Art of Domination Thread 04

Rainhar: Hold up. Maybe we can, I don’t know, use lights for signaling? Flags? Flares

Lagantis: We could do that, but the enemy can easily see what sort of commands we’re relaying. Drums and trumpets? No, the moment guns start firing those become worthless.

Uh maybe that'll sound silly but ... what about texting ?
Would it be hard had to configure and securize some pads so they can transmit images and text, maybe buzzing and make it so they can send some very simple codes with just a few fingers movement ?

(I mean I'm pretty sure it is possible technicaly, afer all you could do it with modern day tech easily, it's just designing the interface, securing the connection and training the troops to use this system quickly enough that would be the sticking oint. But I believe our spec-ops are already used to comunicate with finger movement while cloacked so if w base our image on this, this coud go quickly.)

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I know you deemed it too risky Gloomy, but I don't think we're gonna escape some inflitration works here. The red note needs to be neutralized one way or nother and we need to have an idea what else await us
And for that our best bet s to capture the good doctor

So I'll reitrate and edit my previous plan here:

1)We have Keymaster open a portal in pinonneer during the 'normal' phase. Sadly we'll have to take a shot in the dark as to where in the base.
2)Soon as the portal is opening, we send some flashbad and EMP iswe have such, that should neutralize any guards or camera watching.
3)Spec ops slips in, release a bunch of the newly develloped SID drones slipps out. the portal closes

edit: 1 to 3 bis) Can SID drones be adapted to do a bit of diging ?
Because if they can we could just burry the drones just like the bomb we intend to use to enutralize the phase shifter during the 'empty' phase and then have them emerge during the normal phase, map as much as they can, go back to their original hideout when the base about to shift.
That would spare us havng to create a blind portal and risk our spec ops at least at first.

4)The drones send info back the the AIs at base. Map as much of the base as possible in twenty mnutes (sixty if they are unous enough to be able to work without guidance when the base will be shifted otherwise better to get them to hide and then self destruct or desactivate) if they can locate the good professor, all the better.
5)Then after another cycle of base cycling, when it goes back to normal phase again, we can have keymaster open another portal (this time in a safer place determined from the data we'll have gotten from the drones) and send our spec ops to capture the good professor in twenty minutes.

Of course we could also use the bomb we planted as a distraction/way to stop the shifting cycle too but I'd rather keep it for our /main assault.

Honnesly the potential cons here (and that's assuming a very worse case scenario on all front here, mind) are numerous, i'll admit:
-We loose a bunch of experimental drones. Annoying but not tragic
-The ennemy discover we have this tech. Since this is the first time we use it and it has limitd aplication for infiltration and wetwork, it's not a huge loss of the element of surprise here.
-The ennemy discover we have portal tech. that would be a much bigger problem but as I said, if we neutralize any cameras or witnesses at the end of the portals we open (and it's the kind of ting spec ops are good at) we should be able to avoid that.
-We loose a spec team. That would be tragic but...I'm still well willing to risk it rather than the sure loss ofcuntless soldiers should we try attacking Pioneer with no radio or with the red note litening and who knows what waiting.

I think the risks of going in blind for the assault outweight the risks the operation