Rebellion planning post for Command, Council, and Department Heads

[governorkang]

Here's a list of the characters in question and their rank/title/what-have-you. If one of yours is on this list, we need your input!

Council:
Chairperson - Rhiow
Kang
Dhianeila Y Leisha Altria Ol Yunos
Overlord Zetta
Gerald Tarrant
Lash
Simon
Liaison - Hogan Bight/Crucible

Command:
Acting Captain - Nathan Petrelli
Acting Commander - Rtas 'Vadum
Tactical, Lieutenant Commander - Dick Grayson/Nightwing
Lt. - Ashley Williams
Lt. - Fate T. Harlaown
Lt. 2nd Class - Kanoe Zouichi
Ensign - Kon-El/Superboy
Ensign - Maridian Gladespring
General - Trudy Chacon
Liaison - Howard Bassem

Department Heads:
Engineering - Angie Spica/The Engineer
Engineering - Billy Cranston
Magic/Mystical - Aibghalien Marsai
Medical - Dr. Faiza Hussain
Science - Veronica Santangelo
Security - Dean Winchester
Security - Dick Grayson/Nightwing

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What's happened so far:

X. Several Councilors discussed the crewmembers wanting to rebel. This is before Tarrant became a Councilor, but he would/should have been told.

X. There was a shore leave on Agrestic where some tidbits of information were learned.

X. There was a meeting on Agrestic for the rebellion.

X. Celena has announced a set of portals that she's created.

X. Allenby has been finding blind spots in the City.

X. Rhiow found out that the recent repoddings were not coincidental.

X. Almost-Punishment!
- Several crewmembers were injured (some severely) while attempting to attack the Daligig
- The Daligig were douchebags (especially Yavek)
- Zetta pretended to be on the Daligig's side, thinking that Rhiow had already discussed working together with the crewmembers wanting rebellion to trick the Daligig
- Stacy intervened to keep Howard and Orc from going through Punishment.

X. Aibghalien has announced shelters in the City.

X. Yavek is talking with Zetta.

X. Rekkti is talking with Nathan Petrelli.

X. Tarrant has put something up on the omnicomm for the entire crew. It summarizes a lot of what's been discovered so far.

X. Rhiow is talking with Howard about setting up a fake rebellion (and apologizing for Zetta going ahead with it).

X. The Councilors and Crucible are having a meeting to discuss rebellion plans. This one may end up handwaved, we don't know yet. If it is, I'll be sure to update what was discussed/decided ICly.

X. Due to the recent drops, we're not sure what's going to happen here yet. As soon as that's figured out, I'll update here.
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I thiiiiink that's everything so far. If there's anything I forgot, comment with it and I'll add it.

The entire point of this post is so that we can plan what our characters are going to be doing for their part of the fake rebellion and how they'll be interacting with the rest of the crew. So, comment away, and let's get this figured out!

Comments

Kang | Council

[governorkang]

Kang is running his spy network, and he would have let Rhiow disseminate the information about the repoddings not being a coincidence to keep his anonymity. He'll also allow the information this spy team gets to be disseminated by others for the same reason.

He would have shared with the other Councilors that on Agrestic, he learned that the Daligig discourage others from contacting the Ohm, claiming that the psychological danger is too great. No Agresticans have attempted it.

He was at the almost-Punishment briefly, long enough to see what Zetta did, and he's not happy about that because they hadn't agreed on anything or coordinated with anyone else yet about that idea.

He's very reluctant to share information on the omnicomms because it's not that difficult for a Daligig or a Kessek to obtain one and see the open posts or try to hack into a locked post. He's also been making copies on paper, flash drives, and anything else he can think of, hiding them everywhere, of all the stuff they've got so far in case of memory wipes. He's talked with Trudy about the omnicomms. Zoki, Shard, do you want to do a log where he brings that issue up to Engineering?

For the fake rebellion itself, he will side with the Daligig, of course. He's not the best of actors, but he can at least pull off being somewhat uncomfortable with the rough treatment/torture of crewmembers while still "accepting it as necessary for the war". He will talk more about his not-so-nice past in the military in public areas for others to hear (it's up to individual crewmembers whether or not they believe it or think he's lying) to gain favor with the Daligig.

COUNCILORS, we should do a post with our group talking things over in a blind spot, especially with Tarrant being new and everyone needing to get acquainted.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

The thread with Zetta and Yavek needs to go to a resolution before that, because what happens there could really affect the meeting, I think.

Re: Kang | Council

[morphitudinous]

Sure, we can try to work around the issue! Billy's been leaving a paper trail himself.

[governorkang]

OH I FORGOT.

Nathan should know about this, and Kang needs to let him know of Intelligence's existence. Di, up for that?

