by The Kingpin » Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:27 pm
oh goody. another plot to pick apart >=D
first issue: getting the terrorist organisation to take you seriouesly means you need to have a notable reputation and an even more notable bank account. that in turn takes years to acquire with a very successful business.
taking you seriously doesn't automatically get them to listen. you'd need to earn their trust first. that in turn, also takes years.
finding a pawn isn't that easy either. 'imma find a pawn' doesn't really cut it. you need to know where, when, who, why, how, and to what end. where to find the guy in question, when they can be found somewhere accessible but safe for you, who they are and what they know, why they would want to risk their lives to help some random dude who wants to destroy the world, how to persuade him to do it and how to pull it off, and to what end they'd be working and how to make it attractive enough to them to make them agree.
another issue: nuclear missiles aren't exactly cheap. nor is the silo you'd need to launch it. nor are the staff that would operate said silo without stopping you for ethical reasons or even keep quiet. hell, Iran had 847628957 guns pointed at it long before they even started actually enriching the uranium, because people were expecting nukes. a purchase of a nuke would have twice that many guns, pointed at you, and likely shooting. whole countries have trouble covering up transactions like that. a single guy who wants to buy several nukes in order to 'take over the world' would certainly not be able to hide it before they get apprehended by authorities and imprisoned for life.
the US power Grid isn't run by one little box in the middle of nowhere. no country is that stupid. otherwise, the power would be going out nation wide every few weeks due to generic terrorist attack.
launching the nuke from Russia at America isn't enough. you'd need the electronic ID of the missle to be russian aswell, as well as visible political trauma between the two nations to give reason for it, otherwise there will be a delay while both sides are going 'wtf just happened? O_O'.
then you have the issue of alliances between nations. Been a while since i last looked into it, but IIRC, Korea was split, with one half friendly to the US and the other friendly with Russia.
A virus that sends a spam message onto the desktops of every compuer is not the work of an organised government. it's the work of amateur hackers and virus engineers. that would immediately breech your plan and cause Russia and the US to hault hostilities, sending in specialists to read the structure of the virus to determine origin, and confirm that it wasn't the US.
then they'd hunt you down. your activities and business operations, and the enormous financial transactions you'd be going through in order to buy the nukes would make you light up like a beacon when the governments investigate bank accounts to identify the possible source of the nukes, and soon, they'd track you down, corner you, capture you, and try you for attempted genocide. basically, you'd become the new Saddam.
the Iraqis are in no position to move out of their own country, much less attack others. so no, they wouldn't be crossing the entire northern part of the Arabian peninsula, through Lebanon, Jordan, Israel [that'd cause plenty of alarms to go off. Israel would probably start their own apocalypse with the amount of nukes they're hiding under their skirts], Egypt and then all of Africa.
knowing how the internet works, one virus would hit the entire world, Germany included. the viruses wouldn't stop at the borders of a single nation.
assuming it did, you'd spend a crippling amount of money on plane tickets alone just to get to every country on earth OTHER than Germany.
even if you achieved it, chances are Germany will have 275723857 guns pointed at you when you identify yourself as the creator of the chaos, and will call for the attention of the world leaders, apprehend you and give you to the hundreds of very angry, wartorn countries to rip you to tiny little shreds, share your remains, and try each shred individually according to their local laws regarding the subject. that, or INTERPOL will mangle you.
TRIED. SENTENCED. PUNISHED.
"Ah yes, organised chaos. the sign of a clever but ever-busy mind. To the perpetrator, a carefully woven web of belongings and intrigue, but to the bystander? Madness!"
–William Beckett, Lore of Leyuna RPG