| From: | Freddy Frypp <JAMES-CUENO@*********.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!!! |
| Date: | Wed, 23 Nov 1994 10:54:32 CST |
>>>>>[Nah, don't bother Chris, unless you want to.
Anyway, that makes two takers so far. With Jac and me that makes
four, and I'm still waiting on one other. Five should make a decent
sized raiding party.
Quick rundown on likely assignments:
Kor, Castor and Pollux: Magical support and general mayhem
Jacamus: Small Craft Handling and Demolitions and / or Heavy Weapons
Freddy: Hey, I'm me
Dark Angel: An extra pair of eyes and an extra gun
GOD'll fit in there somewhere if I ever hear from him.
Sallright, here's the job:
Around a hundred and twenty years ago (or so) somebody started
experimenting with flying aircraft very low over bodies of water and
the Wing in Ground Affect was born. Ya get high speed and efficiency
at low altitudes. Maybe the idea's older, but that's all I know
about it. Anyway, the only thing that came out of the research was
large troop transports built by the USSR. As far as I've been told,
nobody managed to build a decent warbird, until a few months back.
Aztechnology's Aerospace design bureau, the same folks who brought
you the Aguilar, managed to build a combat WIG. Rumor has it that
it's comparable to the Aguilar in speed, but roughly doubles the
available firepower (lots of missiles and a couple of forward firing
autocannons is suspected). It is restricted to bodies of water,
but it could still probably sink ANY surface ship. It's relatively
inexpensive to build so swarms of the little buggers could fly in at
about a meter and start popping anti-shipping or even anti-tank
missiles against coastal targets. Once again, it operates very low
to the water at outrageous speeds and fuel efficiencies with a hefty
payload.
It's been in testing out of San Diego for about a month. When the
Azzies invaded, the Aero design branch scooped up the old US Naval
Air Station North Island on Coronado island.
Now, Fed-Boeing has decided they want to start a WIG program of their
own. Our mission has lots of possible objectives and the money is
pretty good for any of them (starts at around 125 K =Y= for killing
the designer or blowing up the prototype):
1) Grab the chief designer, Juan Pablo Valdez, and / or the prototype.
2) Kill Valdez and / or destroy the prototype.
3) Any / all / or none of the above and snag as many plans as possible
out of the computers. Sorry, DA, I know you want to stay out of the
Matrix on this one, but you've seen me with computers and I don't
think Spark is ready for this. I PROMISE it won't be anything more
tricky than some Access and Scramble ice.
Now, I've drug up as many old maps as I can find and we've gotten
overhead imagery from our employer. We've taken a part of our
computers off-line and we've started feeding everything into them.
I'd like to work up a plan over the next few days then climb into a
simulation and run it a few times.
Here's what I've got planned, get ready to start spiking as much of
it as you like, I understand:
We rent one of those bareboat fishing boats from someplace in LA with
a false ident. We spend a day or so putting south and leave the boat
on autopilot due east of the mouth of San Diego harbor just over the
horizon. We take a small craft (a Swordsman would work, I think)
into the harbor and do as much damage as we can. If we can snag the
prototype, Jac thinks he can probably fly it. Then the rest of us
either pile into the prototype or go back to the boat and make best
time to LA.
I'd like to start the planning session in my office day after
tomorrow. See ya there.]<<<<<
-- Freddy Frypp (10:54:12 / 11-23-55)
President
Frypp Security, Inc. (CFSM uplink #5150)
