<div class="floatright">(http://orig10.deviantart.net/3f32/f/2012/002/5/6/dust_and_smoke_by_shimmering_sword-d4l4dg7.jpg)</div>Name: Darclight<br/>Where: Simport City Harbor<br/>Doing What: Well, FUCK<br/>Milestones: Riders on the Storm and Peeling the Onion<br/>1 PP | 0 Physical | 0 Mental | 0 Emotional | 25xp<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body"></div></div><hr/><br/>No body.  And definitive proof that he wasn't just bedridden and in hiding somewhere.  A totally toasted body.  That did not leave a lot of options open for explaining how he had talked to someone that was dead.  But Darclight understood something, that you could live and not be a biologic.  Khaj himself was proof of that.<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">"There's only two realistic options.  The first is that it <em>is</em> actually Ghost.  That he managed to pull some sort of consciousness upload, though to <em>what</em> I haven't the slightest idea.  The Internet?  One of Stormwatch's old servers?  Something else?  Ghost's body might be gone, but in theory his mind could have escaped death at the last possible moment.  That would almost assuredly be the ultimate in faking your own death.  And for someone like Ghost, it would be near-ultimate immortality and omnipresence.  He was teleoperating a Stormwatch Black drone...or could he have transplanted his own consciousness into it?  It was definitely not your standard model."</tt><br/><br/>Then came the other one.<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">"The second option is far...far less positive.  Which is to say that I was talking to someone who could impersonate Ghost well enough to fool someone who was acquainted with him, but not highly familiar with him.  Not only that, someone highly familiar with Zohar, CHESS, and the superhuman scene here on Earth.  Maybe the UnSub managed to get access to some pretty hefty files,"</tt>Darclight used the term Unknown Subject, something he had picked off of Gunvolt.<tt class="bbc_tt"> "But impersonating Ghost is not an easy task...which is where the uncomfortable aspects of this option come into play.  The only persons I would consider able to pull off something of that nature would be...ex-members of Stormwatch.  And not even all of them.  Black Team members would be at the top of that list, as well as our ex-Weatherman, our human liaison with the rest of the world."</tt><br/><br/>His pinging to the Space Hopper to get connected to Boushh's ship became more frequent, now.<tt class="bbc_tt">"If we are dealing with an imposter, there's only two people formerly of Stormwatch that I could think of who could spot them.  One is an ex-teammate of mine.  Kaitlyn Todd, or Gunvolt, as she's known in the super community.  Out of all of Red Team, she's the one who hung out with Black in her off-hours when she could.  If anyone on Red Team knows Ghost, it's her.  The other is Night Owl, who was a part of Black Team at one point.  I haven't the slightest idea how I would get in touch with them, though."</tt>