Yep, eye candy, works most of the time when dealing with poorly trained “troops”.
As long as they don’t try anything rape-ish with her it should work.
Hmm… Queen Ann’gijn is thinking like a P’tera, all of them are bred and raised to do
only a certain job their entire lives where King picked Teresa as his successor. The
idea of that must be very weird for the Queen, seeing how she was born and bred
to be a queen. Teresa EARNED the position it wasn’t just handed to her just for
being born to it.
Maybe “dirty” bombs, or depleted uranium rounds, either way
not something to ignore! A suitcase nuke would still have a
blast range of a mile or so, more than enough to take out a
fair-sized town. With the blast and heat wave what didn’t get
incinerated instantly would either burn or be so badly irradiated
that nothing could live within 15 – 20 miles of ground zero.
I’d say if so someone NEVER wants CSA to ever come back!
Yes true, several major cities and sea ports were
hit it could be they are near one for privacy. I doubt
Teresa would ok the use of nukes she’d rather “teach”
a group than just wipe them out.
That was my thought as well. I don’t think a nation that can drop pinpoint
meteors would bother with nukes much, and I don’t think we’ve ever seen
the Empire retrieve any of the nukes the US had before The Fall that were
never used.
I assume “Larissa” is a cover name or a new character with that name.
Works of fiction try to avoid reusing given names to an unrealistic degree
to avoid confusion, but we deal with it in real life all the time. (And we’ve
had two Jims already.)
That’s so true my real name I found in the phone book
there was 30 of “me” in the county alone! I looked it
up I have the 5th most common (at the time) first name
and the 4th last name… Pretty annoying too I’ve had
bill collectors hassle me many times over things I had
noting to do with!
i could, have this all wrong..
Maj. put Miller in charge, tall, blond, mustache..
D.I. pulled 2 out of class,, Cowart & Jackson
both short.. so,, i think Jackson is the blond
in the trench coat..
that leaves Smits,, tall brown hair…
I’ve always wondered about, what I call, “induced, accelerated radioactive decay”.
In short, so much radioactive material with short half lives, in close proximity,
that it causes an accelerated radioactive decay rate for all of the materials in
the local area. How significant this effect would be, I imagine, would depend
on how scattered the material is.
Radiation is a complicated thing. You can only deal with it statistically.
Like, the guy who was responsible for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
is said to have calculated that it probably killed around 50 000 people –
anywhere on the planet.
Even if it was deployed on a test site far away from any Human settlement.
There’s formulae for “if you expose X persons to Y amount of radiation for
Z hours, at least W % of the will get cancer.” or something.
But you’d have a hard time going to a court of law claiming: “Mr. Smith
here was exposed to a significant dose of dose of radiation. Now he has
developed leukemia because of that.”
And of course the effect depends on all kinds of things. Like, as you said,
how scattered the stuff is, how long people are exposed to it –
and last not least your luck.
On top of that: some of the material gets washed a few inches in to the
ground where it’s no immediate threat. But if you’d drive – say – a tank
through such a field or try to prepare it for raising crops … suddenly
the radiation level is back to “dangerous” levels again.
All you really can do is wait a few decades. (You might try to scrape
off the top layers of soil and depose off the somewhere … but you’d
might have to get rid of the vegetation too in that case.)
Pure statistically, there’s not even a “maximum safe dose” as you might
have with a toxin. There’s probably a few persons anywhere on Earth who
never were exposed to more than normal dose of radiation who’re nonetheless
dying of radiation induced cancer – just because of dumb bad luck.
It takes only one single particle, hitting a living cell just “right” to
damage it. That, by the way, happens all the time. Most of these cells
just die unnoticed like countless “normal” cells dying anyway each day.
Others turn cancerous but get detected by the persons immune system.
TL;DR: there’s formulas for answering your question, but only statically.
.
From what I’ve read about the area surrounding Chernobyl the plant and
animal life is still thriving, however it’s been suggested that the animals
have a higher rate of of radiation caused diseases. Many people were
expecting mutations in the animals but none have been found to date.
Heavy metal exposure can cause both psychological and health issues as
well, I was badly exposed to lead as a child and they traced my cancer
back to that.
The animal life seems to be doing just fine.
Especially the wolves.
There’s probably two factors to consider here, tho.
1st: having a few dozen square miles almost without Human
interference has to be a create plus: no hunters, no competition.
2nd: mutations (no matter why they happen) tend to be bad
for survival. Most of these probably just die un-noted.
(By the way: as far as I recall many of the local spiders seemed
to have developed a tendency for building dysfunctional webs –
so there’s some lifeforms that profit while other seem to suffer more)
I remember it was wrote that drones can’t function in
the radiation so most likely if there are mutations there’s
no safe way to locate them. And of course no laser eyes
or flight outside of birds heh.
(wait… was that a 6 armed man in that tree? naaa…)
Yep, eye candy, works most of the time when dealing with poorly trained “troops”.
As long as they don’t try anything rape-ish with her it should work.
Hmm… Queen Ann’gijn is thinking like a P’tera, all of them are bred and raised to do
only a certain job their entire lives where King picked Teresa as his successor. The
idea of that must be very weird for the Queen, seeing how she was born and bred
to be a queen. Teresa EARNED the position it wasn’t just handed to her just for
being born to it.
Truly spoken.
“splody stuff” & “low radiation” . . . Holy shith! Larissa brought one or more suitcase nukes?!
Maybe “dirty” bombs, or depleted uranium rounds, either way
not something to ignore! A suitcase nuke would still have a
blast range of a mile or so, more than enough to take out a
fair-sized town. With the blast and heat wave what didn’t get
incinerated instantly would either burn or be so badly irradiated
that nothing could live within 15 – 20 miles of ground zero.
