Lex Sedet In Vertice: A Supervillain in the DCU CK2 quest

What sort of tone should I shoot for with this Quest?

  • Go as crack fueled as you can we want Ambush Bug, Snowflame and Duckseid

    Votes: 30 7.7%
  • Go for something silly but keep a little bit of reason

    Votes: 31 7.9%
  • Adam West Camp

    Votes: 27 6.9%
  • Balanced as all things should be

    Votes: 195 50.0%
  • Mostly serious but not self-involvedly so

    Votes: 73 18.7%
  • Dark and brooding but with light at the end of the tunnel

    Votes: 12 3.1%
  • We're evil and we don't want anyone to be happy

    Votes: 22 5.6%

  • Total voters
    390
  • Poll closed .
If we go by purely legal terms, in order for something to be libel you have to demonstrate that it had a visible damaging effect on that person's reputation. I can write and publish an article that "insert public figure here" eats babies and wants to kill your mother and that's not libel because it won't have a concrete visible effect on their reputation. You still shouldn't post/write blatant lies but writing outright insulting lies about someone is not enough to count as libel, it has to have a concrete effect you can prove in court as well.
Lois was very lucky to have gotten an interview from superman, because saying that someone is just a bimbo who got her Job because of her body and not her brain, just for her to go on and spearhead worldwide positive economic changes as well as becoming the head of goverment agencie, while also being a rolemodle for young girls as a strong independent lesbian women (im guessing here, but its very likely, because we know from batwomens origin that Homophobie is a thing in DC) would have ruinded every reporter that isnt her
 
This is to lay the foundation to mould their perception. We show up now to keep them safe from danger.

The next few Nemesis actions when STAR Labs have their rogue scientists/experiments gone nuts thing, we won't help at all until we can buy more of their stock and use the influence to implement Safety & Security to LexCorp Standards.

Rinse and repeat until it's a pavlovian reaction to associate us with safety. Turn to LexCorp and not Superman for security for themselves and their work.


This is Brainiac. I prefer denying him any assets.
Nothing he finds is going to make much difference as they are mainly looking into human meta power development, which is useless unless he gets his hand on meta gene bearing humans. As we intend to drive him from the earth, him grabbing some data on meta gene manipulations he can't really make use of before we invalidate them with new research doesn't bother me.
 
Nothing he finds is going to make much difference as they are mainly looking into human meta power development, which is useless unless he gets his hand on meta gene bearing humans. As we intend to drive him from the earth, him grabbing some data on meta gene manipulations he can't really make use of before we invalidate them with new research doesn't bother me.
The real concern isn't that he might get useful data. It's that he might toss around some nanoselves and infiltrate the place, and then we might have to deal with more of a braniac infection later. I'm pretty sure that part of where @Negation is coming from is that he really, really doesn't want to have to deal with a local Braniac infestation (of Lex or otherwise), and he's seen one in the DCAU, and he's concerned that if Braniac gets any sort of foothold, there's a serious chance that it'll eventually happen. It's... not an entirely unreasonable position to take.

On the bright side, WayneTech definitely has enough tech to be a major target in Gotham, and Braniac is doing his "I'm going to assault everything everywhere" thing, and we can pretty much guarantee that they don't have the kind of defenses that Lexcorp does. So... Wayne's likely to have a pretty bad day regardless.
 
The real concern isn't that he might get useful data. It's that he might toss around some nanoselves and infiltrate the place, and then we might have to deal with more of a braniac infection later. I'm pretty sure that part of where @Negation is coming from is that he really, really doesn't want to have to deal with a local Braniac infestation (of Lex or otherwise), and he's seen one in the DCAU, and he's concerned that if Braniac gets any sort of foothold, there's a serious chance that it'll eventually happen. It's... not an entirely unreasonable position to take.

On the bright side, WayneTech definitely has enough tech to be a major target in Gotham, and Braniac is doing his "I'm going to assault everything everywhere" thing, and we can pretty much guarantee that they don't have the kind of defenses that Lexcorp does. So... Wayne's likely to have a pretty bad day regardless.
Okay nano bots are more of a concern. Full nuclear on brainiac then. Can we get rebecca deployed to set up wards? It's not like the lab is in any way aware of magic.
 
Daily Planet would not change its stance on LexCorp but Pamela is somewhat separate issue, especially if we manage to use her diplomacy on Daily Planet editors. If we use this event to raise her reputation we can later leverage it to have more support in Congress. I think for this we can afford to send one hero unit to Daily Planet.

