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7/10/2025, 9:45:15 AM
Ok, general question for all four other people here who've read the fluff.
So in the interests of shutting up a local Taurian with delusions of grandeur and an obstinate insistence that all Tex memes are 100% objective fact, one of our local Davion guys has an idea. And since (using MW3e) he’s a Noble with multiple Land Grants and Wealth 10, I’m willing to listen, as I too am tired of Taurian…well, everything, really.
So the question is, we know that “magnetic bottles” are feasible tech in BattleTech; they’re explicitly called out when discussion fusion engines. But how large can they be built? Can you build a bottle system that holds 6oz of material? What about 5lbs? What about a half-ton? What about ~40,000 tons of magnetically suspended material inside a Behemoth DropShip, using the other 34,000-odd tons of a Behmoth’s cargo space to “pay” for the magnetic bottling system, along with a very serious climate control system, and a high-pressure sprayer system?
To give some semblance of context to this question, he – and I – are professionally interested in warcrimes, and an idle conversation between us sparked an idea. Namely, if the Taurians want to cry victim all the time, and blame the Davions for everything, why not give them something to cry victim about and something to actually blame a Davion for? Why not load up a Behemoth with 40,000 tons of *Chlorine Trifloride* (which is so famously hard to store and transport that Nazi Germany literally refused to use it; hence the magnetic bottle system) and do a pass through Taurus’s atmosphere while spraying Agent Orange from Hell over as much of the Calderon continent as possible? Don’t never mind about the feasibility of amassing 40,000 tons of something so volatile that its MSDS just says “run” – that’s the PC’s problem to wrangle. But can the sci-fi of BattleTech support actually transporting the stuff?
So in the interests of shutting up a local Taurian with delusions of grandeur and an obstinate insistence that all Tex memes are 100% objective fact, one of our local Davion guys has an idea. And since (using MW3e) he’s a Noble with multiple Land Grants and Wealth 10, I’m willing to listen, as I too am tired of Taurian…well, everything, really.
So the question is, we know that “magnetic bottles” are feasible tech in BattleTech; they’re explicitly called out when discussion fusion engines. But how large can they be built? Can you build a bottle system that holds 6oz of material? What about 5lbs? What about a half-ton? What about ~40,000 tons of magnetically suspended material inside a Behemoth DropShip, using the other 34,000-odd tons of a Behmoth’s cargo space to “pay” for the magnetic bottling system, along with a very serious climate control system, and a high-pressure sprayer system?
To give some semblance of context to this question, he – and I – are professionally interested in warcrimes, and an idle conversation between us sparked an idea. Namely, if the Taurians want to cry victim all the time, and blame the Davions for everything, why not give them something to cry victim about and something to actually blame a Davion for? Why not load up a Behemoth with 40,000 tons of *Chlorine Trifloride* (which is so famously hard to store and transport that Nazi Germany literally refused to use it; hence the magnetic bottle system) and do a pass through Taurus’s atmosphere while spraying Agent Orange from Hell over as much of the Calderon continent as possible? Don’t never mind about the feasibility of amassing 40,000 tons of something so volatile that its MSDS just says “run” – that’s the PC’s problem to wrangle. But can the sci-fi of BattleTech support actually transporting the stuff?
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