Re: Kang | Council

[dragonlordbight]

I'll get onto replying a little more in detail later, report writings at the moment but just had a thought that may help with the council and blind spot stuff.

Just realised that Bight has a spell that can completely block any attempt at mind reading as well as mental manipulations and other such things, it only works on a person at a time but he can cast it more than enough times in a day to cover the council. The spell in question is even strong enough to stop wish level spells from listening in on thoughts, for those who know D&D. The spell in question is Mind Blank, in addition its duration lasts the entire day or until dispelled so could be of use in other ways as well.

Thought I'd put that forward in case people want to make use of it, given the situation, Bight would offer it for the Council to discuss more sensitive matters without possibility of anyone listening in telepathically at the very least.

[theprophet]

Tarrant will be helping the rebellion effort along while maintaining the outward public appearance of being neutral or leaning toward the side of the Daligig, if only because he's not convinced many of the crew will be prepared to take the act as far as he will.

Business as usual.

Zetta | Council

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Zetta thought Rhiow had communicated with Ildy et al. during her meeting on Agrestic. But honestly, that wouldn't have changed his actions anyway; he saw a chance and took it.

Zetta is selling himself and the Council (or, if specifically pressed, Kang and Rhiow) to Yavek as a group willing to kiss butt to save the universe, and fed up with but unable to control the majority of the crew and make them fall in line. He's trying to convince Yavek to give the Council greater power over the ship, and to let the Council pretend to be with the rebellion in order to ferret out the leaders and submit them to justice. (He's also managed to cite his own legitimate complaints about the clones taking one for the team on Galilee, and in the process had discovered that the disaster on that planet was a large factor in the Daligig coming on board now.) He's also claiming that the rebellion has leaders better-hidden than the obvious people.

Come the fake rebellion he'll be on the Dalgig's side like you wouldn't believe.

Aibghalien | Magic Department Head

[wizardsaregodtier]

Abby's main role at present is the intelligence-gathering mission currently underway. In addition, he'll be helping brigged crew members escape by providing illusions of them to fool the ship's detection while transporting them to blind areas.

Some other ideas, most of which will take some level of mod approval, are: getting people into restricted zones via teleportation magic; developing magic to prevent repodding outside of avia emergencies, depending on what mechanism the Daligig used to force that repodding; and general information-gathering. With specific names to go on, he can cast divinations like legend lore on some of the specific NPCs themselves instead of the Daligig as a whole.

[snarkingscribe]

Is there any plans regarding the science head replacement? If not, Veronica here would be rather interested in that.

[governorkang]

None that I know of. I'd get in contact with others in the Science Department.

[dhianeila]

Jr. is going to be on the rebellion end of things and is ready to raise some flashy hell for the sake of getting this done.

Dhianeila is going to outwardly appear to attempt to be a neutral party, obviously siding with the crew in secret in the event anything goes wrong during their plan, but being as empathetic as she can to the Daligig when their eyes are on her, under the notion of wishing to end things without fighting. She'd also probably put forward the idea of, when shit really starts to go down and there is the possibility of punishment for the rebels when they're subdued, to be 'disowned' by those putting up chummy masks with the Daligig for being far too sympathetic to them and their cause and labeled as one of them. Dhianeila can also help, due to her projection being able to pop around pretty much anywhere, with anything that might need instantaneous message-relaying, as well as her power to feel when others are closeby in terms of things like possible hiding away or escaping.

Yzak is a good actor when he needs to be, so he's going to probably offer to side with the Daligig for the sake of evening the numbers a bit. He gets that this is a choice thing, so trusts that the rebels know what they are getting into, and knows that both ends of this thing are going to be dangerous if something goes wrong.

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Could I make a suggestion? Let's find an IC way to encrypt the omnicomms. The comms are the easiest way to let everyone get in on all the information, but there are characters who don't trust their security and thus will only communicate one-on-one. Possibly this could be a task for Magic and/or Programming?

For the record, Howard's going to just talk to anyone and everyone still, but he'll be keeping to himself more since the Punishment.

[governorkang]

Already got that covered! Kang's going to suggest tighter security on the omnicomms to Billy and Angie and see if Engineering can fix that problem.

Nathan Petrelli | Acting Captain

[waylostandfound]

Nathan is mainly there to distract the Dalgig, be diplomatic with them and give face value to decrying the Rebellion. Still trying to figure out the rest for him.

Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams | Command

[poetrysoldier]

I actually don't have an idea on what Ash could do in relation to Command so any insight will be good.

[fieldpromoted]

Well, right now we definitely need an officer at Tactical on the Quarter, so there's that. I also know that there's a Shepard coming in the next podpop and, given the Normandy's capabilities, it makes sense that Trudy would want it in battle.

