"Yes. And I can take you to the region in question - or you could just ask for the clone army facility. Ideally -" He pauses for a moment, not sure how to pitch it; he knows it would sound wild even to someone who was used to how his mind works.
"Ideally, we'd want a hurricane large enough for the entire facility to be contained inside the eye, and held there. We can help produce warm and cold fronts to feed it from orbit, if you need, so long as you handle the...precision. It transforms -"
He gestures widely with his spoon for a moment, then breaks into coughing. He recovers after a few seconds.
"Defense becomes harder, the more dimensions you have, right? In one dimension, one person can hold a doorway, or a narrow pass, basically indefinitely. In two dimensions, on the ground plane, you need walls and armies, in three dimensions, in space, if becomes basically impossible, because there are too many angles to attack from. If the only path in or out of the facility is through the eye, that turns a three dimensional battlefield into a one dimensional battlefield that we can protect and control until we're ready to go."
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"Ideally, we'd want a hurricane large enough for the entire facility to be contained inside the eye, and held there. We can help produce warm and cold fronts to feed it from orbit, if you need, so long as you handle the...precision. It transforms -"
He gestures widely with his spoon for a moment, then breaks into coughing. He recovers after a few seconds.
"Defense becomes harder, the more dimensions you have, right? In one dimension, one person can hold a doorway, or a narrow pass, basically indefinitely. In two dimensions, on the ground plane, you need walls and armies, in three dimensions, in space, if becomes basically impossible, because there are too many angles to attack from. If the only path in or out of the facility is through the eye, that turns a three dimensional battlefield into a one dimensional battlefield that we can protect and control until we're ready to go."