[UA] The metal eaters.

[Michael Price]

  There are several ways to get rid of geometrical
increasing numbers of lunchboxes.  1)  Area effect
weawponry that destroys every lunchbox in an area,
applied to the entire radius the lunchboxs could have
affected.  The weaponry need not be lethal to humans
or animals (e.g. extreme electromagnetic effects,
sonic weaponry tuned to the right frequency, rapid
oxidisation agents) 2)  Form an impassable barrier
surrounding the affected area and destroy them one by
one (salvaging the metal) 3) Self-replicating
lunchbox-hunters ("Of course these replicators are
safe, they can only eat lunchboxs.  The safeguards are
foolproof.")  4)  Treat all metal in the area with
something that makes it decay in under the
reproduction time triggered by being lunchboxed
(farfetched).
  The trouble is that only the first one is likely to
be fast, "safe" and surepitous enough for the
sleepers.  The sleepers don't neccesarily have access
to hyper-magnetic cyclotrons, wide sweep sonics, etc,
but they can mix up several tons of diesal and
fertiliser easy.  The PC's may have to work fast to
save several city blocks from going up and hundreds of
people dying.   

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