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The Perfect Weapon.

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Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#41 - 2015-03-24 14:06:45 UTC
Astera Zandraki wrote:
The weapon is entirely hypothetical, but it has no limits on range or destructive power. I find it interesting that none of you have stated you would use it for non-lethal purposes, to perhaps incapacitate those on your 'lists'.

That's one of the things about it that makes it seem godlike to me.

Using such a device, I could kill Sansha Kuvakei, but merely disable his victims. Rescue teams could then move in and retrieve the True Slaves.

Perhaps it would be possible to uninstall their implants, save them.

It seems like an unambiguous good.

But most of us have lists of things like that we'd want to do.

It's not the power to create, it's true. It's the power to edit the universe.

Isn't that just what Kuvakei's been trying to do? Edit the world?

And your weapon doesn't even let us do any direct revising. It's a true weapon. It only lets us cut.

This is one place where my old self and I agree: nobody's qualified for this job. Not you, not me, not Sansha Kuvakei.

Nobody.
Claudia Osyn
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#42 - 2015-03-24 16:27:52 UTC
Aria Jenneth wrote:
Astera Zandraki wrote:
The weapon is entirely hypothetical, but it has no limits on range or destructive power. I find it interesting that none of you have stated you would use it for non-lethal purposes, to perhaps incapacitate those on your 'lists'.

That's one of the things about it that makes it seem godlike to me.

Using such a device, I could kill Sansha Kuvakei, but merely disable his victims. Rescue teams could then move in and retrieve the True Slaves.

Perhaps it would be possible to uninstall their implants, save them.

It seems like an unambiguous good.

But most of us have lists of things like that we'd want to do.

It's not the power to create, it's true. It's the power to edit the universe.

Isn't that just what Kuvakei's been trying to do? Edit the world?

And your weapon doesn't even let us do any direct revising. It's a true weapon. It only lets us cut.

This is one place where my old self and I agree: nobody's qualified for this job. Not you, not me, not Sansha Kuvakei.

Nobody.

Nobody except me. I'm Qualified for a vast array of hypothetical situations....

A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
Lyn Farel
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#43 - 2015-03-24 21:38:58 UTC
Astera Zandraki wrote:
The weapon is entirely hypothetical, but it has no limits on range or destructive power. I find it interesting that none of you have stated you would use it for non-lethal purposes, to perhaps incapacitate those on your 'lists'.

Birdsong


Does it have to be a weapon ?
Pieter Tuulinen
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#44 - 2015-03-24 23:20:12 UTC
Claudia Osyn wrote:
Nobody except me. I'm Qualified for a vast array of hypothetical situations....


Including gyrating to the music with small currency stuffed into your thong, apparently.

For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
Claudia Osyn
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#45 - 2015-03-24 23:41:59 UTC
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:
Claudia Osyn wrote:
Nobody except me. I'm Qualified for a vast array of hypothetical situations....


Including gyrating to the music with small currency stuffed into your thong, apparently.

What's a thong?

A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
Pieter Tuulinen
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#46 - 2015-03-25 02:16:03 UTC
Claudia Osyn wrote:
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:
Claudia Osyn wrote:
Nobody except me. I'm Qualified for a vast array of hypothetical situations....


Including gyrating to the music with small currency stuffed into your thong, apparently.

What's a thong?


Do I want to know where the money goes?

For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
Candi LeMew
Division 13
#47 - 2015-03-25 02:23:53 UTC
Astera Zandraki wrote:
If you possessed a perfect weapon, that is, a weapon that could kill, maim or incapacitate any number of people with utter exactitude, without any risk of collateral damage. what would you use it for?

Boss has me, n' she generally uses me for co-piloting, baiting, dying in her place, brewing her coffee, braiding her hair, attending female hygiene tasks, polishing her Tengus n' being her personal authorised diplomat.

This kind of thing.

But really, you know, the best way to use any super-weapon is just to ensure everyone knows you got it.

And then just keep going about your business.

🍌

Remember... in Anoikis Bob Is Always Watching...

"I been kicked out of better homes than this" - Rick James
Claudia Osyn
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#48 - 2015-03-25 03:06:59 UTC
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:
Claudia Osyn wrote:
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:
Claudia Osyn wrote:
Nobody except me. I'm Qualified for a vast array of hypothetical situations....


Including gyrating to the music with small currency stuffed into your thong, apparently.

What's a thong?


Do I want to know where the money goes?

Collected by tip drones.

A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#49 - 2015-03-25 03:12:38 UTC
Aria Jenneth wrote:
Astera Zandraki wrote:
The weapon is entirely hypothetical, but it has no limits on range or destructive power. I find it interesting that none of you have stated you would use it for non-lethal purposes, to perhaps incapacitate those on your 'lists'.

That's one of the things about it that makes it seem godlike to me.

Using such a device, I could kill Sansha Kuvakei, but merely disable his victims. Rescue teams could then move in and retrieve the True Slaves.

Perhaps it would be possible to uninstall their implants, save them.

It seems like an unambiguous good.

But most of us have lists of things like that we'd want to do.

It's not the power to create, it's true. It's the power to edit the universe.

Isn't that just what Kuvakei's been trying to do? Edit the world?

And your weapon doesn't even let us do any direct revising. It's a true weapon. It only lets us cut.

This is one place where my old self and I agree: nobody's qualified for this job. Not you, not me, not Sansha Kuvakei.

Nobody.


I still insist in getting ahold of the blueprints and reverse-engineer the hell out of this weapon and see where we can stick it on for most optimum functionality.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
Leopold Caine
Stillwater Corporation
#50 - 2015-03-25 12:44:59 UTC
Ah, the 'unstoppable force - immovable object' ad absurdum conundrums.


But I suppose I'll humour you and answer:

Make a demonstration - kill only enough people you have to show the weapon's true potential.

After that, you won't ever have to use it again. Fear is a primordial human element, after all.
  • Leopold Caine, Domination Malakim

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