Operation Refuse

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Situation:

With unclear reports coming out of Europe about the success of Operation Reset, CIVGOV has decided to launch an operation to find another super processor that was all but forgotten about

Background:

Dr. Stephen Falken and Dr. John McKittrick; early artificial intelligence researchers; were contacted by US Air Force to build an artificial intelligence, programmed to play numerous strategy and war games, the purpose being to enable itself to optimally respond to any possible enemy nuclear attack. The new system is called WOPR; acronym for War Operation Plan Response. WOPR was a mainframe computer system that controlled a global network of twenty-five work sub-stations. On June 3, 1983, David Lightman; a bright but unmotivated Seattle high school student and computer hacker; breached WOPR; though an unsecured phone line and backdoor password; and cause it to run a Global Thermonuclear War simulation. WOPR began to continuously feed false data such as Soviet bomber incursions and submarines deployments to the US Air Force personnel at Strategic Air Command Headquarters, there by convincing them into raising the DEFCON level and begin preparations for retaliation. However, Dr. John McKittrick and Dr. Stephen Falken were able to stop the simulation and convince the US Air Force to stand down.

An Airforce Colonel who was at SAC when malfunction happen and oversee the shipment remembers what happen to the WOPR and remembers where it went

Mission:

The PC will escort a team to the Oroville Dam in Oroville, California, and retrun to Omaha Nebreska with the WOPR, the journey is 5325 km round trip which will take about three months for the players to return to Omaha

Equipment: The PC will have have the choice of three vehiciles for the trip, M977 HEMTT 10 Ton Truck Trailer, M35 5 Ton Truck, or M113A3, Weapons will be what ever the PC have and ammo reupply is aviable for US weapons systems only, for support weapons the PC and have a M240 GPMG, with 2000 rounds, Three AT-4, or M249 with one M-72 LAW, no other weapons are aviable

Campaign outline

The PC arrive at the CIVGOV captial for a special mission and given the task lead security element for the mission, they main job to keep the convoy going and act a scout for there main job is sneak and peak, the convoy is under orders to aviod contact at all cost, there is no support aviable and they aviod major settlements if possible

NPC’s

The Convoy is actually bigger than three vehicles, there is a small security element mostly Airforce personel and six civilain computer experts who will dismantle the WOPR for tranport, three drivers and Convoy’s commander

PC’s Job in the convoy

The PC’s will act a advance recon element scout ahead of the covoy and providing overwatch at key points

War Operation Plan Response (WOPR)

History: After a secret simulation of a nuclear attack found that several US Air Force officers were unwilling to turn a required key to launch a missile strike, Strategic Air Command decide that command of missile silos must be maintained through high level automation, with minimum human intervention. As a result Dr. Stephen Falken and Dr. John McKittrick; early artificial intelligence researchers; were contacted by US Air Force to build an artificial intelligence, programmed to play numerous strategy and war games, the purpose being to enable itself to optimally respond to any possible enemy nuclear attack. The new system is called WOPR; acronym for War Operation Plan Response. WOPR was a mainframe computer system that controlled a global network of twenty-five work sub-stations. On June 3, 1983, David Lightman; a bright but unmotivated Seattle high school student and computer hacker; breached WOPR; though an unsecured phone line and backdoor password; and cause it to run a Global Thermonuclear War simulation. WOPR began to continuously feed false data such as Soviet bomber incursions and submarines deployments to the US Air Force personnel at Strategic Air Command Headquarters, there by convincing them into raising the DEFCON level and begin preparations for retaliation. However, Dr. John McKittrick and Dr. Stephen Falken were able to stop the simulation and convince the US Air Force to stand down. Following WOPR's failure, Dr. John McKittrick and Dr. Stephen Falken had WOPR shipped to Canada to run the western half of the continental U.S./Canada power grid. It is housed at Edward Hyatt Power Plant, inside the Oroville Dam which spans the Feather River about 5 miles northeast of the city of Oroville, in California.

City of Oroville: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville,_California

Oroville Dam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Dam