If it is Artemis Fowl we're in trouble, as a child he was smart enough to discover the existence of fairies and decode their language by discovering their written word needed to be read clockwise from the center, another point to it being that based on the solution of the cypher. He then kidnaped a fairy and successfully held her for ransom by finding a way out of the fairies most dangerous defences. He later developed a supercomputer protected by an eternity code, which required him to invent a language from scratch as one of its early steps. The boy is a super genius criminal mastermind on par with, and possibly exceeding both us and Xanatos put together.
Eh. From the sound of it I'd rate him at about 80% of a Xanatos plus about 50% of a Doof. Xanatos probably has him outpointed on experience and networking skill, whereas Fowl tends to be a lone wolf from what I recall. His tech, from what I remember plus your descriptions, is
good but not
revolutionary; he doesn't casually violate basic sanity principles of physical law with the equivalent of an inator.
Honestly I welcome him; he's a likely contender for the "Alliance of the Semi-Sane."
I may be over-optimistic.
Perhaps the deviation is that Artemis was unable to save his father from the Russians, forcing him to take over the Fowl's criminal empire, oh god we might have to deal with Butler... I don't want to fight Butler... that man can kick a troll's ass...
I figure he's roughly tied with Genghis Khan. Maybe a bit higher-up in personal combat,
maybe, but on the same tier. Genghis Khan's basically Captain America if Captain America were a genocidal Mongolian warlord, after all.
It's the fairies version of the police, one of the two protagonists, Holly Short, is a member of LEP-recon (Yes she is a Leprechaun, just the job tho, species wise she's an elf). The problem with the fairies is that they got into a war with early humanity and got pushed underground and have a massive hatred/condescending superiority complex directed towards the inferior 'mud-men' as they call us. So we might not want them in our systems.
True. On the other hand, they're one of those powers that's unlikely to poke us if we don't poke them. Since we have basically no interests that involve underground exploration, and aren't close to any of the few strategic locations on the surface that they're likely to care about, I'm not too worried.
Honestly, it'd be nice to have a non-ENCOM faction with decent computer tech that has to worry about cybugs
besides us. Makes the cyberspace frontier more complicated. And I say "has to worry about cybugs" because if the fairies can get into our computers, stuff from our computers can get into theirs, even if it's fighting (ironically) uphill to do so.
But Why come to the USA? He operates out from Ireland and the competition outside of the US is far lighter. Is he aware of Toffy and Bill? Has someone done something to gain his attention?
Xanatos may have made contact with him because
he's feeling a bit threatened. Remember, he's got to worry about DOR15 (I'm pretty sure he knows a lot more about the Florida Hat-Men than we do in-character), Toffee, and now
this.
What is this 'Artemis Fowl' movie you are talking about? The Dai-Li have assured me that there is no Artemis Fowl movie in Ba-Sing Se.
Lucky bastards.