Foes Of Columbia

* See also Columbia's_Doom
* See also Heavily_Armed_Battleship
* See also Flying_Battleship-Yeah_Right
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Columbia's Society :
Rules for the Servile Class in Columbia :
* Do your work cheerfully, You are fortunate to be in Columbia
* DO what you are told to do without question
* Do not make eye contact with your betters
* Do not speak unless spoken to
* Do NOT Mutter under your breath, it is a punishable offense
* All minor infractions will be punished severely
* You shall love and honor the Prophet with your whole heart, your whole being (or else).
* Killing yourself is a sin punishable by death.
* Breaking ANY Rule WILL Be Punished SEVERELY
* "The Box" ? You DO NOT WANT TO EVER BE PUT IN "THE BOX"
* Your Place is to Serve
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The "Immigrant' type 'white people' in Columbia would be subjected to similar harsh Rules.
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These 12-inch guns could easily reach Columbia's altitude. This shiphttps://www.wikiwand.com/en/French_battleship_Charles_Martel has 4 to 18 inch thick Steel armor.
Apply the whole Quantumz Floatyshit(tm) technology taken from the 1893 Exposition "Columbia" , and you WOULD have a REAL Flying Battleship, which could smash Columbia to bits in a matter of an hour or so. ( Happened no doubt in many of those 'parallel' universes the story says existed. )
When Columbia started robbing foreign powers' colonies to supply itself and kidnapping people to obtain new slave labor, it managed to 'piss off' many European nations who had significant military resources which Columbia could hardly match.
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The Belgians had a plan to use the Quantum Floatyshit(tm) they obtained during the 1893 Exposition ( Yes even the Belgians ... ) to undertake a Mission to Mars. Of course that was AFTER the US Government destroyed Columbia and hung Comstock.
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There was an International Bounty out for Columbia, and any nation with one of these was gunning for it. Columbia soon had few safe places to hide. Even smaller countries like Chile had 'Dreadnought' class ships at that time with guns which could be modified 'to really mess Columbia up' . 
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== The Stolen Untermenschen ( the Infinite Story's Impressed Worker Serfs ) : ==
Comstocks Fetching OF New 'Underlings' :
The problem with 'kidnapping' people to be laborers is that they resent it and would endlessly be trying to escape their Impressment. There hasn't been generations in Columbia's short history for any stolen people to be 'normalized'/conditioned from birth. 
You would have to have something like South Africa during Apartheid, with lockdowns and gated places for the 'Ruling Class' -- not even close to resembling any shadow of America ( nor the ridiculous exaggerations we've been shown ).
Some other mechanism must be at work to psychologically control the people to prevent them from being modern-freedom-thinking people (Americans anyway), who would resist being kept in an even marginal 'master-serf'-like society ( These WERE the immigrants who LEFT that kind of situation back in their 'old country' ).
Lacking that control, the enslaved peoples WOULD BE Columbia's Biggest and most Dangerous Foes.
The new 'workers' might not be easily motivated for the training required for whatever use they were needed for ( thus likely a more selectively enslaving of skilled workers ). Language issues would apply.
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Citizens of Columbia Fear ? 
Slave Rebellion was a worry in the Old South, so why not in Columbia ?? The Police just aren't there when that 'Untermenschen" suddenly decides to Murder 'His Betters'. Gun-totin ordinary Citizens SHOULD have been Booker's biggest worry - every one of them armed and ready to pull out that Revolver to put down any maddog "Cattle" ( as Fink would put it ). 
Instead the Players are treated to cringing drones, who don't even have the intelligence to even 'make a run for it'. Hunting them down, even with Elizabeth's sour looks and disdain coulda added ALOT to the game experience - IF the "AI" was a teenie bit more advanced than what the game delivered ( and THEY WOULD shoot back ).
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The Fanatics Take Over ? : 
We saw surgical pseudo mechanisms used in an attempt to 'Control' Elizabeth. What if Columbia's Fanatics think that Comstock is doing a poor job, and that his goals are not drastic enough to punish the evil "World Below" ? Comstock himself may end up in a similar machine and so be 'atlered' into being a useful 'Prophet Puppet' to then enact their more radical plans.
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Carnegie's Carumba's Got Columbia Beat ( Another Infinite BS Parody ) :
Its Eagle mascot nicknamed "Death from Above" or "The Bombadier" - Could smack down that Giant Pigeon 'Songbird' with one wing tied behind its back, and then crap all over the that Flying Cultist Asylum before Round One was over.
Carumba has a Death Ray, created by Carumba's own Universal Genius Blofeld, which could shred Columbia's structure 'without even trying', but probably would be used to one-by-one pot-shot Columbia's blue orby things, and allow Columbia's Nasties to shriek maniacally as Columbia is sent piece by piece hurtling to its doom on the hard hard ground. Comstock would be made to watch, and would be then 'done away with' last.
Super Science is like that ... ( One day you think you're hot stuff, and the next someone else 'Steps on you like a Bug'. )
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ITSELF :
Comstock's Jim Jones Moment, after he hears that 'Teddy' Roosevelt is approaching with several flying barges full of US Marines. Mass Suicide imposed by fanatics would be the scenario.
Columbia 'Crashing into the Sea' might be one method.
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THINGS WHICH COME BACK THROUGH THE TEARS
So much story potential there - lost - as so much was with Infinite BS.
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Enough was enough, and the US decided to put an end to the threat. Charred wreckage and ash were all that was left of Columbia.
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The Dreaded Fleming Tripod able to make coordinated attacks with Tesla Energy
Or Not.
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