Finally, we were able to take the fight to the Robber Baron, rather than continuing to play a reactive role. Anticipating his attack on the shipments coming into Lakeport to replace the commodities he had already stolen, we devised a plan to track him back to his lair, suspecting it was fairly close to the city. We were not disappointed. He had apparently built some kind of mobile island with a cloaking device on it, and had parked it out in the middle of Lake Michigan. From there, he had been launching his attacks on Lakeport without much fear of detection and without the need for long-range travel by his minions.
Thankfully, with the assistance of some of our more official crime-fighting counterparts, we found this lair and were able to storm it, recovering the stolen goods and rendering the base inoperable. By inoperable, of course, I mean full of water at about 900 feet down in a 22,000 square mile lake. We also faced some of his newest creations and showed them to be as inadequate as the prior versions, though they did show some interesting technological advancements I will need to study further. We also faced several supers he seems to have brought in specifically for base security, and were able to take them down as well. We weren't able to capture the Robber Baron himself, but I think it will likely be a long time before he attacks Lakeport again, seeing that the cost/benefit is certainly no longer in his favor.
Shai taishite haidoku.
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