Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
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Originally Posted by Spamotron
Okay, If Tagon's "girlfriend," was a vector for weaponized nanotech how did he survive prolonged contact with her? Obviously the conspirators didn't want the nannies to trigger until his dad was in the killzone to prevent tipping their hand early. But, they probably started to activate as soon as she reached the house. Tagon didn't do so much as give her a kiss on the cheek before introducing her to his parents?
My guess is because he was "just" a colonel then.
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
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The idea probably came from the story arc we currently have.
Plus one of the Tagons (I think it was Kaff since he's the one currently facing down a nanny-based threat) mentioned that he'd survived weaponized nanotech before.
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WMG: Kaff Tagon's "girlfriend" is Krum, the woman currently running the op against the Gavs - and the woman who shot what's-her-face for "stealing" an escape pod seat.
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WMG: Kaff Tagon's "girlfriend" is Krum, the woman currently running the op against the Gavs - and the woman who shot what's-her-face for "stealing" an escape pod seat.
I didn't want to say it, but it makes horrific sense.
Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
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Where is everyone getting the weaponized nanotech idea? Did I miss something here?
It is being rather heavily implied that Kaff's girl was stuffed full of weaponized nanotech, and was used to target his family as the kickoff to the Terraforming War.
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
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WMG: Kaff Tagon's "girlfriend" is Krum, the woman currently running the op against the Gavs - and the woman who shot what's-her-face for "stealing" an escape pod seat.
The girlfriend is way more endowed than Krum in a certain part of her anatomy...
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The girlfriend is way more endowed than Krum in a certain part of her anatomy...
And severely deficient in others. If you add twenty years and a hundred-odd pounds, you might be able to fit Ms. Kaff into Krum's profile.
I don't think they're the same person though.
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And severely deficient in others. If you add twenty years and a hundred-odd pounds, you might be able to fit Ms. Kaff into Krum's profile.
I don't think they're the same person though.
Considering the cosmetic surgery options available in Schlockverse, any character could look like any other character of the same species if they put their mind to it.
However, my guess is that the girlfriend in question is dead, a nanobot suicide bomber who was part of the initial attack. That would explain how she could potentially be an unwitting pawn, if she gets infected without her knowledge, then at a certain point the nanites get activated, use her matter to self-replicate, then attack.
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Considering the cosmetic surgery options available in Schlockverse, any character could look like any other character of the same species if they put their mind to it.
I'm willing to bet it would be possible to end up looking like another species if one wanted to for some reason.
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
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WMG: Kaff Tagon's "girlfriend" is Krum, the woman currently running the op against the Gavs - and the woman who shot what's-her-face for "stealing" an escape pod seat.
Just to add more fuel to the speculative fire... Krum and "mystery girl" have a lot of superficial similarities that someone on the Nightstar forums pointed out. Including the fact that Krum is just a bit taller than Emm, who was just about at shoulder height to Tagon, while "mystery girl" is just above shoulder height to Tagon.
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
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Just to add more fuel to the speculative fire... Krum and "mystery girl" have a lot of superficial similarities that someone on the Nightstar forums pointed out. Including the fact that Krum is just a bit taller than Emm, who was just about at shoulder height to Tagon, while "mystery girl" is just above shoulder height to Tagon.
Well, personally, I figure there's probably a 90% chance it's Krum.
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Well, personally, I figure there's probably a 90% chance it's Krum.
On the other side, "mystery girl" does bear a superficial similarity to Kath... And it's been mentioned that Kath's "Oh no" look seems to be more of a "I recognize this story" look. So it's also possible that this girl was an older relative of hers...
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
I very much doubt Katherine would press him to tell a story she lived firsthand. If she WAS an assassin, it's not like she would forget the name of her target, especially since (Assuming the Mystery Girl was an assassin, not an unwitting pawn), that would mean she first seduced his son.
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I very much doubt Katherine would press him to tell a story she lived firsthand. If she WAS an assassin, it's not like she would forget the name of her target, especially since (Assuming the Mystery Girl was an assassin, not an unwitting pawn), that would mean she first seduced his son.
Mystery Girl is just a bit too tall to be Kath. She's also probably too young, as she's only 31, and Karl Tagon is 49 or older at the time of the story being told, since this was just before his promotion to General. At best, Mystery Girl is one of Kath's aunts, possibly her mother.
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Plus, if Kath was an active assassin, she'd have made it through field training and would have known the response to the aunt amy uncle bob thing.
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About that...
I'm not the only one to see this, right?
I wasn't going to mention it, but it did look really familiar.
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Is it just me, or is this going far too well so far. NSB's busy, but the toughs aren't taking any damage, while the attackers are. While I wouldn't expect a semi-renegade intelligence operation run by a semi-disgraced commander to be able to come up with a battleplate, I'd certainly expect a lot more than she's showing.
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Well, the obvious answer to that is: how do you know this lot are anything to do with Krum? She already has her attack going inside Oisri base itself, I'm not sure a fleet of corvettes actually helps that in any way.
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Well, the obvious answer to that is: how do you know this lot are anything to do with Krum? She already has her attack going inside Oisri base itself, I'm not sure a fleet of corvettes actually helps that in any way.
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Re: Schlock Mercenary III: One million years of crowdsourced kitten videos
Did I miss something here?
