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FLASHPLOT: Eraserhead
Who| Aizawa Shouta
What| A slippery crook pulls a small time crime
Where| Winath
When| Pre-Tinker Tailor
Warnings/Notes| Violence! Action! A lack of romance!
When it comes to works of art, Imskian pieces are highly valued. When they're full-sized, they show a level of detail that makes their sculptures and paintings seem like the subjects are frozen in time, rather than worked from clay, steel, or oils. Such works are often an artist's magnum opus, sometimes taking years to complete. More common, but no less valuable, are the miniatures. Less dedicated to hyperrealism as the 'full' works, they are no less moving, focusing on the raw emotion of the artist in question.
The people of Imsk live on a micro-scale, able to fit tens of thousands of themselves into the same space that a single human body takes up. While they can grow to what some of the more racially-insensitive sapients consider to be a 'normal' size, many of them spend their entire lives less than a centimeter tall. Given their massive overpopulation problem, with hundreds of billions of Imskians living on a planet slightly smaller than Earth, this isn't unusual. The vast majority of their artwork is simply too small for people to see unassisted, so when foreign art galleries put their works on display, they're often magnified and projected on walls, with the actual art being held safely in small stasis pods where nothing can be lost.
This setup does have one downside: Millions of credits of material in a very portable package. It's heavily guarded, of course, but nothing's impossible for a particularly brazen thief. Especially one that can't be touched.
Amp, on monitor duty, notes that the Science Police are on the situation and puts it on the a tertiary screen. There were other things that were more pressing to keep an eye on, like that prison break on Earth and the glass storm starting up on Daxam. There are already Legionnaires answering those calls, however, so when he gets an update from one of the dispatchers that the Science Police were requesting assistance, he pauses to pull up the relevant information and consider who was available. Green Lantern was off duty having Man Time with Nova Prime, Karate Kid and Timber Wolf were handling the prison break, the other experienced heroes were otherwise occupied, and everyone that was left, well. He wasn't sure they'd be useful in this given situation. That left one man with any possible experience in this kind of thing.
"Eraserhead. Amp here." Jason rarely uses codenames in normal conversation, preferring to let that be the signifier that this was serious business. "You're on call, so here it is. Get to the Threshold Hub right away. We've got an art theft on Winath, the crook's got some kind of force field that's letting everything slide right off, including energy nets. He's sliding through the city streets faster than their low-flying hover vehicles can safely keep up with. I'm going to have the Pathfinders drop you onto a Science Police craft so you can tell them where to drop you off. Sorry to drop you in without any more information, but our computers are having trouble tracking this guy down in the criminal databanks."
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The Science Police, when Aizawa arrives, are extremely helpful and polite. They've lost two of their finest citizens to the Legion, Spark and Livewire, but they're proud of the service that the twin teenagers rendered before their untimely demise in Brainiac 5's failed solution. The fact that Aizawa was one of the responders to the Lantern Beast that tried to raze their planet only increases his standing in their eyes, and they treat him with the same level of respect as a visiting dignitary.
Their quarry is twisting and turning through the city, using his fields to avoid all attempts at capture and negating all friction between themselves and the ground to keep them going. It seems like he's guiding them towards a mall, and their best guess is that he's hoping to lose them in the tight environment and bustling crowds. He's about three miles away, but at his current speed he'll hit the mall in about four minutes. The surrounding area is full of smaller marketplaces, motels, and eateries, with the only transportation station being inside the mall itself.
They've got about twelve hovercraft floating around the area, but none of their capture devices have been successful. Even their stun beams just slide off. There's not enough time to evacuate and seal off the mall, so it's down to whatever Aizawa has in mind.
What| A slippery crook pulls a small time crime
Where| Winath
When| Pre-Tinker Tailor
Warnings/Notes| Violence! Action! A lack of romance!
When it comes to works of art, Imskian pieces are highly valued. When they're full-sized, they show a level of detail that makes their sculptures and paintings seem like the subjects are frozen in time, rather than worked from clay, steel, or oils. Such works are often an artist's magnum opus, sometimes taking years to complete. More common, but no less valuable, are the miniatures. Less dedicated to hyperrealism as the 'full' works, they are no less moving, focusing on the raw emotion of the artist in question.
The people of Imsk live on a micro-scale, able to fit tens of thousands of themselves into the same space that a single human body takes up. While they can grow to what some of the more racially-insensitive sapients consider to be a 'normal' size, many of them spend their entire lives less than a centimeter tall. Given their massive overpopulation problem, with hundreds of billions of Imskians living on a planet slightly smaller than Earth, this isn't unusual. The vast majority of their artwork is simply too small for people to see unassisted, so when foreign art galleries put their works on display, they're often magnified and projected on walls, with the actual art being held safely in small stasis pods where nothing can be lost.
This setup does have one downside: Millions of credits of material in a very portable package. It's heavily guarded, of course, but nothing's impossible for a particularly brazen thief. Especially one that can't be touched.
Amp, on monitor duty, notes that the Science Police are on the situation and puts it on the a tertiary screen. There were other things that were more pressing to keep an eye on, like that prison break on Earth and the glass storm starting up on Daxam. There are already Legionnaires answering those calls, however, so when he gets an update from one of the dispatchers that the Science Police were requesting assistance, he pauses to pull up the relevant information and consider who was available. Green Lantern was off duty having Man Time with Nova Prime, Karate Kid and Timber Wolf were handling the prison break, the other experienced heroes were otherwise occupied, and everyone that was left, well. He wasn't sure they'd be useful in this given situation. That left one man with any possible experience in this kind of thing.
"Eraserhead. Amp here." Jason rarely uses codenames in normal conversation, preferring to let that be the signifier that this was serious business. "You're on call, so here it is. Get to the Threshold Hub right away. We've got an art theft on Winath, the crook's got some kind of force field that's letting everything slide right off, including energy nets. He's sliding through the city streets faster than their low-flying hover vehicles can safely keep up with. I'm going to have the Pathfinders drop you onto a Science Police craft so you can tell them where to drop you off. Sorry to drop you in without any more information, but our computers are having trouble tracking this guy down in the criminal databanks."
The Science Police, when Aizawa arrives, are extremely helpful and polite. They've lost two of their finest citizens to the Legion, Spark and Livewire, but they're proud of the service that the twin teenagers rendered before their untimely demise in Brainiac 5's failed solution. The fact that Aizawa was one of the responders to the Lantern Beast that tried to raze their planet only increases his standing in their eyes, and they treat him with the same level of respect as a visiting dignitary.
Their quarry is twisting and turning through the city, using his fields to avoid all attempts at capture and negating all friction between themselves and the ground to keep them going. It seems like he's guiding them towards a mall, and their best guess is that he's hoping to lose them in the tight environment and bustling crowds. He's about three miles away, but at his current speed he'll hit the mall in about four minutes. The surrounding area is full of smaller marketplaces, motels, and eateries, with the only transportation station being inside the mall itself.
They've got about twelve hovercraft floating around the area, but none of their capture devices have been successful. Even their stun beams just slide off. There's not enough time to evacuate and seal off the mall, so it's down to whatever Aizawa has in mind.