Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

- Blade Runner, 1982


NORYANG, DECEMBER 16, 1598

The final climactic end to the Imjin War which saw almost the entire Japanese invasion fleet annihilated off the southern coast of Korea by a combined Ming Chinese and Joseon Korean fleet. Korean sharpshooters fired over 15,000 arrows with incendiary and explosive payloads during the fight. Some of the Korean fire ships had specialized launchers which discharged semi-liquid balls of nitrate infused paraffin soaked rags up to 300 yards away using a charge of special low-yield black powder, an early version of a sci-fi plasma torpedo. The result was a man made firestorm not seen until the 1944-1945 firebombings of Tokyo and Dresden. Over 300 Japanese warships and 800+ troop carriers were set ablaze and for the troop carriers centered in the middle of their formation for security, the firestorm held another lethal effect. As the warships around them burned, a vacuum vortex surrounded the middle. Tornado-like vortices comprised of violently rotating columns of +1300°F air shattered many ships that were not burned yet and thousands of soldiers aboard them suffocated to death as oxygen was sucked away. Japanese deaths by the end of the battle were over 20,000 total, most of them from suffocation and burning.

For decades afterwards, one can hear veteran Korean navy men retelling stories of the fight at taverns and seaside restaurants. Their words would be no different than those of an old starship crewman retelling the events of an epic interstellar battle hundreds of years into the future, sitting in a cafe in a high tech city...

NORYANG: DEADLY SEA (2023)

 
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