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Puella Magi Adfligo Systema

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"Okay; I've got a plan."
"Another one? Do I want to hear this?"
"But first, we'll need a pile of Cobalt bombs."
"I'll take that as a 'no.'"
"And a gamma-ray laser. The size of Spain."
"Huh?"
"And, like, genetically-engineered postcatnip."
"Wait, what?"
 
I kind of like the idea of referencing magical girl shows in our naming conventions, actually. Call the moon base Silver Millenium, call our multi-world organization the Grief-Hope Administration Bureau, make "Sailor Scout" an actual rank, name the spaceship the Arthra.
 
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rikalous said:
Did you say "let's go pay the coobs a visit," because that's what I heard.
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I'm kinda of terrified of being anywhere near a populated Incubator world. Attacking an intergalactic species that works on the scale of the entrophy of the universe would go really badly. The bunnycat may be weak, but I imagine they've got killbots and antimatter bombs drifting around any world they actually care about. Imagine a race that's reached the end of the technology curve, then harnessed magic to create more curve. It will be a long long time before we can challenge the Incubators without just wishing it. Centuries, at least.

It would be like trying to take on the Time Lords or the Daleks, before the Time Wars.
 
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Redshirt Army said:
I kind of like the idea of referencing magical girl shows in our naming conventions, actually. Call the moon base Silver Millenium, call our multi-world organization the Grief-Hope Administration Bureau, make "Sailor Scout" an actual rank, name the spaceship the Arthra.
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You seem to have made a slight typo there, let me get it sorted.
Redshirt Army said:
I kind of like the idea of referencing magical girl shows in our naming conventions, actually. Call the moon base Silver Millenium, call our multi-world organization the Grief-Hope Administration Bureau, make "Sailor Scout" an actual rank, name the spaceship the Asura, because come on dubbers when a series is calling spells "Sleipnir" and "Ragnarok" and weapons "Durandal" and "Laevatein" it is not such a stretch to consider that possibly the ship names might be mythological references instead of nonsense syllables.
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There, all better.
 
Jackercracks said:
I'm kinda of terrified of being anywhere near a populated Incubator world. Attacking an intergalactic species that works on the scale of the entrophy of the universe would go really badly. The bunnycat may be weak, but I imagine they've got killbots and antimatter bombs drifting around any world they actually care about. Imagine a race that's reached the end of the technology curve, then harnessed magic to create more curve. It will be a long long time before we can challenge the Incubators without just wishing it. Centuries, at least.

It would be like trying to take on the Time Lords or the Daleks, before the Time Wars.
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Well. On the one hand, it is plausible that they may be beyond us. (If they were playing by the same rules as us, they almost certainly would be).
On the other, in the absence of ... well, any information on them, I'd caution against resigning ourselves to defeat prematurely. We know they are neither infallible nor omnipotent; we know we are not without meaningful advantages.

(If nothing else, we have functionally infinite reserves of brute force and ignorance). :V
 
FlatlineAskari said:
Well. On the one hand, it is plausible that they may be beyond us. (If they were playing by the same rules as us, they almost certainly would be).
On the other, in the absence of ... well, any information on them, I'd caution against resigning ourselves to defeat prematurely. We know they are neither infallible nor omnipotent; we know we are not without meaningful advantages.

(If nothing else, we have functionally infinite reserves of brute force and ignorance). :V
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I kind of assume any spacefaring race can kick humanities' collective ass. The tech level required is pretty impressive, much like you'd expect a modern nation with tanks to beat say... 17th century musketeers.

That said, massive aggression has a quality all of its own.
 
If we were to oppose the incubators, it would likely have to be in some way where a fight was never able to happen. We would need to use our powers to end them before a fight even began. This, however, would require that we gather much more intel on what incubators are.
 
Whatever we do to the Incubators has to be magical, since they don't comprehend it, and thus can't respond to it as they can to kinetic impact/ fission/ fusion/ antimatter/ grey goo/ strangelets or whatever. It also has to be a)fast or b)capable of being widely propagated in timestop, since otherwise they glass Earth to deal with the problem. Sad to say, the obvious choice (Madowish) is probably unfeasible, since it requires QB to fuck up massively while also pissing off Mom. We may have to witch out for superpowers.
 
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landcollector said:
I don't know why this is even jokingly brought up occasionally anymore. Witching out is very likely a Bad End even for Sabrina.
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I've never been sure why people think we'll get superpowers out of it. Our powers are already stronger than a witch, surely we just become weaker and more deranged. Is it a really old joke or something?
 
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