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Cave_Canem said:
They were basically just made to make the already-shitty world of Worm even shittier by having a roaming band of Murderhobos going around completely unchecked and going after anyone that could make the world slightly less crap.

A Photon Torpedo is a waste on them.
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Oh hey, it's Cave. Also, Dammit Q foreshadowing?
 
You know this is one of the few actions that RCB might actually be quite happy about. She will be overjoyed, remember these are the people that killed hero. She might just send DARPA some nice liquor for this Service.
 
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FictionPack said:
I can understand where you are coming from.
However this little girl still killed a lot of people. She straight up committed war crimes.
Despite her age she would most definitely be found guilty and given the death penalty in a court of law.
Especially because of how dangerous it is to hold her, let alone catch her.

She is not innocent.
Age is but a number.
And her number is a fraction of the number of her victims.

But yes, I get that Bonesaw is a polarizing element.
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Yes, yes... I know this, but wouldn't she at worst be sent into an asylum because of compromised mental state? Bet is a horrible place and the main reason why Bonesaw killing people is seen as horrific is because she is ultimately, human. The Endbringers kill more but because they aren't seen as human, it doesn't seem as horrifying to the people living in Bet. They are akin to forces of nature that can only be diverted from their course, yet never destroyed.

Though if Cauldron wouldn't so damn religiously follow "The Path to Victory" maybe things wouldn't be so shitty in Bet... Still shit, but not as badly.
 
Salvare7097 said:
You know this is one of the few actions that RCB might not actually care about. That she might be overjoyed remember these are the people that killed hero. She might just send DARPA some nice liquor for this Service.
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*This is your obligatory reminder that by word of Canon, S9 was not nuked only so that Jack could set Scion on his murderous rampage early.*
Contessa is probably having a seizure right now, as All The Paths imploded along with the Nine.
 
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Crescent Glaive said:
Yes, yes... I know this, but wouldn't she at worst be sent into an asylum because of compromised mental state?
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If we're talking the legal system of Earth-Bet, Bonesaw - like every other member of the S9 - is under a Kill Order. So no, she's literally in 'shoot on sight' territory. As she just was.

karloss99 said:
*This is your obligatory reminder that by word of Canon, S9 was not nuked only so that Jack could set Scion on his murderous rampage early.*
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Many Worm fans react to all the various justifications that canon tried to give Cauldron with a resounding 'Cool story bro, still war crimes.'

Especially in fics like this one, where canon is about to get Clarketeched straight up the ass.
 
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Bonesaw will always be a splitting point, it's times like these that it's important to have a multiversal pov.

She died here, probably one of the quickest and painless you can manage, and it's a tragedy that, short of ShardSpace shenanigans to revive her (which is unlikely character wise, but entirely possible story wise), she'll never be able to reform and grow into the great person we know she can be.

But also on the whole she probably lives more than 50% of the time for any fic that deals with the 9 or her character, which actually probably isn't the worst chance for a "good" character in this setting.

So apples to oranges this is just a mark against her in the wide array of lives she's lived.


Edit: For instance, R.I.P Burnscar who certainly gets less sympathy and is killed more often.
 
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Salvare7097 said:
You know this is one of the few actions that RCB might actually be quite happy about. She will be overjoyed, remember these are the people that killed hero. She might just send DARPA some nice liquor for this Service.
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If I remember correctly (I've never read canon, so I may not), Cauldron wanted to keep Shatterbird, Riley and Manton alive, so Becky won't be too thrilled to hear they're all dead.
 
Dragonmaster150 said:
You know, this chapter's gravity powered missile just gave me an idea: Now that cheap gravity manipulation is a thing what's to stop the US Government from making sustainable nuclear fusion reactors? Correct me if I'm wrong, but normally you'd need to contain the hydrogen in a magnetic field, which isn't sustainable at the temperatures needed for the nuclear fusion of Hydrogen, but what if you just went the sun rout and used gravity fields to compress the hydrogen enough to force a reaction?
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I'm not a physicist, so feel free to check me on this, but... I discovered (relatively) recently that the heat and pressure at the core of stars is not actually enough, on its own, to sustain their fusion reactions. The sustainable fusion process also requires quantum tunneling to work. You know, that extremely improbable event where a particle isn't where it's supposed to be, but instead where it just improbably happens to be where it's useful in bypassing the heat and pressure normally needed to initiate fusion? It works because the sheer quantity of hydrogen in a star's core renders that extremely improbable event into a certain, regular, necessary occurrence.

Why do I bring this up? More or less because it complicates building a useful fusion reactor. Also, because I think it's a super cool example of how quantum mechanics affects our everyday lives, and you gave me an excuse to share. :D
 
Options said:
I... Haven't actually read the original Worm. Couldn't make it past the first chapter even.
So, I have to ask, is this from a Watsonian or a Doylist point of view?
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It's been a while, but I seem to recall that Cauldron wanted to trigger Scion's rampage early because they figured they were about as strong as they'd ever be. They could only get weaker with time.
 
mp3.1415player said:
"No radiation worth speaking off, very little outside damage, and no chance of biological contamination," Robinson noted. "The heat of the detonation is far too high for anything to live through it. Unfortunately, scaling up the same weapon to deal with something like Ellisburg would be… impractical. We'll need a different approach in such cases."
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Huh.....okay, this guy needs to be fired and replaced with someone who is competent. A gravity-implosion weapon, powerful enough to crater a half-kilometer, that is more than overkill.... wait. Maybe I'm overthinking this.....
...[much mater later]...
Okay, doing some math...I have no choice but to say the man was underselling it. The problem isn't scaling up the same weapon, that one device would be more than enough for Ellisburg, PA. The problem is that it would also deal damage to nearby towns of Harmontown, Andrews Settlement, and Lewis Corner. It wouldn't be possible to hide what they just did.

Just to give you an idea....the blast from the device created a crater nearly a half-kilometer across. That is the only solid number I had to work with, so I then worked backward from there. So, well...you are basically looking at a 150kt explosion for a comparison. Specifically, the M-80 cruise missile. Crater radius of 200m, fireball radius out to .59km, pressure wave strong enough to knock over concrete buildings up to 1.16km, residual wave would reach as far as 6km. And that is a traditional strike. I have no way in hell in knowing what a gravity bomb did.
 
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