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And then the local witch doctors hear about the weird deaths and dig the “curse” up as a weapon[1] against their enemies :) if they are clever enough they make
by krisoft 3y ago
And then the local witch doctors hear about the weird deaths and dig the “curse” up as a weapon[1] against their enemies :) if they are clever enough they make sure that the digging and distributing of it is not done personally but by less valuable people pressed into service (such as old slaves, enemies, etc etc)
1: not a nuclear bomb of course, just as radioactive contamination.
- throwanem 3y agoRead less fantasy and more history.
- krisoft 3y agoHistory teaches us that people every possible gains available to them to hurt others. From salting the earth[1], to gifting smalpox infected blankets[2], through carting away the grain[3], and a literal strong man sneaking literal nuclear waste material into tea to terrorise others[4]. What do you think reading more history will teach me? 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth 2: https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smallpox-blankets https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smal... 3: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor 4: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvi...
- throwanem 3y agoNot to invent movie plots, one would hope. If the message cave is in any way to be weaponized, it's much more likely than anything else to be used as a place of execution.
- Tabular-Iceberg 3y agoA civilization that primitive won’t have the technology to effectively disperse it to make a real difference. We don’t even have the technology now. The main reason we don’t use dirty bombs now is that statistically increasing cancer rates decades down the road isn’t really tactically relevant in the moment.