(December 8, 2014 at 9:12 pm)Beccs Wrote:(December 8, 2014 at 9:08 pm)Stimbo Wrote: The best known top secret facility in the world, really.
Which is precisely what I would do if I wanted to keep attention on a "secret base" while all the work was done elsewhere.
There was an episode of Blake's 7 which used that plot, in fact it was the whole direction for the second season. Basically, Blake wanted to launch an assault on the very heart of the Federation, crippling it. So he arranged with other resistance groups to attack a facility called Control, at the centre of an impassable defence grid. It turned out to be a trap; the Federation openly welcomed attacks on the facility and made little secret of its location, because all the work done there was relocated decades earlier to a place that even the Federation top echelon didn't know.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
