- With the relative quiet going around, I believe it's time to finally go through with the Renovations on the captured League of Shadows bases. We'll need to create an information network sooner or later, and having a few extra back-up facilities wouldn't hurt.
Result: Success
The former League bases are cleaned up and properly scrubbed of any electronic assets that might report back to R'as Al'ghul (and The Light, as the Founders all know) before being upgraded to proper ATIC standards. By the end of the month, Deadshot is looking quite pleased with his new covert bases and the military reach of ATIC through Maverick PMSC is greatly expanded worldwide.
(-$40,000,000)
(League Bases are now Maverick Covert Bases.)
(ATIC can launch covert military operations within reach of a covert base.)
- Help the man with A Heart Of Ice. With Maverick assets and Deadshot himself, make sure he isn't in any way tailed, followed, or being monitored and set him and his wife in a secure and hidden location outside Luxembourg while we prepare treatment, destroying any trace of his presence. Specify with a contract that Victor Fries is not obligated to share his tech with ATIC until after his wife is cured. In the meantime, look up Kruetzfeld-Jakob's Disease, specifically how it affects the brain and how to theoretically fix it.
Result: Success!
Victor Fries stared at the sheets in his gloved hands; reports from this mysterious company's doctors on Nora's condition and the contract they had presented him with. Deadshot had personally placed him in this safehouse 'as Bat Protection' while his wife was being placed into an actual research hospital, one that the assassin boasted could probably cure anything on the planet if they got a month to work on it.
"Trust me Vic," Deadshot had said, "The Bosses? They're inhuman when they focus on a project. They can do in a month what takes other people years, if they're lucky, and you can't help but be driven to work as hard as them. They'll cure your wife, guaranteed."
Victor couldn't help but want to believe. The doctors from Deadshot's 'Bosses' had come only a few hours ago to drop off the report; the disease, despite Victor's cryogenic freezing, had progressed to the terminal stages and had begun destroying Nora's brain, literally rotting it from the inside out while her organs were all slowly but inexorably failing. Combine that with the blood poisoning from toxic material the virus released when attacking tissue, Victor knew that his Nora had only days to live.
But the report, it had also said that his Nora was responding favorably to 'Wave Treatment', the same strange technology he had discovered from contacts in Europe and had been tracing in preparation to steal it when Deadshot found him.
They had nanomachines, artificial organs, bones, they could even replace her blood. Treatment was possible, and it could succeed! They had experimental nanomachines that could rebuild her brain using the intact tissues, even repairing the ones damaged by the disease while recycling the dead!
And all he had to do was agree to hand over his technology, the culmination of all his research and criminal deeds. Such a choice; his life's work, or the love of his life?
A day later, Deadshot walks into your office, "We got his signature boss. He'll hand it over when we cure his wife."
(New Project Available: Leaving The Terminal)
(It is within ATIC's power to fully restore Nora Fries to health thanks to Bio-Nanites, Universal Organs and Universal Bones.)
(Standard risk of failure due to lack of Medical Nanofog.)
- With Thrawn and Dr. Serling's assistance, refine the Medical Nanofog so that it can safely and properly heal any damage to a patient's brain without unintentionally damaging it.
Result: Success!
The Medical Nanofog improvements come just in time as the newly re-designed nanites are now capable of repairing affected tissues and nerves without unintended backlash and with greatly increased precision. The semi-biological nature of the nanites is also creating an unintended bonus where the nanites have shown a capability to band together and turn themselves into a universal replacement tissue in a manner that Serling reports, "It's like stem cells converting themselves. With enough nanites and if it is feasible, you could program these nanites to rebuild entire organs."
With the new Medical Nanofog, there is a greatly decreased chance of failure in saving the life of Nora Fries and medical institutes across Europe and Asia will be very, very happy to get their hands on this new surgical tool.
(Medical Nanofog perfected! Potential revenue: +$30,000,000 per month in sales and feedstock replacement.)
(Greatly reduced chance of failure in healing Nora Fries.)
- Continue attempts to replicate the cloaking ability of the Nanosuit, learning from last time's mistakes. This time, make sure all samples and apparatus are devoid of any impurities. If another M1 happens again, heads will roll.
Result: Failure
Additional Result: ...Nat 100
Cleanup Roll: ...Nat 100, really?
Well, the good news is you avoided creating a sibling for M1.
The bad news is the experimental meta-material crystal matrices that formed didn't create an optical cloaking field as you hoped and instead created microscopic spore fumaroles that in turn created a small cloud of nanoparticles that were somehow capable of moving when the testing material was moved and after some tests you found that the nanoparticles rapidly render explosive materials inert.
Handy, but not what you wanted. After some additional work you find that the crystal matrices have to able to form in a
precise arrangement of meta-crystals in order to create the optical cloak and you find that one of the scientific interns fucked around with the electrical feed, which in turn lead to an investigation, which in turn leads to Deadshot smashing open the guy's apartment door to find him attempting to send data to an outside party.
When he pulls a gun, Deadshot calmly paints his brains across the wall before Maverick intelligence gets to work.
They found that the intern was some young buck who thought he could play info-broker on the side; he had sold information on most of the minor patents made by ATIC through New Horizon, but was preparing to sell information on M1 and the Ceph/Nanosuit technology projects to both Wayne and Luthor.
ZAX takes over from there, delivering a data-bomb to both parties before deliberately hacking both corporations before pulling out and covering its tracks. With that done, the dead idiot's reputation is ruined and his headless corpse is found as the victim of 'Gangsters'.
Well, you can't say that wasn't interesting.
(Gained Explosive-Disabling Nanoparticles.)
(Removed a serious security threat.)
(Did some damage to the LexCorp and Wayne Industries networks.)
Nat 100!
Nat 100