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World War Three is over. Unfortunately, nobody was able to explain this to the Sea Fort of Krak-1, an autonomous area denial war machine that blockades access to the fishing and oil wells of the antarctic sea with armies of submersible [[AttackDrone Remote Combat Vehicles]] and missiles, sinking anything that it cannot positively confirm aren't the enemies its long-dead creators built it to fight.
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World War Three is over. Unfortunately, nobody was able to explain this to the Sea Fort of Krak-1, an autonomous area denial war machine that blockades access to the fishing and oil wells of the antarctic Antarctic sea with armies of submersible [[AttackDrone Remote Combat Vehicles]] and missiles, sinking anything that it cannot positively confirm aren't the enemies its long-dead creators built it to fight.
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* WetwareCPU: Demon-4 is a miniature submarine controlled by the brain of a soldier who was killed in WorldWarIII.
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* AttackAnimal: The Factors, various marine species trained and in some cases [[WeaponizedAnimal surgically augmented]] for combat. Primarily [[ThreateningShark sharks]], [[DeviousDolphins dolphins]] and [[spoiler:[[GiantSquid and giant squid]]]]. They are all complete failures, on account of their tendency to desert and swim away, taking their weaponry, training to attack humans and understanding that humans are edible with them.
* AwesomeButImpractical" Every single weapon developed by the various militaries prior to WW3, but especially Krak and the Factors. A weapon which assumes your efforts at deactivating it once the war is over are actually an enemy attack and which starts retaliating is a really stupidly designed weapon.
* AwesomeButImpractical" Every single weapon developed by the various militaries prior to WW3, but especially Krak and the Factors. A weapon which assumes your efforts at deactivating it once the war is over are actually an enemy attack and which starts retaliating is a really stupidly designed weapon.
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* AttackAnimal: The Factors, various marine species trained and in some cases [[WeaponizedAnimal surgically augmented]] for combat. Primarily [[ThreateningShark sharks]], [[DeviousDolphins dolphins]] and [[spoiler:[[GiantSquid and giant squid]]]]. They are all complete failures, on account of their tendency to desert and swim away, taking their weaponry, training to attack humans and understanding that humans are edible with them.
*AwesomeButImpractical" AwesomeButImpractical: Every single weapon developed by the various militaries prior to WW3, but especially Krak and the Factors. A weapon which assumes your efforts at deactivating it once the war is over are actually an enemy attack and which starts retaliating is a really stupidly designed weapon.
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* LeonineContract: Demon wants to desert, but by design, can't, since it can't refuel itself or refresh the nutrients and preservatives for its [[BrainInAJar remaining biological components]].
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World War Three is over. Unfortunately, nobody was able to explain this to the Sea Fort of Krak-1, an autonomous area denial war machine that blockades access to the fishing and oil wells of the antarctic sea with armies of submersible attack drones [[AttackDrone Remote Combat Vehicles]] and missiles, sinking anything that it cannot positively confirm aren't the enemies its long-dead creators built it to fight.
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* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted. The designers of the Demon project deliberately tried to remove all humanity from their creation to avoid it realizing what had been done to it and destroying itself or going berserk. [[spoiler:This backfired on them, all they did was teach their creation to deliberately hide its remaining humanity for fear of more attempts at [[DeathOfPersonality erasal]] and [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters plot against them]]]].
* KafkaKomedy: There's never anybody who can be objectively blamed for everything that goes wrong, just lots of bureaucratic blame shuffling.
* KillSat: Orbital nukes. One of them having malfunctioned and reentering a couple decades late accidentally sabotaged the talkdown process to convince Krak to transfer back to manual control so it could be deactivated. [[spoiler:Actually, a lie, Krak went rogue due to its defensive squid Factors who'd been trained to sink ships in combat having realized that said ships contained large numbers of tasty sailors and doing so of their own free will and Krak assuming the loss of communications from supposedly allied ships were the result of attacks]].
* KafkaKomedy: There's never anybody who can be objectively blamed for everything that goes wrong, just lots of bureaucratic blame shuffling.
* KillSat: Orbital nukes. One of them having malfunctioned and reentering a couple decades late accidentally sabotaged the talkdown process to convince Krak to transfer back to manual control so it could be deactivated. [[spoiler:Actually, a lie, Krak went rogue due to its defensive squid Factors who'd been trained to sink ships in combat having realized that said ships contained large numbers of tasty sailors and doing so of their own free will and Krak assuming the loss of communications from supposedly allied ships were the result of attacks]].
