IC: Silk's not doing any planning tonight.
Your plan messing with the VIP airplane IFF. Uhm, sounds pretty dangerous to me.
First of all, being responsible for the crashing/shooting down/hijacking of a plane full of VIP's will probably draw us even more attention than blowing up every building on the island. I'm thinking unidentified/hostile IFF, flying in Aztec restricted airspace, will get blown to pieces... which is better than pirates/ecoterrorists; I would hate having to depend on others, especially such unreliable others, to complete our mission.
Second: Since they'll be high-society VIP's, security will be double and triple checked. Who knows how many decoys will be sent, etc.
Third: Since it's a last-minute kind of thing (can't do the hacking in advance, if you do, a systems check or reboot might screw up everything), if it fails, there's no backup plan, we failed.
Doesn't mean we can't use it as plan F or something, in case we really find no other solution.
I only do linear thinking... so: Entrance. (Really, I'm just thinking out loud - well, out typing...- feel free to skip, there'll be a conclusion somewhere.
Getting there fast enough. Boat travel will take days; land isn't exactly an option, so air is the only option. If we're packing dino-protection gear for 2 weeks, I'm guessing we want to avoid security checkpoints. Anyone know how we might get on and off an airplane without having our baggage checked?
- BIG extra problem with that: Smuggling a bus and other vehicles on an airplane could be a bit tricky
- Extra extra problem: even if we manage to get to the nearest island, we'll still have to get to the other.
So a boat might be necessary, but that would mean cutting several days of planning and operation time. Even finding a boat large enough to transport the bus without having some alarms go off might be tricky. And even if we get a boat that can do the transporting, it's going to be a bit too large to approach the island without showing up on sensors.
So only option I see: Disguise and enter through the main entrance.
* Either as some wageslaves getting a vacation from the company (of course they're still expected to work while on the island).
- Some of us don't really look like wageslaves.
- SIN's don't really match us working for a company.
- Even if they did, one phone call would betray us.
* Or we're a bunch of random people who happen to arrive on the same bus, like the "free trip" gimmick... might be stupid enough to work too.
- Problem: We'll be registered in the system, so unless Nomad believes we can delete pretty much everything in their systems, we'll need to ditch our current SINs.
- Fake SIN's would be an option, but they'll either be very expensive or an extra chance at being caught.
- Main problem: are we even sure the place works with tour agencies? Are vehicles other than their own even allowed on he island? If that's a no, Gaunt might be out of work for the next 2 weeks, so let's hope this is the way the island works.
Conclusion: Only way I see of getting there is the tour bus vacation trip, it's got a lot of places where things might go wrong, but I don't see another way. This is under the assumption that:
- The park works with outside travel agencies bringing their own safari busses. If not, we're screwed.
- We can set up said fake company and make it look legit, and the Johnson can get us tickets as if bought through the company.
- The bus has got enough smuggling compartments to stash all our gear.
- To get Gaunt's second vehicle (Jeep) along... Think it would be credible if tour agency got the Jeep as tour guide and/or to scout ahead for interesting things?