I’d say if so someone NEVER wants CSA to ever come back!
If I remember correctly there were some parts of the former US that had been
hit by some kind of nuke strike?
I thought maybe their mission is somewhere near one of these regions.
Yes true, several major cities and sea ports were
hit it could be they are near one for privacy. I doubt
Teresa would ok the use of nukes she’d rather “teach”
a group than just wipe them out.
It’s discussed starting at:
http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-042/
Norfolk was effected by the radiation
it’s when Teresa lost her uncle Mark
… Larissa is a ‘local rebel’.. IF they had a pocket nuke,.
then that would be out of Tereasa’s hands.. but not liked.!
That was my thought as well. I don’t think a nation that can drop pinpoint
meteors would bother with nukes much, and I don’t think we’ve ever seen
the Empire retrieve any of the nukes the US had before The Fall that were
never used.
I assume “Larissa” is a cover name or a new character with that name.
Works of fiction try to avoid reusing given names to an unrealistic degree
to avoid confusion, but we deal with it in real life all the time. (And we’ve
had two Jims already.)
That’s so true my real name I found in the phone book
there was 30 of “me” in the county alone! I looked it
up I have the 5th most common (at the time) first name
and the 4th last name… Pretty annoying too I’ve had
bill collectors hassle me many times over things I had
noting to do with!
I always tell the bill collectors that Bill lives two doors down from me.
I don’t have bills. After all it is ‘Bill’s’ mail.
second Larissa,, first is Jonathans
daughter..
The infiltrating agents need to loosen up.
Right now they’re too stiff, too tight…..Too “military”.
Very true if they don’t act the part it’ll give them away quick!
.. “The rest of you, break up. you look like a cadet review.”
HA! Nice…
Their cloak and dagger clothes as well.
I can see Jackson wearing good clothes,
but the others should dress down a bit.
I agree brown hair by the pillar in #7 looks like
he’d be wearing jeans and a tank top. Or a sport
jersey.
i could, have this all wrong..
Maj. put Miller in charge, tall, blond, mustache..
D.I. pulled 2 out of class,, Cowart & Jackson
both short.. so,, i think Jackson is the blond
in the trench coat..
that leaves Smits,, tall brown hair…
I’ve always wondered about, what I call, “induced, accelerated radioactive decay”.
In short, so much radioactive material with short half lives, in close proximity,
that it causes an accelerated radioactive decay rate for all of the materials in
the local area. How significant this effect would be, I imagine, would depend
on how scattered the material is.
Radiation is a complicated thing. You can only deal with it statistically.
Like, the guy who was responsible for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
is said to have calculated that it probably killed around 50 000 people –
anywhere on the planet.
Even if it was deployed on a test site far away from any Human settlement.
There’s formulae for “if you expose X persons to Y amount of radiation for
Z hours, at least W % of the will get cancer.” or something.
But you’d have a hard time going to a court of law claiming: “Mr. Smith
here was exposed to a significant dose of dose of radiation. Now he has
developed leukemia because of that.”
And of course the effect depends on all kinds of things. Like, as you said,
how scattered the stuff is, how long people are exposed to it –
and last not least your luck.
On top of that: some of the material gets washed a few inches in to the
ground where it’s no immediate threat. But if you’d drive – say – a tank
through such a field or try to prepare it for raising crops … suddenly
the radiation level is back to “dangerous” levels again.
All you really can do is wait a few decades. (You might try to scrape
off the top layers of soil and depose off the somewhere … but you’d
might have to get rid of the vegetation too in that case.)
Pure statistically, there’s not even a “maximum safe dose” as you might
have with a toxin. There’s probably a few persons anywhere on Earth who
never were exposed to more than normal dose of radiation who’re nonetheless
dying of radiation induced cancer – just because of dumb bad luck.
It takes only one single particle, hitting a living cell just “right” to
damage it. That, by the way, happens all the time. Most of these cells
just die unnoticed like countless “normal” cells dying anyway each day.
Others turn cancerous but get detected by the persons immune system.
TL;DR: there’s formulas for answering your question, but only statically.
.
From what I’ve read about the area surrounding Chernobyl the plant and
animal life is still thriving, however it’s been suggested that the animals
have a higher rate of of radiation caused diseases. Many people were
expecting mutations in the animals but none have been found to date.
Heavy metal exposure can cause both psychological and health issues as
well, I was badly exposed to lead as a child and they traced my cancer
back to that.
But still no laser eyes?? What a rip off…
Maybe they’ll get three heads or something?
Hey! There’s wolves … three-headed-wolf … kerberos …
Cerberus = three headed wolf…
The animal life seems to be doing just fine.
Especially the wolves.
There’s probably two factors to consider here, tho.
1st: having a few dozen square miles almost without Human
interference has to be a create plus: no hunters, no competition.
2nd: mutations (no matter why they happen) tend to be bad
for survival. Most of these probably just die un-noted.
(By the way: as far as I recall many of the local spiders seemed
to have developed a tendency for building dysfunctional webs –
so there’s some lifeforms that profit while other seem to suffer more)
https://www.thoughtco.com/chernobyl-animal-mutations-4155348
Yes I seen that odd maybe the radiation is effecting their instincts
or their perception.
I remember it was wrote that drones can’t function in
the radiation so most likely if there are mutations there’s
no safe way to locate them. And of course no laser eyes
or flight outside of birds heh.
(wait… was that a 6 armed man in that tree? naaa…)