Techy People, Assemble?

[looksfine]

Given recent in-game events, I and a few others have proposed a sort of player plot idea that I wanted to run by anybody else whose characters would have gotten in on the Science happening (I'm perfectly fine with handwaving or backtagging, if one so desires)...or any muns who might want to get in on it now, while the getting's still good.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: to my knowledge, there are two major experiments going on currently.  There is the studying of the virus that's infected the consoles, which has been the amazing work of Mike as seen here, as well as Aya's Network Post offering the resources of both Stark Industries and Wayne Enterprise Science Labs, and Subsequent Open Log in which she was given the idea by Clark and Donatello to create Foreign communicators based on the radio technology already available.  The latter has basically become her newest pet project, and the primary focus of my Plot Idea.

PLOT IDEA: Aya & company will have succeeded in creating a series of small hand-held radio systems that could be used for private communications between people too paranoid to use the Network.  However, to avoid turning this into a total deus ex machina Aya, I'm thinking of putting certain restrictions on it:

(1) Option One: A limited number of systems would be available ONLY to those who are involved in upcoming Hero groups working together against Malicant.

(2) Option Two: Any Individual who wants one will be welcome to come collect, but asked to keep broadcasts limited to only important messages.  This isn't meant to be a total Network Replacement, after all, since the entire Network falling completely silent would be incredibly suspicious to one of Malicant's intelligence.

(3) Option Three: Radios are distributed at leisure to whomever desires one, with no restrictions.  But with a significantly lower guarantee of maintained secrecy and encryption.  In other words, while encryptions might be safe from Malicant, any and all transmissions will be openly viewed/heard by anybody in possession of a Radio.

Of course, with any of these options, there is always the potential for enemy discovery later on.  Depending upon how it's received and how the game-wide plot goes.  I can say that with radios like these, because they're portable...there is the risk that a single person could lose or have theirs taken away.  And if the enemy gets their hands on them...well....


So, basically, before I do the final write-up request to set this in motion, I have two questions.  Who wants in, and which Option do you think would be best?

Comments

[andaway]

I am Al

I am in

I am voting for option 2

:V

[wherethestoryis]

Lee here. I vote option 2.

[oneofthegoodguys]

I would like for Mike to be involved, but it would have to be handwaved as I'll be on hiatus.

If I'm understanding correctly, Option Two is basically the radio but with the ability to reply? With the network now static free, that seems to make the most sense to keep it open and differentiate the tech.

[i_speak_softly]

I'm seeing a great opportunity here for Techies to collaborate with Strategists. Our tech-heads will happily build the biggest, awesomest radio system anybody could want, but their fantasies will probably involve huge repeater towers and wearable radio-watches for everybody OMG so cool. Some more strategy-minded characters could rein in the geekery by making sure the plans include a way of physically concealing the radios, a method for dividing up network traffic to mislead anyone monitoring that kind of thing, and so on.

We might want to handwave those conversations to keep the timeline to radio-completion moving forward, but getting some OOC input from muns of Strategists could be done quickly, and would lead to interesting CR, more plot involvement, and other good stuff.

[agentx13]

I don't know how much help Sharon could be - she's off on an undercover mission that will take roughly a month. She'd be glad to help any way she can, though, from making radios, coding them, or just collecting materials to make them.

She'd vote for option one, because she's mean and picky like that.