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Old 09-08-2020, 11:20 PM   #40
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Default Re: (Another) World of Superhumans

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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl View Post
The typical 'sniffer' could monitor eighty schools a month, meaning that the federal government would only need a single sniffer for every 500,000 residents, meaning that a federal department with 1,000 super 'sniffers' (and 1,000 mundane supporters) would be capable of catching 95% of supers in adolescence. The remaining 5% would include homeschooled children, children who are being trafficked, and children with powers that conceal them from detection. Strangely enough, the potential threat of homeschooled supers might turn the American public against homeschooling.
That's a very short travel time between schools, testing four per day. And how many have that level of Reliable? Is that trainable, or do they have to train their Talent (a much more expensive and therefore presumably slower process)?
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