Hybrid Hive: Eat Shard? (Worm/MGLN) (Complete)
- Thread starter CmptrWz
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- Crossover
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Well we all knew it was coming but still it's that readers dilemma again. There must but several thousand stories I love that are not finished and some that I've lost hope of ever getting finishing but at the same time once finished like this gem the ride is over and done with. Oh well, will have just have to reread it a few more times later.
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So, another saga is wrapped up and in the can now. It's been a fun ride and I'll look forward to the next flight of fancy your Muse arranges.
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And now I wonder what the result might be if she ever decides to try englobing a binary star that way?
Well, Taylor did tell Amy that the drive system scaled up very nicely. That seems to be her typical understatement way of saying that the cruising speed increased hyperbolically as it gets larger.
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And now I wonder what the result might be if she ever decides to try englobing a binary star that way?
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Thank you for writing this story!
If you're going to drop a plot twist at the end of the story you need to make it a good one!
There was even a "secretly manipulated things and then things got out of hand" theory.
...but no "accidentally manipulated things" theory.
Now imagine the reaction to a Dyson Sphere parking over the star system, in plain sight next to the star perhaps, without disrupting anything.
Once the scientist-types realized what that meant for the full tech level of said sphere, anyway...
Who said can only have? She only put 12 docking points onto the surface. They're quite spread out.
Approximately negative 300 days. Mauling Snarks ended in 2020, this story started in 2019.
It's not "only needs 12 Coconuts" but rather "Taylor successfully argued the automated systems down to 12 Coconuts"
Well, names should have proper meanings, right?
You know you could still add small snippets to this and use the setting now more for relaxed not very cannon content in case the "mood" strikes.
Perhaps some snippets where she shows up from the dimensional sea and into different show's "episodes", I would actually love a snippet where Q shows Picard what a higher-level civilization looks like, perhaps an episode calling out all the flaws of the Stargate and refusing to use something so poorly designed by what looks like a subcontractor to the lowest bidder no less.
Perhaps some snippets where she shows up from the dimensional sea and into different show's "episodes", I would actually love a snippet where Q shows Picard what a higher-level civilization looks like, perhaps an episode calling out all the flaws of the Stargate and refusing to use something so poorly designed by what looks like a subcontractor to the lowest bidder no less.
NHO
Dumb is a state of existence
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Some of Q things look like shit automated and formerly-automated systems would do in uplifting process, no?
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P.I.T.S.E. encounter the Citadel from Mass Effect would be fun.
M. H. Fuzzball
Aperture Science-certified Horrible Person
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- Sector 2814
Well, that beats the Taylor from Distance Learning for Fun and Profit, who (in an ME crossover omake series), developed a FTL drive that does 1142 LY/day.
Only for the schadenfreude of the collapse of the Citadel empire, probably. Like just the existence of coconut class vessels disproves everything they think they know about physics. As well as a single cherry class vessel being more than enough to solo the Reapers, never mind an actual warship. On the other hand, maybe eezo is actually crystallised anti-mana and that's what's going on?
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GreydonCreed
Man of Culture
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Thank you for your wonderful story.
We look forward to your next series with great interest. 😎
We look forward to your next series with great interest. 😎
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Thanks for writing and finishing this story.
Now... I wonder what happened with that fanclub.
Now... I wonder what happened with that fanclub.
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The only question I have is whether something happened to cause the kingdom to somehow no longer exist after a thousand years, or if this is merely an ambiguously phrased timeskip of a thousand years and it just kept going afterwards.
Why not both?
It seemed like an unambiguously phrased timeskip.
MWKillKenny84
Lurking from the Trauma Switch.
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Awww, it ended... well, on the positive side, it is completed!
At least it was not a "Million Nanoha Emerald Starlight Breaker Rain" that Green Lanter-chan of 2814 can use when she enter "Overkill Mode".
At least it was not a "Million Nanoha Emerald Starlight Breaker Rain" that Green Lanter-chan of 2814 can use when she enter "Overkill Mode".
It looks like the epilogue is formatted in a faerie tale sort of way. Or perhaps book or tale of history and they needed to end the lesson.
