I believe Lite Star is as heavily armed and possibly even armored as Justicar... not including the carried heavy weapons ordinance that Hikari brought along, don't let her fast light hardsuit design fool you she is just as much a Tank Weapons platform as Justicar.

And just because Justicar is at the rear of the battle does not mean he cannot make all those targets at the top of the map VERY sad if I decided to start breaking out the heavy ordinance I've not touched yet as its meant to be anti-vehicular in application.  Not fired even one 90mm Recoilless Rifle round yet.

But I hope Phantasma is not being compelled to 'fight to the death' cause die he will if he keeps making Justicar turn the volume up on damage until he's flat out killed.  Hikari is hoping he will run... cause his options are only flee, surrender or Die ~ he will not win this fight against the three of us.  Since they all seem STUPIDLY Brainwashed to fight to the death they won't consider Surrender so only flee or die is left!
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Phantasma, like Spyder and Marutukku, is translated from another system and came out with much greater power in this one. As an example, the illusions along the tram track (including the illusory station) were set up in a single round while Phantasma flew through that section of the tram track. The entire track was flown through in less than a minute. The bull had as much SDC as a mid-sized car, the chimp did, too. At the same time, he was maintaining a personal force field with 200 SDC and a wall construct with an additional 300 SDC.
Think of Phantasma as an evil Green Lantern with no color weakness. I've decided he will be one of the top ten most wanted European supervillains[Private to JUSTICAR: ranked about the same as Polaris] because otherwise his power doesn't make a lot of sense.

Ouch!! Then this bad guys are tough like nails!!

Also, I don't have actions left as I keep drawing PPE.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:04, Sun 17 Apr 2022.

OH! Yeah ok.. Phantasma is Supposed to be REALLY Tough!  He's on a scale of World Class villain.. like Marvel's - Graviton, The Red Skull or Magneto and /or DC's Lex Luthor, Braniac, or Black Adam.

BAD ASS... we're supposed to have REAL trouble dealing with someone like that!

I was thinking Sinestro, personally. For those not in know, he's basically Space Hitler. This is not exaggeration - he is one of the nastiest villains in the DC setting. DC villains are normally somewhat weaker than the heroes they go against.

Sinestro does not roll like this.

Sinestro's only weakness relative to a Green Lantern is that his organization is smaller, but more concentrated and easier to defend, and he has a secondary advantage in not being bound by any real rules or obligations save his own - only the brutal maintaining of his worlds as fear factories keeps him busy, as fear is what powers his ring. Beating Sinestro usually comes down to staying calm and focused, because he has a way of snowballing out of control. Media manipulation and high profile attacks are his MO, because he wants to be seen and wants to be feared by all who see him.

Anyways, I'm going to arrest Ground Sinestro if I can Ground Sinestro has been handled. They'll break out or slip away later, I have little doubt, but if it stops them from fighting right now, I'll take it.

Also, you know, the minor detail that Justicar will likely kill them if they change their mind later.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:55, Mon 18 Apr 2022.

Oh yeah Herald I'm under no illusions Phantasma will stay in our custody even as long as it takes to get to the boats on the beach.. but he no longer being an obstacle to use leaving so.. I'm fine with that!

Eh, kill them.. nah.. not his style.. we are not in eminent threat of our allies in the military shooting at us cause Col Flagg was given orders by a FORCE Drone he did not know was talking to him.  So were not going to be subject to 'Blue Fire' from allies being duped... so exit is no longer a major concern we should STILL withdraw post-haste cause we need to let the 'real' pros at search and EoD disposal get to this place before WE trigger something.

It looks like FORCE abandoned this place but he could have Self-Destruct crap still secreted on the isle.  So best We not be here and let the experts trained to deal with that kind of crap do what they do best.  Our mission was only to make sure they would not seige the isle under fire and I think we have accomplished that.

I'll bet FORCE is pissed off about that to NO END!

I expect the Rocket jet got away even though one would think the Navy would shoot it down.. but perhaps its radar cloaked? 'shrug'

Hikari is working on plans for a new gadget as its not possible to have stealthed vehicles in the current rules so...Hikari is designing them... but we'll see how that goes.  I won;t be able to build the ..Transatmospheric vehicle I want until 5th level.. not enough funds for it ~ and certainly not enough for stealth, that needs research time.

Gah and Hikari has College Classes and class work and a Robot Vehicle 'Paladin' to finish assembling and yeah Justicar Mark III upgrades.. mostly weapons changes and repairs to do ~ What's a Young Tech Genius to do?  No sleep til Doomsday... and gah no time for girls! Shessh!
This message was last edited by the player at 01:11, Mon 18 Apr 2022.

Seems we are ready to end the scene. Winter Herald might have one or two questions for Phantasma, but they are out of curiosity as much as anything else.

Specifically, "Why are you fighting for FORCE?"

(Probable answer: "Money, dear boy." Although given the distinct Central European accent, I'm not willing to eliminate unfortunate answers dating from WWII.)

Sorry, see aura is a spell from RIFTS. I always add it to my mages and maybe I should change it. :p

It's not in this game? Hmm. I guess I can see why. The mess of each Hero type operating on their own private system was deliberate.

In reply to Goliat (msg # 58):

It's a psychic ability in Supers, Bellissima can get it.

[opinion]Both magic and psionics get a power increase in Rifts, apparently to (unsuccessfully) address the power disparity between mech-pilots and psychics/mages.[/opinion]
Which is why we're going to stick with magic as presented in Heroes Unlimited supplements (that would include Aliens Unlimited)

I felt the robot should have a take on organics becoming machines. After all, to Herald, being a machine is great.

Whoops, real world knowledge slipped into a superheroes world. :)

'Ding!'  Justicar is now 4th level... from just posts, I have not even tried to figure out how much Xp has been earned through actions on this op!

In reply to Bellissima (msg # 63):

You mean the Sun Tzu reference? I figured it would be part of Herald's programming.

As for the machine ideas, well... I was mostly spitballing. This is Herald's slant on things. He wants a purpose, believes it necessary, and becomes agitated when he doesn't know what he should be doing next. He doesn't have any skill with Robotics, hilariously enough, and all he's got for insight is the experience of being one - doesn't mean he actually knows how they tick any more than a regular person knows how we tick.

In reply to Winter Herald (msg # 65):

From Crusader's POV the only thing worse than a robot is being trapped inside one.

Is cool. My point was that the machine wouldn't see an issue with being one.

Awful quiet around here...

Yes, it's quiet... too quiet.

Oh ooooo!!!

Is he about to steal Christmas or is his heart about to grow three sizes this day?

Yes. That is exactly what will happen.

Wow. Justicar are you doing that for comedy? CMZ said the Mercenary had bonded with "her" the ship's AI. That triggered Crusader's jealousy. My girl has daddy issues and the merc is a hunk of delicious daddy.

Winter Herald even picked up on it echoing the "her" in a different tone.

In reply to Crusader (msg # 73):

Tee-Hee!

My guy was just interpreting it literally and being confused by that before program consensus settled the issue. "Anti-paradox crumple zones" are a standard feature in neural intelligence.