Bow-Tie

## Background information

### Books

*Boys vs. Girls: The Coming Darkness* (as a projection)
*Boys vs. Girls: The Rise of the Serpent
Boys vs. Girls: The Fate of the Towers* (mentioned)

## Other information

### Owners

Glaive Watson (formerly)
Emily Watson

### Employees

Several scientists, repairmen, and Techno Drones

### Type of Location

Despotic Superweapon

The **Bow-Tie** was a massive Girl-Team war station/superweapon with a diameter of seven kilometers designed to enforce order and, hopefully, victory. It started off as the Girl-Team Ultimate Weapon before becoming the Project Bow. The Bow-Tie was destroyed by Angela Grace during the Battle of the Bow-Tie late in 2021.

## Description

The design of the station was spheroid, with two bow-like ends to seal its name. A large dish in the northern hemisphere made up the superweapon emitter. As impressive as the Bow-Tie's design was, its armament and defensive measures were also extensive. Its primary weapon was a superweapon called the Supreme Ingot, which inflicted damage upon an opposing force by ejecting a huge drill downward onto the enemy, smashing them, and then creating a shockwave of electricity that rippled away from its impact zone and electrocuted and fried everything in its path, all except for a series of dangerous and electricity-resistant drones who, upon reaching a preset distance, launched as soon as the Supreme Ingot's casing was blown off, launching dozens of them. There were originally plans for installing a super laser, although the plans were scrapped when Girl-Team intelligence reverse-engineered electric drill ingots to subvert the technical difficulties of the super laser.

The entirety of the Bow-Tie's eponymous design, including the majority of its interior volume, was dedicated to the support and maintenance of the Supreme Ingot. The diameter of the superweapon's stabilizer was approximately six miles. The energy for the superweapon originated from deep within the battle station. The Supreme Ingot was dangerous even to itself, so various safeguards were implemented to prevent the war station from being consumed by its own power. Magnetic impellers guided the war station, which was almost devoid of friction, through a channel located in the center of the central sphere. The heavy metal core of the war station gave it an enormous amount of inertia as it fell toward the ground below. The impellers were also responsible for keeping the war station perfectly centered in the channel and for making sure the resulting electrical shockwave did not travel up the shaft and into the rest of the vehicle.

The Bow-Tie was operated from a topside command bridge by a team of high-ranking members of the Girl-Team, which included Helen and Natalia Thornton. Repairmen monitored the war station, as misalignment could result in an electrical shockwave ripping the station apart. While the station’s core and edges were comprised of numerous docking ports of various sizes, all supported by powerful air tubes, and guarded by turbolaser emplacements. It was over seven kilometers in diameter and had thirty-six internal levels. Due to its enormity and high levitation, it had a heavy gravitational pull and several heaters. Fighters and shuttles could dock at the station, while force fields kept trespassers and freezing air out if docking bay doors were opened.

However, it often needed to dock on the ground due to the colossal energy needed to keep a weapon of its size in the air. It possessed enormous booster jets and rockets to shoot it forcibly into the air, if it was ever necessary to do so, which was often the case as a crucial measure to protect the Bow-Tie's ambiguity. In the end, this proved to be a small yet insignificant flaw, as a saboteur could make the entire superweapon rocket up into outer space, where it would freeze and crack following rupturing pressure from the atmosphere. The station’s hull was made of Quadanium plates.

The Bow-Tie was located thousands of feet in the air, concealed beneath the clouds. It was deliberately built in a place Helen McKeen had previously researched was not commonly traveled by airplanes flying across their hometown, Provo. It was lowered to ground following its completion.

## History

### Construction

Plans for a bow-shaped war station were first developed by the twisted mind of Glaive Watson, during which time it lacked a superweapon and was designed like a metal hair bow of yellow and purple to give an air of wholesomeness to those who beheld it, the better to lure them into a false sense of security. On the brink of his own passing, Glaive ended up passing it to the competent hands of Helen McKeen who had assumed the unofficial role of weaponsmith for use by the enigmatic Techno Drones, in the anticipated start of the forthcoming School War. The initial technical design of the Bow-Tie, known at the time as the "Ultimate Weapon," had been created by Glaive and other government industries as a way of methodically destroying enemies. It was called for a bow-shaped war station capable of destroying enemy forces and entire countries under their control. Eventually, however, the government would give up on the project, leaving Helen and several other scientists to finish subverting any structural concerns on her own.

