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* Security Chief Jackson {{Named|Faction=Security Guards|Type=Private Security Captain (2)|Text=Private Security Captain}} (Enemy)
 
* Security Chief Jackson {{Named|Faction=Security Guards|Type=Private Security Captain (2)|Text=Private Security Captain}} (Enemy)
 
* The Promethean {{Named|Faction=Praetorian Clockwork|Type=Lifter}} (Enemy)
 
* The Promethean {{Named|Faction=Praetorian Clockwork|Type=Lifter}} (Enemy)
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** ''Description:'' The Promethean isn't a brand new technology, it's stolen Praetorian technology!
  
  
 
{{NPC Text|type=villain|title=Dialogue at mission entry|text=
 
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'''Professor Stroub's speech'''
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: {{divbox|darkred| |Welcome, everyone. I'm Professor Stroub, team leader of the Promethean Project, and owner of Stroub Industries.}}
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: {{divbox|darkred| |I can tell that you are all interested in getting underway with the demonstration, so let's just jump into it!}}
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: {{divbox|darkred| |Today, I present to you the Promethean, a new class of hyperadvanced android.}}
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: {{divbox|darkred| |However, the Promethean is not just any other android.}}
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: {{divbox|darkred| |The Promethean is programmed with thousands of routines and subroutines, intended to mimic human cognitive reasoning.}}
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: {{divbox|darkred| |It is equipped with more than just a human form, it carries all the tools it will ever need within its chassis.}}
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: {{divbox|darkred| |If it needs a tool it doesn't have, it can build it!}}
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: {{divbox|darkred| |With the Promethean in your city, you won't ever have to worry about the city's municipal infrastructure breaking down!}}
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: {{divbox|darkred| |But why just take my word for it? I am biased, I built the dang thing after all.}}
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: {{divbox|darkred| |How about I show you what the Promethean can do.}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
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'''Before combat'''
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:'''Security Chief Jackson:''' Keep your eyes peeled. We got a report that someone's snooping around the premises.
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:'''Security Chief Jackson:''' I don't want any mishaps today, there are guys in there that make more money in an hour than all of us annually.
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'''Combat start'''
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:'''Security Chief Jackson:''' There's the intruder!
 
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{{Mission Clue|Name=Security Chief Jackson's Data Card|Text=
 
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This tiny credit card sized computer contains the security data you need to gain access to the facility's security terminals and override the Promethean's command protocols.
 
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'''Professor Stroub's speech continued'''
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: {{divbox|darkred| |As you can see, the Promethean is built using advanced carbon fiber and adaptive nanotubes.}}
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: {{divbox|darkred| |In plain speak, he's made out of some high tech space age indestructible stuff, or very well near it.}}
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: {{divbox|darkred| |His strength, as you can see here is provided not by archaic hydraulics, but by advanced nanotube muscles.}}
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: {{divbox|darkred| |This guy can lift a tank with one hand, and rescue a kitten with the other.}}
 
}}
 
}}
  
 
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{{Mission Briefing|Type=Accessing Security Terminal|Contact=Security Terminal|Image=Contact_Small_Security_Terminal_(Equipment).jpg|Text=
 
{{Mission Briefing|Type=Accessing Security Terminal|Contact=Security Terminal|Image=Contact_Small_Security_Terminal_(Equipment).jpg|Text=
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: Welcome to Stroub Industries. With the proper security clearance this terminal provides access to all security systems within this facility.
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:* {{green|Look for information about the demonstration}}
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:: Today's demonstration is of the new Promethean android. This technological advancement is equipped with cutting edge AI and superior adaptive construction, making it a valuable addition to any city's municipal maintenance system, especially in particularly dangerous built up urban centers that still dot the globe in the aftermath of the Rikti invasion.
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:: The Promethean comes equipped with a particle beam cutter, enhanced carbon fiber ''muscle'' giving it incredible lifting, hauling, and gripping strength, and a self repair system to eliminate all but the most critical maintenance support. It truly is an automated unit that can provide construction, demolition, and rescue work anywhere in the world.
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:: Today's closed doors demonstration is for investment opportunities of this exciting new product to be shipped within the next year.
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::* {{green|Access the secure Promethean subnet}}
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:* {{green|Access the secure Promethean subnet}}
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:: {{divbox|darkred| |Now here's a fun bit. Ha ha, see, he can even be used for entertainment.}}
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:: {{divbox|darkred| |Truly the Promethean is more than just a feat of engineering unmatched in the world today, he's an inspiration for a new tomorrow.}}
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:: {{divbox|darkred| |Production for the Promethean is scheduled for next year. All we need is the support of people who share the same vision as I do.}}
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:: {{divbox|darkred| |A vision of a better tomorrow, today.}}
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: Secure subnet accessed. Please enter your command.
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:* {{green|Override and uplink to the internal network}}
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:: {{divbox|darkred| |Wait... whoa there boy. Carla, what's going on?}}
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:: {{divbox|darkred| |Promethean... No! NO! Stand down. Minor technical problem everyone.}}
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:: {{divbox|darkred| |Carla! What's going on?! Send the override signal, get it under control. Whoa!}}
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:: {{divbox|darkred| |Ok, everyone, while Carla is working out the problem... Ok, everyone out, it's out of control! Quickly!}}
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:: {{divbox|darkred| |Carla! We need to get out of here now!}}
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:: {{divbox|black| |Seal the demonstration area. Call SERAPH and get someone down here ASAP.}}
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: Override completed.
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: ..........
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: ..........
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: ..........
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: ...
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: Uplink Completed.
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: Ready for command.
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:* {{green|Set Promethean to hostile stance}}
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: Hostile stance sent to Promethean android.
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: ..........
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: Command accepted.
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: Incoming update.
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: Promethean has detect 27 hostile targets.
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: Engaging.
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:* {{green|Destroy the terminal}}
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: {{darkorange|It doesn't take much for you to reduce the terminal to scrap metal}}
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:* {{green|Now to come to the rescue.}}
 
