Thanks Flaming1. Like I said, I assumed that was the case, but then I have assumed a lot of other things with COV that haven't been true...like the game would actually be ready to go by Halloween. 
Regarding Col Duray, if he defeats you when he first attacks he hovers high up in the SW corner of the map.
What we did was lure him back to the hangar area of the platform and fight him there. (That was fun - used my Skyraider backpack temp power, took a potshot and started hightailing it back to the rest of the team; crashlanded on fire at half health.)
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Off-topic, but here goes:
What is the "Mega-monitor" that you unlock with 5 sg badges? I looked for it on the recipe tables, but didn't see anything about it. Anyone got some insight on this one?
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here's a question whats the reward for the silver mantis TF? Anyone know?
A badge, some XP, Inf, Prestige and an SO. Pretty much the same as all the other SFs, TFs, and Trials. I don't believe we got more of any of those things than you would for any other level 25 Trial.
You also get a rare salvage.
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The Mega Monitor is an overpriced control aux item. I think it's craftable at the Advanced table, but I can't remember for sure.
Yep.
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OK thanks. 
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The Mega Monitor is an overpriced control aux item. I think it's craftable at the Advanced table, but I can't remember for sure.
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Yes... and for a MERE 1.5 million I think it was when we crafted ours ... you can actually install it.
Not going to go into the insane logic behind that. It just raises my blood pressure.
I haven't yet unlocked the mission computer for my team (its a pain) but when i do, do i need energy and control to use it, or will it work right away?
It hooks into your control mainframe as an auxillary control unit and requires some power.
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I haven't yet unlocked the mission computer for my team (its a pain) but when i do, do i need energy and control to use it, or will it work right away?
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It's a control aux. item.
And it's really, really easy to unlock. If your sg isn't playing enough to unlock it, I doubt you're going to have a base capable of it.
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Well, problem with our team is that we originally had only low levels in the group. Even when we got high levels we didn't partner up much. We only recently learned that you had to lackey or malefactor to unlock it.
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Our SG has same issue except the computer offers us a TaskForce from Silver Mantis (who is an arachnos agent) which allows us to start but never contact her since she's in Sharkhead Isle and we are heroes .
We are hoping that this will be resolved with next patch.
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ours was doing the same thing we ended up swaping it out for a new one and now we just have the hero one that's not up and running yet
I don't know Hamster, do the Isolators have it unlocked? At the current rate we might unlock the Autodoc before we unlock the Mission Monitor. If only it weren't so useless on the CoH side.
When I did the Silver Mantis trial with my SG, I didn't know where she was. I just kept going back to the mission computer to contact her. Try that.
So after half a year there is still no SG TF for the CoH side of the Mission Computer. Does anyone know if they plan to add this to I7? Is this base item useless for CoH SG's not planning to do the IoP Trial? Why would only the villains get a SG TF and not the heroes? I just don't get it <shrugs> - If anyone can answer any of these questions I'm sure a lot of us would really appreciate it - thanks.
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I've been wondering about this but haven't seen it answered on any other thread: If you have the mission computer, can you run the Silver Mantis task force more than once? I ask because we have more than 8 people in our group who would want to do it, and eventually others will be in the right level range. It seems like you SHOULD be able to run it more than once, but I don't want to assume anything here...
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You can run Silver Mantis to your heart's content, 24/7.
Cathedral of Pain is schedule-limited, but not Silver Mantis.