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Mami said enchantment can expand space, right? We can expand space and make grief-pockets to store stuff too, so we effectively have as much storage and lifting capability as we do magic- which is infinite, or until the rate at which we produce grief exceeds our ability to cleanse it. Speaking of which, that could be a good solution to the cargo bag; expand our pocket, keep grief there.
 
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When are we finally going to get around to building a moonbase, anyway?

E: Can we use conceptual grief hax to go FTL? i.e. If we make a grief X-Wing, does it have a working hyperdrive?
 
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o3o said:
Mami said enchantment can expand space, right? We can expand space and make grief-pockets to store stuff too, so we effectively have as much storage and lifting capability as we do magic- which is infinite, or until the rate at which we produce grief exceeds our ability to cleanse it. Speaking of which, that could be a good solution to the cargo bag; expand our pocket, keep grief there.
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If there actually isn't any limit to magical space expansion, could we turn Mami's guest room into the meguca homeless shelter?
 
Random832 said:
"I might know someone [literally anyone] who knows someone [Sabrina again] who has a friend [Kirika] who knows the person who set the fire. I might be able to figure out a way to get them to pay for the damages."
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There might be a problem when Sayaka goes 'JUSTICE', expecting the criminal to be exposed. I wouldn't blame her, but Oriko's name's been dragged through the mud to the point that she can't step outside without requiring magical powers to avoid unfortunate meetings.
 
Onmur said:
There might be a problem when Sayaka goes 'JUSTICE', expecting the criminal to be exposed. I wouldn't blame her, but Oriko's name's been dragged through the mud to the point that she can't step outside without requiring magical powers to avoid unfortunate meetings.
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We do have the criminal under house arrest sans an arm, which is as much as you can do with someone who can't be punished by the mundane justice system without her cooperation. If she wants soul confiscation or the death penalty we can be disappointed in her.
 
Anyone feel like adding in something like this to the beginning of the vote?

[] "There is a price--a very heavy price. But not for you. Being a magical girl is very dangerous, and very difficult. Outside of fairly specific circumstances, healing you would be quite costly indeed. Fortunately, we're in one of those specific circumstances, and so we're here to help, no strings attached."

Feel free to tinker with the exact wording, but I think it helps convey the seriousness of the situation (as in, magic is not fun and games, and becoming a magical girl is a fairly huge sacrifice unless you already have nothing to lose) and explains why we're helping in this instance but not all the time, while avoiding a huge list of specifics and explanations that we really don't want to give.
 
FlatlineAskari said:
Speaking of which -
We can make an unreasonably tough platform out of grief, up to the limits of our control range.
We can apply large, reactionless forces to it.
We don't need to breathe.

So the only limiting factor on how much mass we can fly around is how much stuff we can balance on a hundred-metre-radius platform.
Or, to put it another way; we have vastly more spacelift capacity than the rest of humanity - combined - and fuck the haters Tsiolkovsky rocket equation. As far as I can tell, we could plausibly loft upwards of a hundred fully-loaded Saturn V rockets ... at once.
This is so hilariously lucrative that I don't even.
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It would take months, years to set up such a deal. Hilariously lucrative though.

That's 4.19 million m^3 of space. Assuming no weight limit with aluminium at 2,700 kg/m^3, assume a packing factor of 0.5 (such that for each square cm of metal there is a square cm of grief) means a lifting capacity of 5.6 million metric tons. Current spaceflight costs are 500$ per kg of weight meaning a combined profit of 2.8 trillion per flight at a rate of 60 minutes per flight. At a standard working week of 40 hours a week with 4 weeks holiday a year, Sabrina can do the work of 5.4 quadrillion dollars worth of rockets each year.

That's a lot of cash. In fact, it's 1/3rd of all the money the USA makes in a year, or almost as much as the whole of India, with its population of 1.25 billion. Properly utilised, Sabrina's lifting capacity is enough to kick off asteroid mining of the asteroid belt, as well as colonisation of both Mars and Europa. Sabrina is capable of ending material scarcity single-handedly. Shit be cray yo.
 
@SaltyWaffles: On the one hand, it makes him feel more indebted to us. On the other hand, it makes him better laser-guided missile against Sayaka contracting.

@Jackercracks:

I was thinking of setting up a global time-reversal(Flying Faerie Familiars) style resurrection for everyone on earth and converting most of them to Puella - not just Puella though but everyone gets extra lives.

Clearly, I was thinking too small with Sabrina's powerset.
 
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@SaltyWaffles: On the other hand, it makes him feel more indebted to us. On the other hand, it makes him better laser-guided missile against Sayaka contracting.
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Why would it make him feel more indebted to us? It specifically points out that this situation happens to actually be one of the specific circumstances in which healing him wouldn't be costly, which is why we're here to help with no strings attached.
 