Star Labs would benefit us most destroyed but with most of its hero units intact, so I think we should protect it but in such ways that there is barely anything left standing in the end.

Also we should spend some units to defend general Metropols areas so we don't have bad PR about it. At the same time I don't want to spread forces over all Metropolis, so instead maybe make police move civilians towards more protected areas.

All in all I think something like this

[ ] [Deploy] Write-in: Send half of your units to protect Metropolis while others remain at LexCorp.
-[]Tell police and SCU to prioritize defending civilians and to help evacuate them toward designated safe zones – Metropolis subway, existing bunkers, heavily protected hospital area and so on. Send 500 LexCorp security forces, 400 armored vehicles along with 1500 spy drones to help coordinate their movement. Freely distribute as many exo-suits as possible.

-[]Lex, Cassandra, Jinx, Caitlin, Siobhane, Elaine, Rebecca stays to protect LexCorp tower, along with half of your regular troops (half after subtracting forces send to provide evacuation). Other half divided proportionally between hero units you send outside. All blizzard blanket drones stays at LexCorp tower to be deployed at convenient opportunity.

-[] Send Pamela to help evacuate Daily Planet (only whose who willing) then focus on protecting largest group of civilians. Don't bother too much with Lois. If she wants to run toward danger then let her do it, if you can plausibly forget to evacuate her then even better. If there is opportunity to give interview instruct Pamela to focus on increasing her own reputation. Don't give interview to Lois. Don't bring additional attention to Pamela ties with LexCorp.

-[] Have Mari, Leonard, Mick and Sam protect hospital area. Give them experimental super-tank. Send Katherine Kane and Jade Crock to New Troy, give Katherine Ravager custom exo-suit. Send Mercy and Edward Well to Bakerline. Have drones and individuals in the invisible man suits scout out which areas have Brainiac's forces most heavily concentrated in. Have Lucy Lane focus on coordinating with Pentagon.

-[] Send Roxanne and Helena to Star Labs. Make sure that Star Labs technology does not fall into Brainiac hands and protect scientists. Don't bother with protecting equipment, the more material damage Star Labs suffers the better, but make sure not to be too obvious about it.
 
I'm thinking we'd want to deploy Roxanne/Carol as a fast-response duo. Keep Roxxy in her plane, and if I recall correctly, the two of them together hit a +86 Martial before the plane. Do we know what the plane does for her? it's not listed on her sheet. They can do what they do best - moving quickly, being loud, and blasting the enemy out of the sky. Great time for them to both push their rep and deal some meaningful damage to the enemy.

For similar reasons of building superhero rep, we'd like to get Caitlyn and Siobhan out there being visible. They've got a 1.3 coop score, so they'll work pretty well together. Alternately, you can let Caitlyn run solo, and take advantage of her tendencies there... but it'll make her diplomacy tank hard. They might do well heading into STAR Labs... if we want to devote that much power to STAR Labs.

Helena/Jinx/Cass is a nice solid trio. I'm thinking that they should be staying back at the LexCorp Tower, working as a team there. Let's them be effective without exposing themselves to too much external scrutiny.

Pamela needs to be somewhere with a bunch of plants. Lexcorp basically qualifies, because we've set that up deliberately for just such an occasion. Daily Planet doesn't.
 
I'm thinking we'd want to deploy Roxanne/Carol as a fast-response duo. Keep Roxxy in her plane, and if I recall correctly, the two of them together hit a +86 Martial before the plane. Do we know what the plane does for her? it's not listed on her sheet. They can do what they do best - moving quickly, being loud, and blasting the enemy out of the sky. Great time for them to both push their rep and deal some meaningful damage to the enemy.
Carol Ferris is not among currently available units.

For similar reasons of building superhero rep, we'd like to get Caitlyn and Siobhan out there being visible. They've got a 1.3 coop score, so they'll work pretty well together. Alternately, you can let Caitlyn run solo, and take advantage of her tendencies there... but it'll make her diplomacy tank hard. They might do well heading into STAR Labs... if we want to devote that much power to STAR Labs.
It is not necessary to popularize every metahuman that we have, and Caitlin is not really in mental state to give interview to people afterward.
I am not claiming that changing places between Helena and Caitlyn and Siobhan duo is not a valid tactic but I don't see it at as significant improvement. If Cassandra is forced to fight at LexCorp tower then she would have her coop with Lex as support. Helena does not help that much if Lex is present, unless Cass fight as a first line of defense instead of last. Siobhan work much better as LexCorp tower first line of defense. She have flight and her sonic scream would not damage LexCorp tower unlike any other buildings she is made to protect. Of course it is also makes her suitable to trash STAR Labs but I don't want to leave LexCorp tower with lack of heavy hitters.

