Chem power

Roy C. Lackey · 08 Sep 2002, 21:37 · from urth-v0209.mbox · original

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From: "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net>
Subject: (urth) Chem power
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 16:37:51 -0500
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Dan'l wrote:
>Noooo ... their power source is clearly nucyulehr. Isotopes
>everywhere when a chem blows. That won't work.

Correct:

    "Five chains away, the blade of the azoth wrecked a fusion generator,
and the soldier whose heart it had been died." (LS3, 9)

But, but . . . that's just another good reason to shoot those fool engineers
who designed them! If chems were subject to exploding and raining
radioactive material all around when they died, then they were a hazard to
every bio around them, including their fellow human troopers. Dumb. But
then, Typhon didn't care about people, did he?

-Roy

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