Mad Scientist Joan!

Once upon a time, there was a mad scientist. Worse than usual, she was a girly girl and completely unmanly. Her name was Doctor Joan 2Z and she has the dubious honour of inventing at least three of the worse weapons ever used in battle and at least one useful thing, which is how she got her Doctorate in Evil Mad Science. The hyperspace cavitator.

Specifically, one of the most brutal battles between the Hive Collective lead by their matriarchs, the wombinista and The Manliance lead by Supreme Golden Banana Slug Potrezebie the second. The Battle of Blunt-Object. Yes, Doctor 2Z was the inventor of the Tairatonium Torpedo.

Yes, this was a torpedo that does not destroy. Not physically anyway. Very little is known about its actual workings due to the moratorium, but the few survivors of The Battle of Blunt-Object related that the Tairatron (Tairatonium Torpedo) wrecked morale on any ship it came into contact with. On impact, it infiltrated its way into the ship's communications and started talking. To hear the survivors in their thoroughly padded planet tell it, the Tairatron is full of mindnumbing impenetrable butthink.

As such, the Tairatron has been compared to some of the worst biological warfare ever used. Although officially classed as a pyschological weapon, grade U some survivors relate the gruesome manifestations of butthink as being contagious and thus a combined weapon. The horrific lasting side-effects that make Vegemite burns look cute cost both sides trillions of ooblecks in rehabilitation planets.

Fortunately for both sides, almost all the Tairarite in existence was destroyed by crashing it into the sun. Unfortunately, one device escaped destruction and it is still out there, somewhere.

The moratorium was passed in the year of the tribologist trilobyte after the loss of a planet.

Professor Z2 was banished to a retirement planet to grow roses....

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What a mistake that was.