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Hybrid Hive: Eat Shard? (Worm/MGLN) (Complete)

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CmptrWz said:
"Aunt Emily, what's the most common 'medic' symbol?"

"A Red Cross...oh. A blood-red one, hmmm. I can see how avoiding the standard coloring would be ideal, but there are other symbols that you could use too?"

Riley half-nodded. "But snakes could be creepy. Ixveria and Mister Chambers both seem to think that pink crosses will be fine, instead of red ones."
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As far as I'm aware, a 'Red Cross' is specifically and only supposed to be used by the organization of the same name. I believe the standard non Red Cross medical symbol is a 'green cross'. Riley might not know that, but Emily would know that. Naturally the rules might be different in their world, but this convention should predate Parahumans by a fair bit.

On another note:
So Robin picking up random kids was part of a causality warping spell that was designed to make him the handler for this tykebomb? So we're probably done with his collection of kids. I'm glad that one of them wasn't a girl, just for the break in the pattern.

I wonder if this spell will allow Taylor and Hive to find ways to test out time magic from a perspective that isn't dangerous, as this is definitely time magic.
 
The first thing I thought of was a soccer ball as well. Although if they were a bit smaller in proportion to the pies, and you put several on them, I'd possibly think of them as meatballs.
 
As I read people's thoughts about the warships in relation to the various pies, I am reminded of my theory as to why I don't remember seeing stories with Taylor as a PA commander: she doesn't need the encouragement.
 
MDK said:
Hmmm...
A suitable name, I suppose. But it doesn't roll of the tongue all that well.
I would hav gone with Battlesphere or Battleglobe.
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Including "Battle" in the name implies that if the kingdom sends one of them out that they expect there to be a battle and not a curbstomp though.
khade said:
As far as I'm aware, a 'Red Cross' is specifically and only supposed to be used by the organization of the same name. I believe the standard non Red Cross medical symbol is a 'green cross'. Riley might not know that, but Emily would know that. Naturally the rules might be different in their world, but this convention should predate Parahumans by a fair bit.
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Canonically, Panacea's costume incorporates the Red Cross symbol, so the rules are quite different on Earth Bet.

...and the green variant is a lot more variable. In some areas I think it's specifically associated with pharmacies, for example.
Isiri Pudireach said:
And going by the coloring, thats a Coconut class ship that it's being compared to.
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Yes, that is a Coconut class ship under it.

Coconut class is 1000km across, Warsphere is around 340km across.

Apple class is only 70km across and didn't feel like a reasonable comparison point for the picture. That's noticeably smaller than the individual hexagonal weapon systems on the Warsphere.

Now, admittedly, the central weapons system on the Coconut is larger than the unfolded projectile pentagonal systems on the Warsphere...but only a little. :V
 
havefeith said:
Starting to look a bit like Blacephalon from the Alolan Generation of Pokémon... I'd laugh if the next Warships become a body and legs, then the whole thing can merge like a Zord.
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"By the gods, as if it weren't bad enough already, they're combining! They're becoming...becoming... a clown?! Why are they a clown?! What deranged mind would create a giant system destroying war clown?!" -The last words of Tyrant Lord Dreadstar of the Outer Reaches, he who truly "fucked around and found out."
 
CmptrWz said:
Canonically, Panacea's costume incorporates the Red Cross symbol, so the rules are quite different on Earth Bet.

...and the green variant is a lot more variable. In some areas I think it's specifically associated with pharmacies, for example.
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Fair enough, this is most likely just that Wildbow didn't do the homework, but it's a reasonable change from our reality regardless. And I don't know the details on the different symbols, just that the generic one in our world is the green one. Could be funny if Riley chose green though, even if it doesn't mean anything specific in setting.
 
khade said:
As far as I'm aware, a 'Red Cross' is specifically and only supposed to be used by the organization of the same name. I believe the standard non Red Cross medical symbol is a 'green cross'. Riley might not know that, but Emily would know that. Naturally the rules might be different in their world, but this convention should predate Parahumans by a fair bit.
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Not exactly. It is generally restricted to the Red Cross organization and Armed Forces medical corps. A decent point of departure, if one wanted to explore it, could be the 1992 revisions. Even if the revisions were exactly the same as IRL, the first Endbringer attack less than 4 months after they happened might well have resulted in further, Parahuman-specific, revisions.
 
CmptrWz said:
Canonically, Panacea's costume incorporates the Red Cross symbol, so the rules are quite different on Earth Bet.
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TBH, I just assumed that given New Wave's whole law-abiding and emphasis-on-accountability thing, Brandish negotiated usage rights with the ICRC for Panacea through some technicality. (And the PRT could get away with it by being a branch of the armed forces.)
 
CmptrWz said:
The room went silent enough that you could hear the lack of breathing from most of those present as they contemplated that. Eventually Crowbel shivered and focused on Hayate again. "Removing a navigation beacon from inside of a star is considered to be impossible."
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"Half of what the Kingdom does is considered impossible. The rest is mostly divided between 'considered almost impossible' and 'never thought of as feasible enough to even consider it'."

CmptrWz said:
Aunt Emily, what's the most common 'medic' symbol?"

"A Red Cross...oh. A blood-red one, hmmm. I can see how avoiding the standard coloring would be ideal, but there are other symbols that you could use too?"
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Good call. Riley has probably violated the Geneva Convention enough for multiple lifetimes.
 
For those that are suggesting that Riley use a green cross as a medic emblem, you should know that at least in California green crosses are used as a symbol denoting legal pot dispensaries. It would be funny if someone walked up to Riley or Amy and ask them if they are selling Mary Jane. 🤪

And isn't it fanon that Amy can bio-engineer pot so potent that Blasto is a customer? 🧐

As a matter of fact the International/American Red Cross has trade-marked the Red Cross symbol, to the point where Johnson & Johnson sued them saying it was interfering with their first aid/medical supplies sales. J&J lost. 😝
 
Like the war sphere though, I do not know why, she is using linear accelerators rather than radial, circular,accelerators like hyper loops for the unfolded projectiles. The projectiles could spin through the loop around again, and again, until they reach a sizable fraction of light speed before being ejected out of one of a dozen or more firing points from anywhere on the crust of the war sphere.
 
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