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 | | Long before the advent of alchemists, weapon technicians practiced ‘scientific methods.’ They used inductive and deductive reasoning, trial and error, repetition and confirmation of results, the extraction, refinement and admixture of standard elements into consistent compounds, and other clever lab tricks. |
 | | Weapon technicians produce the most sophisticated, durable and expensive contraptions: hunters’ and warriors’ state-of-the-artifacts. |
 | | Peace was not profitable enough for a new generation of weapons industrialists, their stay-at-home lackeys in Congress, and serried ranks of battlefield-virgin weapon mentors who’d taken over academia, politics and the media during the war—while their betters marched off to die in it. |
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