Rethinking Operation Reset

[pmulcahy11b]

Here's a weird option for Operation Reset: "Reset" is just a code name for the recovery of a device. The device is alien in origin, and is believed to be a communications device that may put the government in direct contact with the ETs. The government thinks (hopes?) the ETs are benevolent in nature and may want to help a distressed world like ours, with the government that contacted them first to oversee the operation...

Even the people at the top may be willing to believe this about an object if they are in the wreckage of World War 3.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Personally I like the idea of a suitcase-sized cold fusion rig. Like was in the Later Days 'blog...(only that wasn't what it was, was it...)

Power's more important than getting a few more computers working. Reliable electricity.

You find a way to collimate enough muons, you got yourself desktop cold fusion there.

[Raellus]

My RESET was plans for a viable cold-fusion powerplant developed by Polish scientists! My players never really got into the whole RESET side plot (I was running a PotV campaign at the time and was using a Spetznaz recovery team pursuing RESET as a push factor to keep the tug moving). As it played out, the NPC carrying the plans was killed in a firefight with a Polish army anti-bandit force and the plans lost. I think that most of the PCs were glad to be free of the burden. Anything else happening with RESET in my developing campaign world will likely happen off-screen.

[WallShadow]

Universal CPU replacement.
Super-duper operating system.
Cold fusion in a briefcase.
Interplanetary hotline to benevolent aliens.

And now...

A radiation-neutralizer. Or at least a method of absorbing/concentrating the radionucleides to sequester them from the environment. Could be a GMO version of bamboo, or a species of radiation-damage-resistant biologically-magnifying mollusc, an algae that not only tolerates but thrives near and incorporates radioactive particles, a retrovirus DNA treatment to regrow cells damaged due to accumulated RADs, nanobots that physically repair biological RAD damage, or a spin-off from a failed cold-fusion program that actually dampens the decay rate of the deadly isotopes (foreshadowing of the nuclear damper of the Traveller era).

Any of these would give a heavily-nuked nation a big lead in recovery, restoring the health, safety, and/or productivity (as in land made arable once more) much sooner than one's competitors.


Oh, and the DNA or the nanobots might serve nicely as a "miracle" in conjunction with the Black Madonna, or just about any wandering "holy man". And who, including the KGB, CIA, DIA, GRU, New America, NSA, etc, wouldn't want dibs on the "fountain of youth"?