Tuesday August 20, 2013
Book 14: Broken Wind — Part II: Can Full of Sky

Transcript

LEGS: Yup.  There it is.  One mega-typhoon prevention system, twelve hundred kilometers high, fourteen hundred kilometers long, and, well... covered in plants.

I bet this place has a dozen of these things, at least one for each ring of struts, so the Coriolis superstorms never have a chance to form.

MAC: Wait... I can't see the edge of it, and you're asking me to believe there are more of these?

LEGS: You weren't with us for the buuthandi.  Engineering feats lose their punch after you've popped the containment system somebody built around a star.