After Bulletproof returns from her weekend of "shore leave" in Dana Point with Preston Phillips, she posts this message on the alt.metahumans group on Usenet:
Topic: watch out for armored flying suits
There are a bunch of armored suits out there; don't know how many. Could be a very large number. Looks like they were designed to let normal humans fight metahumans. Light, flexible reinforced Kevlar that doesn't seem to weigh down or slow down the wearer. Flight packs. Very tough helmets. All come with weapons; either gauss needlers, force beams, big revolvers, sonic stunners, flamethrowers, or lasers. Most of the suits are blue-grey; if you see a white one, the armor is stronger. It's likely that teams of terrorists have been training with these. If you go up against them, keep some things in mind:
- Helmets have an air supply. It lasts for two minutes. Garbage bags or plastic sheeting can seal them off.
- There's a latch button under the chin that pops the helmet off.
- Flight packs are attached with a bunch of straps. The straps aren't as tough as the kevlar.
- Crappy neck protection.
The team I encountered using these did not hesitate to kill normal human police.
If anybody finds out more about these things, post a reply.
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Bulletproof
5_shots_of_tequila_woman@nospam.bulletproof.org
Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. – Thomas Paine
Edit: updated the list of weapons; memory refreshed by
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ebenbrooks' game summary post.
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Replies to Bulletproof's Post
Mostly, there are posts along the lines ofya, saw on news, thos guys look tuf.
and
u rock BP!
but there are some that actually have substance. For instance:
From: nimrodreadurefnbible (nimrod@paragonsofvirtue.org)
Topic: watch out for armored flying suits
Strange. Sighting here in NYC earlier today--I cross-reffed news photos of your guys and this was definitely one of them. No crime, just flying across town. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, even I can't arrest someone for just *looking* like a terrorist...
From: captLiberty (captliberty@aclu.org)
Topic: watch out for armored flying suits
This sounds suspiciously like a military project in the late 90s that was shut down for lack of funding. It was called, ironically enough, Project Rocketeer (guess they liked the movie), and apparently it didn’t even get to the prototyping stage. If you have military contacts, you might want to check and see if any plans from Project Rocketeer were "mislaid" recently.
To: captLiberty (captlibery@aclu.org)
From: fighterfaraway (telemachos@army.mil)
Topic: watch out for armored flying suits
I was on Project Rocketeer, and you're wrong in one respect: we *did* get to the prototyping stage. But the prototype was deemed nonviable. The flight pack was too hard to control in an arms-free configuration. But judging from news footage of BP's guys, I'd say they fixed that little issue. (And no, I'm not violating the OSA: you ACLU folks made sure Rocketeer went public a long time ago.)
You're right in one other respect though: BP's baddies look an awful lot like our design.
From: Psychometer (psychometer@gmen.com)
Topic: watch out for armored flying suits
Fuck! Those are the same bastards that hit the BofA last week here on the Loop! When did you fight these guys? How many of them? We didn't make it in time to actually fight them, let alone capture them, so we have no info, only security camera footage and one *very* lucky still shot by a local reporter [link:flyingdude.jpg].
To: Psychometer (psychometer@gmen.com)
From: CruzLaPolicia (vcruz@lapd.com)
Topic: watch out for armored flying suits
The man in that "lucky" shot is the same man who was in the white suit at the raid in Los Angeles. Only in your shot, he's in gray. I wonder what that means.
And then you get one e-mail...
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From: MasterOfPuppets@thearenadoesntexist.com
Subject: Your flyboys
Don’t dive so deep into this that you don't come up for air.
--MP