In a dangerous situation, which it is, her stats increase by 2. Taking that into account, she is best hero at diplomacy after Lex himself, Pamela and Oswald, with 15 points. Additionally, she is not squeemish, she can take care of herself and is expendable.
Disposable asset is the stated reason. Personally I want to kill that guy and completely sever ties, install our own agent as the mayor of metropolis and other top positions and start patrolling it with our troops and controlling the minimal criminal element that will continue to exist.
We considered it, but 7 points was a LOT.
Her diplomacy's not THAT bad.
OK, but the last time we tried that we got our ongoing war wth Intergang, so we'd better hold off on trying that until we can do it right.
Well it's at least good to know you're on board with the direction.
I'd personally like to wait until we own the Mayor, the DA & the Congressman before we fully stamp out crime.
As long as Lois Lane has better things to worry about, I'm not too concerned. The only reason it's an issue is because we're using that influence to shelter Tobias Whale, which would be super unpopular if discovered. We'd probably be able to ride out the discovery more or less without consequence otherwise. Everyone, cynically speaking, expects the police to answer to the desires of powerful individuals; it's when those individuals do something blatantly against the public interest that there's a problem most of the public flips out about.
The thing to remember is that the threat to us getting caught bribing the police is to our reputation in the city. It's unlikely to result in Lex Luthor going to prison, or otherwise being unable to help the US government. They may not want egg on their faces from getting caught exerting pressure on local authorities and news publications in Metropolis, when it isn't so much to save an ally or to save his strength as to save his image.
Sooner or later, we neet to arrange for a Presidential Pardon with [Insert Date Here] or even better, an Immunity from Prosecution for services rendered to the United States for ourself and the entire LexCorp Family.
Suffice to say that we'll want to lay groundwork so that it works for us more gracefully than it's working for Donald Trump in real life, because if Lex Luthor is reduced to only doing as well as Trump in any capacity, I will consider that to be a 'defeat condition' after which point we've lost the game.
We might want to expand our operations to Dallas should it come up, the opportunity for joint research or political alignment is interesting. Veronica Cale for President! A Real Wonder Woman!
We already have a headquarters in Austin, the state capital, about 200 miles away. Close enough that it should be feasible. @King crimson , is she on the radar if her company does anything impressive enough that we'd start having reason to consider collaborating with her?
Minor side note:
I mean, it is difficult to judge. Ra's al Ghul's sanity and intelligence levels are all over the place in comics and other media. He is sometimes almost reasonable and sometimes completely bonkers. Authors tried to handwave it to the pits' corrupting influence, but the excuse can be used only so many times before it stops being believable. Relative stability of this character to be decided by author, I guess. Not like we could do anything to stop him now without souring our relationship. We maybe could convince him after (if) he succeeds that we couldn't trust alien derived technology to work as advertised and remain under his control?
