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Post by Erika on Jul 4, 2014 21:32:00 GMT -5
Come up with a world domination/destruction scheme. Describe your plans.
This is a short answer assignment.
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Post by Adamant Ace on Jul 6, 2014 19:00:34 GMT -5
Honestly, you can't do it any better than the fossil fuels industry for both situations. They have products that they campaign (by working against renewable energy or nuclear power) to protect. These products, due to their prevalence of use in essentially every industry, are currently necessary for our current way of life to exist. So this industry has products that pretty much everyone relies on and can't avoid buying, ensuring that they'll be making trillions of dollars and effectively control the global economy.
In terms of destruction, by preventing the proper implementation of alternative fuel sources and the constant release of pollutants (especially CO2), they make it so our planet is slowly becoming less and less able to support us. In a worst case scenario, we won't be able to support ourselves in the new environments that are being formed on our planet due to global climate change.
Grade: C8H18 points
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Post by steamtech on Jul 14, 2014 8:45:45 GMT -5
Step 1: Acquire a majority share in the largest producers of coffee, tea, chocolate, and soda.
Step 2: Use the money from the companies to invest in detox clinics
Step 3: Create retrovirus that rewrites the genetic sequence for caffeine
Step 4: Stockpile dry caffeine goods
Step 5: Release retrovirus among the crops. Cease production of caffeinated goods.
Step 6: Make exorbitant profit from stockpiled goods, as well as detox clinics that give (temporary) treatments that allow the body to process caffeine's new structure
Step 7: Functional Caffeine becomes a highly sought after trade good and commodity, of which you are the only source
Step 8: Economic takeover
Grade: Jitters and two pounds of decaf
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Post by Kashiro on Jul 19, 2014 5:32:14 GMT -5
Rule through kindness - i.e. create a giant, self-sustaining isolated economy on a floating base. Offer jobs and precedent-setting incentives i.e. healthcare, leisure options, travel options, benefits etc. Do not brand yourself as a villain. End up becoming a large self-supported economy. Create a second one. Let your reputation from the first base smooth the way to a fully functional second one. Continue until the vast majority of the world's population depends on you.
Through insanity (and using my power) - using ability to move things through shadows, slightly move a large number of objects and/or furniture in a random direction by one inch. Move across the globe, keeping to midnight. Rinse and repeat, only hitting various locations once before moving on, waiting til they are used to the new locations of the furniture, and move them again. Rise, repeat.
Through economic powerhouse. Use power to gain large sums of money by transporting expensive goods/people. After gaining enough wealth, acquire a small company in a random sector. Blackmail and corrupt the major companies inside-out, then reveal it to the public, allowing the major players to be brought down low, just low enough to be bought out by a small, relatively new company headed by yours truly. Repeat every couple of years, every time putting a mole into major government agencies a random number of months before or after the acquisition. Continue until you single-handedly control the entire economy, and the government to boot.
Using my power again - Create almost infinite freshwater by teleporting underground freshwater into dams or above-ground lakes. Make grand announcements to the press before doing so, then dramatically dump all the water into the dams. Use powers again to transfer smog and/or air pollution from the environment and let it settle somewhere in an underground location. This will destabilise the tides, clear all the air and remove airborne particles like oxygen from the atmosphere, making breathing difficult. Finally, threaten to release all the smog back into the atmosphere in one single location, suck it up and repeat unless appeased. Also threaten worldwide drought, as if you can give them water you can take it away.
Grade: Two diabolicals.
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Post by Erika on Jul 19, 2014 11:55:01 GMT -5
Through insanity (and using my power) - using ability to move things through shadows, slightly move a large number of objects and/or furniture in a random direction by one inch. Move across the globe, keeping to midnight. Rinse and repeat, only hitting various locations once before moving on, waiting til they are used to the new locations of the furniture, and move them again. Rise, repeat I get most of the plan, but how does this tie in? Sounds like a hint of madness in an otherwise calculating endeavor. |
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Post by Kashiro on Jul 19, 2014 18:39:41 GMT -5
Through insanity (and using my power) - using ability to move things through shadows, slightly move a large number of objects and/or furniture in a random direction by one inch. Move across the globe, keeping to midnight. Rinse and repeat, only hitting various locations once before moving on, waiting til they are used to the new locations of the furniture, and move them again. Rise, repeat I get most of the plan, but how does this tie in? Sounds like a hint of madness in an otherwise calculating endeavor. This is the destruction plan - sorry, it's actually 4 different plans. |
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Post by Twitch on Jul 24, 2014 22:09:26 GMT -5
One word: Blackmail.
