Who, us?
Type: Secondary objective
Status: Failed.
originally listed as we prepared for the mission to locate and extract NYC ooze victims from Oscorp
Try to throw the likely blame for whatever we do onto some other not-really-legal organization, if we can. We don't want to end up in an espionage war with
AIM, nor with
LexCorp, if we can help it.
Resolution:
Mixed results.
we did fairly well with this in the autumn phase. Dr. B had a jolly good false name for himself and medical specialty. I especially liked the emergency vaccination thing that our Science Team put together for the first site, that was brilliant. i was able to set up some circumstantial evidence in the protected sub-basement area that MATRIX was behind the corporate espionage there. If Oscorp wants to believe that their security is amazing -- and they do, of course they do -- it is congruent with the story they already tell themselves to believe that a top flight mercenary squad like MATRIX was necessary to create such a devastating insertion.
We also did all right with the second site (the third party server farm in Atlantic City). When the Society of RAO mixed in, that was what really put our cover in danger -- but because they had never heard of any of the organizations we could blame, including Card Shark who were right there and had already fallen to the Dr. B Charm Powers.
We probably could have used the unexpected arrival of the local hero to knot that scenario into itself ... if it were not for SAFEGUARD.
But there was indeed SAFEGUARD.
We were absolutely busted.
Fortunately we then restored a confusing AIM cover at the offshore Oscorp-Rao base. For a week there, I thought we were back on track.
The phase against AIM was where we completely failed at cover. I did not come up with a strong enough cover -- I should have used the Society of RAO, since we had samples of their technology to salt a decent cover story. Too many closely involved parties in the November mission were able to spot that Wyldfire was probably interfering in the ongoing plot, even if they have nebulous or wrong ideas as to what our goals may have been.
We obscured our involvement with some parties (Toastmasters, for example, gossip among Metropolis gangs that "the Metropolis Cat" finds AIM raiders to be annoying tourists and therefore legitimate prey. Oscorp had some evidence of MATRIX and other evidence of AIM incursions.) Other parties knew that Wyldfire was involved from early in our involvement (LexCorp, Hammer Empire).
We are probably still going to be in an espionage war with AIM and LexCorp, unfortunately, that will impact all of 2010 and beyond.
