u/Jeep-Eep

Fusion plants, like any other nuclear power plant that isn't insanity like a nuclear salt water drive will generally fail safe, unless specifically set up otherwise.

Therefore, the ability to be broken down like that was a deliberate design feature

The ability to set off a 'wildcat' like that means an engineering rating with a few grenades can ensure the ship is not taken intact if given the order, and I suspect rather a lot of R&D and money went into making that feature somewhat reliable.

The thing needs to be able to carry out research on flood subjects even if the other sites go dark both for the longshot cure... and to carry out 'Gain Of Function' study on FSC, to tune the array to preclude any resistance on the part of 'thinking mode' thinking muscle. Same redundancy as making sure that the array will sterilize even after losing more then one ring.

I suspect most actual research work would have been done in sites like Threshold, mind. Only master storage and backup facilities on the main ring.

If it hadn't been for, you know, the flesheating nanomachinery infesting the thing, it would have been a far bigger prize then ever imagined.

One also has to wonder just how many of those pods got launched...

The ends had 3 slats, and the ladder was mounted flush to the beds when bunked. Varished wood.

Because if it oneshotted a protoframe, it must have some bananas Riven.

I'm curious if anyone's taken a swing at that combo in the current strategy resurgence. While normally I've come to swing to turn based tactics, I do think that essentially being put in a hotseat and multitasking pressure would be perfect ludonarrative synergy for that those thematic elements.

No particular specialized capabilities with an object or threat class, but running basic humint, elint and readings (atmo composition and conditions, radiation emissions, EM scans, infrasound, infrared readings and background Hume among other things) from as far away as possible, so that the actual containment team is properly chosen and equipped for the task at hand.