Schlock Mercenary: February 17, 2015

Note: Neosyncronicity's "NUSPI" is an amazing bit of recovered technology designed by ancient Oafans and their contemporaries millions of years ago. It fires a beam of accelerated plasma through a pair of wormholes. One such wormhole is at the nose of the ship. The second is opened at, and aimed through, the target. With the right intel, targets deep in enemy territory can be destroyed as easily as if they were stapled to a post on the firing range. When U.N.S. scientists developed their much larger version of this weapon they called it the Discontiguous Particle Acceleration System, or DPAS. That weapon was hijacked and disabled, and then renamed "Credomar" by the millions of people who built a city inside it. Recently they were relocated, and the weapon, now sentient, decided on the name "LOTA." This is fortunate, not because the weapon is in the independent hands of a rogue artificial intelligence, but because the name LOTA is far better than the inevitable alternative. The military's penchant for pronouncing acronyms would have led to the weapon being called "Deep-Ass."