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Old 01-26-2019, 11:34 PM   #36
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Default Re: Antarctic Space Nazis Across the Multiverse

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Originally Posted by Icelander View Post
So you could buy several hundred senior SS, leading scientists and selected settlers, along with several thousand stormtroopers (who conveniently don't even require food) quickly building up a slave settlement of fifty thousand or more and managing to build reactors to power zeppelins in 40-50 years?

By which time the slaves would be pushing a million and the free citizens would probably be around 50,000.
This is starting to sound reasonable. It is worthwhile to note that nearly all of the people working at Hanford had no idea what they were making. The stuff that they thought they were producing was officially called "tube alloy", only later did people learn it was called plutonium and was used to turn Nagasaki into flaming radioactive rubble. So your army of mind controlled zombie slaves could be just the the thing, to act as pipe cutters and riveters and concrete pourers and crane operators and such.

Now the Hanford project had one genius (Enrico Fermi), but he was backed up by a whole bunch of other geniuses back in Los Alamos doing theory and experiments needed to get the nuclear data required to make the reactor work. After driving out or executing all the Jewish scientists and then invading their neighbors so that the other European scientists fled to the United States, Nazi Germany basically only had one physics genius left - Werner Heisenberg. And either Fermi was just a better genius than Heisenberg, or Heisenberg was actively working to sabotage the German nuclear program. Not to mention that Heisenberg was accounted for after the war. So getting the nuclear physics expertise may be difficult for these 3rd Reich holdovers.

Maybe the Nazis are actively conducting intelligence gathering and recruitment operations in our world? Perhaps they support Neo-Nazi movements, and recruit the best and the brightest? Maybe they send some of their most gifted ubermenschen to universities to major in nuclear engineering? Plus, there's enough information in the public domain to go a fair ways to building up a technological base for constructing reactors - all the nuclear cross sections are basically available to anyone with an internet connection.

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