Pamela needs to be somewhere with a bunch of plants. Lexcorp basically qualifies, because we've set that up deliberately for just such an occasion. Daily Planet doesn't.

I don't think Brainiac aware about Lois involvement with Superman and without it Daily Planet is low priority target. Also as far as I am aware presence of plants decrease DC of her actions only by 5 which is not very big difference. And even if there are some serious troubles at Daily Planet we can rely on Superman to help there. It is more PR deployment than combat one, and Pamela has best diplomacy among our units.
 
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I don't think Brainiac aware about Lois involvement with Superman and without it Daily Planet is low priority target. Also as far as I am aware presence of plants decrease DC of her actions only by 5 which is not very big difference. And even if there are some serious troubles at Daily Planet we can rely on Superman to help there. It is more PR deployment than combat one, and Pamela has best diplomacy among our units.
Dr. Isley's effects on a battlefield where plants are present are huge.

Remember what she did to the Intergang forces at Centennial Park? She basically wiped out an entire company of infantry with supporting light armor all by herself... because she was Poison Ivy in a place with a lot of plants.

I'm not posting a plan here yet or anything, but I just want to note that I'm pretty sure the narrative effects of Dr. Isley's powers operate on a completely different scale when she's somewhere with a lot of plants ready to hand.
 
My computer is having a few issues right now so this might be a little choppy.
@King crimson , I can't help but urge you to reconsider this a bit.

One problem is that if Brainiac actually is an exponentially expanding cloud of von Neumann machines with no limit, then as soon as he starts hitting planets someone knows or cares about (or is detected destroying planets someone else is monitoring)... Well, someone's gonna investigate and realize that he's an exponentially expanding cloud of von Neumann machines.

If he's doubling every year, then even if he's nowhere near powerful enough to fight someone like the United Planets now and isn't even on the Green Lantern Corps' radar... he's going to be on their radar soon enough, unless his ships are aggressively chased down and stopped.

For interstellar civilization to have survived at all, and for the universe to be anything other than a gigantic swarm of homogeneous self-replicating robots, everyone needs to have figured out that you don't let a self-replicating swarm of enemies build up momentum. You nip that shit in the bud.

So if Brainiac is replicating that fast, then either he must be incredibly effective at concealing his activities from any force powerful enough to intervene by deploying a task force to stop him... Or everyone in their right mind would already be pounding on him, because while he might not be capable of destroying the galaxy this year, at his current rate of growth he'll have enough ships to blow up an entire galaxy's worth of planets every year within a matter of a couple of decades, and just keep growing from there.

Someone like the Guardians who run the Green Lantern Corps, and are full of immortals will have seen how this kind of shit plays out and know how it ends- either it ends badly with a desperate last ditch attempt to save reality itself where even fucking Darkseid weighs in and it's barely enough... Or it ends with someone snuffing out the rapid replicator threat before it can grow too large to be contained.

Plus, unless Green Lanterns in this setting are a lot stronger than I think (that is, unless individual Green Lanterns are powerful enough to casually slap Superman around like he was a toddler)... Well, if Brainiac has been doubling his ship numbers every year, then he's going to make a billion new ships a year and the entire Green Lantern Corps blowing up his ships nonstop all the time would still not be enough to kill them faster than he could build more. And while the Corps isn't the strongest thing in the universe, they're supposed to be fairly strong, so I'm kind of at a loss as to who could stop Brainiac if he had gotten this strong this quickly.
Brainiac is not doubling the size of his forces every year and the hypothetical I listed was more a way to show that Brainiac could very, very easily destroy a billion worlds if he did things at that rate as opposed to an accurate summation of Brainiac's size or abilities. For a start Brainiac left Krypton with multiple ships/bodies and he's generally not gone on to expand greatly beyond what his original size was (he could but he chooses not to) as he'd rather spend that time acquiring more data. He also loses bodies and ships fairly regularly (He's not protected by any treaties in space so the United Planets will fairly regularly destroy some of his forces).

