Operation: Godhand
| Operation: Godhand | |
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| File:SatansClaw.jpg | |
| Dates run: | March 10-13 2009 |
| Run By: | Twiller |
| Read the logs: | Operation:Godhand |
If you are successful, I will officially remove all records of Illyana Rasputin’s treasonous activities, and even correct the… clerical error involving her age.
X-Force is given the option to intervene when one of Colonel Alexei Vazhin's agents, a Natasha Romanova gets into trouble when trying to retrieve a device called the SatanGreifer by the Russian's, and the Satan's Claw in English. It also gives Illyana a chance to clear a debt, and get her life just that small part more under her own control.
Contents
Cast
Remy LeBeau, Amanda Sefton, Illyana Rasputin, Vanessa Carlysle, Sofia Mantega-Barret, Marie-Ange Colbert, Emma Frost, David North, Jubilation Lee, Sarah Morlocke, Mark Sheppard, Wanda Maximoff, Lucas Bishop, Doug Ramsey
Brock Rumlow, Natasha Romanova, Colonel Alexei Vazhin
Timing
Plot Summary
The gauntlet code named 'Satan's Claw' was created by the Nazis as part of their *UberSoldat* program, an attempt at a super soldier program. The Russians obtained the Claw from a captured research facility during their march to Berlin in 1945, but soon found it useless due to some serious flaws in its design. The most glaring example is that four days after firing the destructive beam that is one of the glove's main functions, it vents a buildup of highly compressed irradiated gases, killing the person wearing it and laying waste to anyone and anything in the area for miles around.
The Russians never found a way to fix the problems with the gauntlet, and eventually decided to 'bury' the glove along with their other Cold War secrets. Five months ago the gauntlet appeared on the radar again, and Alexei Vazhin found certain intelligence that the Chechens were potential buyers. He carefully organized an operation to trap them and recover the gauntlet. However, one of his contacts betrayed them, and the Satan's Claw was lost again.
Natasha Romanova was eventually able to track down the location of the gauntlet, posing as a buyer for the Russian mob, but when the meeting went bad she was forced to put on the glove in order to fight her way free. She's since been forced into hiding somewhere in Europe, with the bulky and conspicuous glove stopping her from using any of her normal routes out of danger. Unfortunately, whoever was planning to buy it originally is also hunting her, which makes the situation even more urgent.
Vazhin wants Romanova and the SatanGreifer back unharmed, but his hands are relatively tied by bureaucracy and the desire to not have an international incident. So he needs a catspaw, and X-force conveniently still owes him a debt. He calls in his marker on Illyana Rasputin, expecting the team will accomplish both of his goals in suitable fashion.
Related Links
Operation: Don't Leave Me With The Germans
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Trivia and Meta
Trivia
This was the first instance Illyana has ever had to kill in cold blood.
Meta
Plotrunner: Twiller
