Ironclad the Bullet

jaazaniah1 · September 2020

I couldn't quite figure where to post this question. In redoing the Qulaar invasion again I got to wondering, again, about why Ironclad had to be loaded into the shell that took down the mothership? Does he give off some strange energy that knocked out the ship, or did he simply break out and go crazy attacking the Qulaar? Is this explained anywhere?

pantagruel01 · September 2020

jaazaniah1 wrote: »

I couldn't quite figure where to post this question. In redoing the Qulaar invasion again I got to wondering, again, about why Ironclad had to be loaded into the shell that took down the mothership? Does he give off some strange energy that knocked out the ship, or did he simply break out and go crazy attacking the Qulaar? Is this explained anywhere?

I assume the latter (why Ironclad instead of some other hero? Probably because he's tough enough to survive the trip).

theravenforce · September 2020

jaazaniah1 wrote: »

I couldn't quite figure where to post this question. In redoing the Qulaar invasion again I got to wondering, again, about why Ironclad had to be loaded into the shell that took down the mothership? Does he give off some strange energy that knocked out the ship, or did he simply break out and go crazy attacking the Qulaar? Is this explained anywhere?

There is an UNITY Special Mission which allows you to visit the downed mothership, in it you see Ironclad's shell embedded somewhere in the ship.

You can safely assume he hopped out and went nuts on the Qularr. Also, I think Defender states that it is Ironclad's hyper velocity shell, not entirely sure why he'd have one but...that could be part of the reason as well.

bulgarex · September 2020

The only relevant entry I could find in the PnP books is in Champions Beyond, which details the sapient inhabitants of the Milky Way Galaxy and their present and past interactions with Earth. This is from p. 17: "The turning point in the war came when the Champions, with the aid of numerous independent superheroes, used a “cannon” to fire Ironclad at the enormous Qularr “mother ship” hovering over Millennium City. The impact, and Ironclad’s subsequent rampage through the vessel, caused it to crash into Lake St. Clair."

jaazaniah1 · September 2020

Thanks! That clears it up. I wish the missions actually explained somewhere that that was the plan.

I guess those Qulaar are pretty terrible close quarter fighters if one Malvan gladiator can take down the whole ship

legendarylycan · September 2020

well, when a wet-behind-the-ears superhero just out of the academy with nary to their name but a single peashooter and a slightly more powerful peashooter that takes up your body's entire supply of energy in two shots and not even a single travel power aside from the ancient obsolete mk 1 shoe can rampage through hundreds of qularr groundside...ironclad should have an even easier time

bulgarex · September 2020

"One Malvan gladiator" is actually a pretty big deal, considering that Malva recruits super-powered fighters from across the galaxy, and sometimes augments them or even creates new supers; and by definition, they're trained to be skilled combatants. Also remember the example of Thermopylae: superior numbers don't help if the fighting space is too narrow to deploy them. Plus, Ironclad would undoubtedly have spent some of his time wrecking the unresisting equipment aboard the ship.

jaazaniah1 · September 2020

I just noticed there were several other shells around the big gun. Maybe they had a backup plan to shoot some other heroes up there. For 12th anniversary 5 heroes get shot into the mother ship to help out Ironclad!

bulgarex · September 2020

Kind of a five-gun salute to the Twelfth?

Ironclad the Bullet

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