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ceaseless-rambler · 2 years ago

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The Moon Kaiser is actually kind of terrible at being a military leader. A weapon that could win the war with no threat of mutually assured destruction, just sitting in the room where he met with prisoners and also probably did anything personal because the place he slept was right there, and that could also be pointed directly at the ground. My guy what were you thinking. How did it take him that long to die. Why was he not overthrown by other people up in the chain of command, because if none of them had any sort of strategic ability at all they would've lost the war years ago. Maybe someone was trying to get the Kaiser killed by an enemy so they could take over without suspicion? But surely it wouldn't have taken that long

#i love scifi but my suspension of disbelief is not great and it's so annoying #the worst is if i notice characters talking about days/weeks/months #but theyre from different planets #and it would be utterly unreasonable to expect scifi authors to solve the issue of #how to standardize timekeeping between planets #because it's all based on earth's movement and that's definitely not standard etc #and i don't expect that! but i always Question things #don't even get me started on circadian rhythms and interplanatary travel #the mechanisms #gunpowder tim vs the moon kaiser

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