Forbidden Projects of the Valley Defense Forces:
Following the spark of brilliance that accompanied their reduced size, the leaf eating dinosaurs and more predominantly the longnecks expanded their minds and are responsible for many of the beneficial inventions that VDA cities use to date.
War is not a concept that most longnecks play into, with many of them wanting their creations to be used for good and show off their greatness. A few of the greatest longneck inventors can be termed as "eccentric", persuing avenues of science that others wouldn't dare to approach in their quest for greatness in the eyes of their peers and for the mutual benefit of all the leaf-eaters. Over the years that technology has advanced itself considerably within the world it became necessary for the ruling council of the VDA to impose 'sanctions' on what research is appropriate and what research/weaponry violated the unspoken moral code of their charges.
Occassionally there is hot public debate over these decisions, and where this is the case it is noted:
Titan Orbital Network:
Following a brief respite in the tensions between the sharpteeth and the leaf-eaters the VDA council determined the 'Titan Tactical Weapon Project' to be too brutal and unnecessary, where it was no longer needed and could be used by field commanders during peacetime to indimidate outside factions into joining the VDA fold which went against Grandpa Longneck's approach of "Mutual Benefit Pacts" which was more diplomatic.
How the Titan works is an orbiting satellite in a geostationary position carries a cartrage of 24 long Tungsten Rods, which when activated would be dropped into the atmosphere. The rods don't need an expensive warhead, because the Earth's gravity pulling down propells them to speeds in excess of Mach 6. When they strike the surface, the white hot impact obliderates anything within a hundred yards.
When dropped traditionally as a group of six over a grid pattern, the result is nothing short of total devestation. Because the rods are so small, a warning of there incoming is nearly impossible.
The councillors, after witnessing via video feed the weapon wiping a suspected Claw Den off the face of the earth, there was a 6-1 vote to terminate the project on moral grounds.
The only voter in favour of keeping it was Councillor Topsy, who secretly arranged for it to remain operational should the time come that it is needed.
The Chronometron:
Only one Chronometron prototype was made, and right from the moment it's existance was revealed to the public opposition was enormous. This was the first project to be terminated by the VDA council, with another vote ringing in as 6-1 (Topsy insisted on it's military value).
The Chronometron, or CM works via creating a ball of anti-matter with the help of a particle collider, and then annhiliating a portion of it's essence with a sub-atomic piece of matter creating a Time Vortex. The resultant vortex energy is unleashed on a portion of land a few hundred meters across, slowing down the passage of time to a crawl temporarily. Later it was found that VDF military personel could be tuned using special frequencies to be immune to the time warping effects.
This essentially meant that enemy forces could be slowed to a near standstill, and in this state be easily defeated by the VDF. Later it was found that all living beings that enter the Chrono-metric field while it's active suffer accelerated aging upon their escape, so in this manner it is predicted that every minute spent in the CM field reduces your lifespan by approximately 5 years.
Obviously you can tell why they banned it's use!
The Atmospheric Reactor (Officially designated the "Drawler Device):
The Drawler Device was actually in use for nearly a decade, before it's negative effects were observed by scientific watchdogs and it was shut down almost immediately.
The DD drew in atmospheric energy by creating a strong electric field over an expanse of area (similar to Tesla's research, which is off limits to the public) essentially creating an unlimited energy source at minimal costs.
The horrible things it did though were evident... the Climate shifted and monstrous storms began to strike the coasts as the Earth lashed out at having it's energy stolen. The DD was an absolute Anethema to living things, and no non-intelligent creature could bear to remain within a kilometer of it's towering gatherer. Even the engineers on the project sensed the wrongness of it's effects, and were often in a fowl and agitated state for no apparent reason.
After a lengthy report to the VDA council, they voted 5-4 to ban it's existance and shut it down. Public reprisal was enormous as their electricity bill went through the roof under the new sources. Saving the planet was a cost footed by the good citizens of the VDA, and they weren't the least bit happy about it.
Mere weeks after the Drawler was decommisioned, the weather returned to normal on the coasts and animals came back to the nearby forests. Strangely, the engineers who worked on it were glad that they lost their jobs though none of them could describe quite why.
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Well what do you guys think?
Caustizer.
