Plan Twenty-Three



Plan Twenty-Three is an idea created by Daedalus to activate certain automatons he planted in New York.

The First Idea
In The Battle of the Labyrinth Daedalus gives Annabeth, his half sister, his laptop which is full of his ideas, inventions and theories. In this computer, Annabeth discovered that Daedalus had a brilliant idea — Almost every statue in New York is an Automaton that will do whatever you want if you press it in a special location and say the Authorization Code. Percy and Annabeth are unsure if the statues were meant to help the Gods, or to help the Titans because they knew that Daedalus did not have a side in the war and has never really had a side. He did say he was going to help Luke until he turned and helped the Gods by killing himself to destroy the Labyrinth to keep Camp Half-Blood safe.

Authorization Code/Phrase
To activate the statues in New York, you must press their activation button on them (William H. Seward, as seen in the picture to the right, has his activation button on his shoe.) To give him an order you must say "Daedalus Twenty-Three" then say what you want the statue to do. For example in The Last Olympian when Annabeth is activating William H. Seward she says "Defend Manhattan, Begin Activation." After that, it got up and started the Activation of other statues all over Manhattan. When Percy was chasing the Clazmonian Sow, he activated a Statue of Hermes as well as the two Lions in front of the library who were activated to "Kill Flying Pigs, Begin Activation". It is unknown how to change their current commands.

Pros

 * An army that is at your disposal and will do whatever you want.
 * There are many of these statues in Manhattan.
 * Made of stone, marble, steel, and bronze so they are all hard to break which could prove powerful and durable in combat.

Cons

 * Automatons are very unpredictable.
 * They could malfunction and destroy themselves or their activators.
 * Could join the Titans and all the Pros would then become cons.
 * After given an order, they will continue to follow that order and only that order. (eg. An 'attack flying pigs' order will result in them only attacking flying pigs)

The Last Olympian
The demigods activate Plan Twenty-Three to assist them in The Battle of Manhattan. They are seen helping the demigods throughout the battle.

When Kronos sent the Clazmonian Sow out on the Demigod army, Percy was the only one to battle it. Percy and his pegasi Blackjack fortunately killed the Sow, but it was not until Percy activated the Hermes statue and the Lion statues to "kill flying pigs" using Daedalus Twenty-Three. The automatons then killed it.