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Old 04-03-2019, 04:01 PM   #4
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Default Re: Inspiration for artifacts in Cidri

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Originally Posted by warhorse11h View Post
A couple of older stories that could be updated or modified to introduce powerful artifacts into Cidri. Powerful, but transitory.

"The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms" The Twilight Zone
"The Doomfarers of Coramonde" Brian Daley

Both introduce modern armored vehicles and weapons with their crews into simpler worlds. In the one, the tank breaks down before it can interfere in the "Last Stand". In the second, the vehicle and crew are brought to an alien world to challenge a dragon. The first would be a temporal anomaly of some kind or perhaps a gate left open. The second, a spell gone either really right or really wrong.

In either event, while they could be enormously powerful for a short period of time, they would rapidly become immobile through lack of fuel or breakage and running out of ammunition or having the ammunition rendered defective. But still, it is interesting.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/ Modern aircraft carrier at Pearl Harbor, they cop out in the end, so no F16 vs Zero dogfights. A disappointment, more of a warning than a spoiler.

https://www.amazon.com/Guns-South-No.../dp/0345384687 - Guns of the south - AK-47's change the Civil War.

The challenge would be to selectively apply the technology and leverage the effect before the fuel/ammo runs out.
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