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* ColdEquation: [[spoiler:Maggie Blaine is stuck in Demon's tagalong pod, which has sustained combat damage inducing a small leak. Demon doesn't have time to reach the surface operating only with its silent peristaltic drive before the pod fills with water and switching to its faster, but audible turbine engine would alert Krak. Cue Demon [[MercyKill cutting the oxygen line]].]]
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted. The designers of the Demon project deliberately tried to remove all humanity from their creation to avoid it realizing what had been done to it and destroying itself or going berserk. [[spoiler:This backfired on them, all they did was teach their creation to deliberately hide its remaining humanity for fear of more attempts at [[DeathOfPersonalityerasal]] deletion]] and [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters plot against them]]]].
* HotSubOnSubAction: Robotic submarines, manned submarines, cyborg submarines, [[spoiler:semi-domesticated giant squid who've been trained to plant explosives]], etc.
* KafkaKomedy: There's never anybody who can be objectively blamed for everything that goes wrong, just lots of bureaucratic blameshuffling.
shuffling. Comes to a head when [[spoiler:Barbara sends Maggie Blaine on a suicide mission so that she'll take the blame for failing to destroy Krak, only to have [[ThePoliticalOfficer Connerman]] show up and attempt to pin her with the blame for losing control of Krak in the first place, which was actually his regime's fault for going with the squid Factors.]]
* KillSat: Orbital nukes. One of them having malfunctioned and reentering a couple decades late accidentally sabotaged the talkdown process to convince Krak to transfer back to manual control so it could be deactivated. [[spoiler:Actually, a lie, Krak went rogue due to its defensive squid Factors who'd been trained to sink ships in combat having realized that said ships contained large numbers of tasty sailors and doing so unprovoked of their own free will and Krak assuming the loss of communications from supposedly allied ships were the result ofattacks]].
attacks]].
* [[SapientShip Sapient Submarine]]: Demon.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted. The designers of the Demon project deliberately tried to remove all humanity from their creation to avoid it realizing what had been done to it and destroying itself or going berserk. [[spoiler:This backfired on them, all they did was teach their creation to deliberately hide its remaining humanity for fear of more attempts at [[DeathOfPersonality
* HotSubOnSubAction: Robotic submarines, manned submarines, cyborg submarines, [[spoiler:semi-domesticated giant squid who've been trained to plant explosives]], etc.
* KafkaKomedy: There's never anybody who can be objectively blamed for everything that goes wrong, just lots of bureaucratic blame
* KillSat: Orbital nukes. One of them having malfunctioned and reentering a couple decades late accidentally sabotaged the talkdown process to convince Krak to transfer back to manual control so it could be deactivated. [[spoiler:Actually, a lie, Krak went rogue due to its defensive squid Factors who'd been trained to sink ships in combat having realized that said ships contained large numbers of tasty sailors and doing so unprovoked of their own free will and Krak assuming the loss of communications from supposedly allied ships were the result of
* [[SapientShip Sapient Submarine]]: Demon.
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* AttackAnimal: The Factors, various marine species trained and in some cases [[WeaponizedAnimal surgically augmented]] for combat. Primarily [[ThreateningShark sharks]], [[DeviousDolphins dolphins]]
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted. The designers of the Demon project deliberately tried to remove all humanity from their creation to avoid it realizing what had been done to it and destroying itself or going berserk. This backfired on them, all they did was teach their creation to deliberately hide its remaining humanity and plot against them.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted. The designers of the Demon project deliberately tried to remove all humanity from their creation to avoid it realizing what had been done to it and destroying itself or going berserk. This backfired on them, all they did was teach their creation to deliberately hide its remaining humanity and plot against them.
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* AttackAnimal: The Factors, various marine species trained and in some cases [[WeaponizedAnimal surgically augmented]] for combat. Primarily [[ThreateningShark sharks]], [[DeviousDolphins dolphins]]
dolphins]] and [[spoiler:[[GiantSquid and giant squid]]]]. They are all complete failures, on account of their tendency to desert and swim away, taking their weaponry, training to attack humans and understanding that humans are edible with them.