The more accurate equation as to how many planets Brainiac destroyed in the time since leaving krypton would be something like 500 - (-X where X is the number of years) times the digit of pi from the Xth decimal point (first year is 1, second year is 4 etc.) times 30 but that's a really ugly and nasty equation even if it does still get you to over 1 billion in the end hence why I didn't use it (especially considering the equation's still not a fully accurate model).

Brainiac has the capability to go full von Neuman but he has chosen not to due to not wanting to draw attention from other entities.
Lois was very lucky to have gotten an interview from superman, because saying that someone is just a bimbo who got her Job because of her body and not her brain, just for her to go on and spearhead worldwide positive economic changes as well as becoming the head of goverment agencie, while also being a rolemodle for young girls as a strong independent lesbian women (im guessing here, but its very likely, because we know from batwomens origin that Homophobie is a thing in DC) would have ruinded every reporter that isnt her
I mean yes to some extent but I would like to point out that Lois retracted her statement and apologized for it before her interview with Superman and before Pamela went on to become head of a government agency (and arguably before she began spearheading worldwide positive economic changes). It's still not a great look for Lois but the situation isn't nearly as damaging and destructive to Lois' reputation as it could have been.

Additionally this is a minor nitpick irrelevant to your main point but Pamela is not a lesbian, she's bisexual (Katherine Kane is a lesbian though). Pamela is physically attracted to both men and women.
[ ] [Deploy] Write-in: Send half of your units to protect Metropolis while others remain at LexCorp.
-[]Tell police and SCU to prioritize defending civilians and to help evacuate them toward designated safe zones – Metropolis subway, existing bunkers, heavily protected hospital area and so on. Send 500 LexCorp security forces, 400 armored vehicles along with 1500 spy drones to help coordinate their movement. Freely distribute as many exo-suits as possible.

-[]Lex, Cassandra, Jinx, Caitlin, Siobhane, Elaine, Rebecca stays to protect LexCorp tower, along with half of your regular troops (half after subtracting forces send to provide evacuation). Other half divided proportionally between hero units you send outside. All blizzard blanket drones stays at LexCorp tower to be deployed at convenient opportunity.

-[] Send Pamela to help evacuate Daily Planet (only whose who willing) then focus on protecting largest group of civilians. Don't bother too much with Lois. If she wants to run toward danger then let her do it, if you can plausibly forget to evacuate her then even better. If there is opportunity to give interview instruct Pamela to focus on increasing her own reputation. Don't give interview to Lois. Don't bring additional attention to Pamela ties with LexCorp.

-[] Have Mari, Leonard, Mick and Sam protect hospital area. Give them experimental super-tank. Send Katherine Kane and Jade Crock to New Troy, give Katherine Ravager custom exo-suit. Send Mercy and Edward Well to Bakerline. Have drones and individuals in the invisible man suits scout out which areas have Brainiac's forces most heavily concentrated in. Have Lucy Lane focus on coordinating with Pentagon.

-[] Send Roxanne and Helena to Star Labs. Make sure that Star Labs technology does not fall into Brainiac hands and protect scientists. Don't bother with protecting equipment, the more material damage Star Labs suffers the better, but make sure not to be too obvious about it.
This write-in works, feel free to vote for it when the time comes.
 
Dr. Isley's effects on a battlefield where plants are present are huge.

Remember what she did to the Intergang forces at Centennial Park? She basically wiped out an entire company of infantry with supporting light armor all by herself... because she was Poison Ivy in a place with a lot of plants.

I'm not posting a plan here yet or anything, but I just want to note that I'm pretty sure the narrative effects of Dr. Isley's powers operate on a completely different scale when she's somewhere with a lot of plants ready to hand.
Unlike Intergang all Brainiac drones have flight capability which is in my opinion mostly negates advantages of parks which are mostly spaces with wide open area, totally shoot through. Only advantage Pamela would have is inside buildings if there is enough green areas or underground. She would have advantage in LexCorp tower but her presence there is not really necessary when we already have half of our hero units there, most of whom we can't really send into town to fight instead of Pamela course Jinx and Cass children, Siobhan deals large amount of collateral damage when seriously fighting and so on.
 
