Intergalactic Summit

Sending me on a voyage trough your threads with vague "it exists" doesn't help with convincing me or other people.
1. I can't keep my eye on everything.
2. I have more important matters to attend. Like a full 12 hour sleep, for starters.

Here is a question though. Why do your eyes see? On a basic level, they just do. For more information you may need to talk to an oculist.

Why does an airborne vaccine work and why is it employed? It just does and because it is fast enough for basic level. For more information you need to talk to an acual virologist.

I would consider it professional to provide you at least two sources on points if I ever were to convince you of something.

Except, you know, if you want to convince her of what you'd do to convince her. Cuz you just didn't provide at least two sources demonstrating that pattern of behavior.

I dunno, to simulate the biology, you'd have to be able to simulate all of the environmental variables perfectly, including the pathogen... and if you already understand the pathogen perfectly, well, you've already got the cure, don't you?

The Caldari elites are beholden to shareholders who can be swayed by public opinion. Considering the fanfare surrounding 0410, did you think the Caldari elites will risk hurting the bottom line by advocating mass sterilisation and other extreme measures?

And realise that they got swayed by the voters in the end when they realised that glass everybody is not a popular option.

Otherwise they would have glassed infected sites within State sovereign territories regardless.

They kind of take a little pride in occasionally thumbing their nose at the popular option. The State's a lot of things, Mr. Egivand, and stockholders aren't meaningless.

It's pretty authoritarian in the end, though. And the opinions of foreigners, by and large, are less than nothing there.

That option would probably have been taken if we hadn't been able to get Agent 0410 assembled. It looks like research on it is proceeding fast; I definitely would have preferred to receive it by aerosol.

(I really wonder how it works. Then again, I also really wonder how Insorum works.)

Often, yes. As a rule, minor ones.

Very minor ones.

Their real power comes from their numbers and ability to cause a total breakdown of the system if they revolt. They're usually reluctant to do so, though.

As I told Arrendis, trusting authority to lead wisely and well is something Caldari are trained from birth to do. It's a closed, strongly hierarchical (if meritocratic, in principle) society, and they literally fought an eight-decade war to keep it that way.

You're abandoning and destroying an entire city because short of exposure to hard vacuum, there's no known was to get rid of this stuff once it has saturated an area that wouldn't destroy the city. And since last I checked, the city's under an atmosphere, hydrogen detonations aren't exactly efficient. Hello, nuclear fallout!

Kinda wonder why they don't erect a bombardment shield around the city with the polarity reversed, and annihilate the place with a kilogram of antimatter. We all know the Caldari Navy's got that, and a gamma burst is over and done in an instant. Superheated plasma that used to be the air in the blast radius loaded up with radioactive isotopes from the neutron emissions of the fusion detonations (plural!) takes a lot longer to clean up. More expensive than 'ok, folks, it's all done', too. Gotta move equipment, monitor surrounding populations for radiation sickness, deal with wildlife and livestock with symptoms... and no, the shielding idea doesn't work there, because while both scenarios have that formerly-air superheated plasma, once it cools down, the antimatter version isn't radioactive. The nuclear one is.

Ah well. Maybe someone in the Caldari military will think of that one before they start setting of the nukes.

As you said, minor ones with great numbers. This makes their opinions actually worth considering especially when the number of citizens in favour of a dubious treatment has reached critical mass.

Also, no using 'because it's our way' as an excuse to keep acting and thinking the way you did, as soon as you identify the issue with it. Fix it!