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Doesn't the Machine Army hide part of their mass in a pocket dimension? Or am I remembering it wrong?
Think so. Did the massive electrical strike retaliation force them out of hiding though?
Doesn't the Machine Army hide part of their mass in a pocket dimension? Or am I remembering it wrong?
If I'm not mistaken it's not regeneration but rapid reproduction. Fire makes one goblin into an instant horde. Though I believe there are limits to that. If the fire is hot enough it should charcoal the body before it can duplicate. The issue is getting the fire hot enough to over come shard shenanigans. I've seen a few fics where they went around the problem. Either making a goblin targeting plague of some sort or just acid bombing the entire area.Maybe removing a layer or two of bedrock too?
And to my knowledge, it's anti-fire rather then anti-nuke counter measures. Fire I believe is suppose to regenerate Nilbog's creations or something.
They don't, especially over a wide area. They follow the inverse square law, and while at ground zero hit everything with massive levels of overkill their power drops off dramatically with distance. A nuke would destroy everything next to it, but it would also throw a huge amount of garbage away from the detonation; Nilbog could easily arrange for such debris to be contaminated.
Nukes can be delivered precisely. Ballistic missiles aren't very precise, but aren't the only format for nuclear weapons. Against Nilbog they could just deliver them to the walls by truck, and if desired toss them in with a catapult.There's also the issue that nukes aren't precision weapons; while bigger or more nukes could help with that, that also means the area of effect would be larger. Both when it comes to direct effects and fallout. A big enough blast to utterly incinerate everything in a mid-sized town -especially possible spores hardened by a Bio-Tinker - would have a huge area of effect. Probably big enough that there's other towns in range.
As I understand things, that only happened after Gold Morning.Doesn't the Machine Army hide part of their mass in a pocket dimension? Or am I remembering it wrong?
I wasn't talking about the delivery; I was talking about the fact that they hit a very large area whether you want them to or not. It's one of the problems with so-called "tactical" nuclear weapons, even a really small nuclear weapon is going to destroy random towns and villages in much of the world no matter where you drop it; I recall some Cold War general mentioning that towns in Europe are "half a kiloton apart". And incinerating every last bit of the town with nukes would involve more than a kiloton or two. I doubt Ellisburg in New York is in the middle of a vast uninhabited wilderness.
"We are the plan."And if the head of the Ellisburg Quarantine is doing their job correctly will tell them No, come back with a plane of action and approval from command.
As I understand things, that only happened after Gold Morning.
Not necessarily so.Or more precisely, I don't think anything really gets mentioned of how the Machine Army works until Ward, so if they were hiding in pocket dimensions then, that was likely always the case.
"We are the plan."
And they already have approval, they've been asked to destroy it.
EDIT: Yep, I was wrong.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that it would be. No one is going to want to be living that close to a possible epidemic source.I doubt Ellisburg in New York is in the middle of a vast uninhabited wilderness.
Source is bad, apparently!
nounWrong word: Converse is: to talk informally with another or others; exchange views, opinions, etc., by talking.
I think you're thinking of Obverse: corresponding to something else as a counterpart.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that it would be. No one is going to want to be living that close to a possible epidemic source.
Converse is clearly the best alternative anyway, being logically equivalent to inverse.I have a fire mage in WoW named LinaConverse—LinaInverse was taken, and LinaContrapositive wouldn't fit in the character limit.
I... I understand that reference.Underneath that again, in a less formal font, was the addendum DO NOT TRUST THE COMPUTER. THE COMPUTER IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. It sounded like a quote or reference of some kind, though I had no idea where it was from.