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'''Combat start'''
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:'''The Promethean:''' Activating additional units, area is hostile.
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:'''The Promethean:''' Hostile detected. All units engage!
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'''During combat'''
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:'''The Promethean:''' Regenerative armor adapting to incoming damage source.
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:'''The Promethean:''' Automated repair system online, acting at 98% capacity.
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'''Defeated'''
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:'''The Promethean:''' Warning: Hostile is not neutralized... All citizens... advised... flee... eee.
 
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'''News report'''
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: {{divbox|lavender| |This is channel eight news reporting live on a situation inside the Stroub Industries robotics testing facility.}}
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: {{divbox|lavender| |It appears that a demonstration has gone awry and has threatened the lives of at least two dozen people here.}}
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: {{divbox|lavender| |Footage recorded by smart phone from people inside the demonstration has already made it online.}}
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: {{divbox|darkred| |From what it looks like, and here's a clip, the technology is an android and. Oh my! It's going berserk.}}
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: {{divbox|lavender| |Fortunately for Professor Stroub, {{Character}} was in the area and is on the scene.}}
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: {{divbox|lavender| |We'll have more on this story as it developes. Back to you, Bob.}}
 
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}}
  
  
 
'''Debriefing'''
 
'''Debriefing'''
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Not bad for a day's work. The Promethean android was destroyed and Dr. Stroub was disgraced. Better still, that little demonstration you put together of how badly that technology could be twisted to serve a villain should dissuade anyone from investing in that kind of research for years to come.

Revision as of 09:59, 18 December 2012

Tip Mission
Type Alignment
Place Rogue Isles
Available to Vigilantes
Level range 20–29
Choice Villain
v  d  e

Reams Of Scientific Gibberish

Alignment Mission

You found this giant pile of computer print outs in a villain's hideout and sifted through them. It quickly became obvious that he looted them from the trash of a lab somewhere in the city. Among the papers you found this intriguing memo:

The Promethean Project

Demonstration of the new Promethean android will be this coming monday (that's today!). Professor Stroub will speak to those assembled about the Promethean android, all it can do for the city, and then finish with a demonstration of its capabilities via the most current stable code build. Refreshments will be served afterwards where Professor Stroub will answer questions.

The Promethean Project. You've heard about this, some high end robotics contract given out by the government to Stroub's robotics engineering team. From these print outs it looks like villains in the city are already working on ways to turn the androids against their creators. Idiots, how can they not expect for evil to try and corrupt their work? Why is it that the most brilliant of minds has no common sense. Well, you're going to show them just how bad things could be. Better to unleash these creatures on a small group of decision makers, than to have them rampage through the streets killing innocents. One way or the other, these scientists are going to learn just how awry their little project could go.

VILLAIN: Teach Professor Stroub some common sense!

Briefing

From those reams of scientific nonsense it looks like the Promethean android is a pretty rugged robot, it's also carrying a particle beam cutter, supposedly for construction and demolition work. You know that it will just be used as a weapon against innocent populations once the umpti-umpth villain realizes that the government has built them an army of robotic killing machines for them to exploit and turn on the masses. This ends before it starts.

  • Turn the Promethean on its creators to show them the error of their ways.

The first step is going to be getting access to the facility's security terminal. From there you should be able to access the Promethean's subnet and issue it new commands. The trick is going to be getting access to the security terminal, but you're pretty sure someone on staff will have the access codes you need, it's just a matter of making them help you.

Unnecessary Solicitation

Finding the chief of security will be a good first move. With him out of commission nobody else should bother you. He'll also know everyone at the demonstration and how you can get access to the security terminal.

Mission Objective(s)

Dr. Stroub has begun the demonstration. With all eyes on him now is the perfect time to sneak into the facility and begin your plan.

  • Sabotage the Promethean Demonstration
    • Defeat Security Chief Jackson
    • Access Security Terminal
    • Destroy the Promethean

You prevented the stolen Praetorian technology from falling into the hands of big industry and more importantly, from being used against the people of Earth.

Enemies

V badge Security.png Security Guards
Badge DefeatClockwork.png Praetorian Clockwork

Notable NPCs


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Security Chief Jackson's Data Card
This tiny credit card sized computer contains the security data you need to gain access to the facility's security terminals and override the Promethean's command protocols.


Debriefing

Not bad for a day's work. The Promethean android was destroyed and Dr. Stroub was disgraced. Better still, that little demonstration you put together of how badly that technology could be twisted to serve a villain should dissuade anyone from investing in that kind of research for years to come.