Acyl Wrote:I note this in the hopes it will be amusing:- I had a several minute-long completely deadpan conversation with two colleagues about how the secret Singaporean eugenics programme to breed a superhero is clearly not working out, because standards in the field have slipped since WWII Germany.
("What we really need is someone with expanded lung capacity, for super-breath. To blow away all the forest fire smoke in the city." "Yeah, focusing breeding efforts on super-intelligence and gadgeteers was clearly a mistake...")
That gives the UN a chance to win this war, actually... If the Chinese change focus every three to five years (as bureaucracies around the world tend to do), they aren't going to be concentrating on any one type of power set for long enough to reliably create a truly powerful example of that power set.
So, yes, the IST world's China has thousands of metahumans - but they're relatively weak metahumans. While force of numbers is on their side, sheer power is more likely to be found on the other side of the battle lines.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012