[Video | Filtered to Legionnaires Only] Technically, Parody Is Fair Use

[unrecovered]

[Wash looks a bit better than he did a week ago; turns out a successful mission and a plan for the future really do help.]

We've all seen the Legionnaire Legacies, and I'm pretty sure we're all tired of them. Well, Mirage is a genius, and she had an idea: we'll make fake ones. Use our Anywhere Machine to pull real footage, create fake footage to supplement it, write our own narratives, and broadcast them. It'll discredit the press, and it might keep them off our backs, because there's no reason to broadcast someone's past if it's already been done by someone else.

So. Who's in?

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[steelandtemper]

Trashy TV isn't the big issue, here. The big issue is that there's another one of those things in the wild. What happens to operational security when someone with higher aspirations than sleazy journalism gets their hands on a machine that can see through any wall, to any point in time?

[In other words, it's time for a heist.]

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[ordinarily]

This.

[ He'll even raise his hand from beneath his blanket, to literally point up. ]

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[steelandtemper]

Go back to sleep, kid.

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[ordinarily]

'Kay.

[ And he's gone. ]

[steelandtemper]

[She's surprised that worked.]

[thedreamisdead]

They are remarkably unimaginative when it comes to using those things. I can think of some better uses.

[Like keeping an eye on some of the known troublemakers.]

[steelandtemper]

Operations would have gone so much better during the war.

[Not that the UNSC should be trusted with that kind of power.]

[thedreamisdead]

There's a lot of cold cases that could be closed, too.

[steelandtemper]

I don't like trusting to luck [Cortana, you liar] but we're lucky both that these people are just chasing ratings and that no one else has thought to hit them for their magic spy machine yet.

[thedreamisdead]

If assassins could find them, we could find them.

If I were a betting woman, I'd put money on them keeping their machine mobile. After all, it doesn't need to be near us, they just need our coordinates. If it were me, I'd have it disguised in a vehicle. Or maybe an asteroid, if they have the resources for it. Somewhere it would be hard to pick out.

[steelandtemper]

They send data out. They can be found.

[If it's possible for Cortana to sound more confident than usual, she does. This is what she was made for.]

[thedreamisdead]

What if they use T-Gates and transfer the data back and forth through portable drives?

[Gotta cover every eventuality, after all.]

[steelandtemper]

Then there's a courier, who can be traced by our machine.

[thedreamisdead]

If you can locate him. Does this era have enough free-floating cameras and bugs for you to work as a solo Public Surveillance Unit?

[steelandtemper]

Surveillance isn't everything. It's not even the biggest thing. No one moves through a technological society without leaving tracks in the infosphere. I can find them, and I can read them.

[Cortana is terrifying but fortunately has reasonably good intentions.]

[thedreamisdead]

What would you look for?

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[prettycoolguy]

I'm with Cortana.

[ The Chief is delivering all the real shockers today. ]

It's a good idea, but this won't cut out the heart of the problem. We need to get that machine.

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[steelandtemper]

On that note, before we go home, I'll edit your suit logs to keep ONI from getting any hint this machine exists.

[People who should not have the Anywhere Machine: Margaret Parangosky.]

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[prettycoolguy]

Good.

[ He knows them, if they had any idea it existed they'd stop at nothing to have it. ]

I think they can find enough trouble on their own.

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[steelandtemper]

[If they never ask him, he'll never have to attempt to lie.]

They can't be handling renewed civilian oversight gracefully.

[It's not her problem yet, so for the moment, she can be amused about it.]

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[prettycoolguy]

It's not been a graceful peacetime readjustment for anybody.

[ Has he been awake long? No. Does he know this already? Yes. ]

[unrecovered]

[The next thing after that question is a proposal to steal the machine, isn't it. Wash isn't going within 100 feet of the thing if he can manage it, but...]

If you want to take point, the mission's yours.

That said, it's probably a good idea to bring people who've already been hit - no reason to make it easy on them.

[steelandtemper]

[She wasn't asking permission.]

We do it false flag.

[Which is illegal where they come from, not that Cortana has ever shown the slightest hint she cares about legality.]

They have to know where to look, and I know a hell of a lot about covering my tracks.

[unrecovered]

Have fun.

[No sarcasm - he's completely hands-off in this part of things. Go give 'em hell, Cortana.]

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[leverageintceo]

Paladin, Azúcar, and Datastream are already working on getting the information we'll need to steal this thing; feel free to speak with them.