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Excellent idea! I'm glad everyone had fun with it.

If you could get to the reactor, couldn't you just blow it up and let the Borg on board the cube just sit there until they died? If that wasn't an option, you could just knock out the reactor and shoot the now-unshielded cube a lot.

Seems like that would take less effort.

Lol, I had the project going last summer to come up with a comprehensive plan to take down the Borg. One part (and only one, mind you) of it was to take them down on a cube-by-cube basis by sabotaging their fusion reactors--and the EMFs containing them--to create a huge EMP that would hopefully fry all the mechanical tech in their entire ship. That's the only reason why I know so much about EMP at all. XD So I'm glad to have the info be useful!

I actually found the long version very interesting, since all I knew going in was "EMP fries computers." It's cool to know how it actually works.

But then, I'm pretty omnivorous when it comes to information...

~Neshomeh

I planned to do this one last year, but never got round to it. Finally finished!

"It was Christmas Eve (we think)
In Headquarters
My partner said to me
"We've got another one!"
A Sue that sang a song
'Bout Frodo's eyes so blue
I turned my face away
But our duty we must do

We got a nasty one
It won't be easily done
I got a feeling there'll be trouble with this Sue
But happy Christmas
If we survive this
We'll get vacation if it's the last thing we do

She's got tits out to here, hair like rivers of gold
And she smashed up the canon, or so we've been told
So we take up our blades on this cold Christmas eve
And we gulp down the Bleepsinthe while waiting for she

She's so sweet, she's so pretty
Princess of Gondor city
When she sings and she dances they howl out for more
Her sword she's a-swinging
Kelly Clarkson she's singing
She bears Frodo's children, calls Arwen a whore

The girls and boys of the PPC
The Sue have vowed to slay
While the canon characters scream and run away

She's a brat, she's a punk, she's a pain writing junk
Staring into the screen, typing "PLEEZ DUN B MEEN!"
You slimy young maggot, call Samwise a faggot?!
Merry Christmas my arse, I thank God it's your last!

The girls and boys of the PPC
The Sue have vowed to slay
While the canon characters scream and run away

"I oughta leave HQ ..."
"Oh, don't do that, I'll miss you!
You've helped me stay half-sane
Since I first found you!"
"I guess you have a point.
Hey, pass the Bleeprin here.
This job's not always bad, as long as I'm with you."

The girls and boys of the PPC
The Sue have vowed to slay
While the canon characters scream and run away."

EMP, if properly done, PERMANENTLY fries your circuitry. K-9 may or may not be shielded, but it has to be fairly specialized--and very strong--shielding. If you wanna go with EMP, having the character set up a fluctuating magnetic field might be your best choice. Or lightning, if he has that capability. However, I'd probably just go with a strong electromagnet, which would wipe his hard drive but not kill his circuits.

Yikes, why do I talk so much sometimes? >.

As far as I know, EMP works by inducing high voltage currents in electronics, permanently frying any integrated circuitry not shielded by a Faraday cage. Which the K-9 may or may not have. It's not so rare; Your cell phone has that kind of shielding, to keep out interference from--for example--your microwave. And Titan probably has a lot of ambient electromagnetic radiation, so K-9 may have been built with shielding. The shielding in your cell phone wouldn't be strong enough to help against an EMP, though, and it's a toss up as to whether K-9's would have any effect.

But anyway, the classic way to get an EMP is to get a big explosion (nuclear, usually) and let the Earth's electromagnetic field freak out and do the work for you. But (IIRC) the explosion has to take place very high in the atmosphere, so that the air particles have time to do their thing. So in close quarters like HQ, the canon character would have more success just setting up a fluctuating magnetic field, which he/she could probably jury rig a device to do from spare parts in the DSAT, if he/she knew how to do so. (Something possibly involving either a microwave/something that emits microwaves, or a fusion generator of some kind. I couldn't tell you the specifics.) Lightning strikes also generate EMPs; one fried my computer once. And that strong of an electromagnetic field can be really painful if it's very local or directed. It'd probably make anyone in the area throw up from vertigo, at least.

But this seems more promising to me: If you get a light one--not an electromagnetic pulse, but a strong electromagnetic field--probably all it'd do is make his circuits temporarily freak out and wipe his hard drive. See the Supernatural episode Ghostfacers for an example: Dean jury rigs a big electromagnet--I think from a car battery, but I don't remember--sticks it in a duffel bag and sets it on a timer so that a few minutes after they leave, it goes off and wipes all the hard drives in the area. :D If something like that was used against your K-9, it would probably wipe his programming, but not affect his circuits. (That's assuming he's not shielded, because if he is it may not have any effect, depending on the strength of the shielding.) If he's anything like normal computers, he might have limited function from the BIOS, which is programmed directly into the circuitry. Either way, he'd be quite thoroughly incapacitated, but easily recoverable so long as somebody had a backup of his programming. (If not, or if the backup was incomplete, you could have some fun with the followup of him acting really weird and buggy as they tried to fine-tune his programming.)

Or other various exclamations of agreement.

^_^

*chews on the recieved internet*

I like the idea of taking serious-sounding Christmas songs and replacing the words with not so serious lyrics. The syncing was very well done as well. :)

"This statement is false", or some more complicated system of statements that lead to the same contradiction.

Not if it's an actual published work, because that would mean it's sanctioned by the owners of the various canons involved. At least, so I assume.

~Neshomeh + $0.02

Takes mecha and pilots from different anime, mixes them with some original mechs/pilots. At least that's how I've always understood it.

Practice now? I'm trying to persuade her now, and I've just warmed her feet for her, but she's being ever so cruel and resisting.

Yes. Tact isn't really my strong point at the best of times, and the bottle does not improve matters.

Unless it's Grelvish. Then you only get an intarwebz.

^_~

~Neshomeh

When sober, you're usually a tad more tactful with the fragile newbies, m'dear ;p

I'm hoping to have the story done before then, but it depends entirely on my characterisation-expert-beta, who has a busy life; if she's not free in time, then it'll have to wait. And the story, when finished, will be about 110,000 words - maybe a bit more. And Ansela... maybe I can practice trans-continental mind control?

To the tune of "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella"
A tribute to DOGA.

Bring a torch, Selene and Dafydd,
Bring flamethrowers, come hurry and run!
It's a palace, a palace in Mirkwood,
Abusive!Thranduil, and "Leggy" calling:
Ah, ah! Beautiful is the Mary,
Ah, ah! Beautiful is the Sue!

It is wrong to muck with the Canon,
It is wrong to warp time and space.
Hasten now, Selene and Dafydd!
Lest you be late, and miss the charges.
Ha, ha! Look at the stupid palace!
Ha, ha! Look at the stupid 'Sue!

Swiftly now, to burn the palace,
Swiftly now, to burn the 'Sue.
See how prettily it is burning,
See how the fire restores the Canon!
Ah, ah! Beautiful is the fire,
Ah, ah! Beautiful are the flames!

~Neshomeh

Might be bad for the circuitry, though. Also, if K-9s have military-grade hardening, it'd need to be a pretty big EMP.

What's "Super Robot Wars"?

~Neshomeh

It's a few inches deep.

And, as my cat has discovered, also cold and wet.

Does K-9 have an off switch? Maybe a reset button? Or they could take the batteries out, I suppose. Although that could be difficult, since I seem to recall K-9 firing lasers at Giles at one point. Hmm.

…for an escaped canon character in HQ to shut down (but not destroy) a K-9?