We've yet to see KODI put into action.
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We've yet to see KODI put into action.
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Originally Posted by LiamKerrington
Gonna bite my theory off the end of the 34-1 section, if only to produce an antithesis theory to yours. To sum it up: Michael/Puck defy Kimmet (SURPRISE!) and go to Boulder on the next aircraft out to help save as many as they can. Upon arriving, they try to check on the resident HQ (having just learned of the nuclear issue, and concerned about it) They run into some Inklings, who are just then pushing the buttons on the Sat phone to detonate the Ft. Irwin Warhead. For shock value, the inklings are calm and still and hear Michael/Puck in the room just as they detonate the warhead, one says "It's Paul.....junior". Michael and Puck lay waste to some inklings in an epic battle. Reconvene somewhere with datu and company, and attempt to establish a Tower 2.0 (not to be confused with Dunbar) and take back the city of Boulder as best they can, cuz Irwin is gonzo. Upon this happening is right when Saul returns to Dunbar with Lizzie, Burt, Vic, and CJ. They piece back together a Sat phone, redial Irwin as it's obliterated (with enough communication to know to stay away cuz a bomb is dropped, but not enough to close out doubts of michaels survival). End Act 3
TL;DR:
#34 - Michael/Puck get to Boulder, establish communication with Datu and company. Perhaps establish an army force to clear main areas for extraction, end on cliffhanger of room full of still Inklings and a Sat phone
#35 - Saul/Lizzie rejoined, hell is breaking loose on colony. Try to get Lizzie out, but because she just learned of Burt's survival, insists that she will not leave without him. this leads to epic revenge fight of Burt vs Scratch almighty.
#36 - Either return to dunbar, or get Glenn/Pete to come back out to Colony as CJ runs the show now. Piece together Sat phone, Press redial and we get ahold of Kimmets office. Saul explains his knowledge of Michael, Kimmet tries to find Michael, and realizes michael is in Boulder. informs Saul that Michael marched into a suicide mission, just as Kimmet sees an inbound strapped with a nuke. Gasps some soliloquy of we're all gonna die and phone goes silent.
End season.
For bonus points, he bings Riley on her first real mission to go with them to Boulder, and breaks out Tonya as well, since that room is no home for her....and her depth of knowledge so far.
We now know that a couple of nukes are available and that in the past Burt's radio and the tested KODI tactics can work against groups of zombies
Prediction - one giant nuke mother of a KODI trap to end all zombies, little ones, inklings, grigglings will feature in season 4....
Assuming the humans don't panic, the situation in Boulder should start to stabilize.
• The population is locked up tight in boarded up homes and fortified public buildings, and they're armed. This means that the Inklings will have a tougher time recruiting than was the case during the initial outbreak and they're taking losses doing it. And don't forget, Datu is at large, with a pickaxe!
• Army units that were guarding the perimeter of the city will be reorganizing and converging on the city center. With the civilians indoors, anyone seen on the streets will be a target, allowing the troops to make maximum use of their firepower and making it much harder for the Inklings to turn the troops. This should slow the outward spread of the Inklings, and possibly start pushing them back. The assault force from Fort Irwin should arrive in time to reinforce this effort.
• The trick now will be to draw the Inklings into the open, where they can be effectively engaged by any available armor, artillery and helicopter gunships. This becomes particularly attractive if there is an MLRS unit in Boulder. Imagine the KODI, but on a grand scale. Let's hope that Michael shared the sweat lure idea with Boulder, that they've laid in a stock of sweat bottles, and that it works on Inklings! The athletic fields at the University of Colorado campus would make a wonderful killing ground.
a little off topic with all of this nuke talk, but what kind of surgery could hope have had that could restore her vision? i was under the impression that her blindness was a result of psychological trauma. not a physical trauma that could be fixed so simply. a sort of, her young mind could not handle the horrors she saw so her mind cut it off to protect her psyche, or am i missing something?
oh yeah, i guess i forgot about the whole fall thing. i just remembered the 2nd tower being overrun and her escaping with sean.Quote:
Originally Posted by nikvoodoo
exactly, what jumped out about that all to me was michael first came up with the ants theory...now just to tie the fact that these things are the same as the LA inklings...calling these guys "soldier-like" just brings that point home, and brings that message home in michaels head...LA has escaped the confines of LA...bad news, bonzo '_'Quote:
Originally Posted by Adventureless_Hero
RED MEAT FOLKS! WE NOW HAVE RED MEAT!!
Attachment 2185
What? Not RED enough? Well here ya go, courtsey of Mr. KC Wayland.
Attachment 2186
Complaints of things moving too slow? As Kimmet says, "Now it's time to catch up."
Meatless episodes? KC says, "Choke on my meat now, Bitches!"
Some of us were complaining while we were walking through the desert, "Ye, when we were in L.A. we had plenty of action and lots of red, bloody, dripping people meats. Now all we have is this story-sustaining manna!" Now we have heart-pumping action and a shmorgasborge of meat. Potentially 150,000 corpeses worth. "Yo, Mr. Shit! The Fan, over there, said somethin' about ya mutha! Whatcha gonna do aboud it?" You know the rest!
No communication with Boulder; They're not answering their phone, IP pings are timing out, Mork can't be reached in his shell and they don't poke you back on facebook. What's happening?
- Over run by Zombies
- Just bad communication channels.
- Glenn screwing around reparing the broken sat phone.
- Satellites' orbits are decaying.
