Ouroboros Retrograde - plot role info

[powersthatbe]

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Week 1 check in

[reallymean]

Allura's spent most of Week 1 meeting people from the various other timelines and attempting to get a sense of who might be able and/or willing to help the rebels' cause. She's asked Phillip to bring a request for aid to the other Travelers, and is attempting to get some information on the future out of Ringabel and information on future explosives tech from Malik; other threads are still in early stages.

For Week 2, she's probably going to continue sounding out potential allies or sources of information, and trying to work out whether the magic that allows the Travelers to zip around between universes might allow them to, say, move directly from Questing Country into her waking world.

Speaking of the waking world, how large are the weapon-foundries? What sort of weapons do they forge, aside from the obvious gravity weapons? How tight is security, and oversight of the slaves? I'm thinking that in the waking world, she's working on a plan to either sieze or cripple one or more of them, but I'm not sure what's really feasible in that regard.

[bigbookofd]

Pending a check-in with the mods for use of Know Greater Consequences Of Actions, Future!Ringabel will be very willing to give Allura that help. He'll even say that's the reason why when he decides to act.

Just, you know, fussy careful Oracle.

Re: Week 1 check in

[powersthatare]

We would be very interested to be linked to such a travel attempt if it happens!

The weapon foundries Allura works in cover an area about a hundred meters tall, three hundred meters wide, and fourteen hundred meters long. They contain forges and production lines for all manner of gravity melee weapons, 'telekinesis guns' for Diabolin cyborg warriors, gravity lances for spaceships, and railguns for both warriors and spacecraft, as well as the ammunition for those guns, made of radioactive thorium and cobalt.

Her understanding would be that other such factories exist but that hers is the single largest and most prestigious on this specific planet.

Security is brutal, but not necessarily tight. Diabolin guards guarantee obedience by not only punishing rebels or thieves but the crews they work on and the families of those crews - so most crews police themselves to prevent rebellion.

That said, elven rebels in the past have occasionally built combustion devices which incinerate themselves or their companions post-mortem, preventing identification, and rebels displaying their possession of such countermeasures regularly receive more help or trust (or at least, silence) from local crews. Short of genetic scans, Diabolin guards rarely bother attempting to casually identify their slaves - if the right number of workers do the right amount of work, why bother to doublecheck?

Re: Week 1 check in

[reallymean]

Further questions on security - what sort of armaments and enhancements do the guards have? Are they cyborgs, or just regular Diabolin? Is there a military detachment on-site or nearby?

In terms of structural security, are there any lockdown mechanisms, and is there a central area where those can be tripped or prevented from being tripped?

Re: Week 1 check in

[powersthatare]

They're cyborgs - mostly veterans who were sufficiently wounded to be cycled to guard duty - mostly relying on telekinesis guns and shock devices.

There are lockdown mechanisms in an office suspended from the top of the vault - they handle power distribution as well as the automated factory systems such as assembly lines, ventilation and fire suppression, heating and cooling systems.

Re: Week 1 check in

[reallymean]

Awesome.

We've assumed there are a couple of security substations given the size of the place, and a few locations that are too remote and/or uncomfortable for anyone to go unless absolutely necessary, to make for secluded meeting or portal spots - is that reasonable?

Also, is it possible to kill the main power without also killing the ventilation, or would they be on a time limit to get it back up before anyone suffocates if they did?

Re: Week 1 check in

[powersthatare]

Yes to the first question.

There would be a backup system for ventilation but it would have to be manually activated, and it would be in the ventilation system itself.