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On Fluttering Wings [Taylor Hebert in MGLN]

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DestinyPlayer said:
Honestly, half the cast wields autonomous weapons from the Final War. Even Nanoha's Raising Heart is a bloody relic and not a modern Intelligent Device.
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Imagine the certification process they had to go through to prove they are safe. It's all fun and games until your face is being eaten by space zombies. (P.S. Mariage don't actually eat people)

It's magic. The range of possible effects is way beyond making some shiny beams. I doubt the weapon designers of the Unification war gave a shit about trifles like collateral damage and unintended consequences.
 
Jong said:
Imagine the certification process they had to go through to prove they are safe. It's all fun and games until your face is being eaten by space zombies. (P.S. Mariage don't actually eat people)

It's magic. The range of possible effects is way beyond making some shiny beams. I doubt the weapon designers of the Unification war gave a shit about trifles like collateral damage and unintended consequences.
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This might be the PSP timeline but the TSAB does not go after a artifact that could trash planets even more easily than the book of darkness at the conclusion of the story.
 
FailLord said:
Wouldn't Fate be better for this task as she is the TSAB equivalent of a FBI agent compared to Nanoha who is a combat instructor?
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QuietlyObserving said:
Nanoha probably had a special note in her file:
"First response for ludicrously powerful children who look like they need a hug."

She does, after all, have a bit of experience in that kind of thing.
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Jomasten said:
In Nanoha-nese, any sentence or phrase that contains the combination of or derivatives of 'And her eyes were so sad...' means that Nanoha has first dibs on the case.

Even if she was thinking it.
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There's a reason they called her first, even though she's on vacation...

EDIT: A couple of things I wanted to comment on from the chapter:
Stardust Falcon said:
in hindsight, most of what I could remember eating back home seemed somewhat muted and flavorless by comparison to anything I'd had since leaving
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I understand depression can do that to you.
Stardust Falcon said:
"I'll ask General Yagami to take care of the paperwork," she said, switching to formal addresses now that they were going back to work.
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Remember how I said Fate was going to work on the adoption paperwork after talking to Hayate? I guess she's instead going to have Hayate do it for her.
 
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My position on the argument about Nanoha and the meeting is that i hope for a canon peaceful or retreating meeting. And an omake violent meeting.
 
I think I read too much Gamesverse. My headcanon seems to be irrecoverably tainted, and I can only imagine the MGLN universe as being littered with dangerous artefacts and the TSAB as being hyper competent and paranoid at securing, containing and protecting.
 
HoodedHero007 said:
The TSAB sending an expedition to Bet in order to fix things. Yes. Warrior, meet ZENRYOKU ZENKAI STARLIGHT BREAKER!
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It would be nice if something like that happened eventually. I mean the expedition, dunno about the zen-zen-something-something. ^^

It could even work. In chapter one Mariposa has no trouble breaking through Scion's barriers, hijacking QA's connection and bugging out. Scion is big and strong but not particularly sophisticated. As expected from a Space Whale. Maybe all you need to take him down is a Space Boat armed with Space Harpoons.
 
Jong said:
She isn't just a powerful person minding her own business. She's holding an autonomous weapon from the Final War and you don't know what it does.
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Precisely. "Let's see how large a boom it makes in the middle of one of our cities!" is a decidedly nonoptimal choice.

She's been peaceful, so far. When confronted by a polite local beat officer, she accompanied him peacefully. When confronted by highly impolite facility guards, she left without violence. They have both direct observational data that she is not currently hostile, and also implied evidence of same from the lack of city-or-planet leveling explosions as she wanders.

The decision maker can believe that she is not a massive danger, in which case immediate overkill violence is essentially pointless.

Or the decision makers can believe, as you state, that her power levels are sufficient to be a danger to nearby people/buildings/cities/planets. In which case the last thing they'll want to do is trigger that danger in the middle of a city full of civilians. (And currently, remember, Taylor is preferentially traveling to those cities.)

These are the people, remember, that after the Book of Darkness affair, ended up hiring the owner and remnants of the book. Being an artifact from the previous war is not an immediate death sentence.
 
Kellcat said:
Precisely. "Let's see how large a boom it makes in the middle of one of our cities!" is a decidedly nonoptimal choice.

She's been peaceful, so far. When confronted by a polite local beat officer, she accompanied him peacefully. When confronted by highly impolite facility guards, she left without violence. They have both direct observational data that she is not currently hostile, and also implied evidence of same from the lack of city-or-planet leveling explosions as she wanders.

The decision maker can believe that she is not a massive danger, in which case immediate overkill violence is essentially pointless.

Or the decision makers can believe, as you state, that her power levels are sufficient to be a danger to nearby people/buildings/cities/planets. In which case the last thing they'll want to do is trigger that danger in the middle of a city full of civilians. (And currently, remember, Taylor is preferentially traveling to those cities.)

These are the people, remember, that after the Book of Darkness affair, ended up hiring the owner and remnants of the book. Being an artifact from the previous war is not an immediate death sentence.
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It is also a benefit that there is no shard driving Taylor into conflict with the people around her.
 
TheWonko said:
Depending on who you ask, between As and StrikerS, or just after StrikerS. The exact time is a matter of personal preference, but most fans agree no matter when it was, it wasn't soon enough
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...Except, of course, for the few remaining NanoYuuno and NanoChrono followers, still in collective denial after StrikerS sank their ships in favor of Chrono x Amy and Yuuno x Dewey Decimal System. :V
 
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EldritchPangolin said:
. I mean the expedition, dunno about the zen-zen-something-something. ^^
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Zenryoku Zenkai, said to be Nanoha's catchphrase. Depending on the translation, "Full throttle, Full Power!" Or in some cases "Full Throttle, TOTAL DESTRUCTION!" If I recall correctly. Starlight Breaker is a finishing move, Breaker magic to be specific that draws on Ambient Mana to fuel and strengthen itself. It's the pink Friendship beam everyone talks about. Explicitly a finisher due to non-Breaker spells leaving ambient mana after usage, so more powerful for less cost the later it is used. As for the friendship beam bit... those she nails with it tend to be allies later. Divine Buster is the "you're my enemy, and you must suffer the consequences." (All of this is TV Tropes/Fanon knowledge so take it with a grain of salt.)
 
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