"This is what the empire was. Next time we'll look at what it currently is. Or we'll look at the Great Expansion. Or we'll look at specific explorer clans. Or perhaps the still ongoing string of disasters and coincidences that is Robin's life... That one is important, as those eventually led to you.
For, in that, somewhere, is how I Met Your Mother."
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That's proper American levels of flex, right there.
During WW2 the US Air Force dropped pamphlets on Japan that basically amounted to, "Here's a list of the cities we'll be bombing in the coming month. Please help us minimize civilian casualties by evacuating them."
"Attention, Japanese people! Read this carefully as it may save your life or the life of a relative or friend. We are determined to destroy all the tools of the military clique, which they are using to prolong this useless war. But unfortunately, bombs have no eyes. So, in accordance with America's well-known humanitarian policies, the American Air Forces, which do not wish to to injure innocent people, give you warning to evacuate these cities and save your lives."
Source: Bombers Over Japan from Time-Life Books, pg 180.
Source: Bombers Over Japan from Time-Life Books, pg 180.
That...might actually be a less flex than pure good idea.That's proper American levels of flex, right there.
During WW2 the US Air Force dropped pamphlets on Japan that basically amounted to, "Here's a list of the cities we'll be bombing in the coming month. Please help us minimize civilian casualties by evacuating them."
Did actual events like that inspire that bit?"Attention, Japanese people! Read this carefully as it may save your life or the life of a relative or friend. We are determined to destroy all the tools of the military clique, which they are using to prolong this useless war. But unfortunately, bombs have no eyes. So, in accordance with America's well-known humanitarian policies, the American Air Forces, which do not wish to to injure innocent people, give you warning to evacuate these cities and save your lives."
Source: Bombers Over Japan from Time-Life Books, pg 180.
Regular strategic bombing, after all, didn't really achieve anything strategic.
They were 'strategic' in that they would influence the situation in a strategic way, rather than a tactical, not that they were accurate, they just changed the face of the situation, and the territory to the point that the planned strategies had to account for them or change because of them.
If I'm remembering the scales of warfare, there's tactical, which is on the ground, Private or possibly Captain eye view. There's strategic, which is General eye view, and then there's logistical, which is High Command level view. The US at the time was decent at strategic and tactical, they were GRANDMASTERS at the logistical stage, resources were where they were needed when they were needed in more than sufficient amounts to do the jobs. There are probably other levels that people more involved might cite, but these are the ones I'm remembering.
I'd probably put Imperial Japan as really good at tactical, but not great at following the big picture. The German Reich was expert at the strategic level, but didn't have the resources to maintain it. The US threw bullets and bombs in unlimited numbers at problems until they stopped being problems. I don't have enough information to put the other nations involved in niches, and honestly paring down their many accomplishments into soundbites is probably rude.
I'm American, so I can do that for my own group, and the other two don't exist in a meaningful way and so anyone insulted by those can probably be ignored.
Incidentally, effectively unlimited booms doesn't work if you don't have the will to continue, which is what went wrong with Vietnam. We effectively won every battle and then just didn't have the willpower to get past how much we didn't want to be there.
Salvare7097
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That's not actually true. Oh, it didn't accomplish its intended objective of destroying the machine tools and such. I did however, massively degrade the Luftwaffe, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, and and to a lesser extent, Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service through attrition. It is a very cold blooded way to wage war. It forced the Luftwaffe in Europe to have basically a two shift Air Force. Night fighters in that era required an entirely different skill set and different planes. different logistical tail. Divergent training requirements.
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Yes, I know what strategic means, and the point is that they were consistently unfit for purpose. Bombing of cities was largely unsuccessful in destroying either morale (the most honest claimed purpose) or industry (also claimed).
And, of course, at fairly ludicrous expense. The Luftwaffe was enormously damaged by the Battle of Britain and had great difficulty recovering. (The US, of course, simply had enough industry and manpower to just keep stuffing more four-engine bombers into the skies over Germany and do everything else at the same time.)
The only substantial way strategic bombing actually shaped strategy of its targets was, well:
This. Baiting the defenders into throwing resources that they might not be well able to afford at trying to stop it.