That was to get your attention!

Sigin

"Sigin, you know what must be done while I and my wife are . . . indisposed," the Doctor begins as he walks over towards me.

Yes, I do at that. As planned for contingencies like this, leadership of the party falls to me. More or less, anyway, it falls to me. The exact chain of command never was too clear even in these days, what with our group being a rather informal affair. More like family, really, than anything else.

Still, I cannot say that I am too overly thrilled with the task that has fallen into my lap here. I am to--after Inquirer and the Doctor get done with "getting everyone's attention"--go about seeing if I can get the various faction in play here to sit down and talk, basically. Head the effort to get them to sit and talk, anyway.

Doing that is going to take a honeyed tongue indeed to accomplish, dear readers. Do believe that if you've been with us thus far you'll have seen why.

. . .

Though I must say that while I could see some twisted (though mistaken) reasoning behind holding a fallback option of "nuking" Tokyo-3, it seems rather risky and unwise in the extreme! With the AT fields that both the Angels called Adam and Lilith possess, even in their reduced forms (Adam having been regressed into an embryonic form while a comatose Lilith had been BOLTED onto that giant red cross down in NERV HQ) would have been sufficient to spare them all but an all out nuclear attack, one would have to travel through the fallout zone (dicey). Good way to get a bad case of radiation poisoning without proper protection. I'd see SEELE doing that as perhaps a last resort, but it's risky if the ground forces do not manage to somehow neutralize NERV's EVAs (who also have their own AT fields). Being that we're pretty sure that SEELE doesn't have those mass produced EVAS to overwhelm whatever defenses NERV would throw up.

Of course, all of this is pointless considering IF everything that happened the last time around we'd visited Rei's Tokyo 3 should apply to Reika's Tokyo 3. All EVAs and Angels are pretty much out of the picture if that's the case. Not only would there be anything besides whatever resistance the security forces NERV has to through at highly trained (and bloodthirsty) special forces of the JSSDF, it would be utterly pointless (nothing gained in as far as what SEELE wanted).

Then again, we're talking about an organization who has the blood of three billion people on their hands in their quest to bring about their precious Instrumentality. People like that . . .wouldn't let any stone unturned, no matter how unlikely.

. . .

Then again Inquirer and Elrondir, with their backgrounds in espionage, had pointed out that SEELE probably believes that Gendo somehow managed some kind of trickery and sabotaged their precious EVA units . . .

And now add into this mix Inquirer tells us that a panicky, young sounding officer is calling for permission to utilize his N2 mines, since the ground forces were ASHAMBLE.

But whether or not SEELE is behind this before this mess or had lost control and the UN of this world is panicking, the result will have to be dealt with IF we fail.

But as it stands the whole of it shall never be known to us. Even the Doctor, who had the best chance of recalling exactly what he and Inquirer did on their plunge into cyberspace, cannot recall it all. It is too vague and foggy.

We do know that the Time Lord and the Golem managed to compromise almost all the Magi super computers world wide, taking them out of the picture for any attempts by SEELE at hacking into Tokyo 3's Maji computer network. Even manage to reprogram them (after locking out all outside interfaces) in continuing the hack attacks against SEELE until either someone either thinks to actually kill power to the computer networks . . . or until there is nothing left to find.

But the clincher in getting everyone to stand back and take notice is (at a guess) Inquirer's commandeering the Enterprise's phasor banks (what was left of it) and mass stunning everyone about (and quiet a few IN) Tokyo 3 to . . . make sure nothing upward happened. Making sure things aren't launched in fear (only to be regretted later....if that).

And here I had thought that the biggest event of the day was Alan's and Mina's instincts for parenting striking at a rather awkward time during our Quest with Rieka over there....

ANYway...

Needless to say we've got everyone's attention, now. Time for the one we'd opted out of a sense of courtesy if nothing else to speak for us...

1. "I suggest that we have a meeting," the G-man says slowly into the receiver we'd spliced into the communication network. "We have much to discuss."

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