[ That's a hell of a question. Sharkface leans back, turning it over in his head. ]
To destroy fortifications. Bring down a ship or decimate an enemy's numbers. Or sometimes just to kill as many people as possible. Level a city if it's pissed you off.
[ It's impossible not to think of planet killers, and the one he handed over to Felix. Why not? he'd thought. Why the fuck not? Chorus was going to fall. It felt inevitable and he hadn't cared, so long as he could find Carolina and Washington before the end and tear them apart. Even if he just took Carolina with him, it would have been enough.
And yet. He remembers landing on Glassed out planets, the way they had seemed to shimmer from the air. The smell of it. Like pure ozone.
He twitches. Tightens his grip on his drink and does not go there. ]
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To destroy fortifications. Bring down a ship or decimate an enemy's numbers. Or sometimes just to kill as many people as possible. Level a city if it's pissed you off.
[ It's impossible not to think of planet killers, and the one he handed over to Felix. Why not? he'd thought. Why the fuck not? Chorus was going to fall. It felt inevitable and he hadn't cared, so long as he could find Carolina and Washington before the end and tear them apart. Even if he just took Carolina with him, it would have been enough.
And yet. He remembers landing on Glassed out planets, the way they had seemed to shimmer from the air. The smell of it. Like pure ozone.
He twitches. Tightens his grip on his drink and does not go there. ]
Modern technology.