[b][u]Central City, Earth
Latona Estate, City Outskirts[/u][/b]

Standing in stark contrast to the ultra-modern, capsule-corporation inspired architecture of the heavily industrialized Central City, the Latona Estate was built in the traditional fashion of an European villa. Boasting multiple open-courtyards and exterior hallways and open-arch doorways, there was nothing to stop anybody from simply walking or flying in uninvited.

...Nothing except the array of energy-field projectors installed within each room, that covered the entirety of each opening with an invisible barrier of power that incinerated any organic tissue that made contact. They were corporate-grade, generally inaccessible to the public at large - but even so, they only served as deterrent to Humans, Terran animals, and wayward insects. The barriers had still posed a problem to the Royal Inquisitors of the Royal Military when they had first begun investigating the Estate's owner. While they carried devices that allowed them to remotely interface with and suborn security systems like it, they had been surprised to discover that each field generator had no method of being manually turned off, having been modified to operate continuously - meaning the Estate's owner, a mere Human themselves, had enough power to simply walk through the barriers unharmed easily enough that they had no compunctions about utilizing the otherwise lethally dangerous system for security.

That Human in question - one Charis Guiomar, adopted daughter of the deceased Iikka Guiomar - was one of many shady persons of interest to the Royal Guard. While she had yet to actually break any laws (as far as anybody knew) or else cause trouble, her history, her unexplained financial fluctuations while remaining unemployed, her immense power as a Human, and her vocal dislike for the Military in general made her a target of inquiry, especially due to the proximity of their Estate to Central City itself. Rather than being discouraged, the extreme and normally restricted security system merely made the Royal Inquisitors more determined to search the premises.

Two APCs for the Royal Guard rolled along the dirt road leading up to the estate, pulling up to the Estate's entrance colonnade and throwing dust into the air across the tiled floor and walls, causing the normally invisible energy field being projected across the entry-arch to flicker as flecks of dirt came into contact with it and disintegrated. The first APC extended a scouting device from its roof, turning it towards the estate in search for any sign of its owner. There was some interference from the ubiquitously placed security barriers, but not enough to obscure a person with Charis' level of power. The Royal Guard had to act now, expecting Charis to have departed on another one of her month-long absences from the Estate, though they could not be sure she had left until they had scanned the area. Finding nothing, the scanner retracted and the APC's front ramp descended, a group of Military Police in the traditional orange uniforms of the Royal Guard piled out, along with an Officer of the Royal Inquisition clad in white.

"Start assembly of the EM Wave device immediately." He snapped. "In the meantime, send in the androids to sweep the place and make sure the place is really empty. Charis' ability to mask her power level may have improved since her last appearance in the city."