[Video / audio, encrypted, sent to all open frequencies accessible by tablet.]

[holmesisnowhere]

[There's a fellow in a suit that's just a bit too tight for him sitting before you. Yes, all of you. Anyone not on a call or otherwise preoccupied with the audio-visual portion of their tablet gets to say hello to a peculiar-looking individual dressed in an aubergine collared shirt and bearing an intensely grey-blue stare. Sherlock lifts a pale hand in greeting, waggling his fingers awkwardly (that's what people do to say hello, right?) He gazes down at the camera. By the background behind him, the man's sitting somewhere up on one of the tallest buildings in the city.]

My name is Sherlock Holmes. I've been listening to your chatter. 

It seems the general consensus is that the war we have all had foisted upon us is a losing battle. 

[His soft baritone carries a received pronunciation accent to anyone who's English and listening, or otherwise observant. By his state of dress and the other phone he's playing with, he's from around 2010 or so give or take a few years. He folds his hands in his lap and leans forward.]

I say, no, but if you continue on in the manner you have been, you are very likely destined for failure. I've done the math, but I'm told it bores people. 

[A file is pushed forward to all of the tablets in Exsilium in message form.]

Get back to me if you're interested in going home instead of wallowing about feeling sorry for yourselves, attending masquerades and sitting in awkward sympathy banquets. 



** >> The attached document is hereby drafted and proposed by Mr. Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective, for the people of Exsilium, to be updated as new information comes in. Rough outline started on [timestamp.]

TOP PERSONNEL PRIORITIES INCLUDE: SUSTENANCE+SUPPLIES, SHELTER, AMMUNITION.

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION / QUERIES:

>>> SUSTAINABILITY 
>>> AVAILABILITY
>>> SUPPLY? [ALTERNATIVE TO INITIATIVE SUPPLIES.]
>>> DEMAND. [WHO NEEDS WHAT.]
>>> CONTINGENCY PLANS. [OBVIOUS.]

[A diagram of Exsilium's current independent resources available [that Sherlock is aware of, some might be missing?] come up in a chart with average consumption per month and some red numbers that aren't promising.] 

>>> INDIVIDUALS WITH INFORMATION REGARDING THESE PROBLEMS SHOULD RESPOND IMMEDIATELY. SO FAR THE INITIATIVE HAS BEEN KIND ENOUGH TO SUPPLY US WITH WHAT WE NEED, BUT IN THE EVENT OF A RAID OR A COLLAPSE OF THE STRONGHOLD HERE, THERE SHOULD BE ALTERNATIVE SOURCES, INCLUDING POWER  FOR ANYONE OPERATING ELECTRICAL / OTHERWISE EQUIPMENT. SOLAR ENERGY IS APPARENTLY NOT AN OPTION HERE. (SORT OF LIKE LONDON.) SUGGEST HYDROGEN ALTERNATIVE.


MISSION: BYPASSING (TEDIOUS) SMALLER MISSIONS TO DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS AND WORKING FROM WITHIN THE UNITED EARTH TO INDUCE A SIMULTANEOUS COLLAPSE OF GOVERNMENT, MILITARY AND CIVIL DEFENCE.

- PRIORITIES

- DISABLING ANY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT RESPONSE IN THE EU CAPITAL, THIS WILL INVOLVE BRINGING DOWN COMMUNICATIONS. SUGGEST EMP (TECHNOLOGY FOR SH IS CIRCA 2011 AD, ANY ADVANCEMENTS SINCE THEN WILL GLADLY CONSIDERED.) 

>>> CONSIDERED UNITS; CITIZEN HEALTH OFFICIALS, HOSPITALS, POLICE FORCE, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATORS AND FIELD OFFICERS, ANY AND ALL HAZARDOUS MATERIAL RESPONSE TEAMS.

>>> DISABLING THE MILITARY IS NOT MY EXPERTISE, BUT FROM A STRATEGIC STANDPOINT, A BRUTE-FORCE WAR WILL END IN INNUMERABLE CASUALTIES AND LOSS OF PROPERTY - SOLUTION IS NOT VIABLE. SUGGEST SABOTAGE, CONSPIRACY, INFILTRATION. 

>>> DISABLING THE GOVERNMENT IS EASIER. ASSASSINATION, CONSPIRACY, BLACKMAIL. EVERYONE HAS A WEAK POINT.

>>> LEAVING AS MUCH OF THE CIVILIAN POPULATION OF THE EU ALIVE AND UNHARMED. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES WILL BE INEVITABLE, THOUGH NUMBERS SHOULD BE KEPT TO A MINIMUM AT ALL COSTS. 

>>> TERROR TACTICS AND GUERRILLA EFFORTS WILL BE BEST OUTPUT FOR EFFORT. TARGETING RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS, [EMPTY] SCHOOLS, GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AND OTHER HIGH-PRIORITY TARGETS WILL BE EFFECTIVE IN CAUSING CHAOS. IF YOU'VE READ THIS DOCUMENT COMPLETELY I WILL ASK THAT THE WORD 'ROMAN CANDLES' BE INCLUDED IN THE SUBJECT OF YOUR EMAIL. I DON'T NEED IDIOTS WHO CAN'T READ MUCKING EVERYTHING ABOUT. 

---

PERSONNEL ORGANIZATION PROPOSED.


TEAM ONE: TERROR UNIT

INDIVIDUALS WITH EXPERIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, EXPLOSIVES, SUBTERFUGE AND CRAWLING CAREFULLY THROUGH DUCTWORK OR SEWERS. SEVENTEEN RUBBER DUCKS AND A RED HERRING [STILL READING ARE YOU? VERY GOOD.]


TEAM TWO: DIPLOMACY / TECHNOLOGY
INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCED IN GOVERNMENT MATTERS, INDIVIDUALS WHO WOULD CONSIDER THEMSELVES "HACKERS" BUT NEVER OPENLY CALL THEMSELVES SUCH A RIDICULOUS THING. IDENTITIES TO BE STOLEN, DATA TO BE ERASED, HAVOC TO BE WREAKED. APPLY WITHIN.

TEAM THREE: BRUISERS / BRUTE FORCE / INFANTRY

EXACTLY WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE.

TEAM FOUR: MEDICAL RESPONSE.
SEE ABOVE. 

[Attached to the document is a set of maps - one completely drawn of the main city and then a host of others, probably dragged out of the library. Sherlock has made an overlay of the incomplete maps of the EU that he's managed to scrounge out of the library, all time-stamped and easily moved about for the convenience of the viewer. A note blinks on the side: incomplete, not for reliable tactical use.] The outline of the city has the tactical disadvantages of the position, the fortifications, circled in red, and suggestions scribbled in the side.

One note reads: 'Monsters? Fascinating Need tissue samples, and a lab...'

THIS OUTLINE SUBJECT TO EDITS, CHANGES AND RUBBER DUCK DEBUGGING. 

BEST REGARDS,
-SH.