History Fridge / SchlockMercenary

** And for those who think the Pa'anuri did it? They ''were'' the cause of several extinctions and fought several wars with galactic powers at gaps of millions of years before leaving after their treaty with the F'sherl-Ganni, and Petey's main occupation ''is'' his war against them, (and he's stalemated) - but their endgame had been to supercharge the galactic core until it demolished the entire galaxy. The galaxy's still here, hence they never tried that before. ''Something'' periodically annihilates organic life and ''only'' organic life without damaging the basic structure of the galaxy.

** Aaand the [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-07-25 answer]] -- the denoument of Book 17 -- is logical but depressing; Intelligent life, both organic and non, has repeatedly wiped itself out ''specifically because'' immortality turned out to be simple. What's logical about that? Congratulations, troper, you're not the kind of amoral fanatic that enjoys {{Realpolitik}}, tends to end up controlling lots of military hardware, and thus gets '''''REALLY PISSED OFF''''' when all that hardware looks like it is about to become irrelevant because everyone they could threaten with it is immortal. Cue galactic genocide QED. Especially since [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-09-18 Book 18]] is a [[EternalRecurrence re-enactment]]; the victors of a war are ready to start ''another'' war in order to ensure that their enemies '''stay dead.'''

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** Invoked in-universe during the "Broken Wind" arc. The team realizes that the Eina-Afa station would have taken the raw materials of ''several'' solar systems to create - and several '''billion''' years. The sheer scale of engineering and resource harvesting required boggles everyone's mind. And the realization that there is or was someone out there with the technological capability to grind entire star systems down into basic elements and re-process them like this - and the wherewithal to actually ''do it'' - fills them with cosmic dread. One team member equates it as; "[[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-09-14 It's like finding a spent rifle round the size of a house. Somewhere, somebody has a rifle that fires rounds that size.]] And someone has fired it at least once. Worse, the Eina-Afa station is ''broken'' and '''vacant'''; QED the spent rifle round is lying in a pool of mixed arterial and cenous blood - the gun exists, it's been used, and '''''[[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair it wasn't enough to protect its user]].''''' Confirmed [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-02-28 here]] - [[spoiler:the Pa'anuri drove a Franchise/{{Halo}}-[[{{Precursors}} Forerunner]]-[[TechnologyLevels level]] civilization into interstellar space, and ''kept'' them there until their supplies ran out and they were forced to [[BrainUploading store themselves on hard drives]] inside their sanctuary's walls]].

** Alternatively, Ennesby is self-declared as being optimized for consumption and recognition of various media, constantly emits references to anything and everything, has probably seen hundreds if not millions of A.I. rebellions in fiction, and may have read or even contributed to a distant future version of this very website. He's familiar with the concept for the same reason the average tvtropes user would be. Not because he's an A.I. but because he's a giant nerd.

** Aaand the [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-07-25 answer]] is logical but depressing; [[spoiler:Intelligent life, both organic and non, has repeatedly wiped itself out ''specifically because'' immortality turned out to be simple. What's logical about that? Congratulations, troper, you're not the kind of amoral fanatic that enjoys {{Realpolitik}}, tends to end up controlling lots of military hardware, and thus gets '''''REALLY PISSED OFF''''' when all that hardware looks like it is about to become irrelevant because everyone they could threaten with it is immortal. Cue galactic genocide QED]].

*** This one is also sort of odd in that everyone ''knows'' that the Pa'anuri were the cause of several extinctions and fought several wars with galactic powers at gaps of millions of years before leaving after their treaty with the F'sherl-Ganni and only recently returning, but nobody brings this up as the obvious solution. Especially odd since Petey's main occupation is his war against them, which he is losing.

** 1,200,000, 0.0126% mortality, 1 in 7916.

** Invoked in-universe during the "Broken Wind" arc. The team realizes that the Eina-Afa station would have taken the raw materials of ''several'' solar systems to create - and several '''billion''' years. The sheer scale of engineering and resource harvesting required boggles everyone's mind. And the realization that there is or was someone out there with the technological capability to grind entire star systems down into basic elements and re-process them like this - and the wherewithal to actually ''do it'' - fills them with cosmic dread. One team member equates it as; "[[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-09-14 It's like finding a spent rifle round the size of a house. Somewhere, somebody has a rifle that fires rounds that size.]] And someone has fired it at least once. Worse, the Eina-Afa station is ''broken'' and '''vacant'''; QED the spent rifle round is lying in a pool of mixed arterial and venal blood - the gun exists, it's been used, and '''''[[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair it wasn't enough to protect its user]].''''' Confirmed [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-02-28 here]] - [[spoiler:the Pa'anuri drove a Franchise/{{Halo}}-[[{{Precursors}} Forerunner]]-[[TechnologyLevels level]] civilization into interstellar space, and ''kept'' them there until their supplies ran out and they were forced to [[BrainUploading store themselves on hard drives]] inside their sanctuary's walls]].