Pick 2 or 3? Then you ain't been paying attention! This is the end-times boys and girls. The only good luck is no luck. Everything else is bad luck. Plus, the time line isn't right for Glenn to have the spare phone yet.
Pick 4? Then you're smarter than Michael. Those space birds need nudging from time to time to keep them in proper orbit.
Pick 1? You're a heartless !@#$"%!!! Not Boulder!!! Yeah, great for story but I can't take it. Y'all trying to kill poor ol Witch Doctor? I was rooting to the gang to find safety and this happens?
Kimmet has a private sat phone? OK, Again, Kimmet ... has ... a ... private ... sat ... phone? Who's he gonna call? (I'll piss on the first person to say it.)
- Boulder booty calls.
- Secret US Government buried in the Appalachian Mountains.
- Regional military warlords.
- CJ
2,3 and 4 seems like it would have come straight out of somebody's ass.
Personally, I was all like... Attachment 2184 You have a private Sat Phone? Who is she?
RED MEAT
Kimmet#1, "Get a task force scrambled! I wanna know what's going own out there!"
Puck, "Want me to send someone to check it out?"
Kimmet#2, "Don't jump to conclusions. They might just have communication problems. Wake the engineers. Put the chopers on stand by."
KIMMET!!! Shit or get off the pot!
Uhura, "Hey, there's a secret Sat Phone!"
Michael, "Really? Where does it go?"
Kimmet, "Uh, I gotta go." I just knew he had Kelly on speed dial listed under Booty Call.
We finally get an account of strength of the military at Kimmet's disposal. Assuming the Irwin and deployed numbers are constant..
- 8500 in Boulder
- 2000 on Post in Irwin
- 200 in the Box
- 180+/- deployed.
- 10 to 11 thousand.
We learn from Spc Robins:
- Communincation and power are the first to go.
- Command staff and mayor are probably dead.
- They tried radioing Ft Irwin but Michael says they never received any communications.
- Solidiers that are not killed are turned and turn on others.
- Mentions that they seem like 'soldiered versions of them.' This gets Michaels attention.
#5 on the list is interesting. Is Michael surprised by the fact that they're like soldiers? As in, they're smart zombies retaining soldier traits? Could this be reason that Little Ones move funny because they were babies turned before/while learning to walk? Or was Michael responding to what Robins said about the zombies being difficult to take down, as in an Inkling?
#4 on the list adds a crazy new dynamic to combat. In reality your enemy can kill, capture or wound you. Here, the enemy either kills you or turns you into one of them. Putting up a brave and gallant fight to the death might hurt your side more. The enemy's method of killing, maiming and turning are all the same. When you take away the soldier's advantage of superior firepower (or just firepower, period, in this case) then you have a case simillar to the House Advantage in a casino; in favor of the zombies. During an engagement, the zombies numbers are likely to be sustained or INCREASED. Soldiers will have to kill the zombies and any wounded commrads (screaming for help and mercy) at the same time.
We meet up with Datu and Hope and get our first view of Boulder.
Datu and Hope live together and Pegs and Kelly live in another part of town but we don't know if they live together. Say what you will about Datu's punk-ass-bitchness but he's taken out zombies with things you'll find in a garage. TWICE! Yes, he may be the bane of coyotes and have trouble shooting zombies at point blank range but when push comes to shove he starts swinging. Everyone forget Datu bashing several zombies with a broken chair leg? A B.R.O.K.E.N. C.H.A.I.R. L.E.G! in the arena when they came to get Samantha.
Datu Pacquiao took down an Inking in one swing. Even while missing the head. I didn't hear very much gurgling or strugle after he hit the thing. Sounds like he took it down rather quickly. I would expect a normal person to present some strugling if s/he were wounded only in the throat. He could have severed nerves too, however.
Kimmet reveals the nukes and proves to be the anti-Michael. Anti-Micheal as in he rambles on and on until we all cheer when Michael cuts him off. Kimmet goes on and on about Boulder's medical training facilities like he's a college recruiter instead of focusing on telling Michael his friends will be shipped to Boulder. Here, he goes on... about Pantex during all-hell-breaking-loose. Of course this is for story purposes because not all fans are frum participants. It doesn't take away from the story but from Michael's perspective it's annoyingly irrelevant.
Now back to the nukes.
Listen at 17:00 minutes Kimmet say that there was a time when the whole thing started they were losing whole cities. BEFORE we lost contact with other bases IT WAS DECIDED we would have a (failsafe.)
Now back to my nagging feeling that it would be strange to nuke a city if the whole world were over-run. If Boulder is over-run, why nuke it. L.A. was over-run and it's still there. If the shit hit the fan all over the U.S. and they know it (Which Kimmet states that he doesn't know for sure in part two of Beyond our Borders) then now is too little to late to contain things. It sure wasn't to contain the possible 150,000 Inklings. They were not even imagined when the failsafe was in place.
Ah ha! Failsafe. Everytime I listened to that chapter I kept thing about the Cold War film. Now I know why. Not only because of the title and the nukes but because I kept wondering HOW Boulder was the failsafe.
This brings me back even further to my suspicion that there are other safe zones and maybe there is some sort of world-wide communication blackout. Kimmet wants access to the Pacific? For what? Could be any number of reasons.
Also, he wasn't the sole decision maker in the failsafe. Of course he could have just as easily meant his command staff as he could have meant other base commanders. This is what I like about this story. One nugget can point into so many directions.