Golden Girl

Does Trina count as a Hero?

Wel, that's only a theory about the Ghouls - form the Hero Con panel, they made it sound like the 90% died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33ko78TeO5I

17:40 for some Powers Division stuff

19:40 for the promotion system

23:30 onwards for the non-RPing part of the panel, with the truth about Tyrant, as well as the bit about the 10% who survive the indoctrination process - and if you keep it going until 25:00, you'll even hear the bonus of Tyrant's government being described as a totalitarian regime

He might be back for GR - he seemed to be sort of looking forward to it before he left.

You do love to exaggerate, don't you?

And even the lowest ranking Praetorian cop would have to deal with new recruits wanting his job - Tyrant wants the best person in every position, and ambition for more power and fear of being replaced are for him the best motivators for making sure that not only are the best people in every position, but that they're also constantly trying to make themselves better too.

It's also how the Powers Division indoctrination program produces only the best soldiers - the 90% of superpowered people who die during the process aren't strong enough, ruthless enough or skillful enough to serve Tyrant, so their deaths aren't a problem to him - plus, it also removes any potential superpowered recruits for the Resistance at the same time.

EDIT. Some of the 90% could possibly end up as Ghouls instead of dying

No, let's not - treat horses properly, even when they're dead

Hero 1 said it at Hero Con - Tyrant's promotion system is based on the ability of an underling to defeat their boss.
That way, he'll always have the strongest or most devious people as his officers, and they'll always be trying to improve themselves to protect themselves from their underlings trying to take their positon, and also giving themselves a chance to replace their own boss too.

Actually, fashion wise, I think that's probably the best fit

Well, there's the possibility that you'll get to beat up some of your bosses, as that's the way Tyrant likes his promotion system to work - like the Praetroian Police officer you're running eraans for for the first few levels could be the end boss of a later arc where you have to prove your increased power to a new superior - so while you'd still be taking orders, you might still feel you were making progress through the ranks.

You might get some of that in GR - but don't forget that for Loyalist players, there's quite likely to be a lot of ordering about from your superiors - obedience to the will of the leader is an important part of keeping a dictatorship going, so Tyrant is so likely to let his followers be too independant.

He treats us in a friendly way - and I think he probably quite likes having us around when we save him and the world when the "real" team aren't able to

That's possible, but I think Ghost Widow is more likely - she has the right level of insanity

Freakshow? Maybe Clamor then?

But they might not be hard enough for his level of sleaze

Blame my clone

If there's no /e slapsleazebag then it wouldn't really be worth it

Plus, paragonwiki can give me an idea of what it's like

Flattering, but not really very true

Welcome back, Resillience

I think the key word there is "old" - the GMs seem to have a policy of only removing current exploit missions - like MM Thug missions were being taken down quite fast while that exploit was live, but now that it's been fixed, they seem to have moved on to taking down new exploit missions, so there are still quite a few MM Thug missions floating around that never got reported.

Fixed