The meeting with Director Maddox was comparatively short and sweet.  She welcomed them aboard, gave them each a prospectus and told them they'd have ultraviolet clearance by the end of the day.

Ultraviolet clearance gives them access to AEGIS (and other LEO) metahuman profiles, and some insights into the colonies populations (about 1300 total metas in the world now carry the colonies.  Given that there are maybe 2 million metas on Earth total, this comes out to about 1/3,500th of a percent are metas and 1/4,000,000 of a percent of humanity is colonized. )

what Maddox did do, however, was also register you in biometric databases to allow you access to Aegis facilities and, more importantly, Aegis satellite bunkers.

This means...

If you are at all interested, you can customize your primary Bunker as a Headquarters.

It's no secret that I dislike the fiddly bits of equipment in M&M.   But I do think you should have a basic HQ, if you want one.

Your character may live here, if you want it so.  But there's also nothing to prevent you from simply "having a space" here.   Your personal residence is yours.

To Start:
Medium / Small Warehouse, Toughness 8
Systems: Communications, Computer, Fire Prevention, Security
Spaces: Living Spaces, Personnel(one), Garage

Optional:
Qualities: Secret
Outer: Garage, Dock, Grounds,
Spaces: Gym, Infirmary, Laboratory, Library, Worpshop, Holding Cells
Elements:  Independent Power System (Generator), Additional Personnel

Unavailable:
Isolated, Sealed, Self-Repairing, Temporal Limbo


So... what kind of space do you wanna make this?   Once we nail down some of the details, I'll figure out where in town you are.
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:03, Wed 01 July 2020.

Awesome, here's my votes

Adds: Laboratory & Workshop so EM can conduct any science related tasks or construction

Thoughts: Not sure if Secret is a good idea. If we're trying to integrate into the city, act in a "celebrity" status, convince any newly erupted metas that we can help, then we might want to have a place everyone knows and trusts.

Location:  My vote is Downtown near other government buildings.  Kinda central.  We could take a few stories in one of the skyscrapers (maybe only 2-3 floors to keep size Medium).  Or if sticking with an actual warehouse then maybe along the riverfront.

Just my thoughts; what's everyone else think?
This message was last edited by the player at 13:42, Thu 02 July 2020.

Lachesis is gonna want something ground floor, if possible. If she gets an important premonition, having to wait for an elevator is a massive increase in her response time. If course, she'll also want roof access and a hang-glider, a nearby freeway (this is her Gym), and a good gyro spot.

But yeah, even if temporal limbo were an option, she'd vote hard against it. She doesn't really trust anyone else mucking about with causality.

Secret:
On the up-side, it'd give you respite from reporters and paparazzi and a possibly never-ending line of supplicants who want you to do something for them...   It's also a place where bad-guys will know where to find you....

Still, if you have this as a publicly known place, then the heat's mostly off your private residences, which Aegis will assist in keeping a little more private...

Maybe, instead, there's a "secret entrance" which allows you to avoid the crowd that gathers every time you do something public...  so there's never any certainty on the public' part whether you're there or not...  There's certainly nothing to stop you from entering via the front door.  but if you went in that way, you'll probably have to leave via a publicly-visible way, too...
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:53, Fri 03 July 2020.

Funny you should say that, I was thinking the same thing regarding a secret entrance to the building.  Either Feature for base (Feature: secret entrance) or it could be an Advantage (Benefit: Secret Access Emerald City HQ) that each character has.

Adding some personnel (ie: security) can address the paparazzi and supplicants.

Does Aegis have an office in the city already?  Because if they do and everyone knows we're Aegis then that's what villains would target if they didn't know where we were exactly.  9 times out of 10 I think I'd rather be on the scene than hearing about an attack and having to rush there.  If we weren't part of a government organization it might be a different story but as is, eh, it doesn't bother me.  But that's just me; I'm good with the group consensus.



You'd be up/down the stairs and long gone before the elevator ever got close.

Yeah, but she has to walk all those stairs.

About my character's Profile: Ok everyone I have updated Jake's profile so there's now a historical timeline of major relevant events in it that I tried to piece together as best I could from the info I gleaned OOC about the setting. Feel free to have a peek. His senior agent status is represented by his infrared security clearance.

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About the HQ: So I thought about it and here's my vote for what I'd like for the HQ:

*No secret quality - I agree that our main building should be more publicly known as we're supposed to be servants of the people. In exchange, AEGIS and the GM can give some secretness to our personal dwellings that we may maintain outside of AEGIS. Like Jake/Sphere lives in a penthouse condo on the top of one of the city's skyscrapers. With wealth 2 he certainly was able to afford it, but his affinity for the air and sky and high places makes him feel very comfortable roosting high up rather than low to the ground. And with his flight he can come and go easily. But I agree with Emerald that we're trying to integrate with people not distance ourselves.

Outer: Garage and grounds but no dock. I think we should be somewhere downtown in the city so docks don't make sense.

Spaces: Gym, Infirmary, Laboratory, Library, Workshop, Holding Cells - let's have it all. I see use in all of these especially since we'll be using this for so many official capacities.

Elements:  Independent Power System (Generator), Additional Personnel. This is representing AEGIS giving us additional support to do what we need to do. But the personnel are there because it is still a government building, and they can help staff our lab for forensics and stuff, security guards for the building, etc.

...I see our HQ as being a part of AEGIS or an offshoot of it. So maybe it can be a near-by attached building or something to the main one?
This message was last edited by the player at 02:21, Fri 03 July 2020.

I suggest a really springy trampoline!

Hm.  downtown penthouse...  it has some possibilities.  I'm kinda reminded of the Netflix Titans HQ for season 2.

The Emerald City Sourcebook does list "The Emerald Tower" for a base for The Sentinels, a group which fought to contain the immediate results of the Silver Storm in M&M canon.   I don't want the Sentinels active in this game, though.

So, downtown's a must.  I kinda like the top-three floors of a skyscraper in the the downtown area (so, at the mouth of the Red River).

Will that work for you?

As the premiere operating group in Emerald City, it is an Aegis facility, paid for with Aegis bucks.   And while it's not at all unassailable, I don't see much in the way of assaults on your HQ in the future.  Mostly I expect it's a narrative device to provide a place to have interactions with each other in a more casual setting.

They are Aegis personnel and they will be expected to be at Aegis HQ with some frequency.  But Aegis is seen sort of along the lines of the FBI...  and most of their properties would be similar to that and other such federal LEO buildings.