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It's all right, but it reminds me too much of Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan series (which centers around an organic airship that is literally a flying, genetically-modified whale) for me to upvote.
The differences I see between this and that are sufficient to allow an upvote. I liked the use of real history, and -1D reminded me of the bad guy from Up, but reworked into a good guy, which is a good thing.
You kind of lost my interest at the end, with that note, since I liked this better as a weird organic airship without any stated motivation. I did sort of like the idea that it's hunting something, but I feel there are better ways to convey that. I did like it, though, so upvoted.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Love the idea here, its enough for me to upvote dispite the previously mentioned issues.
One pretty important science error to fix: it is not possible for bacteria to produce helium. Helium is primarily obtained from natural gas and oil deposits, and there isn't much of just loose in the atmosphere to gather either. Hydrogen, however, can be easily produced from water vapor and works almost as well.
Hydrogen is also crazy explosive. Do we really want a living(-ish?) Hindenburg?
- Hydrogen is lighter than helium and therefore in theory is better than helium, as opposed to "almost as good as."
- I just chalked that trait up to being another of the thing's scientific anomalies.
@Sensei Le Roof As I pointed out, hydrogen is not explosive. It is combustible. There is a massive difference. In the same way that you can douse a match in a bucket of gasoline, pure hydrogen will suffocate a fire. The Hindenburg's poorly chosen, ridiculously flammable self oxidizing skin material ignited, and then ignited the hydrogen- along with everything else flammable onboard. Blaming the hydrogen is like blaming the wooden furnishings or the carpet.
@MacLeod Apparently I misremembered my facts because you're right about hydrogen providing slightly more lift- but Hydrogen also forms H2 which weighs about the same as helium, and is slightly more compressible. This makes hydrogen provide only slightly more lift, and it can actually provide less lift in colder conditions.
Fantastic! An SCP that explains the "Battle for Los Angeles." Being from that part of the US, it excites me that you chose to highlight one of the strangest parts of WWII.
+1 for tentacled gunner.
I upvoted, because the premise is fascinating, and well thought out (and because I have a soft spot in my heart for cephalopod/tentacles), but I almost didn't vote. The fact that "Physical Description" and "Anomalous Properties" were split up into two different sections, instead of just being part of "Description" really threw me off. Made it seem like it was a GoI article instead of being an actual scip.
Plus, the ending kinda confused me? Like, did 1D die? If not, was he just letting them go through the things on his body? Did they have to use force or something? I dunno, I just feel like the last bit needs some clarification. Though that could just be me being daft and silly.
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