User blog:Bzero/Mainframe – RE: BAT Project

Mainframe appears on a vlog encrypted for Joe download only. He’s in a non-descript warehouse in an undisclosed location. As the recording begins, Mainframe frowns. “Well, I have sort-of bad news, and sort-of good news. The bad news is that our original BAT-virus plan isn’t going to work. Somehow Cobra discovered the virus we used in LA and found a way to bypass it. I’m so glad now we decided to study the BATs further before launching an attack on DC. I found replacement programming that would have detected the virus activation, caused them to power down long enough for us to move past them and into position, and then reactivate with orders to simply kill everything in sight. It would have been a disaster.

“Now, the good news,” Mainframe continues. “Thanks to Cookie’s pet BATs, I’ve found a way to temporarily disable them. I’ll spare you the technical details, but it’s a way to use how they communicate with each other against them. The next time they attack, we should be able to flood and overwhelm their processors, temporarily shutting them down. They won’t overheat and explode like with the virus, but at least it’s something. Unfortunately, this is only going to work once on a large scale – after this, I’m sure Mindbender will find a way to shield them. But I’m working on ways to take them out in smaller groups on the ground – I’ll be sure to have that working by the time we’re ready to liberate DC.

Mainframe smiles. “In the meantime – Yo Joe, and all that. I’ll keep working. Hit ‘Like’ and Follow’ here.” He points to the side of the screen. “Just kidding. Mainframe out.”