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July 11, 2020

 

                                


Commentary for July 11, 2020:

Well, this page has the dubious honour of being the first one I made on my brand spanking new monitor. I say “dubious”, because I spent a great deal of the time making this page also trying to optimise the settings, so I can see everything clearly without straining my eyes. I’m not as young as I used to be, after all.

Anyway, here we have Sigma-Alpha 2 trying to see if lightning can strike twice and they can actually capture Sonic again. “But why are these special forces commandos having so much trouble when a bunch of regulars were able to capture Sonic in the previous chapter?” asks no one in particular. “That’s a good question,” I reply.

First of all, there were a lot of them in the previous chapter, plus they had two mechs. Also, Sally was there and Sonic didn’t want to risk her getting hurt. Sure, she can take care of herself well enough, but that doesn’t mean Sonic isn’t still going to be careful when there are other people around him to consider. Moreover, Sally wasn’t going to fight in that moment, anyway, so Sonic probably would have put her at risk if he’d tried to. Here, it’s just Sonic and five GUN commandos in the middle of nowhere. He can really cut loose and all he really needs to do is get clear of them so he can bolt. It’s not like these guys can keep up with him, after all.

A note on tech. Stun settings on weapons aren’t really a thing (at least, not yet). A gun that shoots bullets can only shoot bullets. Tasers and flashbangs and other weapons designed to stun or disorient exist, but there isn’t the Star Trek phaser with a dedicated stun setting that will usually knock someone out cold. And directed energy weapons tend to either be big or require a large power source. That’s why you don’t see folks running around with laser rifles and stuff (at least, not yet). The weapon Honch is using on this page, the “shock cannon” is basically a precursor to a stun setting that future standard issue weapons will have, but which is still fairly experimental at this point. And, as a directed energy weapon, it’s big and unwieldy and generally impractical for most soldiers to carry around with them. But this is Sigma-Alpha 2, a paladin team, GUN’s elite commandos. They get to play with some of the more fun toys.

(Also, yes, I’m aware of the fact that Doctor Eggman and his Badniks have been regularly shown using lasers. That’s because Eggman is a genius whose tech majorly surpasses that of GUN’s. Also, Bunnie’s cybernetic arm can shoot lasers, but it was built by Rotor and Tails, who are also a pair of geniuses. Don’t @ me.)


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