evileeyore wrote:
Sean wrote:
Those diced warships are probably to "thank" for the UNS's most recent weapon...which they just fielded in the neighborhood where those shredded warships came from.
Exactly. But I bet there are few more battlepyramids floating around out there.
But a Peace Moon? No, that's way too big without a world forge and the only one we've seen so far was broken.
Agreed; this conforms to me favorite John Hurt quote from the movie Contact:
S.R. Hadden wrote:
First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
I wouldn't take your bet for all the nickels in Jupiter.
Meanwhile, we may not have a world forge yet, but my recollection of the purpose of the Jumpstar Prime (formerly Jupstart Primer) was to rebuild galactic industry to pre-extinction levels by building another world forge. There are just a couple of pesky details to work out, like the ethics of a plan to create then enslave dark matter entities as the core components of such a forge...
Come to think of it, though, I'm having a fridge moment. Petey has shown himself fully capable of building giant, high-quality annie plants; since the Oafans are on good diplomatic terms with the psychobear why not trade hullmetal for annies with him? I'm sure an extortionator class plant would do better than the trio you'd get from a tricorn.
I may have to go on another archive binge to sort this out...