Meanwhile, Girl-Team intelligence agents were able to acquire electric drill ingots left unattended during a fire drill, proclaiming to Emily Watson that they had everything they were in need of. Watson's scientists reverse engineered the technology to produce a far larger ingot, dubbed the "Supreme Ingot", capable of launching drones and firing a colossal metal drill from the station and into the ground, generating colossal electrical shockwaves upon impact before retracting for more future uses.

In 2021, Helen McKeen assumed the unofficial role of weaponsmith for use by the girls in the start of the School War. In April, Helen returned the top-secret design to Emily Watson to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Boy-Team during the Battle of the GT-1 Base. Emily took the designs back to her home. These plans would later be fused with Ursula Blackham and Radjatowsky's vision of the war station. After the Attack on Provo, Helen broke free of the Boy-Team agents and captured Robert Iego, and they fled just as the Boy-Team scored their second victory over the girls. However, Robert would later be liberated by Jay Organa, who helped him escape the Bow-Tie, leading to Jay and his brother Vincent Organa confirming the war station's very existence later down the line.

### The long-anticipated completion

During the School War, the Ultimate Weapon saw the finish of its construction in secret above Thunder Quarters, soon to be relocated within a huge cave for an open house. After finishing the Bow-Tie, Helen McKeen set up Techno Drones to patrol the GT-1 Base to make sure the boys did not take it. Afterwards, she revealed the completion and demonstrated its functions to the Girl-Team. Satisfied, Emily told Helen to ensure the message got to Steven. Helen succeeded in doing so. The war station was soon to be relocated into the forest, where it would be relatively hidden away and not attract much attention until it was ready to be unleashed. Later on Emily destroyed yet another neighborhood that supported the Armies of Organa, and Helen and Beethoven exposed two spies sent by Steven Thompson. She ordered them to pass a message to Steven telling him the Bow-Tie was operational and to inform the Boy-Team Emily was ready for them to intercept the station, where she planned to destroy all of them. Before the two were able to leave, she had Radjatowsky murder one.

### Destruction

Having identified a weakness in the war station's design, thanks to Summer Petersen, the Boy-Team pilots scrambled their artillery cars in a desperate attempt to destroy the station before it could bring its weapon to bear on any innocent people. However, the Bow-Tie's defense, including turbolaser cannon emplacements and numerous Techno Drone Liners, destroyed the majority of the Boy-Team fighters, even knocking Steven Thompson into the war station's interior and destroying Robert Angel.

While the boys plotted an escape, Emily dueled Michael Watson on a series of conveyor belts. Choosing not to interfere, Helen instead pored over Emily's notebooks, but this allowed her to discover that Emily's actual plan was to annihilate the male gender and usher in a new age of cosmic evolution. Emily attempted to defend her actions, noting that there was no room for the weak in the Eight Worlds, however, Helen promptly walked out and departed the war station she had poured her sweat and blood into developing. Emily proceeded to overpower Michael and bind him. Afterwards, he joined the others, who had found a way to destroy the war station.

Despite the fatalities suffered by the Boy-Team, one member ultimately proved successful. Because the Boy-Team cruisers could not penetrate the armor (despite taking down the shield), Summer Petersen accessed and hijacked the controls and sent the war station into outer space, where it froze and cracked. This resulted in the entire station’s destruction, although almost everyone had evacuated beforehand, keeping the consequential fatalities minimal. The Armies of Organa met together at Josh Hogan's house to celebrate their victory.

### Legacy

Despite the loss of the Bow-Tie, the Girl-Team was undaunted, and Emily Watson conquered Utah in its entirety a few weeks after its destruction.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 *Boys vs. Girls: The Rise of the Serpent*
2. ↑ *Boys vs. Girls: The Coming Darkness*

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