All right, big brain, where does this new intel get you as far as SINISTAR goes?
First, we know who hired the villains now. It was the school. And apparently this is a regular thing. What we don’t know is what other villains might show up.
What we do know is that there’s apparently enticement on offer. What would be great is if we knew who else would show up.
Time to assume a few things about good ol’ fallible human beings!
- The people at the museum may have jumped the gun in the past, or now, and started making arrangements with contractors to repair the museum before, y’know, the museum got damaged.
- The school isn’t going to bring in any villains who will actually kill the students.
- The school might further contact local heroes and notify them to be on hand, just in case.
- The students might not be expected to win, but I don’t think they’re going to bring Doctor Death in to fight the Wimp Squad. There might be some tailoring of job offers.
- Either the students are expected to lose (in which case repeat villain business is likely), or they are expected to win (in which case it’s time for all new villains every time). Either way, it’s unlikely that there’s a villain who wants to go to jail for Hellbinder’s amusement.
SINISTAR can be shut down. It’s time for a new program. It’s time for QBERT. Mission objectives:
- Scan through past dealings involving the school, their bank, and the museum.
- Correlate to known supervillain attacks, then to construction contracts.
- Pull records on supervillains involved in school-sponsored attacks. Known accomplices, jail terms, who made bail.
- Correlate to known superhero sightings and locations, e.g. public speaking events.
This should give us a picture of who the school uses for its extracurricular training program, and how villains are enticed into participating. If we see a bunch of familiar faces, we’ve learned something about the school.
Off we go, buddy!