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Grrl Power #1108 - Whatever's the opposite of greased lightning
🕑 Added 2022-12-08 11:00:07 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
When Jiggawatt teleports through wiring, it's often really bad for the wires, unless she's traveling through industrial grade power lines. 12-14 gauge residential wiring is not rated for 1 Jiggawatt, much less 1.21, and it's a good idea to replace it if she has to hop through something that weedy.
Jiggawatt's power stunt is to basically just put a steady current through the wire there so the signal has a path to piggyback on. Like firing a laser a millisecond before your railgun slug exits the barrel. She can alter her amps and volts and hertzes so she was able to find a combo that gently cradled the 5G signal up to Harem.
The main problem with having an inconspicuous evil lair is that you can't post expendable guards all over the place or surround it with fortifications and trenches and dogs that shoot barbed wire when they bark. Really the best you can do is put up a non-suspicious amount of security cameras and maybe have people on your payroll who loiter around outside looking like they're not keeping watch.
Well, the ascender base is under a parking garage which is attached to a building in a business park somewhere. Arc-SWAT didn't exactly buzz the place with the Osprey, they flew in low, landed like 5 miles away and hoofed it to the back side of the parking garage through sparse forest. Luckily the team brought their wire-chewing trained squirrel... okay not really, but flying above a camera and turning it to alter the area it covers probably won't be noticed right away unless someone's looking at the monitor right when it happens. Well, or if they're using an old CRT for the monitor and the coverage image is burned into the screen. It's safe to assume that's not likely the case these days for most systems, though I have no doubt there are still some CRTs out there with so much burn-in that you could turn the monitor off and no one would notice.
Comments
Xinunar
I could see her easily transmitting a radio signal with sound. But video is a whole nother ball game. Ah, nevermind. She's just boosting the signal from her cell phone. And now I'm just rambling.
eddi_TBH
Some may have blown a tube in Russia without anyone noticing.
Eric Loken
"I have no doubt there are still some CRTs out there with so much burn-in that you could turn the monitor off and no one would notice." Considering how reluctant some places are to spend money on anything that doesn't make the top executives more comfortable, or provide a good photo op, I have no doubt at all. And if you expand the possible locations to include the developing world or Russia, I would assume a probability so close to 100% as to make it a practical certainty.
