Log:Star Control, Scene 1

Star Control 2012/06/07 	 Pleiades 1

On HeroNet:

A message from Miles Fuchs, FBI:

A string of burglaries has come across my desk. There are four separate incidents, but each one seems to have been carried out by the same individual. In each case, medical equipment was stolen. Together, the pieces of equipment could be used to sample and clone biological material. At first, we suspected Next Generation, but the burglaries seem a bit amatuerish for their organization. In one case, the piece of equipment stolen was too large to fit out through the doors of the facility; our perpetrator blasted a whole in a wall to escape. The suspect is a meta, and we believe him to have the following abilities: invisibility, lower middle class super-strength, and energy blasts. The bad news is that the last robbery was about two weeks ago; the lull might point to whatever device s being constructed has already been completed.

Pleiades goes to investigate:

Genomics, LLC was the site of one of the robberies, and the five-story-tall building still has the marks to prove it. There's a large blast hole about 20 feet tall in one of the walls. It's covered up in translucent plastic tarp to keep out the elements. There's some remnants of police tape on the scene as well.

Pleiades arrives at street level and slowly skates up to the scene.

Outside the tarped-over area is a Caucasian man in his early fifties. He's got his shirt sleeves rolled up, and he's talking into his PDA as he looks over the scene.

Pleiades rolls up to the man, "Um, excuse me. I was wondering if I could examine the scene of the incident? Um, my call-sign is Pleiades, I'm, um, a 'superhero'."

The man is looking back and forth from the tarped hole to the street and the concrete walled garden between. "... no easy access to the street. Flew off with device maybe? Check footprint pattern at lab..." He turns and looks over the Pleia taking a moment to appraise her with a look. "Hey." After a moment he says, "Special Agent Miles Fuchs -- I'm with the bureau. I saw your message on HeroNet."

Pleiades grins weakly, "Oh, good. Um, you said you saw a footprint?"

Miles raises his eyebrows, confused for a moment. "Hmm? Oh, right..." He points over towards the tarp. "No footprints in the cement here," he says pointing out a path with his finger. "But there, she reaches the grass. One step, two steps, then nothing." He looks p from the lawn and over to Pleiades. "Maybe she flew out."

Pleiades says, "She? Is the visual data of the person?"

"My money's on 'jumped' though. The last foot print is deeper, as if she put all her weight on it..." Miles mimics the action: hands up carrying something over his head, taking a step and leaping into the air.

Miles shakes his head: "No visual data. Either it's a woman, or a guy with tiny feet."

Pleiades hmms, and bends down to look at the footprints.

Pleiades hmphs, "Can you tell anything about her weight? Though I guess we couldn't if she was carrying the equipment she stole."

Miles asks, "See anything that might point to your Doctor?" He nods and checks his PDA in response to the question. "Seems like normal human weight, taking into account the weight of the device she stole."

Pleiades hmmms, "Not really. If it was one of her Stalker Drones, the footprints would be like, um, knife marks. The criminal being female would match one of Numbers, but she should weigh more than normal due to her mechanical parts. I'm about 20kg more than I look, for example."

Miles takes a moment to look at Pleia again. "Are there other kinds of Drones? What about the powerset? The perp had superstrength, an energy blast, and invisibility."

Pleiades ums, "There's Basic, floating pods with blasters, Stalkers, invisibility and hypersharp claws, Command, big orbs with tentacles and blasts, and Interceptors, um, small strike fighters. All of them can fly, some better than others. Only Stalker and Command can really carry anything."

"They,d have no problem flying, carrying something that weight 5 tons?"

Pleiades says, "Command could. I'm not sure about Stalkers. But she may have upgraded them since the Incident 6 years ago."

"Oh, just one more thing," Miles says, "Do you or your doctor know anything about neutrinos? The lab guys say they found higher than normal amounts at the blast site."