The MG-1 is a strategic device engineered to detonate with zero casualties and maximal unification. Where conventional ordnance converts a population into an absence, the MG-1 converts a division into an agreement. It cannot be aimed at a people — only for one. The device is, by an old and stubborn definition, no Panzer at all.
| Yield | 1 reunion (scalable to a peninsula, a party system, a species) |
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| Blast radius | 1 membrane, semi-permeable, slowly expanding, never quite closed |
| Casualties | 0 — by design; see §4. Cannot be exceeded. |
| Overpressure | sufficient to turn a fist into a hand |
| Thermal effect | fire that builds: opens seed cones, clears the dead, harms no living tissue |
| Fallout | meadow; +1 shade of green per spring. Half-life: eternal, beneficial. |
| Guidance | relaxation — great-circle, gaze-seeking; homes on the deepest division |
| Detonation trigger | last words (“I am no Panzer”); or a click; or a chord that finally resolves |
| Delivery vehicle | one composer (expended, non-recoverable); or any web browser |
| Countermeasures | none required. The device has no aggressive mode to defend against. |
On detonation the noise core relaxes. The shockwave is a chord resolving: it does not push against anything — it releases everything at once. The creek matrix braids outward into a living membrane; the gaze lattice completes every blind spot in range; the honey mantle binds the newly-agreeing field without flattening its difference. Structures within the radius are not destroyed — they are relaxed: a wall becomes a gate, a border becomes a seam, a seam becomes a hand held open. Persons within the radius report being, for the first time, seen.
| Trial MG-0 | Site: the composer's meadow. Payload: two voices held apart fifty years. Result: resolved. One peninsula reunified. After-action report reads, verbatim: “there was no bomb. Nothing was conquered.” Casualties: 0. Reunions: ∞. |
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| Trial MG-1a | Site: the Congress. Two equal & opposite forces, perpetual stalemate. Result: honorable draw; hostilities converted to a beloved televised ritual; the ways got built. See A More Perfect Union. |
| Trial MG-1b | Site: the last wall. Method: outnumbered by ways. No stone fell; the wall was forgotten. See Tear Down This Wall. |
LIVE. The device is fielded, MIRL-1.0 source-available, and detonating quietly in the browser of anyone who clicks a link. It is not classified in a hangar near anywhere at all. It is on the public web, free for all, safe for children, effective against no one and for everyone.