If the flames don't get them...I can count on the electrical gridwork. The use of this protocol is the measure of resort following evidence that the flames prove 60% ineffective; mostly indicated if the specimen is still moving. If the subject has not been rendered inert following saturation in what amounts to immersion in about 5000 degrees of chemically induced scorch-plasma, the next step (and in certain conditions this becomes an automated response) the grid will initiate and isolate the ‘out of control’ organism in an arc channeling some 70,000 to 110,000 watts through it's mass.
I have to credit Igor with the implementation of this safeguard. Following a particularly close call with subject E-87a that was only resolved with Igor's deft wielding of a fire axe (a very lucky stroke into E-87a's ganglion brainstem) we discussed the idea of a second 'hands-off' suppression option. Igor's plucky axemanship was partially a success owing to the fact that E-87a was designed to function with no visual reception senses; meaning it had no eyes and couldn't detect Igor lurching quickly towards it with the axe.
What I never expected was that even with all that flame it's scales hardly looked burnt. It had only paused it's thrashing momentarily as the flames engulfed it, but we can't operate the throwers in a spurt longer than 14 seconds without risking structural heat damage to the entire castle. Usually that amount of heat is as destructively effective as the flame booth, depending on the survivability protocol designed into the organism (as unexpectedly observed in the case of E-87a).
Obviously, some subjects are intended to have certain invulnerabilities. As of yet I have nothing in the specimen design library that can withstand an electric arc exceeding 50,000 watts for longer than 17 seconds.
Igor double checked this fact after seeing a movie called "The Thing". He then asked me to watch the 1951 film's final scene where the story's protagonists resolve their problem (which involved an inability to negotiate with an extraterrestrial) by running what looked like a few short thousand watts through the body of this unlucky visitor from another world. Igor, inspired by the cleverly brutal resolve of the movie's heroes, explained to me his idea of implementing the secondary 'electrical gridwork' (his term) lab protocol disposal safeguard. Had this not been a week after the event of E-87a with Igor and his plucky fire axe, I would have poo-poo'd the whole idea. But it made sense, and truth be told I was beginning to get ideas following E-87a's autopsy. This exam focused particular attention on the subject's seemingly flame resistant scales. My muse instructed me in the probability of creating an organism that could survive for a short time while submerged in molten rock. But in case of yet another 'developmental mishap' and this time with a subject largely impervious to intense flame we would need that second protocol. Igor's electrical gridwork idea (inspired by something he saw in a movie, of all things) seemed an acceptable solution.
We did, however, manage to destroy more lab equipment than I anticipated during the tests to determine what gauge of chicken wire could withstand all that power.
I have to credit Igor with the implementation of this safeguard. Following a particularly close call with subject E-87a that was only resolved with Igor's deft wielding of a fire axe (a very lucky stroke into E-87a's ganglion brainstem) we discussed the idea of a second 'hands-off' suppression option. Igor's plucky axemanship was partially a success owing to the fact that E-87a was designed to function with no visual reception senses; meaning it had no eyes and couldn't detect Igor lurching quickly towards it with the axe.
What I never expected was that even with all that flame it's scales hardly looked burnt. It had only paused it's thrashing momentarily as the flames engulfed it, but we can't operate the throwers in a spurt longer than 14 seconds without risking structural heat damage to the entire castle. Usually that amount of heat is as destructively effective as the flame booth, depending on the survivability protocol designed into the organism (as unexpectedly observed in the case of E-87a).
Obviously, some subjects are intended to have certain invulnerabilities. As of yet I have nothing in the specimen design library that can withstand an electric arc exceeding 50,000 watts for longer than 17 seconds.
Igor double checked this fact after seeing a movie called "The Thing". He then asked me to watch the 1951 film's final scene where the story's protagonists resolve their problem (which involved an inability to negotiate with an extraterrestrial) by running what looked like a few short thousand watts through the body of this unlucky visitor from another world. Igor, inspired by the cleverly brutal resolve of the movie's heroes, explained to me his idea of implementing the secondary 'electrical gridwork' (his term) lab protocol disposal safeguard. Had this not been a week after the event of E-87a with Igor and his plucky fire axe, I would have poo-poo'd the whole idea. But it made sense, and truth be told I was beginning to get ideas following E-87a's autopsy. This exam focused particular attention on the subject's seemingly flame resistant scales. My muse instructed me in the probability of creating an organism that could survive for a short time while submerged in molten rock. But in case of yet another 'developmental mishap' and this time with a subject largely impervious to intense flame we would need that second protocol. Igor's electrical gridwork idea (inspired by something he saw in a movie, of all things) seemed an acceptable solution.
We did, however, manage to destroy more lab equipment than I anticipated during the tests to determine what gauge of chicken wire could withstand all that power.
