Quote Originally Posted by eschmenk View Post
Also: "The muses were toys. They weren't heavy duty fighting clanks. Otilia had some fancy sword flourishes she performed for visitors, but she was actually built for teaching, not ripping people to shreds." The latter was Violetta talking, but she learned that from Tarvek, who I think knew what he was talking about when it came to the muses.
This reminds me of the ship from Ringworld, dubbed the Lying B***ard by Louis Wu, for the number of innocent-looking tools with innocent uses that just so happened to become deadly at the extremes of their capabilities. But I doubt that's what's happening here, strictly speaking.