I can see lies from body language. The trick would be first getting protection so I'm not murdered by my victims.
Ideally I would attach myself to a power (corporation/government agency/mob) and let them benefit from my gifts. All the time I gather secrets and a supply of favors. Maintaining popularity will also be important. Later I would state a coup and start engulfing key members of the ruling class - this is where the blackmail gets nasty. Board room meetings are the perfect way to keep my finger on the pulse of my powerbase and 'friendly' chats just give me more insight.
It would be a slow process by I could probably become a 'king-maker' before long age gets me. If an assassin gets me it's game over. No reload.
Grade: 2348 Points
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Post by rypperd0c on Jul 25, 2014 10:28:53 GMT -5
(1) Bribe unpopular/unknown member of medical community to publish a report that contradicts proven medical science.
(2) Mass dissemination of solicited report to tabloids, the internet, and other fringe media outlets.
(3) Trick minor celebrity into believing and endorsing the solicited report, causing it to be disseminated further.
(4) Create fake organization(s) that "Make it our goal to make sure the government and big business come clean of the conspiracy." playing on unthinking peoples' fears
(5) Use minor celebrity to promote organization(s), in spite of fact that original report has been discredited and the person paid to write it has been shamed and cast out of the medical field.
(6) Make fortune from donations to organization(s) to fight government and big business.
(7) Laugh all the way to the bank at the gullibility of the masses as I prey upon their fear and reduce the effectiveness of their government.
Grade: Smallpox
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Post by cannonshop on Mar 30, 2016 3:22:55 GMT -5
1. Collect blackmail material on all major political machines and players in the region.
2. eliminate the ones with a backbone, either by engineering/revealing scandals, or manufacturing them, or 'Making it look like an accident'.
3. Target the minority party for a takeover while subtly 'encouraging' misdeeds by the majority.
4. When sufficient quantity of misdeeds can be attributed to the other side...engineer a string of revelations of their misconduct, targeting everything from disconnects in their personal moral behaviours, to their finances, to their actions in and out of office.
5. finance youtube and whisper campaigns to promote this.
6. engineer a campaign finance scandal of some kind, linking them to any number of currently-unfashionable misdeeds.
7. This will destroy their ability to win the election.
8. run for office in my civilian role. Observe the "Evil Overlord List" faithfully as I corrupt the electoral process to secure my win.
9. Repeat steps 1-8, while suborning the civil services of each level by 'removing' or ruining the careers of opponents, enemies, and possible hindrances.
10. arrange for specific exemptions for my own (Legal) interests, while imposing additional taxes, regulations, and harassment on potential competitors at each stage of the game (do this legally on the surface. I think a bit of mind-control or blackmail to make sure it gets rammed through and rammed home.)
11. generate or stage threats to my civilian identity, enlist heroes to protect that identity, start working to corrupt them both indirectly (for the strong ones) and directly (for those with skeletons or weaknesses that can be indulged or exploited), this works to broaden my civilian self's power and influence via the imposition of laws and measures 'for security'.
12. "Bread and circuses"-make sure there are harmless 'scandals' from my 'opponents' to make them look foolish, while spreading plenty of public money around to motivate the 'average' to liking me.
13. start a few wars, as unequal as possible, use "humanitarian" claims, place sycophants and those I can control in power in the defeated countries. Rinse and repeat as necessary to encourage "Security thinking" and get the people to accept increasingly draconian measures...from both (or the majority of) the major parties. Once people begin surrendering their rights in fear, it's easier to get them to surrender MORE.
14. At a certain point, it is necessary to create a 'crisis'-one large one, with measures that the people, already adapted to accepting increased central control over their lives, will embrace to eliminate the last of their potential avenues to resist. Maybe arrange for lower-end operatives to engage in domestic terrorism, for example, or just set up some school shootings with tragic (but predictable) results. the important point, is to have the people grant me control out of fear of one another, or mistrust of any movement or leadership that might actually successfully oppose me.
The basic idea, is to promote disorder and disorganization among my opponents, while subverting the 'legitimate' engine of governance and society to my own ends, probalby over a period of ten to twenty years. Once it is accomplished, promote similar processes in other countries until I have a sufficient level of clout and power to use military means to finish the rest.
The final step, of course, is to purge the 'true believers' and any subordinates that could challenge my rule, social position, or status. By then, enough of the populace will either support me, or be so apathetic it amounts to the same thing.
Grade: 2 equal but opposing Superpacs
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