2012-02-20: Coming Home

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Re: 2012-02-20: Coming Home

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A careful mage with spells like invisibility and mind control can probably kill off an arbitrarily large number of non-magical humans, let alone a platoon. Fireball is relatively speaking probably the least powerful weapon in the elven arsenal. We've seen them casually clear a street in Saus via mental magic. A few hundred elves of Sarine's level of competence could tear apart any nation other than Tsuiraku or the time ninjas, and possibly the latter with preparation. (Like wearing reactive armor.) Also the elves had a teleport network no one else had figured out yet. And reactive armor might work on bullets not just time-ninjas.

Meji is one person and she's the world hyperpower, because she has enough magic. The elves were a few thousand people, but they also had lots of magic. Veracia, Farrell, and the Confederacy: little magic. Guns will not protect you from invisible mind control ninjas.
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As for the travel platform: (a) that shows Sarine's dialect; Tsuiraku calls them warp gates, IIRC. (b) Remember how we met Bani? Guarding a warp gate. It's not just a gate, it's a garrison; Santuariel is basically incorporated into the Greater Tsuirakuan Co-Prosperity Sphere, like Farrell. As for what the Confederacy thinks of it, hey, guess who doesn't have much magic?

Someone noted the warpgate serves for evacuating the civilians. It also serves for providing reinforcements while someone's attacking the garrison.
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'The handful who showed up in Saus to apprehend Ian were "what's left of the Elven military",'

BTW, given what we later saw against Ian, I think that was total exaggeration. False, even. There was a lot more of the elven military. OTOH, seeing an armored platoon show up when she'd called for one ranger as backup seemed like massive overkill calling for sarcasm to match.

After all, in Sarine's mind then, one ranger should be more than a match for any other one being on the planet other than maybe a Tsuirakuan battlemage or a troll matriarch. (I'm guessing on the trolls.) If you're worried that a half-elf might be trained enough to be a possible threat, call in a second elf as backup. A whole military hit squad... "buuuh?" Plus, of course, she didn't want them at all.
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Re: 2012-02-20: Coming Home

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Pretty hefty necropost, so please delete if unwanted, but what else do you all think Meji's 'insensible' suggestions were? Socialist suggestions, super-liberal ideas making drugs and sex more easy, R&D stuff (suggested this earlier, but rereading the comic it seems more like what they actually listened to), what else is there?
I'm really curious what kind of world Meji wanted for Tsuiraku, it might tell us more about the society she tried to set up.
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Re: 2012-02-20: Coming Home

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The elven army is compromised almost entirely of veterans of the Errant War. I think this counts for something. Also, iirc Meji's number of hearts didn't include the already evacuated ones, so I would put their actual number around 1000. But, putting aside such issues (as we never REALLY saw too much of the elven army besides how utterly useless they were against Ian), it strikes me as strange that most posts here just assume that there will be more world wars. I don't see any rooted reasons for truly worldwide conflicts (as were the colonies and the ww1 peace treaties for our world); and you don't just attack a Tsuiraku gate without being prepared to turn it into a worldwide conflict. And even if there is antagonism between the Northern Confederacy and Tsuiraku --well, Cuba wasn't exactly destroyed by the US, now, was it.

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Probably educational reforms that would make it easier to graduate (like in, defeating only half of the teachers, not all of them).
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