Rtas 'Vadum | Acting Commander

[shroudedintent]

'Vadum is in for it. As long as the plan is in place. He will make a show of actively ordering and personally assisting in taking in those who rebel to make a point in showing that there is indeed order to the command presence on board.

He won't go easy on those who rebel however, especially if they are apart of Command. Though as long as its known that the people in question were 'in the loop' as it were he would not keep up harsh treatment after the break away. Those that disobey direct orders and rebel however may have 'Vadum's ire depending.

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Howard will be doing his thang and his thang is hugging his cats and sleeping.

Seriously though, I'm presuming that he's still the Command liaison with Nathan Petrelli but I need to doublecheck that. He's not going to be doing a hell of a lot because he's a) rattled by Punishment, b) going to GLaDOS himself during the Rebellion and c) doesn't have much to do. He'll continue spreading information around but that's about all I can do with him.

General Trudy Chacon | Command

[fieldpromoted]

Trudy will come down hard on any of her people involved in the rebellion, and they may find themselves in the brig a little bit longer than some of the others.

I'll be putting up a post for this soon, but Trudy would like to run a training exercise to repel a 'possible space pirate invasion,' with the mooks' abilities modeled after the Kessek and what they know of the Daligig. Obviously this would be a great joint operation with the new Task Force.

Did anyone think to ask about the Daligig's military capabilities on shore leave/can I maybe backthread that with a mod?

Re: General Trudy Chacon | Command

[shroudedintent]

Shall see to putting up an IC announcement as to the formation of the Task Force in the next few days, though may wait until just after pod-pop for fully setting it up due to new crew and all.

I'll likely stick an OOC post for new Quarter bridge crew up along with additional sign ups for the Task force.

Am I allowed to post here?

[electricman]

I'm about to play Cole MacGrath. Will any of the newly podpopped characters play any role in what's about to go down?

Also, if I'm not allowed to post here, I'm sorry. This is the first time I've ever RP'd.

[governorkang]

New characters will definitely play a part in the fake!rebellion, but unless Cole manages to work his way up into Command or as a Department Head before the end of April, this isn't the planning post for him. There'll be a planning post for everyone else that's not in an IC position of power soon!

Angie Spica | Engineering

[re_engineer]

Ehheheh. Only a little late on these...

Angie's going to be part of the group that's working on Neuropathy. She's not going to take direct part in the rebellion, but she's putting everything into getting the Warden shut down.

She's also going to be involved in getting the comm systems locked down. And doing what needs done around Engineering. I'll need to talk to Zoki about what will happen with Engineering members who are part of the rebellion.

Dick Grayson/Nightwing | Command-Tactical/Security

[goddamnwingman]

Dick's honestly in a weird position here. Normally, he'd probably be part of the rebellion. But as the Head of Security and Tactical officer for the ship, he's going to come down on the side of the current command structure. He'll back up Nathan and Rtas with the Daligig and use his best diplomatic everything to help out. With luck, the fact that he's siding with the ship will help, given what happened on Galilee. The Daligig should know that he'll do what he believes is right.

Dr. Faiza Hussain | Medical

[couldputitback]

Faiza won't come down hard on anybody who takes part in the rebellion, but she would like to point out that the Medical department and she herself will be neutral. Anybody who comes to the medbay will be treated, no matter which side they're on.

Simon | Council

[punchedoutdestiny]

Well...

I had a half-idea of if Simon had won the election some weeks back, to possibly have him thrown under the bus, so to speak, given his nature as a hothead and one who would be fervently for rebellion - it'd possibly give the council some big brownie points with the Daligig if they willingly imprisoned one of their own government, after all.

And now with the drops that've happened, and the rebellion's infancy stages going on prior, Simon's gonna be pretty fired up to do it, 'cause it sure looks more and more like these repoddings are purposeful to him.

[governorkang]

It's pretty much been confirmed the repoddings are purposeful ICly. Tarrant has already said so on the channel, IIRC.

Veronica Santangelo | Science

[snarkingscribe]

I, ah. Haven't done much thinking on what Veronica would do - she'd probably be for the rebellion, though don't know what she'd do as a fresh new science head. The most immediate ideas were helping develop anti-Daligig weapons, possibly.

[sonofether]

Usually Stephen derps around in Engineering, but really, he does have building-weapons experience, so...

/volunteers him

Crematia | Dragonlance

[mercyisweakness]

Not entirely sure on what's going on with this fake!rebellion, but if you want Crematia to make a big show about it, she will be more than happy to do it. She needs to let off some serious steam ever since she got here anyway.

[governorkang]

Keep an eye out for the post for the rest of the characters over the next few days! This one is purely for characters with an IC position of authority. :3

I can help catch you up, both OOCly and ICly, with this fake!rebellion stuff.