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maskormenace2015-01-26 11:19 pm
notdaredevil) wrote in maskormenace2015-01-26 11:19 pm
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[ It's not often that Matt actually has something to say publicly like this. He can't really think of the last time he did. However, it seems unfair to dump it all on Kate and make her do it, especially after he went all the way to Greece to make it happen. ]
Per the research into the Hornets done by Commander Shephard and Kate Bishop, and Kate Bishop's suggestion that someone attempt to track down Eleni Wang, I can now confirm that she is, in fact, alive and in Greece. Lil Crawley and I managed to track her down.
[ It may be a miracle that they managed to work together. ]
To that end, I have some new information about the Hornets and the Import situation in general circa 2010. I can confirm that, to the best of my knowledge, everything she had to tell us was the truth as she knew it.
[ He clears his throat. He's not going to elaborate on how he knows that. ]
Richard Peter Wayne, also known as the Black Arrow, was killed during his investigations. He had been attempting to look into potential government cover-ups, but came across the Hornets along the way. Ms. Wang believes they are probably responsible for his death, and that possibly a former hero was involved or may have committed the murder. However, her attempt to investigate his death was cut short by anonymous threats, so she cremated his body and left the country.
[ And deciding to discard some of the detail on her personal life... ]
In addition, she had a fair amount to say about the Import departure in 2010. Unsurprisingly, opinions were sharply divided between the people who believed it was the right thing for them to leave and the people who thought the Imports had run away with government permission. There was a shockingly brief period of increased National Security, which surprises me immensely given my universe's United States, but it later turned out that the Import departure did not in any way escalate international conflict, since the country no longer had it's own, uh...personal superhuman weapons. Consequently, they downgraded the alert after six months.
Ms. Wang also suggested that this may have contributed to the rise of the Hornets, and at least provided them with a new group of willing recruits who were dissatisfied with both the government and the imPorts, since the Hornets side with neither. She emphasized quite clearly that they should be handled with caution and considered dangerous, particularly if former heroes may have fallen in with them.
[ There's the sound of shuffling paper, while he checks his (hideously handwritten nobody can ever decipher) notes. ]
That's the main gist of it. If any of you should come into contact with her family again, she specifically requested that they not be told why she left the country, so I'd appreciate it if you would honor that. Given that she was more than willing to cooperate we should at least be able to do that much in return.
[ He's also deliberately left out some details, such as what her assumed name is or where exactly they found her, but Matt also figures that's something he can reveal to anyone who might want to go speak to her again, and not broadcast widely. ]
Per the research into the Hornets done by Commander Shephard and Kate Bishop, and Kate Bishop's suggestion that someone attempt to track down Eleni Wang, I can now confirm that she is, in fact, alive and in Greece. Lil Crawley and I managed to track her down.
[ It may be a miracle that they managed to work together. ]
To that end, I have some new information about the Hornets and the Import situation in general circa 2010. I can confirm that, to the best of my knowledge, everything she had to tell us was the truth as she knew it.
[ He clears his throat. He's not going to elaborate on how he knows that. ]
Richard Peter Wayne, also known as the Black Arrow, was killed during his investigations. He had been attempting to look into potential government cover-ups, but came across the Hornets along the way. Ms. Wang believes they are probably responsible for his death, and that possibly a former hero was involved or may have committed the murder. However, her attempt to investigate his death was cut short by anonymous threats, so she cremated his body and left the country.
[ And deciding to discard some of the detail on her personal life... ]
In addition, she had a fair amount to say about the Import departure in 2010. Unsurprisingly, opinions were sharply divided between the people who believed it was the right thing for them to leave and the people who thought the Imports had run away with government permission. There was a shockingly brief period of increased National Security, which surprises me immensely given my universe's United States, but it later turned out that the Import departure did not in any way escalate international conflict, since the country no longer had it's own, uh...personal superhuman weapons. Consequently, they downgraded the alert after six months.
Ms. Wang also suggested that this may have contributed to the rise of the Hornets, and at least provided them with a new group of willing recruits who were dissatisfied with both the government and the imPorts, since the Hornets side with neither. She emphasized quite clearly that they should be handled with caution and considered dangerous, particularly if former heroes may have fallen in with them.
[ There's the sound of shuffling paper, while he checks his (hideously handwritten nobody can ever decipher) notes. ]
That's the main gist of it. If any of you should come into contact with her family again, she specifically requested that they not be told why she left the country, so I'd appreciate it if you would honor that. Given that she was more than willing to cooperate we should at least be able to do that much in return.
[ He's also deliberately left out some details, such as what her assumed name is or where exactly they found her, but Matt also figures that's something he can reveal to anyone who might want to go speak to her again, and not broadcast widely. ]
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I'm not comfortable drawing a connection between the government at large and a terrorist organization, but that doesn't mean that somebody's not pulling the strings somewhere. It's a question of who's giving them information, and who knows who's giving them information. The Hornets wouldn't even necessarily have to be aware of their role as government pawns— or at the very least, not the majority of them. It's not totally unheard of for certain government agencies to pull something like that.
The alternative is that they just have a very good mole, and they're good enough at covering their tracks that nobody can make a solid case or arrest, or get to them in time. That's not totally unheard of either.
[ And for only a single second, Matt considers that it might be useful if the goddamn Punisher were here, because if anybody would know how to do that, it would be him.
But he's a lunatic and Matt stole his girlfriend, so it's probably best he's not around. ]
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The Hornets are a red herring, here. They're a threat, but not the threat. From the encounters we've faced against them, their foot soldiers are largely without plan, and without much training. If they were better organized, I don't doubt we wouldn't have been able to escape them as easily as we did in the instance of the Maine Maze incident. Maybe it's because it's simply an "unorganized terrorist group" but then how would they be able to coordinate their attacks so well with Import Registration? I doubt a mole alone would be able to do this.
The only alternative I can think of is the group that led the attack on Imports during the camping kidnaping. That was the first real time I saw something well organized, on the enemy's behalf. And even then, I could still see the government being behind that one, although it seems less likely. If they wanted to know our ability to defeat robotic bears or whatever, then they could have simply asked us to spar against them as a form of training.
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The Young Avengers both investigated and confirmed the Hornets aren't some kind of red herring. You'll want to talk to them for the explicit details; I'm not going to presume to speak for them.