Mega-Maw Maneuver
In a nutshell, this is when a hostile force attacks a target by using a much larger vehicle with a large door to chase down and then "swallow" the target vehicle. The attackers have just performed the Mega Maw Maneuver. The reasons for using this tactic are usually as a form of piracy. Once inside the large vehicle, the target is at the mercy of its captors, and can be easily boarded, plundered, or seized without risking damage to the big vessel in a ship-to-ship gun battle.
Government-Exploited Crisis
When disaster strikes, many people would expect The Government to sort things out, and to protect its own citizens in the process. But what happens if the people the government sends aren't there to help? Or, even worse, they're the ones who caused the disaster in the first place?
A fairly common trope in dystopian, disaster, and post-apocalyptic fiction is for the government — or what's left of it — to be highly antagonistic during times of crisis, rather than assisting the people it's meant to protect. Sometimes they respond to disaster by abusing their
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Episode 380: Quick Shot - Cocaine Bear March 13, 2023
