Call me Martin Scorsese the way the sequence on pages 29-33 got me with my arms raised. Cinema.
Schupple failing to "see" the cut on p29, flinching because of it on p31, causing the trust he planned on p30 to fail on p32, the hesitation cascading into failing to respond to the cut on p33.
This...
When I'm in a raising death flags competition and Serie walks in-
Maybe she's actually planning to rampage and expects the others to stop her or something.
@ShionVaynex I'm just saying a rudimentary version wouldn't cut it. It would have to take time, just like it did in our world; even if you have knowledge about the design it would still take time to develop the means of production.