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{{quote|''"The hell of it was that a nineteenth-century bullet or even a Stone Age spear could still kill a [[Space Marine|twenty-third-century marine]]. It shouldn't. It should not be ''allowed''. And that was it -- it was your sense of superiority that killed you.''"|''[[Tour of the Merrimack|Tour Of The Merrimack: The Myriad]]''}}

 

A technologically advanced empire has come to conquer a poor, defenseless, primitive planet where the most advanced piece of technology is a horse. Unfortunately for the empire, Our Heroes happen to be living on the planet and [[Training the Peaceful Villagers|helping the natives]] at this time, and they are anything but [[Medieval Morons]].

* In ''[[Freefall]]'', Ecosystems Unlimited attempts to control the information leaving the company by dosing recycled parts with EMP before releasing them to destroy any clandestine listening/recording devices that someone may try to sneak out that way, [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1800/fc01720.htm which has absolutely no effect on hand-written notes.]

* In a [[Story Arc]] of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', it looks like some Hereti-Corp agents are royally screwed [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20100212 when they're faced with an army of robots] that are [[Immune to Bullets]]. Then it turns out that, while the robots' builders thought to make them bulletproof, they ''didn't'' do anything about flammability. Cue the flamethrower.

 

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