mangaluva wrote:
If they're going to defeat the BO, it's going to be a slow chip-away thing. Defeat a few small-time members, luck into some info about larger members, start catching a few of them until you find some bigger info... It's not going to happen in one blow.
Even if they get the boss, it's not going to get all of them. Some chancer'll step into the big spot. You'd need to take out him and all of his important associates at once, then try to get some lesser members... however it happens, it's not happening fast.
I don't know, I think if we knew what exactly they were after then a single blow may or may not be realistic. It does not appear to be money (for it's own sake) or power in any traditional way. Also, there are a lot of costs associated with they way they operate; for instance, they cannot grow or replenish their ranks very quickly. Whatever they are after, though, they are fanatical about; they all seem to prefer death to being captured. So, if they are united for something that can be permanently denied, then they are stoppable with one stroke. If the leadership changes, they may change their operational philosophy. For that matter if they get exposed to the world, they may have a very hard time existing. (Why on earth would they take secrecy to the extreme they do, when in a lot of ways it is a self defeating effort? There should be some good reason they are so afraid of being known.)
It could even be as simple as the organization has been hoodwinked by the boss, and exposing his true plans will cause an internal revolt. I just hope the BO gets resolved sooner rather than later, since things just seem to be dragging on, and I don't think the story is ever going to get really dark, which is the only fresh way I could see things going if they BO sticks around.
