I've decided that the human race (in general) is a buch of drooling retards, and therefore needs a good dictator. So I've decided to become a Supervillain
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I can go one better than an Orbital Particle Cannon. Try maybe a Linear Accelerator, stationed in the Asteroid Belt, that fires iron cored asteroids at the Earth, at nearly light speed, each one able to plunge the Earth into an Ice Age.
Henchmen are mad to begin with, so that`s that argument nullified... Anyway, costs are paid for by unsuspecting governments, who think that you will be providing them with cheap sources of Iron, and it`s alot cheaper to make than a Particle Cannon, as it`s just a lot of rings, spaced out a bit, with electricity running thru them. Anyway, its the threat of global destruction that gets you your ransoms paid, not the actual act of destruction. Where would be the fun in actually destroying the world. Supervillains never actually get round to the destruction bit, they thrive on fear instead.
Actually, the main problem with the mass driver in the asteroid belt idea is that even if they were travelling at light speed it'd take 20-odd minutes for them to get to Earth, and as they'd only get up to a portion of c, it'd allow my nemesis (whichever meddling hero is facing my Almighty Power this week...) far too much time to deflect/destroy or otherwise prevent the asteroids from hitting. Add into this the time taken for the signal from my secret base to get to the mass driver control room, and it'll take a good hour for the promised destruction to occur.
Plus, how am I supposed to prove to the World that I'm serious? I don't want to rule over a giant snowball... and imagine the World Leaders faces when I tell them (over the giant vid-screen natch) that they have defied me, and shall suffer the ultimate punishment... in about an hour, maybe.
With a particle cannon, I can simply vapourise Cleveland. Job done.
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You have problem?
*gets out the Black Book of Particle Cannon Doom and opens it, pen at the ready*
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...but HE does! *points at random passer by*
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Try maybe a Linear Accelerator, stationed in the Asteroid Belt, that fires iron cored asteroids at the Earth, at nearly light speed, each one able to plunge the Earth into an Ice Age.
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Anyway, costs are paid for by unsuspecting governments, who think that you will be providing them with cheap sources of Iron, and it`s alot cheaper to make than a Particle Cannon, as it`s just a lot of rings, spaced out a bit, with electricity running thru them.
Anyway, its the threat of global destruction that gets you your ransoms paid, not the actual act of destruction. Where would be the fun in actually destroying the world.
Supervillains never actually get round to the destruction bit, they thrive on fear instead.
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Plus, how am I supposed to prove to the World that I'm serious? I don't want to rule over a giant snowball... and imagine the World Leaders faces when I tell them (over the giant vid-screen natch) that they have defied me, and shall suffer the ultimate punishment... in about an hour, maybe.
With a particle cannon, I can simply vapourise Cleveland. Job done.
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