Dontgonearthere
16-07-2007, 04:28
In response to the various pathetic attemps by so-called 'modern' nations to create oversized blenders, GLAcorp has unveiled its own model, dubbed the Starblender.
With a 12,000 kilometer wide prototype was recently used to blend a small solar system, the resulting resources were sold in order to pay for the blender itself. A few native populations got blended as well, but thats not really our fault, we did warn them a decade in advance to vacate the system.
The blender itself performed amazingly, after the six day speed-up the blades made short work of each planet in turn, rapidly reducing the planets in question to easy to manage rubble which was sorted by the blenders handy elemental sorting function, producing a large yeild of iron and nickle which was naturally put to good use in the blender foundries to produce yet another Starblender in order to blend another solar system.
The molecularly bonded ultra-high density blades held up well, and do not appear to be in need of immidiate replacement, although the core of the third planet did slightly dent one of them.
The fourth planet proved slightly too large and required the assistance of the specially made GLACORP Broomhandle class ship to shove it into the blades. However, as it was not a particularly dense planet it provied unable to resist the forces applied to it by the eight thousand kilometer blades.
Having mulched the system, GLACORP then went on to attempt to blend a nearby nuetron star, however, tragically, the Star Blenders gravitational compensators failed part-way through the operation and the front portion of the Star Blender was destroyed before it could be retrieved.
Presently the Star Blender is undergoing repairs at the Pax shipyards, and will be fully operational again next month.
With a 12,000 kilometer wide prototype was recently used to blend a small solar system, the resulting resources were sold in order to pay for the blender itself. A few native populations got blended as well, but thats not really our fault, we did warn them a decade in advance to vacate the system.
The blender itself performed amazingly, after the six day speed-up the blades made short work of each planet in turn, rapidly reducing the planets in question to easy to manage rubble which was sorted by the blenders handy elemental sorting function, producing a large yeild of iron and nickle which was naturally put to good use in the blender foundries to produce yet another Starblender in order to blend another solar system.
The molecularly bonded ultra-high density blades held up well, and do not appear to be in need of immidiate replacement, although the core of the third planet did slightly dent one of them.
The fourth planet proved slightly too large and required the assistance of the specially made GLACORP Broomhandle class ship to shove it into the blades. However, as it was not a particularly dense planet it provied unable to resist the forces applied to it by the eight thousand kilometer blades.
Having mulched the system, GLACORP then went on to attempt to blend a nearby nuetron star, however, tragically, the Star Blenders gravitational compensators failed part-way through the operation and the front portion of the Star Blender was destroyed before it could be retrieved.
Presently the Star Blender is undergoing repairs at the Pax shipyards, and will be fully operational again next month.