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"use of extreme stealth"

Location:
Earth ("present day early C21st" and places in the Future and Past) and somewhere in the space between Earth and Proxima (C50th)

Teams:
the Papal Mainframe Silence vs the Glyph

Players:
the Papal Mainframe's Confessors aka Silents vs the Glyph

Comparison:

The Silents (Dr Who, 2011) (wiki)

The Silents are perceived only while being viewed, and they are instantly forgotten once a viewer looks away.
Silents are members of the religious order known as the Church of the Papal Mainframe, being genetically engineered by the Church to serve as confessional priests, with their memory erasing abilities incorporated so that confessors forget they ever confessed in the first place.

quango-note:
Within the series, it is heavily implied that there is a similar Observer Effect as was "witnessed" with the Weeping Angels, in that recording devices are also affected by them -- Weeping Angels can transfer through and even replicate through or "possess" electronic devices, while a recording of a Silent in any format will fade after a few moments.
Despite the problem of signal deterioration that media-fading implies, a signal was encoded in an electronic format that would be distributed for all-time-eternal following July 1969 despite this conflicting with sequences in the story due to Steven Moffat
Quantum Quantum QUANTUM Quantum Quantum.
Anyway, the Silent are a brilliant idea unlike any other ever ...

The Glyph (the Ballad of Halo Jones, book 2, 1985)

The Glyph was a person who took advantage of Fiftieth Century Earth's medical technology to re-mould his-or-her self's body 47 (forty-seven) times unable to find satisfaction in either gender identity.
The technology is not gone into in detail but appears to have eighty-six'd and had an erasing effect on distinctive physical and genetic characteristics which left the Glyph without a distinct appearance or personality causing people, animals and electronic devices to be unable to register "their" presence most of the time.
During the period when the Glyph was now unable to function in society, "they" managed to travel without needing identity documents, were always capable of feeding themself by taking whatever they wanted and were able to stay in any location wherever they wanted as no one could focus on their existence.
Sweet!

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"use of extreme stealth"

the Glyph from Halo Jones (book two) out of that there 2000AD magazine

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(You don't blow-up the bridge, you blow-up the road to the bridge. Likewise with powerplants.)

The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus -- chapter 21

He was a good and experienced climber. I would have stopped for breath by this time. He just went at it hand over hand at a steady pace. Reached the junction of the four legs. That should be it. But no, he went on until he appeared to be as high as the cables pendant from their immense insulators. Then he stopped. A dark smudge against the bright metal of the tower.
And seemed to remain there for an awfully long time.
I don’t know much clock time passed before he started back down. Subjective time seemed to last and last. And then I could see that he was moving back down, surely and steadily. He jumped the last few meters, smiling and wiping the grit from his hands.
“A piece of cake. Timed to blow in two hours.”
“We’ll have a front seat for the show.”
“We will indeed.”

...

“Just about time-” Bolivar said when the ball of flame flared out. Changed to dark billows of smoke.
For long moments nothing happened. The copter bumped a bit when the sound of the explosion reached us.
“Now,” Bolivar said.
And it was going. The top of the tower was bending, falling almost gracefully. Then the giant insulators began to turn and twist, the immense cables stirring and writhing. Falling.
I could see lightning spear out as the falling cables broke, twisting as though in pain. Twisted and fell, faster and faster, followed by the ruined tower. Splashing down into the sea in great furrows of waves that stretched across the width of the channel.

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Next Week!

The thrilling origin of "Boing!" and the conclusion to that particular #AlternateWars thread.