New Skin for Camb

[Unseelie]

The thought is that the Talarca used an effective deployment method. And, uhm, Firestorms last a long time. How long does Napalm burn for? Add something with a decaying halflife, and a jungle...

So, most of the Mox doesn't burn immediately. It sets things on fire, but doesn't reach critical heat to ignite/melt/react. We're not talking reactor fires. Then, the ashes settle, burn for a while, but every so often, a bubble of hydrogen escapes from a pile of mox covered in swampy ash, drifts around, gets ignited by something. This would be a highly nutritive area, plants would grow back, then be burnt down. Give it a large enough area, and the fires could easily still be going, albeit at nothing near firestorm rates.

And, again, it didn't wipe out the Planet. It didn't majorly affect the climate. Cambridge lost a fraction of its arable lands, and planetform crews moved in to fix it(long, long process). Its still mostly free of burnt up disasterland. Say, an area of about the Amazon rain-forest got moxified and gross....that leaves....hugely more...than enough farmland to feed the 3.2 billion peeps of Bretonia. At least for the next few generations.

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