Talk:AIF/@comment-27820070-20140924025432/@comment-12161342-20140924145210

On board the ANF Io

Officer: "SIR! We've intercepted a PCAV conference!"

The intelligence officer hands the conference to Tato, who studies it for a few minutes.

Tato: "So... Prometheus has gotten careless and let slip that their hidden base is somewhere around Jupiter... This is a perfect example to test our hive-mind virus!"

''Tato selects several ships from the reserve fleets and sends them to the Jupiter system with a critical cargo designed to carry out two missions. They are to locate the PCAV base and upload several of the new viruses to the system. ''

''Several hours later, the scouting force drops out of warp near Jupiter. They are quickly detected by PCAV forces, but this was the plan. While the PCAV forces are focused on the intruders, not one ship detects a tiny package detaching from  one of the ships. The package, a specially-designed ANF stealth satellite, enters orbit around Jupiter and begins analyzing the Jovian system, tracing hundreds of transmissions and signals to find a common origin or destination point. While the scout ships frantically warp away, the ANF satellite locates the main PCAV base on Europa and transmits its findings to the ''Io. ''However, the satellite has doomed itself. Prometheus intercepts this signal and locates the satellite even as the satellite hacks into PCAV networks and uploads viruses. If the PCAV was a hive mind as the allies suspected, it would have possibly been able to survive a while longer. But the viruses have no effect as they were based on false data, and the satellite is destroyed. The news of the viruses' failures comes as a dismay to the allies.''

Tato: "So what you are telling me is that PCAV ISNT A HIVE MIND!?!?"

Officer: "Yes, sir. The satellite was unable to cripple them and was destroyed. However... we DO now know where they are hiding. It is Europa, a moon of Jupiter."

Tato: "Yes... I know that one. Icy shell over a subsurface ocean kept warm by volcanic activity... this is good. Let's show Prometheus that they aren't the only big kids on the playground any more, eh? Time to test our warp-attack capabilities with a little hit-and-run!"