Rob: First, you are correct. I looked back. In fact, I had not read your second vignette. Taking that into account, the quirks for Li and Sora do seem to be notched at correct intensities. The general feel of "there's some folks just don't like me much" also accounts for a fair bit, in terms of story balance. The ability to make AI to spec is still a problem from a "breaks the world" perspective (If you can do it, why can't everybody else? Also, Handwavium is like Cat. It does not go where you tell it to. It goes where it wants to, and is perhaps influenced by outside forces.) but that's a backstory issue rather than an unbalanced current character issue. I suggested the slapstick-style comedy because it was relatively easy, you had *seemed* to be powergaming, and I figured it would be easier for you to accept. I am glad to have been wrong.
For Kaboomite - first, the name - the tech that people have been giving new names to has invariably been wave-tech, or partially wave-tech, or derived from wavetech. Names have been cropping up all over the place about groups of people, but hat is not the same. If your "kaboomite" *is* essentially a baby nuke, then I'm really quite curious how you got ahold of enough fissionable material (weapons-grade, no less) to load your railgun with the stuff, without seriously upsetting the Danes. If it's not, then I'm really quite curious how you expected it to do significant damage to a handwaved hull (from a group who knew they were going into battle, and would likely have spent at least a little more than the average amount of care on such things) let alone cracked the hull and destroyed the ship. There are significant gaps in both directions.
For Kaboomite - first, the name - the tech that people have been giving new names to has invariably been wave-tech, or partially wave-tech, or derived from wavetech. Names have been cropping up all over the place about groups of people, but hat is not the same. If your "kaboomite" *is* essentially a baby nuke, then I'm really quite curious how you got ahold of enough fissionable material (weapons-grade, no less) to load your railgun with the stuff, without seriously upsetting the Danes. If it's not, then I'm really quite curious how you expected it to do significant damage to a handwaved hull (from a group who knew they were going into battle, and would likely have spent at least a little more than the average amount of care on such things) let alone cracked the hull and destroyed the ship. There are significant gaps in both directions.