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[moredakka]

[Sup Investigators. Have some spazflail in your brains.]

Ogura Sio, reporting!!

There are dragons. They kill people. There's a force that fights them coming from someplace called Flamegard but they lose a third of their people every year because they haven't even got cannons. Can, can we give them cannons? I know we're supposed to blend in b-but - but! What if it's our mission?

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[moredakka]

Uh, Jaeger-san mentioned a lance and ballistas... but that's still really primitive!

[hakodate]

Here's the thing. Especially after what I hear people saying about the state of the throne here, I'm not convinced that any fighting that happens here is only going to stay contained to dragons. Giving people firearms is going to give someone a massive advantage. I've seen what happens when you try to take on artillery with swords and spears and it's pretty fucking ugly.

Depending on what we need to accomplish here, that might be something that's useful to us. But it's not something we want to do lightly, or without recognizing what we might set off with it.

[moredakka]

[Artillery versus swords and spears... it's almost enough to send Sio into a powerful flashback to a memory that isn't hers. She's not sure how she feels about that. Her thoughts as she presses on are a little odd, a little jumbled.]

But people are getting killed! Jagaer-san said, said 30 percent of his people get lost every year. Maybe if we just made one? A-and destroyed it after?

[hakodate]

...let's get out there and see what the situation is before we take any action with irreversible consequences.

[Did you just volunteer to babysit Team Dragonslayer, Hijikata? I think you just did.]

[moredakka]

Jaeger-san is calling for volunteers... we should stay with him.

[hakodate]

We were gonna want to keep an eye on our infiltrators anyway; this is as good an excuse as any.

[superieure]

We don't yet know that a gun would be any more useful, and would be introducing an irremovable new factor at high risk and likely low reward.

Have you heard of anyone who's fought and killed a dragon successfully?

[moredakka]

We, um, we fought things that were like dragons in DOGOO...