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[GreatWyrmGold]

Whatever we do, we should ask Krait for help with the flying. He asked us to, and probably knows how better than us. Besides, we're all Friends in Chaos here.

[Origami_Psycho]

... What about a giant cannon to launch things, along with parachutes? Because why the fuck not.

It's stupid, inaccurate, and needlessly dangerous?

Why not just some sort of giant air-jellyfish? Or giant beetle with a bladder of lifting gas under its carapace, replacing its wings? Or a roc?

Alright. In that case may I suggest something like the title creature from the book Leviathan.

Hell yes. Whale blimp, here we come.

Perhaps we can reincarnate souls into them.

And give it flechette shitting bats.

[Gamerlord]

... What about a giant cannon to launch things, along with parachutes? Because why the fuck not.

It's stupid, inaccurate, and needlessly dangerous?

Why not just some sort of giant air-jellyfish? Or giant beetle with a bladder of lifting gas under its carapace, replacing its wings? Or a roc?

Alright. In that case may I suggest something like the title creature from the book Leviathan.

Hell yes. Whale blimp, here we come.

Perhaps we can reincarnate souls into them.

And give it flechette shitting bats.

Definitely.

[Jbg97]

How about whale blimps that have heavy cannons that launch explosive shells?

[Origami_Psycho]

How about whale blimps that have heavy cannons that launch explosive shells?

Filled with flaming flechette shitting bats?

[Rolepgeek]

No flechitting bats. That's just a poor idea. They had that to work with. We have so much more.

[Origami_Psycho]

No flechitting bats. That's just a poor idea. They had that to work with. We have so much more.

Flaming ones, of course.  That have multiple flechettes.  That spread the spores.  And those that miss seed Stems.

[gman8181]

I feel like those ideas were wavering between serious and joking?  I also missed the reference.

[GreatWyrmGold]

By the way, the US military did actually look into bat bombs during WWII. They were bombs, full of bats with little incendiary devices on them. They worked really well--a mere half-dozen bats managed to accidentally burn down a military base, and a single bomb could hold thousands of them.

It was discontinued, possibly because fission bombs were right around the corner.

[Origami_Psycho]

I feel like those ideas were wavering between serious and joking?  I also missed the reference.

Completely serious.  And it's a sci-fi book set in the time leading up to WWI, where the allies use genetic engineering to create some genuinely awesome shit.  Such as giant flying whales for airships, that use bees to collect food, has hawks trailing razor wire to fuck up planes, and bats that shit flechettes over a target when they see red light.  They also have Kraken, and large wooly mammoths for tanks.  And that's just scratching the surface.

[Origami_Psycho]

By the way, the US military did actually look into bat bombs during WWII. They were bombs, full of bats with little incendiary devices on them. They worked really well--a mere half-dozen bats managed to accidentally burn down a military base, and a single bomb could hold thousands of them.

It was discontinued, possibly because fission bombs were right around the corner.

I believe it was because some got out and roosted under a rather large fuel tank.  And then the full scale invasion of the Japanese mainland was cancelled, due to the end of the war.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I feel like those ideas were wavering between serious and joking?  I also missed the reference.

Completely serious.  And it's a sci-fi book set in the time leading up to WWI, where the allies use genetic engineering to create some genuinely awesome shit.  Such as giant flying whales for airships, that use bees to collect food, has hawks trailing razor wire to fuck up planes, and bats that shit flechettes over a target when they see red light.  They also have Kraken, and large wooly mammoths for tanks.  And that's just scratching the surface.

None of those sound practical, and few sound possible.

[Rolepgeek]

We could have fleshit bats. Or, we could have birds, which are faster, that breathe fire. Or shit exploding poop.

[Gamerlord]

I feel like those ideas were wavering between serious and joking?  I also missed the reference.

Completely serious.  And it's a sci-fi book set in the time leading up to WWI, where the allies use genetic engineering to create some genuinely awesome shit.  Such as giant flying whales for airships, that use bees to collect food, has hawks trailing razor wire to fuck up planes, and bats that shit flechettes over a target when they see red light.  They also have Kraken, and large wooly mammoths for tanks.  And that's just scratching the surface.

And the other side have mechs.

[Origami_Psycho]

I feel like those ideas were wavering between serious and joking?  I also missed the reference.

Completely serious.  And it's a sci-fi book set in the time leading up to WWI, where the allies use genetic engineering to create some genuinely awesome shit.  Such as giant flying whales for airships, that use bees to collect food, has hawks trailing razor wire to fuck up planes, and bats that shit flechettes over a target when they see red light.  They also have Kraken, and large wooly mammoths for tanks.  And that's just scratching the surface.

None of those sound practical, and few sound possible.

Think of the bees as miners gathering oil for feeding an engine, the kraken would actually be pretty effective against ships, since they could just pull them under if they were made strong enough, or just be strong enough to crush the ship, the hawks served the same purpose as barrage balloons, which were very effective against planes, by the way, and the bats would be an effective delivery system, since they could function with great effect both day and night, and if one goes down, it's no big deal, since they only carry one of two flechettes anyways.  And the whales were about as practical as an airship, which is to say incredibly practical.