Well, if I was overwhelming you with the shotgun approach, I could try to slow down. I’ve got 20+ years of IST games floating around in this morass I call a brain to draw from. So I have lots of characters who can be heroic or die depending on the circumstances. But, if you’re happy, I’ll get back to reloading.
As things went writing history, events seemed to play out that 2004 was the crescendo year. As of my history, the Sumatran Earthquake was a massive crime against humanity that rallies the entire world to beating down China in the next year. The attack was wildly more successful than China could have hoped for. And it scared the world.
As for the force field at the U.N. holding in the blast: That would be one helluva force field. This being supers, that’s par for the course. But someone would have to know about the bomb to invert the field and envelop the nuke. Which brings us two questions, one of which kinda has an answer:
How do they know about the nuke? Why didn’t they evacuate the facility?
Answering the second question first is somewhat straightforward. You just don’t evacuate a nuclear detonation site. They’re too big. However, that leads to the “why not disarm the stupid thing, then?” I don’t have a good answer to that as one would assume that inverting a force field would be about as difficult as disarming a thermonuclear weapon.
Now, if we switch this to the force field containing the damage to the U.N. Building, and protecting the rest of the city (including the IST New York building), that makes it a little easier. Until we come to the issue that the nuke will destroy the force field generator and then wreak havoc across the city. Albeit, severely weakened. I doubt the IST NY building could still stand up to the blast as it’s across the street.
Now, having a force field projecting super find the bomb and try to contain it (knowing there’s no time to evacuate or disarm), burning themselves out mitigating the worst of the explosion would also be deeply supers. I have several events from previous games (including the origin of a super) that could easily be melded into this:
Jennifer and Patrick Wright, visiting the U.N. on vacation while awaiting the imminent arrival of their first child, stumble across a suspiciously parked delivery truck. Checking to see that the driver is all right, Patrick discovers the bomb. Jennifer, a private citizen with metahuman powers, sends her husband off to find the authorities as she encases the bomb in an energy diffusing shield.
Before help can arrive, the bomb detonates. Jennifer sacrifices herself to contain as much of the blast as possible, burning her powers, and her life, out in the process. The weakened thermonuclear blast still devastates the U.N. building and saturates the surrounding area with a lethal dose of radiation. Emergency Hazmat responders discover Jennifer’s remains and an unharmed infant girl leaking a steady, lethal dose of radiation from her body.
As things went writing history, events seemed to play out that 2004 was the crescendo year. As of my history, the Sumatran Earthquake was a massive crime against humanity that rallies the entire world to beating down China in the next year. The attack was wildly more successful than China could have hoped for. And it scared the world.
As for the force field at the U.N. holding in the blast: That would be one helluva force field. This being supers, that’s par for the course. But someone would have to know about the bomb to invert the field and envelop the nuke. Which brings us two questions, one of which kinda has an answer:
How do they know about the nuke? Why didn’t they evacuate the facility?
Answering the second question first is somewhat straightforward. You just don’t evacuate a nuclear detonation site. They’re too big. However, that leads to the “why not disarm the stupid thing, then?” I don’t have a good answer to that as one would assume that inverting a force field would be about as difficult as disarming a thermonuclear weapon.
Now, if we switch this to the force field containing the damage to the U.N. Building, and protecting the rest of the city (including the IST New York building), that makes it a little easier. Until we come to the issue that the nuke will destroy the force field generator and then wreak havoc across the city. Albeit, severely weakened. I doubt the IST NY building could still stand up to the blast as it’s across the street.
Now, having a force field projecting super find the bomb and try to contain it (knowing there’s no time to evacuate or disarm), burning themselves out mitigating the worst of the explosion would also be deeply supers. I have several events from previous games (including the origin of a super) that could easily be melded into this:
Jennifer and Patrick Wright, visiting the U.N. on vacation while awaiting the imminent arrival of their first child, stumble across a suspiciously parked delivery truck. Checking to see that the driver is all right, Patrick discovers the bomb. Jennifer, a private citizen with metahuman powers, sends her husband off to find the authorities as she encases the bomb in an energy diffusing shield.
Before help can arrive, the bomb detonates. Jennifer sacrifices herself to contain as much of the blast as possible, burning her powers, and her life, out in the process. The weakened thermonuclear blast still devastates the U.N. building and saturates the surrounding area with a lethal dose of radiation. Emergency Hazmat responders discover Jennifer’s remains and an unharmed infant girl leaking a steady, lethal dose of radiation from her body.