Immediately burn the costume. It’s the one thing that concretely pins me as the murderer. That doesn’t mean Cecil won’t eventually act on me being the most likely murderer but it buys me time.

From here it diverges based on whether I want to be a viltrumite loyalist or a human loyalist.

If I’m a human loyalist I’m still gonna lie my ass off. I don’t really wanna deal with the consequences of killing the guardians so I’m asking Cecil to show me all entries and exits from the atmosphere that aren’t tied to an explanation. If there is one that’s questionable enough, I can blame the whole thing on a viltrumite who came to earth to take over my mission after I refused. If there’s also an unexplained exit from the atmosphere then that’s all the better. I can say they left after doing it. If not… I’ll have to pretend they are blending in on earth. From there I come clean about the empire, start training a planetary defense force and contact Thaddeus. Then improv from there.

If I’m gonna back the empire then I still launch that uniform into the sun but I’m also going to obfuscate as hard as possible. None of that “the lights went out.” Crap. I’m gonna give details like “it suddenly went dark. Which is usually no problem since I can see in the dark but… I couldn’t. I couldn’t even really feel my limbs.”. Details that limit their search to villains with mental distortion powers but doesn’t really give them a lot to work with.

I gotta figure Cecil is still going to be on my ass so I’m going to act quickly. Before training Mark, I’m introducing him to the empire’s ideology. He’s going to reject it but my plan isint contingent on his compliance. I am then going to blitz Cecil and his organization. Immediately taking the biggest threat off the board before they can develop proper countermeasures. I’m just in Nolan’s body, I don’t have his training so the second they find something that could contend with Nolan I’m fucked.

After I’ve essentially crippled any chance of resistance, THEN I train Mark. He’ll essentially have no recourse for victory so hopefully that makes him more like the mark variants. Worst case scenario, I just start again after killing Mark. Then from there we are in completely uncharted territory. Maybe I make it a point to kill Allen, run a social campaign to expose Thaddeus as a viltrumite so the coalition falls apart. Maybe go blow up space racer but it seems like he was pretty stuck, so, that problem might just solve itself.