#i get comments on my fics whenever i give a higher number of clones going WELL AKSHULLY and im so tired of it

[blackkatmagic]

I have a baseline level of annoyance directed at Karen Traviss that exists at all times, but I am so annoyed at her 3-4 million clones estimation and how it's just turned into the fandom's canon. Like, the gffa is massive! Does she have any concept of space/numbers??? Because there were 70 million soldiers fighting in WWII alone, and if you multiply that by multiple worlds and multiple fronts and whole sectors of space with dozens or hundred of planets, 3-4 million people fighting across all of that territory is laughable, even if they are all technically supersoldiers. And that doesn't even account for losses, when we know from canon that there were losses of over 30k soldiers in a single day.

Just. The lack of logic is infuriating. Traviss pulled that number out of her ass, and fandom just rolling with it makes no sense if you think about it for even a few seconds.