I think a token force to at least avoid the issue of being painted as abandoning them, but no hero unit, at least for our initial action. If superman has to keep going back to the daily planet because thats the first place he defends and brainiac quickly discovers the connection between him and Lane,it is a very puplic connection and his goal is info collection, that keeps clark tied up a little and prevents him from stealing the show elsewhere. There's also the chance brainiac focus more attention on it to keep Kalel pinned, which eases the pressure elsewhere in the city.

Also I would like to suggest a hero unit on the super computer directing the clone or at least ensuring there not hijacked by brainiac.
 
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Metropolis Locations
So hopefully this hasn't taken me too long to whip up. I'm not going to get too into detail here but I figured people would appreciate having this available to use and someone did ask for it. I'm doing this all off of memory so if someone catches a mistake feel free to point it out and I'll fix it. Additionally if there's something you'd like to see added to this post feel free to tell me and I'll do my best to add it in.

General Outline of Locations in Metropolis
So Metropolis is a decently large city that can then be subdivided into six different boroughs then form the distinct areas of Metropolis. The city is largely landlocked though it does have access to the ocean. Without further ado here's a fairly basic layout of Metropolis.
  • Park Ridge is a northwestern borough of Metropolis and is one of the more generally suburban areas to live in though it is on the expensive side. It's considered to be one of the nicer areas in Metropolis and is fairly well maintained
    • Centennial Park is located in Park Ridge. It is the largest Park in Metropolis and is considered to be fairly scenic and a good spot to spend the outdoors in.
    • The Astro Mall is the largest shopping district/mall in Metropolis and is a fairly popular spot. With over 200 different shops there's usually a good amount of people there during daylight hours.
    • The Metropolis Museum of Fine Art is located in Park Ridge
  • Bakerline is the most northern borough of Metropolis. It's primarily a residential area and is fairly urban though there are suburban elements to it as well. A lot of Metropolis residents who aren't fairly wealthy but aren't poor either end up living here
    • Metropolis General Hospital is Metropolis' biggest hospital and is located in Bakerline.
    • Jimmy Olsen lives in Bakerline
    • Oswald Loomis grew up in Bakerline
  • Queensland is the southern most borough in Metropolis and is also a primarily residential area though it's also got a good amount of attractions as well and is generally more upper class than Bakerline is.
    • Lionsfield Stadium which is used by Metropolis' sports teams is located in Queensland
    • Queensland Park, Metropolis' second biggest park, is notably located here
    • Bridwell Military Cemetery is located on the southwestern most part of this borough
    • The Metropolis Public Library, Metropolis' most famous library, is located in Queensland near the New Troy Borough
    • Madison High School is located in Queensland and is the high school from which both Lois and Lucy Lane graduated
  • New Troy is the central borough of Metropolis and in a sense can be considered the heart of the city. It's primarily the commercial and business sector of the city though there are apartments for people who want to live here for convenience (even if nicer houses are available for cheaper elsewhere in Metropolis). Almost all of the most well known locations in Metropolis are located here
    • LexCorp tower, and the surrounding grounds and buildings (which include the headquarters for Lightyear entertainment for example) are located in the center of New Troy. LexCorp tower is notably visible in Metropolis' skyline and the rest of the city can be seen from it.
    • The Daily Planet Building is also located in New Troy although it's a little closer to St. Martin's Island as opposed to being totally centrally located.
    • Club 2023 is located in New Troy although it's on the border with the borough of Hobb's Gate
    • STAR Labs Metropolis facilities are located in New Troy
    • Reeve's Theater and Bessolo Boulevard are located in the more southern areas of New Troy such that it's technically in the "downtown" area.
    • Leslie Willis records her radio show in a building in New Troy
    • City Hall and the Metropolis Police department headquarters are located in New Troy as well and are fairly centrally located though not quite in the center of the city like LexCorp tower is.
    • Clark Kent and Lois Lane both have apartments in New Troy with Clark living closer to Bakerline and Lois living fairly close to the center of the city
  • St. Martin's Island is a northeastern borough of Metropolis. It's a mix of shoreline living with expensive housing, a large harbor and a generally nice appearance.
    • The Metropolis Harbor, Metropolis' most important waterway is located in St. Martin's Island
    • Perry White lives in the borough of St. Martin's Island
    • Aoyama's Sushi and Japanese Cuisine is located in St. Martin's Island
  • Hobb's Gate is a southeastern borough of Metropolis and is generally considered to be the worst of the bunch. It is the poorest area in Metropolis and contains the infamous Suicide Slums as well as the most criminal activity in the city. Its been rebuilt since Intergang's attack making it less dilapidated but there are still problems with the area. The area has the nickname "Hell's Gate" amongst some Metropolis residents who do not like the area
    • The Suicide Slums, Metropolis' worst area to live in, are still located her and though they have been rebuilt to be better the area still has many issues.
    • Garfield High School is located in Hobb's Gate
    • Rocker's and The Moby Dick are both located in this borough
    • The main prison in which superpowered criminals are kept is in this borough.
 
