What a Load
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By Towering Barbarian Fri Feb 17th 2017 at 3:28 am
The alternative would be a lot, lot worse! ^_^
By Gianluca Burdon Fri Feb 17th 2017 at 3:32 am
Is Dr Dynamo building a time machine? Why would he need that? How & why did he by all the parts?
By Towering Barbarian Fri Feb 17th 2017 at 4:48 am
Those are good questions. ^_^
1. We know that Claw stole his machine from Dr. Dynamo’s supergroup back in the day while they were distracted by some crisis or other (Possibly the one that brought the aliens to Earth). If he were the inventor of that original machine it would be natural for him to want to build a new one. It would also be natural that he would want to stop the schemes of whoever stole his original widget by making it impossible to maintain.
2. Mad Science never needs a reason! That said, it’s not impossible that he can see several useful things coming from the ability to travel into alternate dimensions or manipulate the time stream.
3. It might be that the parts are specialized enough that there are never that many on the market at any one time to begin with. The interesting question here, (To me at least!) is why Claw can’t simply commission new parts from the manufacturer or wait around for more to be made. These items are technology rather than magic so it should be easy enough to arrange for more to be made. Or if not then they shouldn’t be that hard to reverse engineer and make for Claw’s minions. Like Dr. Jerry Pournelle once wrote, “That which Man once has done Man can aspire to do again!”.
By MisterGrim Mon May 29th 2017 at 9:26 am
One of the main reasons why they need to fix the machine is due to lack of funds and the second is most likely to be able to get something quickly and in a large supply.
By Bracey Fri Feb 17th 2017 at 8:03 am
I like how Claw as the big boss doesnt consider all the “little” details of his flying fortress of minions. I mean thats what underlings and HR are for right?
By 7thsealord Fri Feb 17th 2017 at 11:39 pm
That is probably also why the good Doctor remains unaware of the shopping mall on level 22.
By Bracey Mon Feb 20th 2017 at 11:24 am
Heh good one!
By TMary Fri Feb 17th 2017 at 1:31 pm
With an entire wing for the laundry, you’d think he’d have stumbled into it by accident at some point.
By wright1 Fri Feb 17th 2017 at 7:07 pm
Laundry. Food service. Trash / recycling. Plumbing. And all the ticklish infrastructure that goes into any community, even the high-tech, alien-derived flying ones. Working details like that into the story is a testament to your writing skills.
By Lori Sat Feb 18th 2017 at 4:21 pm
dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
By Pibbles Sun Feb 19th 2017 at 9:24 am
Claw wouldn’t now.
His tights are dry clean only.
By Justicar_9 Thu Jun 1st 2017 at 3:21 pm
Wait a minute…
Dynamo is buying up parts required for the time loop device.
Dynamo was last seen being leveraged to build tech and weapons for Actioneer.
Actioneer likely found out about the loop, if not its purpose, during his time as resistance liason.
Could it be that Actioneer and Dr. Dynamo are attempting to recreate the time loop?