No Disassemble Robot Killers
Carl's EMP bomb, whose pulse splattered Fang inside the dragon and destroyed every unshielded cybernetic in range.
Story so far
The pulse from Carl's No Disassemble EMP Bomb killed the pet dragon before Fang could finish installing himself into it, splattering him in the process — the one stroke of luck that ended him for good.
The same pulse ruined many crawlers' cybernetics, including Jamal's fifth set of legs, which failed because they weren't shielded and he stood at the very edge of the blast radius. Carl explains that the wrecked transport broke from the nuke rather than the pulse, and that Louis's implants are heavily shielded — which is why Epitome Tagg survived inside him. The team concludes that if Louis keeps those organs, they can never use these bombs anywhere near him again.
Appearance
A bomb whose detonation produces an electromagnetic pulse rather than a conventional blast, killing machinery across a wide radius.
Role
Anti-machine weapon that killed Fang but crippled friendly cybernetics and now constrains the team's tactics.
Relationships
Sources — 8 recorded facts, by chapter
- Square electromagnetic-pulse bombs stacked in Party Planner's rear, behind which Bonnie and Skarn hide.
- Square shield- and tech-busting aerial bombs dropped first in the Party Planner's load over the orc castle.
- An unstable unexploded device Louis steals from the Reaver castle despite lacking any safe way to detonate it.
- Anti-robot explosives Louis carries that are too powerful to use while he is pinned in place.
- Carl's anti-mechanical bombs; two were included in the payload dropped on the Piccadilly.
- The dungeon's EMP equivalent, whose pulse ranges far wider than its blast and fries every machine nearby.
- The dungeon's anti-machine ordnance, whose pulse ranges far wider than its modest explosion.
- Carl's EMP bomb, whose pulse splattered Fang inside the dragon and destroyed every unshielded cybernetic in range.