Previous<\/a> \u2013 Book1 Page12 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s hard to say,\u201d responds TedTalker, \u201cthe boffins keep inventories of all their weapons, crossbows, swords, bows and arrows, that sort of thing, but the lab doesn\u2019t log every single small component. And it\u2019s the small things that disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLike what?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s ask Barmy, he can explain it better than me.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe know we\u2019ve lost some prototype arrow heads,\u201d says BarmyWaffle, \u201csome bolt tips, and some samples of bone. The Lab recently received a consignment of llama bone to experiment with. We want to see if it\u2019s more resilient than sheep or goat.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnything explosive? Anything electric?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe chemicals are under double lock and key. Nothing wrong there. Our battery technology programme is on hold. It\u2019s like we\u2019re back where it all started in the 1800s. Wet acid batteries and not much else. We have a little material for dry batteries but we\u2019re too focussed on weaponry right now.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd other types of power plants?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe prototype drones have multi level rubber bands, or multi dimensional clockwork engines. And that stuff is all big and bulky.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh, I should introduce you to NutJob,\u201d says Walker, \u201cnot only is he<\/em> into model aircraft, he\u2019s working with Faraday on building a portable electricity generator.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYes I met him earlier, for all of sixty seconds, but you can\u2019t put wind turbines or hydro electric plants inside aircraft! Let me show you the size of some of these enormous rubber bands and clockwork engines. And in any case, the drones are pretty useless. We\u2019d need to build a radio control system first.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019ll mean electronics,\u201d says Walker, \u201ctransistors and stuff? Things that went out with The Decimation?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cExactly,\u201d says BarmyWaffle, \u201cwe\u2019ve not had transistors for 300 years, or thermionic valves, and that\u2019s a 400 year old technology. We can\u2019t manufacture any of it. We have no blueprints. We can\u2019t even find reference material for radios, nor books on transistors or valves. It was all on computers in those days, and we know what happened to computers!\u201d<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> \u2013 Book1 Page12 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous \u2013 Book1 Page12 \u2013 Next \u201cIt\u2019s hard to say,\u201d responds TedTalker, \u201cthe boffins keep inventories of all their weapons, crossbows, swords, bows and arrows, that sort of thing, but the lab doesn\u2019t log every single small component. And it\u2019s the small things that disappear.\u201d \u201cLike what?\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s ask Barmy, he can explain it better … Continue reading “Chapter 2 Charming or Tedious012”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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