And this got me wondering what would have happened if Taylor took the gadgeteer template, and as IAE regained it's memories it found it had been unknowingly following it's standard protocols already? I do recall once or twice you saying that you had envisioned us having converted hundreds of mages by this point in the story...
I believe the phrases "Send all the back-up for the love of god!!" and/or "Requesting orbital bombardment" would be used in that event.
Well...if it gets bad enough they have the Arc-en-Ciel.
Ash beast probably killed a minimal amount of people after the first village, since he's easily tracked. Sleeper, apparently, is also tracked, and generally inactive/sleeping.
Ash beast destroyed his town/city/village when he triggered, and apparently several afterwards as he wondered around africa. I imagine in the first month he killed 500 people as a low estimate.
The Sleeper make an entire region of Russia uninhabitable, so you can juggle numbers from a couple of small towns to a couple of large cities. Maybe just one militery base if they were really lucky.
Phir Se, though you could easily argue extenuating circumstances.
Any of the Slaughterhouse nine over their long history.
Lung when he was still in Japan; Leviathan was reported to have shown up because the place was crazier than brockton bay.
Numerous Yangban members because the few mentions of them, they're the enforcement arm of old school Red China, who killed 60 million low sum without nukes or superheroes.
String Theory was going to bring down the Fucking Moon just for a ransom before the Triumverate put her away,
and of course, we have Nilbog, who ate all of Ellisburg.
With Nilbog it took them a week after Ellisburn went dark to send a team in. I could believe sleeper was easily tracked, but Ash Beast would have taken a while before tracking really got people early warnings of him.
I already said that Sleeper, Nilbog, and the Slaughterhouse Nine were appropriate comparisons.
This though? No fucking way. 500,000 deaths in a month is not a gang war, it's the goddamn European Theater.
...This was the cutoff I was using. Perhaps you're not familiar with the IRA or the middle east, but 500 deaths in a single engagement isn't a serious outlier. It's not normal operation, certainly, but it's not rare unheard of either. Given parahuman gangs you don't need the prep time and resources, but have the same territorial issues, high unit count and same disregard for collateral damage.
Well, I mean it was on a ship and it was noted that the reason it was only 500 was because it ran out of targets. So...yeah, limited environment it was.
If you plug a regular mana collector into it, you could have it running on audio only 24/7. The generator would give you full AV capabilities, but it would run out of gas or need to be topped off frequently. It's a small generator. To have full AV all the time, you'd need a larger stable power source, which means either an electricity-to-mana generator or a mana-based power plant.
You have not seen her since you gave her the arm, but she understands why. She's a Ward, and therefore she was effectively grounded because of the MS-13 stuff. She (and the rest of the PRT/Protectorate) thinks Taylor is late teens/early twenties/college-aged, so it would be reasonable for Calamity Witch to be out and about fighting the gangs and not have time to hang out right now.
Now that we actually have available social slots we can. Semi-
Done! Couldn't come up with a plan name, but this still should register in the tally program.