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So, given Brainiac's commentary on "Earth being insignificant", I assume the "Earth was the birthplace of life in DCU and is actually much older than IRL" thing is not relevant in the quest?
 
So, given Brainiac's commentary on "Earth being insignificant", I assume the "Earth was the birthplace of life in DCU and is actually much older than IRL" thing is not relevant in the quest?
I can neither confirm nor deny this. However what I can solidly say is that Brainiac would have no idea either way. Brainiac's not old enough to have records on anything close to the origin of life in the universe and he hasn't yet stolen records from say the Guardians of the Universe or the Reach. Brainiac wouldn't know if it was true that Earth was the birthplace of life and if it's not true his reaction would be largely the same. Brainiac's comments on "Earth being insignificant" have nothing to do with the reality of whether or not the Earth actually is significant in quest.
 
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I think 10 hours have passed so here is plan

[X] [Deploy] Write-in: Send half of your units to protect Metropolis while others remain at LexCorp.
-[X]Tell police and SCU to prioritize defending civilians and to help evacuate them toward designated safe zones – Metropolis subway, existing bunkers, heavily protected hospital area and so on. Send 500 LexCorp security forces, 400 armored vehicles along with 1500 spy drones to help coordinate their movement. Freely distribute as many exo-suits as possible.
-[X]Lex, Cassandra, Jinx, Caitlin, Siobhane, Elaine, Rebecca stays to protect LexCorp tower, along with half of your regular troops (half after subtracting forces send to provide evacuation). Other half divided proportionally between hero units you send outside. All blizzard blanket drones stays at LexCorp tower to be deployed at convenient opportunity.
-[X] Send Pamela to help evacuate Daily Planet (only whose who willing) then focus on protecting largest group of civilians. Don't bother too much with Lois. If she wants to run toward danger then let her do it, if you can plausibly forget to evacuate her then even better. If there is opportunity to give interview instruct Pamela to focus on increasing her own reputation. Don't give interview to Lois. Don't bring additional attention to Pamela ties with LexCorp.
-[X] Have Mari, Leonard, Mick and Sam protect hospital area. Give them experimental super-tank. Send Katherine Kane and Jade Crock to New Troy, give Katherine Ravager custom exo-suit. Send Mercy and Edward Well to Bakerline. Have drones and individuals in the invisible man suits scout out which areas have Brainiac's forces most heavily concentrated in. Have Lucy Lane focus on coordinating with Pentagon.
-[X] Send Roxanne and Helena to Star Labs. Make sure that Star Labs technology does not fall into Brainiac hands and protect scientists. Don't bother with protecting equipment, the more material damage Star Labs suffers the better, but make sure not to be too obvious about it.
-[X] Charge Felicity, Nigma and Meena with task of finding ways to circumvent Brainiac communication suppression. Let them use LexCorp supercomputer for this task as they see fit.


I think a token force to at least avoid the issue of being painted as abandoning them, but no hero unit, at least for our initial action. If superman has to keep going back to the daily planet because thats the first place he defends and brainiac quickly discovers the connection between him and Lane,it is a very puplic connection and his goal is info collection, that keeps clark tied up a little and prevents him from stealing the show elsewhere. There's also the chance brainiac focus more attention on it to keep Kalel pinned, which eases the pressure elsewhere in the city.
People are welcome to suggest such plan, but I still think that one hero unit would not affect Superman/Lois dynamic and our favorite reporter would still find danger for herself. And if Pamela run across Superman we will have chance to talk to him and maybe suggest course of actions that benefits us. Pamela is highest level government representative here and in contact with military response (if Lucy manages to contact Pentagon, and then contact Pamela) so either he obeys her or he makes it clear that he don't follows direct orders from government even in the time of national crisis.

