Tales from the Cutting Edge

[Doktor Howl]

Meeting today:

Me:  "I have looked at the numbers, Mary, and we can't use tungsten for fragmentation.  It's too expensive and it would also be heavy enough to cut battery life by 75%."

Mary:  "Yes, but it punches through damn near everything."

Sally (Now her real name):  "Doesn't do us any good if it can't reach the target.  Any ideas, Hamish?"

Me:  "Yes.  Upsize the explosive 15% and jacket the doggie with glass."

Mary:  "..."

Sally:  "..."

Me:  "What?  It's light, it flies a greater distance, and it can't be detected with X-rays.  Also, every time the victim is moved, it's like he has tiny gnomes with bone saws inside him that start cutting.  So when he's placed on a stretcher, that alone is like stabbing him a dozen times."

Sally:  "Is that legal?"

Me:  "The first time.  I checked, and there is no specific treaty or legal regulation banning glass as a weapon."

Sally:  "Um. I am going to go to my office and think about this."

Mary:  "Don't leave me alone with this monster!"

Me:  "Not for nothing, but Trump just made Matthew Gaetz the attorney general."

Sally:  *boils*

Me:  "And he's trying to have Lara Trump installed in the senate."

Sally:  "I want a proposal on my desk by the 18th."

Me:  "On it."

Mary:  "Oh my God."

Me:  "Welcome to the Cyber Corporation, Cyberpunk."

Mary:  "What?"

Me:  "This all fits into the first statistical deviation."

Mary:  "Did you just tell me this is all normal?"

Me:  "Yes, but in geek."

[chaotic neutral observer]

Sally:  "Is that legal?"

Me:  "The first time.  I checked, and there is no specific treaty or legal regulation banning glass as a weapon."

I think there's the making of a good marketing slogan in there.

"It's legal...the first time."

"Deploy our weapons platforms, and you'll be the reason they need to rewrite the rules of war."

[Doktor Howl]

Sally:  "Is that legal?"

Me:  "The first time.  I checked, and there is no specific treaty or legal regulation banning glass as a weapon."

I think there's the making of a good marketing slogan in there.

"It's legal...the first time."

"Deploy our weapons platforms, and you'll be the reason they need to rewrite the rules of war."

"It's never a war crime the first time."
- The Fat Electrician

[Doktor Howl]

So, the engineers that report to me call me The Monster when they think I can't hear them.

Young people are just not serious about havin' a good time in the end times.

[Pergamos]

I am a bit confused by your boss, a dictator has taken power, and that makes her more eager to make weapons?  Isn't that putting weapons at the disposal of the dictator?

[Doktor Howl]

I am a bit confused by your boss, a dictator has taken power, and that makes her more eager to make weapons?  Isn't that putting weapons at the disposal of the dictator?

I think she just wants less humans, but I'm not going to question it.