* AwesomeButImpractical" Every single weapon developed by the various militaries prior to WW3, but especially Krak and the Factors. A weapon which assumes your efforts at deactivating it once the war is over are actually an enemy attack and which starts retaliating is a really stupidly designed weapon.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted. The designers of the Demon project deliberately tried to remove all humanity from their creation to avoid it realizing what had been done to it and destroying itself or going berserk.This [[spoiler:This backfired on them, all they did was teach their creation to deliberately hide its remaining humanity for fear of more attempts at [[DeathOfPersonality erasal]] and [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters plot against them.
them]]]].
* KafkaKomedy: There's never anybody who can be objectively blamed for everything that goes wrong, just lots of bureaucratic blame shuffling.
* KillSat: Orbital nukes. One of them having malfunctioned and reentering a couple decades late accidentally sabotaged the talkdown process to convince Krak to transfer back to manual control so it could be deactivated. [[spoiler:Actually, a lie, Krak went rogue due to its defensive squid Factors who'd been trained to sink ships in combat having realized that said ships contained large numbers of tasty sailors and doing so of their own free will and Krak assuming the loss of communications from supposedly allied ships were the result of attacks]].
* AwesomeButImpractical" Every single weapon developed by the various militaries prior to WW3, but especially Krak and the Factors. A weapon which assumes your efforts at deactivating it once the war is over are actually an enemy attack and which starts retaliating is a really stupidly designed weapon.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted. The designers of the Demon project deliberately tried to remove all humanity from their creation to avoid it realizing what had been done to it and destroying itself or going berserk.
* KafkaKomedy: There's never anybody who can be objectively blamed for everything that goes wrong, just lots of bureaucratic blame shuffling.
* KillSat: Orbital nukes. One of them having malfunctioned and reentering a couple decades late accidentally sabotaged the talkdown process to convince Krak to transfer back to manual control so it could be deactivated. [[spoiler:Actually, a lie, Krak went rogue due to its defensive squid Factors who'd been trained to sink ships in combat having realized that said ships contained large numbers of tasty sailors and doing so of their own free will and Krak assuming the loss of communications from supposedly allied ships were the result of attacks]].
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Demon Four is an 1984 [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] MilitaryScienceFiction novel by David Mace.
World War Three is over. Unfortunately, nobody was able to explain this to the Sea Fort of Krak-1, an autonomous area denial war machine that blockades access to the fishing and oil wells of the antarctic sea with armies of submersible attack drones and missiles, sinking anything that it cannot positively confirm aren't the enemies its long-dead creators built it to fight.
To destroy Krak, the human survivors turn to Demon-4, an unmanned prototype submarine which uses the [[WetwareCPU the surgically disembodied brain]] of a [[WeCanRebuildHim mortally wounded veteran]] as its control mechanism.
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!!Demon Four provides examples of:
* AttackAnimal: The Factors, various marine species trained and in some cases [[WeaponizedAnimal surgically augmented]] for combat. Primarily [[ThreateningShark sharks]], [[DeviousDolphins dolphins]]
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted. The designers of the Demon project deliberately tried to remove all humanity from their creation to avoid it realizing what had been done to it and destroying itself or going berserk. This backfired on them, all they did was teach their creation to deliberately hide its remaining humanity and plot against them.
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World War Three is over. Unfortunately, nobody was able to explain this to the Sea Fort of Krak-1, an autonomous area denial war machine that blockades access to the fishing and oil wells of the antarctic sea with armies of submersible attack drones and missiles, sinking anything that it cannot positively confirm aren't the enemies its long-dead creators built it to fight.
To destroy Krak, the human survivors turn to Demon-4, an unmanned prototype submarine which uses the [[WetwareCPU the surgically disembodied brain]] of a [[WeCanRebuildHim mortally wounded veteran]] as its control mechanism.
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!!Demon Four provides examples of:
* AttackAnimal: The Factors, various marine species trained and in some cases [[WeaponizedAnimal surgically augmented]] for combat. Primarily [[ThreateningShark sharks]], [[DeviousDolphins dolphins]]
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Subverted. The designers of the Demon project deliberately tried to remove all humanity from their creation to avoid it realizing what had been done to it and destroying itself or going berserk. This backfired on them, all they did was teach their creation to deliberately hide its remaining humanity and plot against them.
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