I have to ask though; why don't spoilers show up when you click preview?
Who knows? Probably didn't think anybody would be using spoilers (or "collapsibles", as they call them) to do anything complicated. And they are expanded by default unless you specify mw-collapsed.
Haven't seen them be used in any wiki before, which is kind of surprising. They seem useful for hiding stuff, and would be even better if they improved them a bit.
More info on collapsible if you're interested:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Collapsible_elementsAnyway, I think the sand creatures we have are "dead" in a way, like corral. They can't reproduce. That's why Hephaestus isn't facing a Black Goo apocalypse (remember what happened to Lyra?).
And I've had an idea for a modular Assault APC for some time, something that you could exchange turrets, locomotion system (wheels, rockets, tank treads, etc), power source, armour (electrified, reactive, kinamp-rammers, etc) and internal systems (thinks like automated medical systems, vehicle grav-chute to allow silent insertion, automaniupulator shield, etc.) easily to allow it to adapt to many combat scenarios that would work well with the mission fund system. I'm going to try out in Tinker later and the Battle of Hexbarax later. If it turns out to be useful, I'll be sending it to Hephaestus. Then you could keep adding modules to it like your crystal autorifle to allow everyone to make the APC/tank they need
and then murder all their teammates with it. Would certainly give more direct combat use for aux people, something other than remote controlled drones and turrets.
Is that enough of a SAW for you?
You need to make it shaped like a minigun. Everybody knows miniguns are better.