On the question of who's responsible for blowing up the UN, those are all interesting potential culprits. Even if one particular direction's chosen, it'd still be awesome to see a lengthy sidebar or something about the alternative possibilities. I always appreciate that sort of campaign seeding in sourcebooks.
Largely because the implications would be very different. If it's a nation-state behind the attack, it's a more conventional (military) war scenario. If it's drug lords, albeit ones with instant-superpower juice, that's a messier shadow war sort of world. Then there's the alien option, which makes it all into a more existential and possibly more cosmic setting.
EDIT: For obvious reasons, real-world street-level and building security at the UN complex is extremely tight (I visited as a student). In the IST world, I imagine there'd be even more crazy serious technological defenses. Obviously, the big shiny sphere sculpture near the main entrances is a force-field projector...
Because of that, I kind of like the idea of the place being taken down through stealth and guile, something smuggled into the building somehow. Or maybe crazy technobabble, like a delegate spontaneously having his body convert to antimatter or whatever. I dunno.
Though the idea of all those precautions being irrelevant because excessive explosive force was used from the outside is equally interesting.
-- Acyl
Largely because the implications would be very different. If it's a nation-state behind the attack, it's a more conventional (military) war scenario. If it's drug lords, albeit ones with instant-superpower juice, that's a messier shadow war sort of world. Then there's the alien option, which makes it all into a more existential and possibly more cosmic setting.
EDIT: For obvious reasons, real-world street-level and building security at the UN complex is extremely tight (I visited as a student). In the IST world, I imagine there'd be even more crazy serious technological defenses. Obviously, the big shiny sphere sculpture near the main entrances is a force-field projector...
Because of that, I kind of like the idea of the place being taken down through stealth and guile, something smuggled into the building somehow. Or maybe crazy technobabble, like a delegate spontaneously having his body convert to antimatter or whatever. I dunno.
Though the idea of all those precautions being irrelevant because excessive explosive force was used from the outside is equally interesting.
-- Acyl