| From: | Doctor Doom <JCH8169@*****.TAMU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | SHADOWTK: (curled up next to a roaring MUSHROOM CLOUD with a good |
| Date: | Sat, 24 Oct 92 05:34:32 CET |
>>>>>>>[ See fer yerself ... and next time you mess with a person's
name .sig
>try to remember that they might have friends! -----
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>>>>>>>[{UPLINK} Shelly McGuire here standing in front of the still
smoking
>wreck of Slick Willies House of Pleasures, an infamous house of ill-repute here
>in OrkTown. Slick Willies, and all other structures within a three-block
>radius of the abandoned United Frieght Shipyards has been decimated in what
>experts agree was a surgical nuclear strike. Let's go now to the scene where
>Miguel is there live...
>...thanks Shelly. This is Miguel Naifu here for EWTN-4 Eyewitness news, your
>complete newsfeed with a full-line of programs twenty-four hours a day. I am
>standing just thirty yards away from the central areal of the
>***A(&@(@(*#(@((@(@(@*** sorry, there is quite a bit of EM interference still,
>and most electronics were knocked out in the area when the EM shockwave hit.
>As Shelly mentioned, experts at the Defense Activities Tactical Research Fund,
>a government-sponsored thinktank, has identified the destruction as a result of
>a surgical nuclear strike ...
>>>>>[ HAH! Identified, indeed! Defence Activities Tactical Research Fund
is
an arm of the UCAS government's information service...supplied with an
impressive name to make it APPEAR important. (The government's ACTUAL Research
& Development is handled by a different agency altogether.) I would wager the
UCAS government knows EXACTLY what caused the blast in question, but it is not
within their best interests that this data be offered for public consumption.
Therefore, it is the Tactical Research Fund's function to provide a 'plausible'
explanation, which if necesssary, they can recant at a later date--and the
media is such a collection of mindless, scandal-mongering idiots that they are
well prepared to believe it, fully convinced they have the information--and
hence the story--first. ]<<<<<
>>-- Doctor Doom <*:*:*/*-*-*>
> ... however unconfirmed sources suggest that the
>damage may have also been caused by a satellite microwave pulse laser. Looking
>around me I see a wasteland of burned earth and melted slag. There is also a
>fine silt of ash covering everything that the labdocs say includes human, ork,
>elf and dwarf flesh among other things.
> Apparently, the United Frieght shipyards was the sight of a meeting,
>the nature of which we here at EWTN-4 cannot determine,a sort of caucus between
>the elite of the two go-gangs of the area, the Arnold Awesomes and the Ronin.
>Apparently they had met to mediate their long running turf-dispute. Jeremih
>Combant, leader of the Awesomes, and Snake, leader of the Ronins, are missing
>and presumed dead along with the dozen or so gang members that were reported
>with them. Local sources say that the meeting was sponsored by a powerful
>corporate executive or the mafia. We'll be looking into this and bring you up
>to date on developments as they occur. Back to you, Shelly...
> Thanks, Miguel. In other news, the Happy Vales Condominium was the
>site of a level-4 security alarm today. An official explanation has not been
>released except to say that they were testing their new security system and
>that a glitch caused the false alarm. However, sources near the director of
>security say that it was not a glitch, but a real breakin the motive of which
>is not clear at this time. Happy Vales is a sculptures living community in the
>minion district, catering to high levmetahuman corporate
employees...]<<<<<<
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>Nuke me ass! A lot more than three-blocks would have been gone if a nuke was
>used, I'll tell ye! ]<<<<<<
-- The Mad Leprechaun (21:28:12/10-23-53)
>>>>>>>[ Not exactly. Tactical Surgical Warheads do exist, they are
just not
>that widely publicized for obvious reasons. In fact, the blast can be much
>tighter than a 6-block radius, beleive me. But I don't think the strike was
>nuclear... tacnukes don't cause the EM shockwave the newsy spoke off ... as far
>as collateral effects, tacnukes are a flash and a whoosh and thats about it.
>Could be a laser, but a laser big and good enough to wipe out that big an area
>from a satellite? Whoever fired it is probably as powerful as they are
>dangerous. Probably hates orks, as well. ]<<<<<<
> -- Mr. Merc (21:55:11/10-23-53)
>>>>>[ Nuclear devices, tactical surgical or not, DO produce an huge
electro-
magnetic pulse. It is not an issue of size, believe me. Rather, it is "der
Natur des Tieres" (nature of the beast). I will conceed the fact that it can
be argued that the magniture of the EM pulse is contingent on the size of the
device, and that one that would have such a small area of effect (I still say,
from what I know, it was not anthing of the sort) would not have a pulse large
enough to cripple all electronics in the area--if they were magnetically based.
Optical chips are not affected by EM disturbances.]<<<<<
>-- Doctor Doom <*:*:*/*-*-*>
