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Edit: So, for worldbuilding, i think itd be neat to lean into the heavily stratified society we've got. At first, mechs will be just crew served weapons, albeit pretty sweet ones. They'll be a lower class design and operate under the command of a general somewhere pushing miniatures on a map. Once the war gets rolling, and we start deploying Magnuses, then we'll have something prestigious and in need of a main pilot, with lots of eager royalbloods with fewer sense than titles getting appointed operators of the flashy mechs.

Long way to say that these first mechs might be neat to design as walking pillboxes or somesuch

(4) "Boomstick" 12ga Remington Tactical Shotgun: ConscriptFive, TricMagic, The Ensorceler, NG
(4) "Crying Eyes" Cryo-cooled Thermal Imaging Visor: ConscriptFive, NUKE9.13, Sentient Bowtie, Rockeater
(0) Freeze Grenade:
(0) Ground Bloom Flamethrower:
(6) Kinetigel Body Armour: NUKE9.13, TricMagic, NG, Sentient Bowtie, Rockeater, The Ensorceler

Operation Rubble: (5) NUKE9.13, Tricmagic, NG, ConscriptFive, Ensorceler

be gay do wildly unethical warlording on a dying shell of a planet  in hopes of suborning the spacelords

pledging for syndicate

Farsight Aegis - Revision
The shield section of the Farsight Lance now incorporates a mirrored-fibonacci force projection over the alloy shield. The overall shape resembles a pair of horns flanking the lance, and is well-suited to resist and deflect even large scale attacks. Attempts to disrupt the lance will fail more often as the horns take side impacts near the base, and a significant amount of the new defensive potential is as simple to recover after being disrupted as any projection.

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Aegis (1) Ensorceler

You've repeatedly claimed that not following you instructions will scar people for life, and make them unsuitable parents. The alternative is that following your instructions will preserve people as ideal parents in a lasting relationship. Perfect is paraphrasing, but you've been denigrating the flipside all day as basically junkies willing to brain damage themself for sex. It grates a bit, okay?

I just had a breakup and I've been specifically wishing I could pair bond less strongly than the clingy shit that went down. It felt awful. I'd rather be able to be close with people without it hurting so bad to be alone for a day. If I could snap my fingers and crank it down, I absolutely would. I dont want to have any children myself, but I dont think I'll ever lose my ability to be good family or help with someone else's kids. It has nothing to do with sex if you let go of the nuclear family ideal.

Weird, that large text block says serial monogamy "repeatedly broken pair bonds" is incredibly common, with a side of polygamy.

I'm gonna counterpropose that childrearing should explocitly acknowledge nonmonogamy, and that you are obsessed with keeping people monogamous because society's pretense that monogamy is feasible has removed non-monogamous family arrangements from the window of public acceptability.

Sure, stepkids happen, but they are seen as difficult, people stay married or *get* married 'for the sake of the kids', and just... it all feels wrong to me I guess. Extended non-nuclear family should be more involved, the success of monogamy shouldnt be what makes or breaks a kid's ability to have more than one caregiver, and with x > 2 caregivers assumed from either/both partner webs and extended family, it would be much easier to cut out a toxic caregiver or otherwise have a single link break without putting all the pressure on the final remaining caregiver.

All of what I've mentioned exists. But it isnt seen as the norm, despite low-partner-count superior-pair-bonded monogamous couples that last decades being *rare*. Trying to build a society out of an idealized relationship that's mostly fiction doesnt work at all, and trying to force people to me True Monogamous won't work very well or help the kids born to average folks.


(Also just... it feels like you're trying to preserve virgin brain states and fetishizing the 'one partner, ever, til death do us part' thing that has repeatedly been pushed in different parts of the US mostly by different churches and carries a lot of unpleasant examples of people being publically shamed and bullied, or when it works drastically underprepared for a serious relationship up to and including abuse being assumed as normal.)

It's a bomb, and potentially a cannon round for the ambitious. It's easy to start burning and smoldering, but the outer layer with sugar mixed in isnt quite explosive. The smolder will continue until such time as it reaches the oxidizer-rich interior, at which point it explodes in a shower of sparks, slag, and unexploded chunks of flarecoal which themselves burn until they violently explode.

When entirely smashed by the impact of being dropped from a great height or at the end of a projectile arc, a flarecoal briquette will 'strike-anywhere' at every point simultaneously and violently explode in a wave of slag.

They are *absolutely not* a fuel source yet, despite the intent of the chemists behind them and the 'real' ones that get thrown (unchanged?) into engines. At best, a flarecoal briquette would be a self-destruct option. I *really* dont see a normal boiler handling it well.