While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

Vessels of the Naval Division in War Operations were ordered to follow the English Admiralty to Gibraltar. Admiral Pedro Max Fernando Frontin been warned to be careful because the battleship HMS Britannia, assigned to accompany the Brazilian fleet had been sunk by a German submarine, and there was a warning of the presence of more submarines in the area.

In this context, the commander of the cruiser Bahia confused a bunch of porpoises with the trace of the periscope of a German submarine, resulting in unexpected attack the school of fish. The carnage was widespread, resulting in the massacre and finally the German attack never happened.

However the momentum of bravery demonstrated only came to feed the popular imagination, among many jokes, reports a German commander who saw what had happened, and said: "If they did it with a group of dolphins, imagine what they will do with us!"

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Crezth said:

Most important thing you gotta know about WWI: Man, Luckymoose and I used to get sheit done. Good ol' days.

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1. Whenever DARPA first wanted to get into powered armor research, they didn't go with the Sarcos XOS, UC Berkeley's BLEEX, or Lockheed Martin HULC, they went to a Japanese company called CYBERDYNE and their HAL-5. If the fact that Yoshiyuki Sankai named his company apparently in honor of Terminator 2's Cyberdyne Systems, and his suit in honor of 2001: A Space Odyssey's murderous HAL-9000 disturbs you, don't worry, because he says he turned DARPA down because his creations are only for peaceful purposes.
2. Japan wanted to build the Gundam Academy. Then the LDP actually wanted to build Gundams. It's worth noting that the lead series, Mobile Suit Gundam, starts off during this thing called the One Year War in which something like 4+ billion people die in the first week, and which mainly focuses on technology being used to facilitate things like child soldiering and race wars. Maybe bringing it to life isn't such a good idea.
3. Japan wants to build orbital solar arrays and beam the power back to Earth. While the idea isn't new or Japanese, they seem to be the only ones seriously pursuing it. They also recognize the problems with the beaming scheme (as opposed to say, a hardline) in that if the beams go off target they do bad things like Microwave Power Plants in SimCity 3000 (a much less powerful system, like say, COBRA DANE radars, will literally cook birds that fly through their beams) which is why the receivers are all planned to be built at sea. This means they also understand the dual-use nature of such facilities as weapons.
4. Japan was interested in using Peaceful Nuclear Explosions to construct a Thai/Kra Canal in the 1980s, a decade after the US and USSR had mostly wound down their ambitions for using such devices for civil engineering projects. One wonders why they thought it was a good idea given people with nukes and practice no longer did, where they would have gotten the nukes from, how they would've mitigated the radiation, and how they would've sold the idea at home given how much Japan likes to play the Hiroshima and Nagasaki victim card.

Grandkhan said:

Look, Japan's constitution says that it can't put boots on the soil in other countries. It says nothing about frying enemy formations from space with immense beam weapons and using those to intimidate its enemies into joining the new glorious Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

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Angst said:

if i were to be eradicated by a superior force, i think gdrs seem like the way to go. much preferable to nuclear fallout or biowarfare or kz-camps

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Angst said:

i'm not sure. must there be a reason for everything.

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Angst said:

well i don't have any reason in particular. don't think i should either

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Symphony D. said:

I vote we ship everyone pushing a Cold War II narrative

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