Is it possible to make an annie-plant dead without bloing it up?
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It's happened. Brad got buried under his inert tank Annie if I recall correctly. The question is if you can do it consistently and safely.
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It is possible to vent them as well. It tends to be destructive to the immediate vicinity, but if you do it in space it can probably be done relatively safely.
There are a couple ways. Petey perfected the fastball, a direct hit to an enemy annie-plant that scatters the neutronium, but that's expensive for both parties. The Credomar incident was something else, and probably not something that can work against Thunderheads. It requires more power than even Petey has casually on hand.
For all that, the process is quite simple. Find the steepest gravitic gradient around other than your own. This will be the field inside the enemy annie plant which is currently keeping their neutronium supply compressed. Now counter that field with a gravitic gradient of your own. The enemy's neutronium loses compression, and evaporates.
If you do it correctly the evaporating neutronium remains completely contained within the enemy annie-plant. If you do it incorrectly you might breach the enemy plant and be rewarded with an explosion, along with quickly-decaying radioactive gases. This is not a good way to shoot down enemy armor over your city, but it can be argued that there is no good way to shoot down enemy armor over your city.
Which strip was this from?
Worldbuilding is fun, writing is a chore
Here.
Near the end of the first Credomar arc.
Finally read ever strip published so far in this comic. Took me over a week but I don't regret it.
Best one out there apart from Manly Guys Doing Manly Things as far as I'm concerned. Or at least it's one of the best ones I've read so far.
Having been in the military I recognize so many different kinds of people that it's almost spooky.
Only a week? Did you do nothing else? ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
But yeah, it's a good read, but I honestly don't blame anyone who gets scared when looking at those archives. It's was half the length it is now when I started and that was still some serious binging. Now. Those are some seriously deep archives.
Lining up a shot. And of course Chinook's brain is so screwed up that she's willing to kill a shipfull of her friends out of indirect revenge for the deaths of a shipfull of her friends.
If Chinook survives all this, I really hope someone edits out her compulsion to edit her own memories the second she gets upset. I mean, seriously. That should have been the first thing anyone did.
She's dead, so we don't have to wait for her. I honestly forgot that Para was on Kevyn's ship.
Problems from using common terminology for sophisticated objects. That said, I think the Uuplechan might have a point.
What, that kid just happens to be an engineering whiz?
Worldbuilding is fun, writing is a chore
Looking back, there's no real evidence that it's a kid. They say "where's my family" when rescued, not "where's my parents", and given how small the little cat-critters are (I can't be assed to try and spell their name properly) the difference between a child and an adult is a lot smaller in terms of size. Quite possible the poor bugger was an engineer looking for the rest of their family.
'sides, Para may be an amazing roboticist, but she's not universally good across all engineering fields, and it's nice to see that acknowledged when they run across an actual expert in a different field.
edited 3rd Mar '18 2:26:22 AM by 4maskwolf
Yea the kitty is probably an adult. Still a lucky shot for one of the first resurrected to have just the right stuff needed.
Also "this thing is designed terribly" has been Bunnigus' complaint from the start and they really should've considered it.
edited 3rd Mar '18 2:31:28 AM by Adannor
"In distress", my ass.
Though, Dr. B's complaint was more from and end-user viewpoint, which often doesn't take into account technical details about why something is clunky (if they even can take them into account).
Which is still important to consider. And as the kitty shows, their answer was to just throw an expensive material to patch the problem rather than redesign.
Galstandard Brown. Is this Chinook's retaliation, or is it the same people who attacked the Toughs attacking someone else?
I'd go with option B. At this point we have no evidence that they have any sort of Long Gun technology.
Yeah, the Original Gunners are blasting people all over the galaxy, trying for whatever reason to set everything on fire.
I think it's the Phantom Long Gunner of the Apocalypse who's doing it. It fits their pattern of behaviour for this arc of the story.
Whoever it is, I want Schlock to take his time over eating them.
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
I actually wonder if this is not simply a big massive malfunction. Say you connect a Long Gun to an auto targeting system, for say MAD purposes, and screw up the programming so it randomly shoots ships and responders and then loose control...
Remember the cut to the Zeus gun a while back?
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Given how much the ships rely on having massive amounts of power, probably something which renders the annie-plant dead is sufficient. They don't seem to be that easy to ship in and install, requiring the ship to be towed to a fabber (or the rather large fabber to be moved to them).