Host's memories seemed to indicate that the signs should have said that trespassers would be shot, but QA felt as though avoiding an absolute edict would be helpful for edge cases.
Jeez, even Taylor is appropriately bloodthirsty.
Oh, how accurate she is!
By extension, Lena could ensure that Minnie kept the bulk of her attention on projects that could actually help the world.
Oh no... "Mommy, I discovered another way to kill a problem!"
QA somehow escalates the usual Shard tendency to "halp." Which is really an achievement, but not necessarily a good one.
Kara! You're supposed to be my emergency backup brain cell, not an enabler!
Just the one?
"Even ignoring my position as L-corp's embattled CEO, or how this would negatively impact Minnie's social life, need I remind you that there have been attempts on my life just in the time that you've known me? They weren't the first, and they won't be the last. I thought I was bringing it up so you could tell me why I shouldn't."
QA's responses:
- Mou, what's a social life? Can I eat it?
- Clearly you need some Friends.
- This is sounding like a better idea all the time!
(The funny part is that this actually ended up being what happened.)
There are methods of protecting without harming others—hardlight barriers, for instance, or fields capable of disabling energy weapons. Those, I may allow, but not weaponry.
The foyer:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qcED35LL8I
Or just making a forcefield sphere...
- That's filled with paralytics, poison, unbreathable gases
- That's anchored to a reference frame that's not earth (bonus: it also does home remodeling!)
- That shrinks for easier storage... even when someone's in it
- That's selectively permeable to most of the molecules in the human body. Bonus points if whatever's left inside the field is mostly phosphorus
- That's made of very thin hardlight barriers with 1" spacing between them
- That forms tightly around whatever weapon the attacker tries to use, but only after it's fired
- That forms around the weapon... all the way around. Including through the hand
There's obviously a heck of a lot more with other categories or just stuff she didn't deny, but you can clearly fit a logging truck through the holes in those restrictions.
She would manage to hide some weapons here and there
So, regarding those Aperture Investment Opportunity videos... anyone seen that one where the turret is loaded with bullets? I imagine
this is how QA adds weaponry.
Wait, she's just going to
actually make turrets, isn't she.
I feel bad, but I'm dying laughing here nonetheless.
Excuse you?
QA is a very responsible and productive member of society thank you very much.
Like, you would not believe the amount of things she is responsible for, or about to be.
How many lost cycles was that again?
But yeah, she's
very about to be. And I can't wait.
Key word there is 'should'. Somehow, I'm looking forward to new and exciting forms of misunderstanding.
But that's the best part!
"The question of, if this is the sort of thing she concealed in the Friend she built to protect Ms Luthor despite knowing Ms Luthor doesn't want to be involved with weapon manufacturing... What horrors has she crafted to protect, or avenge, herself? And even worse, what would happen if one of the insane supervillains had gotten their hands on her and pushed her to do even better?"
QA needs no help. She's already thought of it, and improved on it too!
Literally, if you put sharp corners on it. And after those are forbidden, a completely safe and rounded projection which has its frame of reference locked to the planet instead of a hand is perfectly capable of being used to demonstrate that timeless old gag, "Two assassins walk into a bar - their target ducked!"
Again, why bother to anchor it to the planet? You get much better results if you
don't and the sphere disappears with a loud whoosh and a flaming trail through the upper atmosphere.
Lena: You said no weapons.
QA: It has no weapons.
Lena: It spat acid.
QA: it has to diggest food somehow.
QA: It digests its food externally! Allow me to show you this chart I prepared of how popular that is among insects...
Lena: And what about the fire?
QA: Well, it has to cook
somehow...
Lena: And then it exploded.
QA: I'm still working that one out. *hides two checklists - "fixing the explosion problem" and "increasing the yield." The last one is circled.*
Lena: It was still alive afterward! That had to have been an intentional feature!
QA: Are you saying that you don't design for structural integrity?