Aftermath discussion thread (OOC)

Okay

Well, that'd be me, over there...

That was fast. Like, blink and you miss it fast. Compared to the month of waiting we had before. Let's try to keep it up

Alright, I've been thinking about this, and trying to science the shit out of fiction.

Basically, what's going to happen here - and forgive the technicality - is a lot of omni-tool work.

As the jammer is transmitting SOMETHING that blocks the waves, it is a transmitter. As such, it can be tracked. Real life examples include ILS (Instrumental Landing Systems) on aircraft - but also WWII aircraft were equipped with radio beacon locators where they could figure out the exact bearing to the radio transmitter. This is where triangulation comes to play. Triangulating is to find three (two often suffice) easily distinguishable landmarks, get the bearing, and the position you're looking for is where the lines intersect.

An example I'll borrow is similar to the one you'd see in ArmA 3. You're told your point of interest has a city 090 (due east) of it's location, a chapel aprox. 140 (south-east) from it's location. Since you're told the bearings from the position to the landmarks, you flip them (useless step for us, we'll be getting bearings from our two separate locations TO the point of interest, meaning they'll lead us in a single direction per team) getting 270 (due west) of the city and 320 (north-west) of the landmarks. Lines intersect, you use a decent dose of common sense and magic up the location in question.

I've also been thinking about the lore and in-universe explanation. It's true that omni-tools are, as the name suggest, universal tools. Meaning they will have a radio (confirmed by Grissom Academy in ME3) and a compass function (I'm just assuming, since digital compasses aren't necessarily uncommon these days, and this is a sci-fi device likely adopted by humans after they found tech that propelled them millenia tech-wise).
What we're looking for is a sync between the two. Sync compass to radio, let the 'Tool work magic. Bearing to "beacon" (transmitter) appears on the screen.

The little more low-tech solution is to simply have a program that tells you when you're facing the signal and a compass out simultaneously, but that's a little weird for my tastes in the age of the omni-tool.

At the end of the day, it'll point at the FOB where we find the final undercover Cerberus agent. We do know about that, right?

This is where I need DD's help. They're going to communicate, but since I'm writing from Sar's point of view and they're several blocks apart, she can't see what's going on and only hears whatever is spoken into the radio.

So, gimme appropriate responses for:
"Understood. I need you to synchronize your omni-tool compass and radio into a makeshift navigational radio beacon receiver."
"Sending our location as a navpoint, Sergeant. Bearing from us is two-three-three." (pretty please make it something roughly north-western, between 270 and 360, or south-eastern, between 090 and 180, otherwise you can do whatever bearing you see fit and it'll all work out. Also maybe share navpoint with your location.)
"Point set. The jammer is inside our FOB, Sergeant. I'm sending you a navpoint to regroup."

Hmm. Hope I'm not forgetting anything. Maybe except... Draining Dragon
Yup, now I got it all. I think. I hope.

Sooo... Here we go.

I gotta ask, where's Skyla? Is she still with the other group?

Also I got more of the plot I planned. Once more, I'm willing to change things if you have a good idea.

I think ill skip again

This means Draining Dragon is up next.

So the fandom's falling apart, there will be no DLC, pretty much everywhere is toxic enough to wear a MOPP suit, AND THIS PLACE IS DYING ON MY WATCH.

...what's going on? Did everyone just up and lose all interest? Am I the ONLY one who wants to continue? COME ON GUYS!

THAT'S MY MAN! THAT'S THE SPIRIT!

NOW COME! WITH ME! LET'S CONTINUE THIS THING! OORAH?

Sorry, had a lot of work to do for the last week. I'll try to get something up soon.

I'm good.

Yeah, let's go. We'll take out the last Cerberus agent and be done with it. Maybe they can put a challenge when we find them so that it doesn't feel anticlimactic.