An Aura of Invincibility

One of the elements I want do make sure gets across during the Galveston visit is the sheer endurance possessed of a Wyrm SDS system.  I can certainly have the tour guide do that, talking about how any single section of the ship could be entirely destroyed and the ship would remain combat-capable, or about how the internal bulkheads are capable to containing any non-nuclear explosion with ease, but that would only be talk.  I  would like to create a scene demonstrating just how tough a nut to crack this ship will be.

My immediate thought is a yard accident -- an explosion of some description  that would vaporize a lesser ship goes almost unnoticed aboard  the Wyrm.  Doing so during fitting out might be awkward, however -- fuel bunkers and magazines, the primary causes of BattleTech explosions, would be almost empty.

Better, I can leverage the Terran Resistance again, making a move against the ship.  Possibly even have an encounter with the St. Louis chapter that's being confused with the party.  A major attack with BattleTech-scale assets, perhaps aerial bombers, that does minimal damage to the still-under-construction hulk.

The Wyrm has 150 armor and 150CF per hex, so a bomb load dropped by an aircraft (maximum of 20 10-point bombs), strip the armor but not destroy the hex.  If we're looking at an altitude-bombing attack, the bombers could do at most 20 damage to each hex, meaning that it would take 8 aircraft in a line to break the armor.   Given the ship is being fitted out, I think we can presume there is less than full armor applied.

In the midst of the tour, then, I'll have a flight of three atmospheric aircraft overfly the Wyrm's berth and drop payload on it.  There will be minimal warning to the characters -- this is a surprise attack designed to take advantage of the number of TerraSec personnel present.  The Wyrm will be minimally damaged by  the attack, but there may be significant causalities among the workers.

This scene will drive home the external invulnerability of the ship, and hopefully convince the party that they need to find a way to stop this vessel from launching if at all possible.