Onmur said:
There might be a problem when Sayaka goes 'JUSTICE', expecting the criminal to be exposed. I wouldn't blame her, but Oriko's name's been dragged through the mud to the point that she can't step outside without requiring magical powers to avoid unfortunate meetings.
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If Sayaka goes JUSTICE we can just say we're the sort of magical girl who tries to save her enemies.
 
SaltyWaffles said:
Why would it make him feel more indebted to us? It specifically points out that this situation happens to actually be one of the specific circumstances in which healing him wouldn't be costly, which is why we're here to help with no strings attached.
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Your vote is saying "there is a cost, but I'm the one paying it". That makes the debt thing much worse than if he knows that walking to the hospital was the hard part.
 
'Lement said:
I was thinking of setting up a global time-reversal(Flying Faerie Familiars) style resurrection for everyone on earth and converting most of them to Puella - not just Puella though but everyone gets extra lives.

Clearly, I was thinking too small with Sabrina's powerset.
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It's amazing what can be done when you're freed from the tyranny of the rocket equation. We could probably get a generation ship going at a decent fraction of the speed of light within a decade if we didn't have to worry about stuff like that.
 
Jackercracks said:
It's amazing what can be done when you're freed from the tyranny of the rocket equation. We could probably get a generation ship going at a decent fraction of the speed of light within a decade if we didn't have to worry about stuff like that.
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Of course, Sabrina's got to stay on the ship so they can decelerate at the other end.

Well, so they can decelerate safely.

Torgamous said:
Your vote is saying "there is a cost, but I'm the one paying it". That makes the debt thing much worse than if he knows that walking to the hospital was the hard part.
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No, the hard part was deciding to do it even though he might have some stupid idea about being indebted to us. Which naturally suggests something he can do to pay us back - by not doing that.
 
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Jackercracks said:
It's amazing what can be done when you're freed from the tyranny of the rocket equation. We could probably get a generation ship going at a decent fraction of the speed of light within a decade if we didn't have to worry about stuff like that.
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Hm. We should probably check with Kyubey about population on other planets, but for starters I think colonizing solar system would be nice middle-sized project.

One that makes saving every magical girl ever look rather small, mind you.
 
Random832 said:
Of course, Sabrina's got to stay on the ship so they can decelerate at the other end.

Well, so they can decelerate safely.
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It would take 2000 days for Sabrina to accelerate to .5c at 5g of acceleration, and that's assuming she sleeps in time stop. Longer if we need to keep to speeds passengers can survive. I don't think it's on the cards for her to be the one driving it, just the one lugging the parts into orbit.

E: I suspect this kind of project will have to wait for the epilogue though.
 
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How about: "No cost, just don't worry my friends like this again."

I'm fairly certain Kyousuke didn't choose to break his hand in a car accident, but pissing him off is good, right?
 
Onmur said:
How about: "No cost, just don't worry my friends like this again."

I'm fairly certain Kyousuke didn't choose to break his hand in a car accident, but pissing him off is good, right?
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Rather than saying anything that can reasonably be expected to annoy Hitomi/Sayaka/Mami, how about making like we've got secrecy concerns? Maybe we don't have any, but they wouldn't be entirely unreasonable.

'Conditions? None, because we were never here, this meeting never happened, you don't know who we are, and we certainly couldn't have anything to do with your inexplicable recovery. Clear?'
 
FlatlineAskari said:
Rather than saying anything that can reasonably be expected to annoy Hitomi/Sayaka/Mami, how about making like we've got secrecy concerns? Maybe we don't have any, but they wouldn't be entirely unreasonable.

'Conditions? None, because we were never here, this meeting never happened, you don't know who we are, and we certainly couldn't have anything to do with your inexplicable recovery. Clear?'
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Cloak and dagger makes the magical girl thing seem much more glamorous.
 
Random theory I hope never gets confirmed: Sayaka contracting to repay her debts would give her a counterattack/attack-reflector power.
Redshirt Army said:
When are we finally going to get around to building a moonbase, anyway?
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We're calling it Silver Millennium. Just putting that out there.
Jackercracks said:
It's amazing what can be done when you're freed from the tyranny of the rocket equation. We could probably get a generation ship going at a decent fraction of the speed of light within a decade if we didn't have to worry about stuff like that.
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Did you say "let's go pay the coobs a visit," because that's what I heard.
'Lement said:
Hm. We should probably check with Kyubey about population on other planets, but for starters I think colonizing solar system would be nice middle-sized project.

One that makes saving every magical girl ever look rather small, mind you.
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Given that there are apparently extraterrestrial meguca, space travel is not so much a bigger project than meguca-saving as a subset of it.
 
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