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So all the villains of TLT knew now was the perfect time to strike, with the Council of Bob and the Heirarchy of Jane distracted.

His screams killed anything within ten meters of him.

This Bob was Bob #74, and he was very talented at screaming.

That started in TPBM? Cool.

What joke is that?

Those dang Narrators It was good to have some hurt brains. Give them a taste of their own medicine.

But that was irrelevant.

Considering those two examples live on Scadrial and have already been shown to help stop an extra-planetary invasion? No, they don't. Roshar can have Nightblood, but Change? No way. The Sleepless will never willingly give it up, especially not to Surgebinders, who don't exactly have a good track record with safe Dawnshard use. If Roshar had a Cosmere-spanning organization founded by a Rosharan native for pretty much the sole purpose of protecting Roshar from anything that threatens it, they could use that. But they don't. And Scadrial does. Buildings, warships, no. Nightblood has been shown to simply destroy walls, he won't eat an entire building with one stab. Fair, but we don't know who's going to have it at the end. Maybe Hoid steals it and goes offworld. So now we're talking era 3 at the earliest? Because that's not going to happen until at least then. You don't need steel-ferrings out in the field, just coinshots. Because the Lightweavers have done such a good job finding the Ghostbloods so far, right? Even assuming that they can get those gemhearts, and that they can make them perfect, they wouldn't contain months worth of Stormlight for hundreds of Radiants and squires. And if we're letting Roshar use resources that they don't have yet, then Scadrial gets Atium and Lerasium from splitting Harmonium with Trellium. As I already said, the Oathgate would be a sitting duck. And we have no idea if it's possible to fix it once the gemstones break, which they will once the harmonium bombs hit. Fourth Bridge type stuff isn't going to be transferable easily, and will be vulnerable to the many anti-air weapons that Scadrians have been researching very heavily because of all the airships. They haven't researched any of that yet, and don't have a very good delivery method either.

Then he revealed his darkest secret: he was actually a member of the Council of Bob.

The Ghostbloods are a Scadrian-based association created for the sole purpose of defending Scadrial, so I don't count them as extra-planetary. And Szeth with Nightblood isn't going to make a huge difference. He'll just be one more nigh-invincible warrior who's dead once they run out of Stormlight. If Honor was connected to the entire Cosmere, why is it so hard for him to leave Roshar? That kind of connection doesn't allow the Bondsmith to leave Roshar. Ishar's Honorblade is currently in the hands of Ishar, who is not a team player, and we don't even know if it survives to the end of SA 5. 1. probably not too many, but A-steel users with identity-free steelminds works similarly. 2. Scouting can be done by Kandra or Ghostblood agents. This would be an attack. Run in with F-steel, blow up the gemstones with ettmetal. Oathgate is now gone. 1. Not going to last forever. 2. Neither Honorblade nor spren is necessarily available, even if the Honorblade is available losing it would be catastrophic. True. I still think they're not far off. Right, but that level of destruction is higher than the Tsar Bomba's. And 50 miles is just the lower estimate. It could be upwards of 100 miles. Given a tenth of the power, they'd still have something stronger than most nukes.

The Council of Bob informed them that they'd received a zero on their complaint for grossly going against the required format.

This was suitably annoying.

Rysn is not going to be okay with Change being used in a war to conquer Scadrial. And Szeth might not be either. No, he can't. If a normal Radiant can't leave then neither can he. The Stormfather's connected to Roshar, not the entire Cosmere. rockets, mortars, strike teams with leeching allomancy grenades and steel compounders? True, but I think that Odium and the KR are going to take a bit longer to reconcile. And an invasion by aliens would do wonders for unification, just as the discovery of South Scadrial did in the Basin. He can just swallow like an hours worth of charged metalminds and use those. Because they want a stable ship? Using a bunch of lashings seems like it'd take a lot of Stormlight, which will be in very short supply. They literally already have rockets. planes aren't going to be that far behind. Preservation and Ruin are fairly opposite, but fair. It's still several orders of magnitude more powerful than any nuke. The one that the Set planned to destroy Elendel with had a blast radius of at least 50 miles according to Harmony. It was also established that they could've had it in a few more weeks. And that they made the bomb too big.

