the security systems and defenses of all the IST's (as well as more than a few military and civil institutions in the target cities) had been compromised by alien agents posing as long-standing members of IST support staff (and in several cases actual long-standing IST members!) Whether these individuals had always been shapeshifting aliens or had only recently been replaced remained a mystery until after the occupation. In all instances, these individuals either sacrificed themselves or (for the few who were captured) committed suicide rather than remain prisoners. Any attempt at psychic probing activated deathblocks in the infiltrators minds and attempts at psychometry or necromancy found no trace elements to work with*.
*In the wake of the First Contact scandals that rocked the world in the wake of the Y2K War, it was revealed to certain high-ranking elements in the UN and IST leadership that agents of the Warehouse had some success at gathering information from the deceased infiltrators using a nanotechnological temporary revivification process called "Vitamin W." More shocking was the revelation that the Vitamin W process had been around (and a closely guarded secret) since the Great War. As with the existence of the Warehouse in general, this was one of the few secrets the hacker Blue Note, did not disseminate during the Scandals.
Michael R. Smith (lastfreehuman@gmail.com)
GURPS IST Aleph Wordpress (http://istaleph.wordpress.com/)
GURPS IST Aleph Twitter (http://twitter.com/IstAleph/)
Trek This! Wordpress (http://dthiller.wordpress.com/)
My Blog (http://lastfreehuman.wordpress.com/)