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So I was thinking, a rare and exciting change of pace, when I thought better of it and returned to my blessed slumber of oxlike ignorance. Unfortunately, not all of those thoughts are gone yet, so to get rid of this one I'll hand it off to you folks. trollthumper already mentioned a while back that one thing he'd been toying with was the idea of a right-wing variant of Advanced Idea Mechanics from MARVEL, bizarre inventors with a political agenda. And what could be more political than AEGIS? Not even Satan. While a very S.H.I.E.L.D.ish bunch, AEGIS lacks a crucial aspect of true ripoffness: airborne headquarters. They live underground, like moles or beetles, as opposed to the sky-dwelling their Grecian acronym would suggest. It's a problem that calls for a solution, how can we make plain that these are in fact ripoffs of a super-spy agency bent on giving more or less normal people the power to change their world? So with the recent invasion of space to the rest of the galaxy, those two things come together quite nicely. America, or whomever foots the bills for AEGIS, accepts a contract from this right-wing mad-science crew to work with the Service to get into play a fleet of flying bases that can protect Earthly/American airspace from future attacks. Naturally these incredible inventions, while undeniably badass, carry a cost beyond money as the Elephantine Concept Holistics Overseers have installed copious amounts of gear to gather information from and strike against anyone the owner of these machines sees fit. It's welcomed after the last few decades of serious SHADOW inactivity and so many alien invasions making the idea of an even more militarized Service making so much superficial sense. Powers, having his own suspicions, calls in the PCs as the embodiments of abstract concepts that they are to untangle whatever web of corruption or such snoresville might lurk behind his being given the raddest keys while he deals with a pair of really obnoxious nominal inferiors with greater political and financial clout than him. Said pair could be owned(literally or figuratively, go with the gut on that one) by ECHO, and in any case are determined to transform AEGIS from a defensive to an offensive force of American power. There's other stuff too but it's not important. Act like it's not even there. So yeah the end goal would be AEGIS having flying bases so they can dramatically explode or fall on things or fight the Sky Lord in the battle of the millennium, and the creation of said bases revealing some mad-science rightist bros to act as an alternative flavour to the mechanistic Foundry or mercurial Labyrinth. ADDENDUM: I failed to mention this earlier, so here's the "real" reason for the experiment: it's a supervillain plot to gain access to AEGIS(and by extension other agency's) data and tech by being the ones to create and maintain it, so they can sell those secrets to other supervillains and let the quieter, smarter ones work around the new system while paying the rowdier sorts to job for it. "Good job catching the Atom-Smasher, men! A shame about that Magpie but OH WELL"