* Invoked in-universe during the "Broken Wind" arc. The team realizes that the Eina-Afa station would have taken the raw materials of ''several'' solar systems to create - and several '''billion''' years. The sheer scale of engineering and resource harvesting required boggles everyone's mind. And the realization that there is or was someone out there with the technological capability to grind entire star systems down into basic elements and re-process them like this - and the wherewithal to actually ''do it'' - fills them with cosmic dread. One team member equates it as; "[[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-09-14 It's like finding a spent rifle round the size of a house. Somewhere, somebody has a rifle that fires rounds that size.]] And someone has fired it at least once. Worse, the Eina-Afa station is ''broken'' and '''vacant'''; QED the spent rifle round is lying in a pool of mixed arterial and venal blood - the gun exists, it's been used, and '''''[[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair it wasn't enough to protect its user]].''''' Confirmed [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-02-28 here]] - [[spoiler:the Pa'anuri drove a Franchise/{{Halo}}-[[{{Precursors}} Forerunner]]-[[TechnologyLevels level]] civilization into interstellar space, and ''kept'' them there until their supplies ran out and they were forced to [[BrainUploading store themselves on hard drives]] inside their sanctuary's walls]].
** Escalated by proposing the UsefulNotes/FermiParadox implies EternalRecurrence; as far as Yaeyoefui [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-01-11 knows]](and he knows a '''''[[TimeAbyss LOT]]'''''), sapience emerges in the galaxy every few million years, quickly fills the galaxy with life, then disappears just as quickly. The Toughs' [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-01-23 entire lifestyle]] demonstrates sapient life's potential for self-destruction. Petey is [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-02-05 disturbed]] by how he can't find any other immortals in the galaxy, given how easy organic immortality turned out to be - and is worried [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-02-06 super-AIs like himself]] may be the cause.
*** Somewhat un-horrified in hindsight; both organics and machines consider themselves the greatest threat(rather than [[NeverMyFault finding someone to blame]]), and their first priority is now, "How do I stop myself from doing that?"

* Invoked in-universe during the "Broken Wind" arc. The team realizes that the Eina-Afa station would have taken the raw materials of ''several'' solar systems to create - and several '''billion''' years. The sheer scale of engineering and resource harvesting required boggles everyone's mind. And the realization that there is or was someone out there with the technological capability to grind entire star systems down into basic elements and re-process them like this - and the wherewithal to actually ''do it'' - fills them with cosmic dread. One team member equates it as; "[[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-09-14 It's like finding a spent rifle round the size of a house. Somewhere, somebody has a rifle that fires rounds that size.]] And someone has fired it at least once. Worse, the Eina-Afa station is ''broken'' and '''vacant'''; QED the spent rifle round is lying in a pool of mixed arterial and venal blood - the gun exists, it's been used, and '''''[[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair it wasn't enough to protect its user!]]'''''
** Confirmed [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-02-28 here]] - [[spoiler:the Pa'anuri drove a Franchise/{{Halo}}-[[{{Precursors}} Forerunner]]-[[TechnologyLevels level]] civilization into interstellar space, and ''kept'' them there until their supplies ran out and they were forced to [[BrainUploading store themselves on hard drives]] inside their sanctuary's walls]].

* Confirmed [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-02-28 here]] - [[spoiler:the Pa'anuri drove a Franchise/{{Halo}}-[[{{Precursors}} Forerunner]]-[[TechnologyLevels level]] civilization into interstellar space, and ''kept'' them there until their supplies ran out and they were forced to [[BrainUploading store themselves on hard drives]] inside their sanctuary's walls]].

* Invoked in-universe during the "Broken Wind" arc. The team realizes that the Eina-Afa station would have taken the raw materials of ''several'' solar systems to create - and several '''billion''' years. The sheer scale of engineering and resource harvesting required boggles everyone's mind. And the realization that there is or was someone out there with the technological capability to grind entire star systems down into basic elements and re-process them like this - and the wherewithal to actually ''do it'' - fills them with cosmic dread. One team member equates it as; "[[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-09-14 It's like finding a spent rifle round the size of a house. Somewhere, somebody has a rifle that fires rounds that size.]]"
** And someone has fired it at least once.
*** Worse, the Eina-Afa station is ''broken'' and '''vacant'''; QED the spent rifle round is lying in a pool of mixed arterial and venal blood - the gun exists, it's been used, and '''''[[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair it wasn't enough to protect its user!]]'''''