Well, Gen 9 is on showdown now. I think I can safely say that

Nightblood and Change aren't a Cosmere-wide organization dedicated to the protection of Scadrial. Same reason all the other Radiants are stuck? Stormfather's connected to Roshar, Bondsmith's connected to him. Can't disconnect the Stormfather from the Bondsmith, can't disconnect the Stormfather from Roshar. An oathgate that is going to protect itself from ettmetal rockets how? Which is why it is merely one resource in the list. Bondsmiths and Unmade are not going to be working together anytime soon, Bondsmiths are not going to get off Roshar easily, and Marsh is too fast for aluminum boxes. (Even if it can be easily soulcasted, which we haven't seen. That wouldn't knock a large one out of the air, it would destabilize it at most. And Scadrial will probably figure out planes soon. Harmonium/Trellium explosives are basically antimatter, if not even more powerful. Radiants and Thunderclasts do not work together. And the enemy doesn't need formations when they can lob Harmonium explosives at you from 60 miles away.

So they filed a complaint.

Shai made a mini-Elantris in the form of the Elendel basin. I'm guessing that allowed her to use her powers somehow.

This angered the Hierarchy of Jane immensely.

Considering how far Shai was willing to go to stop the invasion, I'd say that all the Ghostbloods are willing. Protecting Scadrial is literally their first tenet. The Bondsmith would still be stuck on Roshar unless the Stormfather was unbound from it or his own bond were broken. Very limited, in terms of a months-to-years long war. And supply chains will be difficult to upkeep. Well, it almost certainly did appear more than once, but Harmony probably won't be sharing any of it. In any case, I was more referring to Wax's descendants, as he's a full Mistborn now, if a weak one. He's practically a Fullborn, in that he has steel and gold compounding. And with the Atium he's gotten, he'll be able to stay plenty active. Not like he'd need more than a few hours to destroy an army anyways. Not when they're staffed with Metalborn armed with aluminum they can't. And squires can't fly without Stormlight which, as previously mentioned, is rather hard to come by on Scadrial, even with perfect gemstones. We don't know how those shields work, and they seem to require external gemstones which would be vulnerable to shelling. Besides, even if Roshar can get a footing, hunkering behind shields just gives Scadrial more time to aim the antimatter bombs.

The war would be quick, then, but Evil still needed to be defeated, and the Council of Bob was the only one who could do it.

Which meant that Evil's army had glitched the system and gotten infinite numbers.

All the dead planets whose populations had been wiped out by a plague or withergeist army tended to throw off the averages.

With an army whose numbers were greater than the average population of a planet.

They were planning a war on evil.

I agree, although I don’t think guns would be overly affected by the increased oxygen. The biggest problem is the chokepoints in the perpendicularities, and the travel through Shadesmar itself. I disagree on this point. Scadrial has the Ghostbloods, who hold the capability to wreak havoc on the supply lines and leadership of Scadrial. Additionally, there’s the Kandra, who will be able to conduct excellent recon and further sabotage. Roshar may be able to make perpendicularities, but they currently only have one person capable of doing mass transit and resupplying Stormlight on Scadrial. Elsecallers are able to get themselves over, maybe even small groups, but that’s the extent of it. They certainly won’t be getting any Bridge 4’s onto Scadrial. Also, there’s the question of whether or not Bondsmiths can even leave Roshar. Considering how important the Stormfather is to the planet, it might not be safe to disconnect him enough to allow worldhopping. Could end up in a similar situation with Ba-Ado-Mishram, probably even worse. As for Scadrial’s defenses against an invasion, they have the Bands, as long as they can recharge them, a whole bunch of metalborn, even some potential Mistborn with Wax’s Lerasium dose, and of course Marsh. Marsh is a full compounder with centuries of experience, practically a second Lord Ruler. Any potential invasion will have to go through him. Additionally, they have plenty of airships, easy access to aluminum, firearms, high explosives, rockets, mortars, and warships. Radiants might be basically unkillable with enough Stormlight, but regular soldiers are not. And as we all know, Shardbearers can’t hold ground. looking at the regular soldiers, there’s even more of a problem: the increased gravity and decreased oxygen levels. Radiants can shrug that off, but regular soldiers will have a very hard time adjusting. I doubt they’ll be in fighting shape for quite some time after they arrive. Beyond that, they tend to wear metal, and use metal weapons, both of which will make them extremely vulnerable to steelpushes. And of course there’s the tech disadvantage, with Scadrial’s guns, grenade launchers, and soon to be rockets ripping apart any organized force that tries to invade. Which means no big armies, which means no full-scale invasions. TLDR: full-scale invasion of Scadrial: basically impossible. Conducting interplanetary terrorism on Scadrial: Super easy, barely an inconvenience!