Justifying the Expense

The exact reason TerraSec wants this Wyrm is shrouded in mystery.

The exact mission that TerraSec intends to use the vessel for is confused -- in fact, nobody at the tour actually knows.  The TerraSec personnel understand that people above them are expecting these unit to help in law enforcement but are skeptical of its actual use.  They're wary that this is an extension of the same thinking that put BattleMechs on patrol in city streets.   The builders are simply proud of this remarkable platform they've built.  The Word of Blake Militia represented at the tour are extremely skeptical of TerraSec's need for the ship, and do no wish to release it to their care.

As mentioned yesterday, it will quickly become obvious that the Wyrm is a warship, not particularly suited to law enforcement.  The base justification for this profile is that during planetary lockdowns, such as the one during Case White, TerraSec is charged with enforcing the no-fly zone covering the planet, but their atmospheric fighters could not stop an orbit-bound DropShip from escaping the planet unless those fighters happened to be very fortuitously placed during its launch.

This mission profile holds very little water and could much more effectively and economically be accomplished with aerospace fighters, but for the moment that is the comeback argument when TerraSec is prodded about this ship.  Despite not knowing the true motivation, the interaction between the WoBM  and TerraSec members will make the TerraSec personnel compelled to defend the decision, despite not agreeing with it.  These arguments will actually do more to solidify the middle-management layer of TerraSec that acquiring the ship is a good idea -- without really consciously doing so, they'll want to have the ship just because the WoBM doesn't want them to have it.  This interaction is perhaps the most important story point of the session -- it will give insight not only into intra-Terran relations between the two organizations, but will help explain why the lower ranks of TerraSec are slowly getting on board with this plan.