* Invoked in-universe during the "Broken Wind" arc. The team realizes that the Eina-Afa station would have taken the raw materials of ''several'' solar systems to create - and several '''billion''' years. The sheer scale of engineering and resource harvesting required boggles everyone's mind. And the realization that there is or was someone out there with the technological capability to grind entire star systems down into basic elements and re-process them like this - and the wherewithal to actually ''do it'' - fills them with cosmic dread. One team member equates it as; [["http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-09-14 It's like finding a spent rifle round the size of a house. Somewhere, somebody has a rifle that fires rounds that size."]]

* Invoked in-universe during the "Broken Wind" arc. The team realizes that the Eina-Afa station would have taken the raw materials of ''several'' solar systems to create. The sheer scale of engineering and resource harvesting required boggles everyone's mind. And the realization that there is or was someone out there with the technological capability to grind entire star systems down into basic elements and re-process them like this - and the wherewithal to actually ''do it'' - fills them with cosmic dread. One team member equates it to finding a spent shotgun shell the size of a house; somewhere there's a gun out there ''that big,'' and someone has fired it at least once.
** Worse, the Eina-Afa station is ''broken'' and '''vacant''' - the gun exists, it's been used, and '''''[[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair it wasn't enough to protect its user!]]'''''

* In [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-03-01 this comic]], we see Doyt accusing the original doctor of the Toughs of disguising himself as a woman, changing body shape, size, gender, and even skin color. In reality, the one he's accusing is Dr. Bunnigus, but it's played off as Doyt being a moron. Except that later, we see that the technology to do this [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-12-28 absolutely exists,]] and is used ''en masse'' by the Gavs. It doesn't end well, but the tech definitely exists, which means that Doyt's accusation might not be quite as stupid as the readers initially thought. Still wrong, of course, but it removes the accusation from the realm of "Doyt is so stupid he's reinterpreting the nature of reality to fit a preconcieved notion" to "Doyt suggesting something reasonable, if in the wrong context."

** [=LOTA=] is the [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-06-12 Longshoreman Of The Apocalypse]]; all [=LOTA=] wants to do is transport resources to [=LOTA=]'s creators as efficiently as possible - even if that means transporting all thirty million of [=LOTA=]'s population to a terraformed paradise where they have no more need for [=LOTA=]'s services. [=LOTA=] then retrofits the former habitat as the biggest friggin' gun in the universe, thus returning to [=LOTA=]'s original function - a tank. Now [=LOTA=]'s name stands for the [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-12-20 LongGUNNER Of The Apocalypse.]]

* Looking back it became apparent that everything that has happened, right up to the current story can be traced back as early as the second strip. No, not the second comic in the current story, ''the second strip in the comic!''

* [[LateToThePunchline It took me a while to realize]] that the book titled "Emperor Pius Dei" wasn't just a reference to Petey being a virtual god. ''Its initials are "PD."'' It took me ''five years'' to realize that. Also, "Pius Dei" translates approximately to "dutiful god." It's a mission statement.

* In Book 11, Kevyn orders Pi to blow up Lota if Kevyn ever gives Pi the code phrase, "Bake me a Chupaqueso". At first it seemed like FridgeLogic- chupaquesos are fried, not baked, but then it hit me: Because chupaquesos aren't baked, there's no chance of Kevyn giving to code phrase to Pi accidentally.

* I just got that Petey didn't lie to the Tricameral Assembly about what was about to happen to them: [[JediTruth he just didn't mention that the frigate with the comically large orbital lance had nothing to do with it.]]

* In the "Massively Parallel" story arc, the company had been split up into four commands. "Mallcop Command", under Captain Tagon, had to deal with a group of punks practicing Parkata Urbatsu, a martial art that evolved from "[[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20100307.html the ancient disciplines of Parkour, urbobatics and something called Youtubing]]". The description seems like a throwaway joke until it's revealed that both the punks and Lieutenant Shodan, who was training the troops in Parkata Urbatsu, had set up cameras to capture their stunts, which they planned on editing and making public. The cameras are an integral part of Parkata Urbatsu too!
** Also - the costumes worn by Kathryn's Parkata Urbatsu allies in that episode make them honest-to-Petey [[http://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/ mall ninjas.]] I forget how long it took me to get that one. - Alberich