Quote:Okay, I can kind of buy that, but it still feels like pushing it... perhaps becasue it's presented as a completed item, rather than someone saying "Gosh, this is a really overpowered batch of gravity coils - they put out enough pulse force to turn itself and anything too close into neutronium. Gee, I wonder if I could tweak it more and make a black hole? For SCIENCE!" and then later rolling out the Can of Squishy Suckingness.
t's the equivalent of a giant vacuum cleaner for the space along Stellvia's approach lanes.
Granted, that's due to the kind of sudden nature of the incident, but maybe you could have it be a prototyype project that's currently in progres, and have Noah call down to the lab for a status report, revealing a logic chain like that between his narrated thoughts and the reply. Making the device more kludgy-looking could help too, maybe a core uniit that launches and then spreads out a "net" of focusing nodes to extend its effect to useful distance once it's ballistic? Just some possiblities.
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