Ed Becerra writes:

 >Genom Chicago was fried by Largo. The Tower as it existed during Mason's 

time would be nonexistent in 2035, replaced by a brand-new facility.

 
 	Quincy has this annoying habit of building on the ruins of previous
 projects. Literally. If the foundation was still there, he'd simply have it
 cleaned up and rebuilding would progress apace. Building inspectors?
 Dishonest ones would go home rich. The occasional honest one might go home
 with a bad case of dead-ness. ^_^ And if the chamber has been built by
 Mason, that means it would be VERY well hidden, which in turn means it's
 very likely DEEP underground. Particle beams are nice weapons, but they
 don't give great soil penetration. Anything more than 100 feet underground
 stands a very high chance of surviving intact. Trust me. This was what I
 _did_, when I was still active military. I can show you radiation
 pentration charts, but I expect they're already available on the net
 somewhere, and it would be a boring waste of bandwidth for the list. A
 quick example? 12 feet of just plain soil (144 inches) will reduce the
 power of simple gamma radiation by a factor of 1,000,000. Sounds
 impossible, doesn't it. But true.

You know, someday one of us is going to unearth what you were REALLY doing
when you were active military, and then the government wll be forced to kill
either you or half the list. ^_-

But about the Tower... soil penetration would have nothing to do with Genom
Chicago. Why would the foundation have had soil in it? It would have been just
plain old steel and concrete, like any other foundation in the world. The
particle beam would have ripped through it no problem.

Plus, even if it hadn't, you've got untold megatons of fried Genom Tower
collapsing in on itself. The foundation would have been completely crushed and
destroyed. If the unit hadn't been destroyed then, it probably would have been
unearthed or destroyed in the rebuilding process, and not until they were
specificallly looking for it.
  

 >>  The Genom Deveopment Center was no more, replaced by a
 >>  funeral pyre whose flames raked the stormclouds above.
 >
 >Thnaks for not using the particle-beam laser sats. It's been done to

death.

 >I'd be interested to find out how the Jokester survived that, though; a
 >Largobody (I assume that's what he downloaded into) isn't THAT tough.
 
 	No? The original survived a direct blast from one of the particle beam
 satellites. Admittedly, he looked like hand-hammered shit afterwards (See
 BGCrash!), but he did survive, and that was with NO protection and no
 warning. The Joker may be nuttier than an Akane-made fruitcake, but he DOES
 plan ahead. He had _some_ sort of shelter available. We just don't know
 what it was.

He had protection. Largo was a VERY well made HyperBoomer. His armor is quite
incredible.

Plus, there is no WAY that beam was at anything even remtely resembling full
power. Keep in mind that when he shot it, he was aiming for the Knight Sabers,
not himself. He wouldn't have wanted collateral damage that would damage him
(Largo was many things, but not suicidal), so he likely used just enough juice
to obliterate them and not much more. Nothing like the tower-shattering blasts
he was shooting earlier.

Also, there is a big difference between weathering a single beam strike (and
bullet to the head) and living through an explosion and the resulting collapse
of a large building.
  

 >WayneTECH Enterprises. If this is the animated series, it's Waynetech.

It's

 >only plain-old Wayne Enterprises in the comics.
 
 	Picky, picky. <grin>

Yes I am. I've been waiting nearly a YEAR for this sucker (this and TPOH) and
if Rod's finally doing it, I'm going to be there every step of the way
hounding him with advice.

Be afraid, Rod. Be very afraid. AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!
   

 >>  There seemed to be no doubt about it.
 >>  
 >>  Darling Batsy was gone!
 >
 >He's forgetting one of the primary rules of superhero death scenes: no

body,

 >no death. Even if there IS a body, you can never be sure.
 
 	Joker is bright, even brilliant, but like almost all super-villains, he
 tends to leap to conclusions. As do we all. ^_^

That's why things like the Evil Overlord list exist. ^_^
  

 	Nice C&C, Mercutio. Rod's been working on this fic for a while, and he's
 been polishing it til it SHINES. Hell, he's even spent valuable time
 listening to MY half-assed comments.

Well, yeah. You're older, wiser, and more experienced than practically anybody
else on the list. Anybody who doesn't listen to YOU is a moron.
  
-Mercutio
"A plague 'a both your houses!"