All The Best Wenches Have One

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Inspiration obvious. If you haven’t already, go read Girl Genius.

wrenchhammer: the largest size of wrench, suitable for leaning on, requiring a backsling to carry, and used for such tasks as unbolting the lids of reactor cores, dogging down the doors of pressure chambers, or tightening the bolts securing the drive chain of an elevator that runs all the way through the planet.

Its soubriquet comes from the blunt and spiked faces added on either side of the wrench socket, suiting it admirably to belaboring particularly heavy machinery or doing the needful should one encounter any of the various beasties lurking in the deep tunnels of the Eliéran crust.

Rumors of a militarized version of the wrenchhammer (the “warwrench”) designed for the Imperial Legions’ combat engineers are just that – rumors, based on rookie pranks and the occasional mock-up hanging on mess walls. Not that the standard model hasn’t cracked a few heads from time to time.

– engineering_jargon.text

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://eldraeverse.com/2019/04/16/all-the-best-wenches-have-one
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Comments migrated from WordPress:

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Many migrated articles (this one included) that had pictures are now missing them on Discourse. (This one is fine on the main site, but I’ve seen others missing, at least as of last week.)

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This, on the other hand, is because embedding copies the article when it’s looked at, and when it was looked at, it was the old version with a broken image, and fixing it on the site doesn’t make it update here.

There may be a way to make it update here, or it’s all editable by hand, which may or may not happen eventually insofar as, as I’ve said elsewhere, the site versions are real and these copies are just an aid-memoir.

But in any case, it’s something that’s going to happen way down the line after all the fixes/updates to the actual site are done. Priorities and lack of forking being possible, y’know. Sigh.