Characters:
Arthur - Alphonso
Arthur - Alphonso
- Fuegan: The Burning Lance
- Rex
Kirato
Hiro
Kirato
Hiro
Solo Mission
Halvorsen laid out the plan: Arthur was going to strike LOKI at the heart of his operations in the Congo, delivered by a repurposed dumb missile. The prototype neural link helmet would allow Arthur to control all three AESIR, but less effectively than usual. On the way in, he'd have to do his best to avoid LOKI's anti-missile defense systems. Once landed, Arthur would destroy targets meant to elicit a response from LOKI. Kicking the hornet's nest in this way should draw a large number of enemy AESIR; doing so would require LOKI to concentrate its presence in the area.
Meanwhile, Katerina would be monitoring network traffic for LOKI's "artificial brainwaves", and once they hit a high enough threshold, Arthur would hack into the communications network and shut it down, preventing LOKI from leaving. Finally, he would trigger an EMP which would fry everything within several kilometers.
Arthur asked Halvorsen if it was safe to be disconnected by EMP, and was successfully assured that it was "probably safe". He then brought up that he wasn't a hacker; that had been more Kirato's thing. At that, Katerina piped up and explained that their AIs had taken on a resonance with the pilots and gained some of their experiences, so Fuegan would be almost as good under Arthur as under Kirato. Not confident, Arthur put on the helmet anyway, and the missile launched.