Art of Domination Thread 04

This just raises so many questions. Nuclear Weapon grade Plutonium is not suitable for use in reactors.

According to the World Nuclear Association site, it's supposedly possible ot use weapon grade uranium and plutonium back into energy generation in Mixed Oxide fuels. It does seem to require some pretty special infrastructure (and I don't quite trust the source to be objective on how efficient the process would be)

Still given the sci fi setting in the future, I could see it being possible. Not to mention it's not like North's  administration is all that concerned about safety or polution.

But more likely

using Author tech to "reverse breed" usable fissile material from weapons

They may not even need that. The cloning chamber in chaos bed could convert any kind of non kinetic energy into organic matter. If the authors are taking a more hands on approach to the conflict (and the whole Courage/Intuder would tend to show it's increasingly the case) t's very much possible this 'tech' could be generalised.

we do know they wanted to take some of vault ghasty missiles so I think fair to assume they have a use for nuclear combustible at the very least

If they possessed the ability to do this in the first place, why wait until now? It smells fishy as fuck.

It's possible they didn't have the tech for it just yet, or that the authors weren't ready to intervene directly yet. (they're authors, not strategist. and in their 'book' they probably want to create some tension before the denouement, after all)
I mean 'why didn't they use their materials and attack when we were more vulnerable' is honnestly a question that can apply to a lot of their previous 'strategies'.

That said, ...agreed. This smell like bait

I mean even if this was a propaganda message meant for pubic broadcast which would explain why they would't securize it much or use their budging psychic broadcast network, why would they actualy broadcast their plans in so much details ?

It's possible this is just part of the same old bluff of delaying us far from region 1, just a more agressive variation of it. By forcing us to concentrate and attack on region 2 with little preparation, they intend to cause tons of damage (maybe using the aformentioned fissile material to leave dirty bombs traps for example, or pump tons of monsters with cloning chambers) too our troops while something happen in Region 1.
Or come from region 1. Like say for example a massive raid on region 5 or 4

I would agree with Ghuls here. Wait the next day and produce more troops and author forge tech.
At least wait for better intel. We could also send some drones in high altitude to seach for specific pattern. Energy spikes, if we have the tech to look for that, troop moements, that kind of thing ? And maybe drop that SID prototype to get an idea of what is waiting in those factories.
Human spies would be nice but sadly we ddon't have the time to give them a decent cover or nfo to operate in region 2.

And if a threat seems to be real...Rheynar plan is a good one in the cover of night, even if I doubt things will be that simple. But I'd add: launch a distraction assault on the ports at the same time with armed drones and Needlefish artillery.

At the very least we need to produce two or three vigilance sphere (with all the corpses processed for chaos bed we should have enough), and send them (in disguise if possible) with any squad we send there.