Disintegration means to set into a state where not one particle remains bonded to another. Its *possible* that this could happen a lot less exothermicaly than you are thinking, but yes, energy states are going to be changed...
I'm not either but Devin Stone, Esq. of the Legal Eagle YouTube channel is and I know enough to have some issues with the court scenes in this story. My main issue is that it doesn't seem able to decide if it's a civil trial or a criminal one.
So what details do I need to change in order to make it over into a criminal trial?
If you aren't interested in being accurate to court proceedings, but still want it to read as a criminal trial, the only thing you need to do is remove the statement talking about Danny retaining a lawyer. In a criminal trial, seeking redress for any victims isn't the primary goal compared to the issue of if a law has been broken, so the prosecuting attorney would be representing "The State", or the body that makes and enforces laws, before the Judiciary, rather than Taylor (or Danny) specifically.
while it may be rare don't forget that everyone but the trio and Alan have very good reason to get this done and over with especially now that Wyvern has proven to be capable of squishing S-Class Threats
Yeah, that's basically what I'm gonna have it be.
Courts: "But we don't want to make it into a criminal trial."
Oh, Alan and Emma want it over and done as well. Just being in the same room as Taylor is giving them anxiety attacks.
And that's basically it, yeah.
assuming she's not already in maximum security prison for both the scale of the fuck-up and just how bad it makes the PRT look
So to get this right, I looked up a few things about New Hampshire on the assumption that that's the state that Brockton Bay is in. If BB is in New Hampshire, then it's in Rockingham County as the entire NH coastline is in Rockingham County and unless the defendant is up on Federal charges, the trial is taking place in the county seat, a town called Brentwood, which is mostly relevant to the timing of events after the court recesses for the day. If the defendant is up on Federal charges, the trial would take place in Concord, New Hampshire's capital which, again, is mostly relevant for purposes of timing. Based on my experience with jury duty, it's entirely possible that the court could let out for the day as much as two hours before the official end of day. Basically, the sequence was opening arguments and witnesses for the prosecution/plaintiff(s) on day one, witnesses for the defense and closing arguments on day two, and deliberations on day three. None of those took a full day and I assume that most cases would proceed like that. Really complicated cases could easily take longer, but I wouldn't expect many cases to be shorter.
The same way that "civil" war works
You don't send someone to maxsec prison for bureaucratic failures, no matter how bad they are.
bureaucratic failures don't typically end with attempted murder charges and mass murder attempts
Even so, Sophia's handler wasn't involved in any of that. Even calling them an accessory would be a huge stretch and would never stick. Most likely, her handler will be fired and blacklisted. Possibly also fined as well. But they havent actually done anything worthy of jail time, let alone maximum security prison.
Conspiracy with Blackwell to defraud the government maybe?
Sure you can, but you can't call it bureaucratic failures, you call it Treason and Espionage.
But thats, by definition, not "bureaucratic failure".
Was there any? I dont remember anything of the sort even being implied.
Okay, thanks. I will be applying that. It won't be a Federal trial, so Brentwood it is.
Actually, I'm pretty sure he's been trying to keep the state it's in as vague as possible for as long as possible, so he's not nailed down to any particular location. Mainly because he invented Brockton Bay from the ground up, then found out that it didn't actually fit anywhere.
Not in canon, but there have been fics that have portrayed Blackwell's malignant negligence as partly caused by the fact that she was colluding with Sophia's handler to split the extra money and pocket it, and thus they were actively invested in ensuring that none of Taylor's complaints saw the light of day. (and tbh, this would not clash with canon in the slightest).
