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“Well, he did leave eventually! But not until after the Second Battle of Waterloo.”
“And you know there’s a difference between being destroyed in a fire and being destroyed on a fire. I’ll explain.”
“Schrödinger knew that the War of the Wor was going to be massive. Everybody in Waterloo knew. All the lecturers and tutors had made a pact. Instead of letting their work fall into the hands of the militias they agreed to destroy everything. They made a bonfire. Schrödinger took his own notes, and his precious orb, and he threw all of it onto the fire.”
“That’s the difference between being destroyed in a fire and being destroyed on a fire. He destroyed his own invention!”
“And he didn’t go to Ormskirk either! He was a sailor, he was one of the people who moved to Wally, one of the founder members of the RedCircle. One of the good pirates!”
“More importantly, on the day that the Second Battle of Waterloo started, he had raced home, grabbed what he could, and then he sailed to Wally, with his orb.”
“You just said he threw the orb on a fire,” says MaxChaos.
“He did. That was the one from the Uni, the working prototype, the second orb! He kept the first one at home. And he took it to Wally with him, the first orb, the one that didn’t actually work. Of course he had no notes, because they’d all been burnt. But The Shorb survived, the first Shorb still exists.”
OverGroan joins in, “and that’s where the trail goes cold. We don’t know what happened to Schrödinger, and we don’t know what happened to The Shorb. It was the dark ages all over again. Computers had become useless, and nobody had written down any proper notes. Everybody was fighting for survival. The War of the Wor lasted three years.”
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“History is fascinating,” says BarmyWaffle, “though some half truths abound! Working out the difference between several
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