Also I would like to suggest a hero unit on the super computer directing the clone or at least ensuring there not hijacked by brainiac.
What clone? If anything can be done with supercomputer I am not averse of putting Felicity on it but I don't remember us controlling anything through it and trying to hack Brainiac is not a great idea so I am not sure what to use it for.
 
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What clone? If anything can be done with supercomputer I am not averse of putting Felicity on it but I don't remember us controlling anything through it and trying to hack Brainiac is not a great idea so I am not sure what to use it for.
Sorry, I meant to write drone but had someone talking to me in real life and failed to note auto correct getting my intended word wrong. I'm specifically worried about brainiac hacking our drones and turning them against civilians or allied forces, or just shutting them down.
 
Sorry, I meant to write drone but had someone talking to me in real life and failed to note auto correct getting my intended word wrong. I'm specifically worried about brainiac hacking our drones and turning them against civilians or allied forces, or just shutting them down.

They can't be hacked without Brainiac physically taking them and gaining access to dataports, it was mentioned by QM
 
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They can't be hacked without Brainiac physically taking them and gaining access to dataports, it was mentioned by QM
Technically the QM's exact statement was "they can't be hacked without Brainiac taking them and physically gaining access to them or having Brainiac get into LexCorp tower and hacking the systems that are physically located there". You point is largely correct I just wanted to caveat that it's technically not the only way for the drones to get hacked, it's just that if Brainiac's in a position to hack through the other method then you've got much bigger problems than just dealing with some hacked drones so it's not really relevant to consider in that situation.
 
Technically the QM's exact statement was "they can't be hacked without Brainiac taking them and physically gaining access to them or having Brainiac get into LexCorp tower and hacking the systems that are physically located there". You point is largely correct I just wanted to caveat that it's technically not the only way for the drones to get hacked, it's just that if Brainiac's in a position to hack through the other method then you've got much bigger problems than just dealing with some hacked drones so it's not really relevant to consider in that situation.
So it might still be worth assigning felicity and possibly nygma for direct defense of Lexcorps network in the name of keeping brainiac out
 
So it might still be worth assigning felicity and possibly nygma for direct defense of Lexcorps network in the name of keeping brainiac out
It might be but if Brainiac has compromised LexCorp's network then Brainiac is already inside LexCorp tower and gotten a significant portion of the way in. If Brainiac is in a position to hack LexCorp's actual network then he's already physically well into your building and able to kill people and you've got problems beyond that of cyber security.

In a situation where Brainiac is in position to hack LexCorp tower's internal systems then Nygma and Felicity alone are not enough to actually defend against him (unless you get truly ridiculous rolls) as Brainiac will simply move to initiate combat against them and then go right back to hacking when they can no longer block him due to being incapacitated or killed.
 
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It might be but if Brainiac has compromised LexCorp's network then Brainiac is already inside LexCorp tower and gotten a significant portion of the way in. If Brainiac is in a position to hack LexCorp's actual network then he's already physically well into your building and able to kill people and you've got problems beyond that of cyber security.
Could you specify specific entry points so we can circumstancial orders in place to deter entry into the most sensetive area's we absolutely don't want brainiac reaching? I can assume the supercomputer is one, as well as lexcorps main security hub and any of the Special labs, but are there others?
 
Could you specify specific entry points so we can circumstancial orders in place to deter entry into the most sensetive area's we absolutely don't want brainiac reaching? I can assume the supercomputer is one, as well as lexcorps main security hub and any of the Special labs, but are there others?
I presume you don't want Brainiac landing on the roof. Unless Brainiac can tunnel underground or smash through a window then the only entry point into the tower is through the roof or the first floor. This by definition makes them arguably the most important floors to defend as Brainiac cannot access any other part of LexCorp tower without first going through them (or the defenses of your ridiculously reinforced walls and windows)

If you're speaking about points that you might want to defend once Brainiac is in the building the LexCorp basements contain multiple server rooms, most particularly levels B2, B11, B12 and B13. The Cold engine is on floor B17. I imagine you don't want Brainiac getting into floor 41 (where Lex and Cassandra physically live), unmarked floor 2 (where there's access to a ton of surveillance footage and feeds of the inside of the tower or floor 96 (where drones and aircraft are kept in storage when not in use).

There's an informational post that lists the layout of LexCorp tower if you're looking for specific things to defend. It might not be fully up to date but it is useful for knowing where stuff is
A Complete Layout of the Central Building of LexCorp Tower
 
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