# Air Wings Sold Separately **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [February 24, 2022, 6:10am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/air-wings-sold-separately/423 "2022-02-24T06:10:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/avatar/32/2_2.png) [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 6:10am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/air-wings-sold-separately/423/1 "2022-02-24T06:10:02Z")
Originally published at: [Air Wings Sold Separately | The Associated Worlds](https://eldraeverse.com/2022/02/24/air-wings-sold-separately/) Bringing the what-the to warfare once again, and following on from both the unquestionable success of Nuclear War In A Can™, and their earlier semi-portable combat drone product Janissary In A Drum™, Eye-in-the-Flame Arms, ICC once again provides a new terror to the battlefield with the release of Brigade In A Bottle™. Another in their line of self-decompressing nanopaste products, Brigade In A Bottle™ is a pre-programmed assembler system designed to be supplied with raw materials (chiefly metals and industrial plastics, although the paste is designed to forage; the accompanying manual suggests junkyards, disused factories, and captured enemy equipment as potential sources) and electrical power in the field. When these are supplied, the paste uses fast-burn nanoassembly techniques to manufacture, in a matter of hours, a brigade-sized mixed unit (a fighting strength of 4,664) of _Jaeger 4400_ mechagrunts and _Warg 216-A_ hunter-killer houndbots, primed with command codes ready to join your tactical mesh. The experienced reader may perceive the single flaw in the product: these are last-generation combat mechanicals, rather than the sleek leading-edge machines you might expect from a company with Eye-in-the-Flame’s reputation. As the product developer explains, though, this is a side-effect of the rough and ready, error-prone nature of field nanoconstruction, which cannot accurately reproduce recipes with the fine tolerances and exacting detail available in commercial nanofacture. As Brigade In A Bottle™ is chiefly intended for use in the creation of disposable shock troops for use in on-alert security systems, diversionary maneuvers, emergency reinforcement, and asymmetric warfare, this may not prove too great an impediment to its success. _– product announcements column, “Destruction Review”_ ---
**Author:** ![zakueins](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/zakueins/32/65_2.png) [@zakueins](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/zakueins)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 6:45am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/air-wings-sold-separately/423/2 "2022-02-24T06:45:26Z")
…okay, this, right here and right now? I want a six pack with air wings to go, and if I order two sets can I get a Tank Legion In A Crate? ---
**Author:** ![dziban](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/dziban/32/164_2.png) [@dziban](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/dziban)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/air-wings-sold-separately/423/3 "2022-02-24T09:14:11Z")
I thought it was Tanks in a Tin™ ---
**Author:** ![Maximilian\_Crichton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Maximilian\_Crichton](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Maximilian_Crichton)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/air-wings-sold-separately/423/4 "2022-02-24T13:03:00Z")
How would you supply electrical power to the paste? Microwaves? Uniform electric fields? ATP? ---
**Author:** ![zakueins](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/zakueins/32/65_2.png) [@zakueins](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/zakueins)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 6:40am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/air-wings-sold-separately/423/5 "2022-02-25T06:40:14Z")
I can think of a number of methods, not the least of which would be small microwave generators and the nanomachines building filaments to the generators from a convenient power supply ---
**Author:** ![MirrorField](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/mirrorfield/32/172_2.png) [@MirrorField](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/MirrorField)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/air-wings-sold-separately/423/6 "2022-02-28T04:17:38Z")
Well, now… I’ve heard something very, very similar. That one didn’t end up well. [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/eldraeverse/original/1X/4e1b5d03f6ae78979d393ded0e5a0620679571c0.jpeg "FARO ROBOTS") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g417tzKTb98) and [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/eldraeverse/original/1X/b169b6495d928b7273d6e855b949bb282c0aba78.jpeg "Horizon Zero Dawn - Maker's End: Elisabet Sobeck & Ted Faro Meetings In 2064 Hologram Sequences PS4") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYYmeE3l3fE) ---
**Author:** ![Adam\_Lincoln\_Steele](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/adam_lincoln_steele/32/128_2.png) [@Adam\_Lincoln\_Steele](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Adam_Lincoln_Steele)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 4:52pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/air-wings-sold-separately/423/7 "2022-02-28T16:52:19Z")
A question, is the Nuclear War in a Can™ inspired by the Nuclear War in a Can™ mentioned in Anders Sandberg’s Eclipse Phase campaign [The Gate War](http://www.aleph.se/EclipsePhase/The%20Gate%20War.pdf) or did you come up with the name independently? ---
**Author:** ![avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/avatar/32/2_2.png) [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 2:23am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/air-wings-sold-separately/423/8 "2022-03-01T02:23:25Z")
Possibly - I’ve certainly read that - although it was more likely inspired by his posting of that along with another bunch of transhuman weapons concepts on the Eclipse Phase fora back in the day. Anders posts a lot of good ideas, so borrowing what one can is an irresistible temptation! ---
**Author:** ![avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/avatar/32/2_2.png) [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 5:31am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/air-wings-sold-separately/423/9 "2022-03-02T05:31:25Z")
Pretty sure building biomass-fueled war machines is filed under the War Crimes In A Pandora’s Box™ category. ---
**Author:** ![avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/avatar/32/2_2.png) [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 5:35am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/air-wings-sold-separately/423/10 "2022-03-02T05:35:15Z")
Pulsing microwaves at them is the standard method of powering nanites, and certainly included in the bottle, but this being a field-use product I’m sure they have several alternatives available depending on taste. ---
**Author:** ![Maximilian\_Crichton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Maximilian\_Crichton](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Maximilian_Crichton)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/air-wings-sold-separately/423/11 "2022-03-02T09:14:47Z")
Mmm, microwaveable silver goo ---
**Author:** ![John\_Dougan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/john_dougan/32/79_2.png) [@John\_Dougan](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/John_Dougan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 6:12am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/air-wings-sold-separately/423/12 "2022-11-21T06:12:38Z")
Which organization supplies the _Bordello In A Basket_?