The Raid:
[x] (?) Making a feint so that the camp is less guarded (write-in: What kind of feint?)
[x] (?) Using guile to infiltrate, like talking your way in, bringing a Technocratic 'hostage' or two, and hoping you can lie your ass off.
Combine these two. The "feint" is having the IBM use its heavy assets to crush the vampire party we bugged and the Rogue Council server farm under the house. We talk our way into the RC compound by tipping them off about the raid and providing them with information on details and force composition... information that we had the IBM folks tailor so that the RC assets attempting to set up a trap for our side are actually walking into a trap themselves, and will be slaughtered.
Wufan/Elsa's Suspicion:
[x] (1.2x) Yes
But in a smart way, by first raising the issue of what the Rogue Council is. Once Jamelia says (albeit in greater detail) "the RC is what happened to the old Archmasters of the Traditions after the Dimensional Anomaly trapped them in the Deep Universe and they succumbed to Void Adaptation," they can try to obliquely hint that the same thing happened to Control. At which point Jamelia tells them she's encountered and fought agents of every single portion of Threat Null, she knows what Threat Null is, and the Void Engineers could really use some help setting up the secret conspiracy thing because right now it's obvious they aren't that good at it.
Insurgent-Brutalizing Materiel:
[x] Ghost: Mil Mi-24I Hind (IBM Variant)* + 4 Commando Skins
Mil Mi-24I Hind (IBM Variant): IBM has modified this Hind to run off of a fusion power source for unlimited range and boosted performance. They've replaced its metal skin with radar-absorbent carbon polymer laminate, providing stealth and protection against anything short of a direct hit from an anti-tank missile. Its rotors are also monomolecular composite (which is far more durable, and allows their use as a melee weapon for a skilled or suicidal pilot), and its munitions are all IBM-upgraded. Sonic dampening and a thermal/optic camouflage system provide stealth, and an electromagnetic effector unit replaces the Mi-24's standard ECM. The E/M Effector is normally used to reduce the Hind-I's signature further, but an operator with the right hypertech knowledge can use it as a mind control device, remote hack system, or even an offensive weapon. The standard gatling gun has been replaced with a combination of 2mm gatling railgun and 20mm micro-missile launcher, and space optimization allows it to carry significantly more cargo, up to 8 personnel.
Commando Skins: Somewhere between sneaking suits and powered armor, commando suits are thermal/optic camouflage equipped artificial muscle skins and exoskeletons, with face-concealing masks and goggles. They improve strength, agility, and endurance while providing integral medical support (Life 2), protection against small arms (Forces 2/Matter 2), and multispectral sensors capability (Correspondence/Forces/Matter/Mind/Life/Prime 1). The skin itself has adaptive surface properties, allowing them to turn slick or adhesive at will. This allows a user to latch onto walls, or climb up walls (Forces 2). They can be hidden under heavy clothing.
Infantry, Bioenhanced, Multirole:
[x] Ghost: Combat Swarm* + 3 Bob Infiltration Units (stealth)
Combat Swarm: The Combat Swarm is effectively a ZERUEL without the reactor or plasma cannon but with its own assassin tools. Built out of a swarm of components ranging from nanoscale to insect-size, the swarm is an AI-directed unit capable of spreading out to cover a wide area or compacting itself into a disguise. The swarm can act as a surveillance system, a quiet assassin, or a combat asset, although its combat endurance outside of its compacted form is limited. Armaments include 3mm nanomissiles with antipersonnel payloads and the ability to manifest close combat weapons. When compacted, the swarm has the approximate close combat ability of a HITMark V melee variant.
Bob Infiltration Unit: The Bob Infiltration Unit is effectively a HITMark V optimized for close combat, wrapped into a Bob or other clone. This lets you equip them with a false personality which will shield the HITMark itself from detection. It's very hard to find the machinery in a BIU unless you do an autopsy or, well, the corpse gets back up and starts trying to rip you in half. The meat itself is basically real human flesh, not synthflesh, and thus is far more fragile than the machinery underneath, which means that these units often run through flesh coatings the way combat agents fighting shapeshifters run through silver ammunition.
We'll leave the heavy stuff for IBM to splatter the RC, the vampires, and any other targets of opportunity. On our side of things, we'll sneak the Bobs and most of our team into the RC base along with our fake intel leak, with the Combat Swarm spreading out through the base and giving us a map, a way to track enemy numbers and movement, and probably a remote interface through which we can tap into and subvert their security systems. The Hind stays outside, cloaked, to kill everything above-ground and then provide extraction for our team.
EDIT: Disregard this, revised vote posted.
