# Lightning Strikes **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [July 31, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/lightning-strikes/180 "2020-07-31T05:53:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **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:** [July 31, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/lightning-strikes/180/1 "2020-07-31T05:53:14Z")
Originally published at: [Lightning Strikes | The Eldraeverse](https://eldraeverse.com/2020/07/30/lightning-strikes/) from the Eye-in-the-Flame Arms internal memeweave archives From: Aldysis Cyprium (Directorate)To: Diziet Cyprium (Director of Entertaining Research)Subject: FULGURANT TRIBULATION It’s not that we’re dismissing the potential of FULGURANT TRIBULATION, cousin. From a purely commercial point of view, the potential of an algetic weapon capable of wide-area application from orbit is obviously something that can’t be ignored by the Directorate, filling several niches in the area denial and riot quietus areas, not to mention the spin-off civilian applications in weather control and flood recovery. And obviously the technical advances you have made in tunable millimeter-wave magnetrons and beam focusing arrays, not… ---
**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:** [July 31, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/lightning-strikes/180/2 "2020-07-31T16:37:47Z")
This gives me the same vibes as Ring Dynamics charging the Voniensan Fleet for transit during the Core War ---
**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:** [August 1, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/lightning-strikes/180/3 "2020-08-01T01:51:34Z")
Orbital Mind Control Maser when? ---
**Author:** ![rhouben](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/rhouben/32/194_2.png) [@rhouben](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/rhouben)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 11:30am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/lightning-strikes/180/4 "2024-10-08T11:30:16Z")
I’m fairly sure there’s at least one article on the main site where someone explains to a friend why the Empire will never _ever_ go there, or even so much as hint that that is a direction they’re considering, even jokingly. Also, poor Diziet. So many wonderful, GLORIOUS ideas in her (I’m not sure their actual gender is specified but something about the name just pings me as ‘her’) mind that her cousin keeps having to shoot down because THOSE FOOLS don’t appreciate the UNPARALLELED GENIUS… (… How big is Aldysis’s “talking Diziet back from the brink… _again_” alcohol budget?) ---
**Author:** ![JHPrime](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/jhprime/32/54_2.png) [@JHPrime](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/JHPrime)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/lightning-strikes/180/5 "2024-10-09T01:12:20Z")
> [@rhouben](#): > > I’m fairly sure there’s at least one article on the main site where someone explains to a friend why the Empire will never _ever_ go there, or even so much as hint that that is a direction they’re considering, even jokingly. This one, I think: [The Blood-Brain Barrier | The Associated Worlds](https://eldraeverse.com/2016/08/05/the-blood-brain-barrier/) ---
**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:** [October 30, 2024, 5:37pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/lightning-strikes/180/6 "2024-10-30T17:37:15Z")
And yes, she’s a her. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Kenny](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/scott_kenny/32/226_2.png) [@Scott\_Kenny](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Scott_Kenny)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 11:09am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/lightning-strikes/180/7 "2024-11-12T11:09:59Z")
> [@rhouben](#): > > (… How big is Aldysis’s “talking Diziet back from the brink… _again_” alcohol budget?) I suspect very large. Like a significant % of Diziet’s compensation package.