Thank you, everyone.
Sorry for the infrequent posting, my Internet access has
not been good lately.
You know, I've never found that the actual text of Worm sells Dragon as much as her hype. Or maybe I just don't notice it. Sure she builds a lot of armored battlebots and ships, but there's a lack of the more esoteric Tinker effects coming out of Dragon's laboratory. We never see her building stuff that can warp space or time or duplicate other powers or do impossible things like other high end Tinkers. We only sort of see her do biological stuff when it comes to making Defiant a cyborg, but never again on screen. There's suggestions that the Birdcage has some weird esoteric effect that prevents escape but we never actually see it in action on screen.
So convince me. Why is Dragon so hype? What do we see her do on screen that no other Tinker could do? When does she really take the laws of physics out back and beat them with a stick?
Well, within the context of this quest...
1)She created, and maintains, the Birdcage. The super-prison that has successfully kept hundreds, maybe thousands of supervillains contained for years, without so much as a single breakout. Glaistig Uaine, String Theory, and many more. Even those who are good at working together have failed to escape. That's a
monumental achievement, and one of the reasons civilization hasn't finished collapsing yet.
2)Containment foam. One of the
only pieces of tinkertech that are possible to mass-produce, and a game-changer when it comes to law enforcement in a world full of supervillains.
3)Those bracelets all the heroes use during Endbringer battles? Which allow for communication and coordination even while fighting through Leviathan's storms and Behemoth's electromagnetic and/or radioactive fuckery? Which kill off heroes who have been overexposed to the Simurgh's song? Dragon.
4)The Endbringer prediction program and the nanothorn? Armsmaster-Dragon collaborations.
5)She regularly fields combat suits that can wreck whole villain teams. Each one of those suits is comparable to some of the A-list heroes in its own right.
6)And within this quest, she's been working with Leonardo on his tech (up to and including duplicating his timeloop-breaker), with Wing Warrior (duplicating Flechette and Tattletale's powers...)
In short: Dragon's work is less
showy than a lot of Tinkers. But in terms of
getting shit done, she accomplishes more than any three other Tinkers put together.
It's not that they have two top tier tinker, that's expected, India probably has a few of the greats just of statistical chances as well.
Its those specific specialties in that specific place. If the Yangban tinkers specialties were, say, giant robots and bullshit tier chemistry, it would be a big threat sure, but nothing they could use to hold the planet hostage.
Self replicating technology is dangerous by definition. And combining that with a potential paperclip optimizer? That's a world ender easy.
That's a potential GALAXY ender.
Heck, this wouldn't be as bad if they were just worse tinkers because entity limits mean they have something keeping them from accidentally the world.
But they are Tinker 8s, the same level as the only tinker we know of who almost fucked over the whole planet by her lonesome. So yeah, that is utterly fucking terrifying on numerous levels.
Well, they have their limitations as well. The self-replication has a limited number of generations it can go before errors cause it to break down. And the computer Tinker is more on the hardware end of things.
Sorry, I did not see the post regarding the tragedy. In light of that, I shall withhold my critique until a later time
Well, I still want to see it.
