Celebrate the Birth of Our Country by Blowing up a Large Part of it.

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Malcadon
July 4, 2014 - 11:22pm
This is about online sites where you can pick a city and nuke the %&$# out of it... To check out the fallout levels, casualties, etc. Select a target and press "NUKE IT!" or "Detonate" and there you go! KABOOM!

Here are some sites:

So, what city or place are going to turn into a smouldering, radioactive crater for S&Gs (besides the IRS)? Tongue out
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Shadow Shack
July 5, 2014 - 5:56am
According to those sites, a nuke that hits Washington DC would cause billions of dollars worth of improvements.
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Malcadon
July 5, 2014 - 11:25am
Shadow Shack wrote:
According to those sites, a nuke that hits Washington DC would cause billions of dollars worth of improvements.

So damn true!Laughing

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rattraveller
July 5, 2014 - 5:13pm

Yes cause losing the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, the WWII Memorial, the Vietnam War Wall, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian and a few other minor buildings would just be some worth it.

Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go?

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Shadow Shack
July 5, 2014 - 9:24pm
Actually that was referring to the people that are running the place. 

Or should I say "ruining"...
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rattraveller
July 6, 2014 - 6:37am
Yes I knew that but would you not have to include every state capital in the nuclear program too since they tend to do some really silly things too. 
Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go?

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rattraveller
July 6, 2014 - 6:37am
Yes I knew that but would you not have to include every state capital in the nuclear program too since they tend to do some really silly things too. 
Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go?

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Shadow Shack
July 6, 2014 - 7:59am
Ah, but I said "billions" of dollars worth of improvements...including other state capitols would bump that up to "trillions". 

In the end, it was just a joke. Much like the politicians it was aimed at. Cool
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Malcadon
July 6, 2014 - 11:55pm
rattraveller wrote:

Yes cause losing the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, the WWII Memorial, the Vietnam War Wall, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian and a few other minor buildings would just be some worth it.

If those things are so valuable, then why did we throw them into that cesspit of a place? Its like placing the original Mona Lisa in some dark, dangerous back ally. Washington D.C. is just a hive of scum and villainy, as well as living, breathing parody Muppet holdovers from the 1980s.

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rattraveller
July 7, 2014 - 5:51am
@Mal are you referring to the residents of D.C. or the politicians? Because the bulk of the politicians are from other parts of the U.S. and just meet in D.C. for work.

Of course you could say the say about other capital cities. Would the people of Great Britain want to nuke London and take out the Tower of London, Big Ben, Picadilly Circus, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace and the London Eye.

The Mona Lisa is in the Louvre which is in Paris, the capital of France. Think some of the French want to nuke Paris?
Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go?

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jedion357
July 7, 2014 - 6:19pm
Actually politicians dont spend that much time in DC.You'd likely miss most of them with and nukes, kill a bunch of non politicians, wipe out some significant cultural artifacts and we'd still be stuck with them.
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KRingway
July 14, 2014 - 1:43pm
rattraveller wrote:
Of course you could say the say about other capital cities. Would the people of Great Britain want to nuke London and take out the Tower of London, Big Ben, Picadilly Circus, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace and the London Eye.


Most of those things (Big Ben, Picadilly Circus, Buckingham Palace, the London Eye) are completely expendable. The Tower and the Abbey less so. What would be a greater overall loss is the art collections, libraries and places where records are kept. London has been destroyed quite a few times but a nuke would a slightly higher order of destruction Wink

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jedion357
July 15, 2014 - 9:45am
KRingway wrote:
rattraveller wrote:
Of course you could say the say about other capital cities. Would the people of Great Britain want to nuke London and take out the Tower of London, Big Ben, Picadilly Circus, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace and the London Eye.


Most of those things (Big Ben, Picadilly Circus, Buckingham Palace, the London Eye) are completely expendable. The Tower and the Abbey less so. What would be a greater overall loss is the art collections, libraries and places where records are kept. London has been destroyed quite a few times but a nuke would a slightly higher order of destruction Wink


This gives me an idea of a sci fi city that has experienced similar destruction/ partial destruction over its history. Point True on Pale would be one possibility, Cassidine was raided by Hatzk Naar in his grand raid that ended with his death- combine that with the UPF prohibition of orbital bombardment of inhabited planets and we can suppose that Naar dropped some munitions into the gravity well of Cassidine and devistated some settlements. The Council of worlds would have passed the law after the fact and wouled constitute of the clear policies that will trigger immediate hostile response from Space Fleet, Star Law and the UPF, besides the appearance of the sathar.

Volkos on Volturnus was desytroyed 900 years ago by the sathar.

you'd certainly have old and new city districts that would have different character
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rattraveller
July 15, 2014 - 2:26pm
Several of the Gamma World (1st - 4th Edition) secret societies are based on saving old technology but all have different takes on it.

Another fun adventure for PCs would be similar to the Monuments Men. Art recovery either taken by Hatzk Naar or the Red Devil or some other pirates or maybe by some groups during the Sathar invasions.
Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go?

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jedion357
July 15, 2014 - 3:50pm
rattraveller wrote:
Several of the Gamma World (1st - 4th Edition) secret societies are based on saving old technology but all have different takes on it.

Another fun adventure for PCs would be similar to the Monuments Men. Art recovery either taken by Hatzk Naar or the Red Devil or some other pirates or maybe by some groups during the Sathar invasions.


Monuments Beings, Dramune-

Monuments Beings, Corporate Wars

Monuments Beings, Laco's War -this one involves saving tetarch artifacts
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Shadow Shack
July 15, 2014 - 3:58pm
rattraveller wrote:
Would the people of Great Britain want to nuke London and take out the Tower of London, Big Ben, Picadilly Circus, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace and the London Eye.

Well, that's not too far off the mark for what Guy Fawkes had in mind back in 1605. As it turns out, American Colonists weren't the first to be upset with English Rule. 

"Remember, remember, the Fifth of November..."
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KRingway
July 16, 2014 - 7:53am
Fawkes wanted to blow up Parliament - and since then there has probably been a queue of others wanting to do the same (metaphorically only some of the time) Wink