History Headscratchers / SchlockMercenary

*** Either way, the short version is that they don't use antimatter alone as a fuel.

****** Ordinary matter is [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-02-15 compressed gravitically until it becomes neutronium]]. They then use some magical technology to annihilate this neutronium (perhaps by converting neutrons into antineutrons). In any case, "annihilation" implies a total conversion.

** To my recollection, only the UNS (and the residents of Petey's space-Australia) actually knows Petey can ignore teraport interdiction. Further, only Tagon was party to Tailor's method of arrival, and he's both [[HeKnowsTooMuch too bright]] and not bright enough to question where Tailor came from, especially in the frazzled state he was in at the time. The rest of the crew likely assumed he just went and bought Tailor to get him a new suit as a self-birthday present.

** It was actually more like 100% casualties, if you count the fact that ''every'' starship allowed into the Fleetmind refused to leave it at the end. However, nobody sent more than about half their navy, and ''everybody'' got their ships stolen, so the balance of power is intact.

*** When antimatter meets matter they are both converted into energy... to convert neutronium into energy, you use anti neutronium (unless they have some magical way to do so in the strip without using antimatter). What he is actually producing is fullerene bottles with anti matter inside. The antimatter inside the fullerine can be carried around (say, in bags), if the fullerine bottles are destroyed then it annihilates. This is neither an economics nor a thermodynamics fail, building a bomb costs more energy then the bomb will release, that is a given and a price of creating a weapon.

* In the "Board of Accidental Tourism" arc, we find that even a minuscule annie-plant explosion could [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-08-10 level a city, or make a volcano erupt]]. Later on, the minitank-grade plant in Elf's tank [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-11-04 blows right under her, and all it does is take off her feet]].

** Their memories were wiped. All they remember is the fake wedding. This might turn out to be a plot point. It is, at the very least, effective use of irony.

* In the "Board of Accidental Tourism" arc, we find that even a minuscule annie-plant explosion could [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-08-10level a city, or make a volcano erupt]]. Later on, the minitank-grade plant in Elf's tank [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-11-04 blows right under her, and all it does is take off her feet]].

* The baryonic people genocided the dark matter people over a form of transportation. They can communicate. The baryonic people know how to stop terraporting.
** A: If you mean by teraporting, the strip's only said it "pollutes their space," not "kills them." It's never been made clear just how much damage the teraport was doing. B: If you mean by the attack in the core, the only Pa'anuri who were killed were soldiers sent to ensure the destruction of the Milky Way; they're from Andromeda, remember? C: The F'sherl-gaani ''did'' stop teraporting. The Pa'anuri responded with a time bomb, a hundred thousand years before the humans started again. D: There's one r in "teraport" (tera-, trillion, as in the trillions of wormholes it opens), and "genocide" isn't a verb.