Just for morbid curiosity.
In Hunters in the Dark, one of the Spartans had survived having his arm cut off by an energy sword.
Roland-B210 was stabbed and almost bisected by a member of the Silent Shadow. His partner, Jonah-203 had the tip of an energy sword slowly slice into the side of his face, popping his eyeball in the process.
In Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor, there’s plenty of mutilation as Rtas 'Vadum and his Spec Ops Sangheili go to town on the Flood outbreak.
I think you all are confusing the effects of super heated plasma and mutilation. As in the case of headhunters that is just the effects on the body as the plasma made contact. I think the best example of mutilation is in halo envoy where an elite terrorist uses his sword to torture and kill an oni operative. Beyond that the sword is treated with honour so you wouldn’t get too many cases.
I can’t remember what book it was, but it had Black Team. A Sanghelli prisoner apparently had his forearms burned with an energy sword as a mark of shame for running from battle by his also Sanghelli captures. That is if I remember all the details.
Possibly the same book there was a prison for the drones that had there legs amputated. I believe they used energy swords for that.
It’s been a damn long time since I read that book.
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> I think you all are confusing the effects of super heated plasma and mutilation. As in the case of headhunters that is just the effects on the body as the plasma made contact. I think the best example of mutilation is in halo envoy where an elite terrorist uses his sword to torture and kill an oni operative. Beyond that the sword is treated with honour so you wouldn’t get too many cases.
They’re one and the same dude, the effects of super heated plasma will mutilate you.
There’s an excellent short story by our man Frank O’Connor - Midnight in the Heart of Midlothian - that has a little of what you’re after OP.
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> > I think you all are confusing the effects of super heated plasma and mutilation. As in the case of headhunters that is just the effects on the body as the plasma made contact. I think the best example of mutilation is in halo envoy where an elite terrorist uses his sword to torture and kill an oni operative. Beyond that the sword is treated with honour so you wouldn’t get too many cases.
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> They’re one and the same dude, the effects of super heated plasma will mutilate you.
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> There’s an excellent short story by our man Frank O’Connor - Midnight in the Heart of Midlothian - that has a little of what you’re after OP.
Meh, yes and no. As I said the result of superheated plasma on the body is grotesque, it is just the consequence of that weapon. The same can be said by being hit by 7.62 machine or mini gun or a headshot from anything or being too close to a .50 round. What I take away from mutilation is the users intent to be excessively violent to further disfigured a corpse or body so as to create shock and fear among anyone who is sent to recover the body.
A real personal example, while on tour in the middle east we lost some people to IEDs, even though we got their main body back to base. When on patrol, enemy would hang their bits along our route to provoke fear or irrational responses. Same can be said about the bodies of dead US soliders after the failed mission in Somalia, black hawk down. Even after they were dead the corpses were dragged through the street, dismembered and mutilated with foreign objects inserted in places.
This is the difference I mean between the result of a weapon and malicious use of weapon.
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> > > I think you all are confusing the effects of super heated plasma and mutilation. As in the case of headhunters that is just the effects on the body as the plasma made contact. I think the best example of mutilation is in halo envoy where an elite terrorist uses his sword to torture and kill an oni operative. Beyond that the sword is treated with honour so you wouldn’t get too many cases.
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> > They’re one and the same dude, the effects of super heated plasma will mutilate you.
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> > There’s an excellent short story by our man Frank O’Connor - Midnight in the Heart of Midlothian - that has a little of what you’re after OP.
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> Meh, yes and no. As I said the result of superheated plasma on the body is grotesque, it is just the consequence of that weapon. The same can be said by being hit by 7.62 machine or mini gun or a headshot from anything or being too close to a .50 round. What I take away from mutilation is the users intent to be excessively violent to further disfigured a corpse or body so as to create shock and fear among anyone who is sent to recover the body.
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> A real personal example, while on tour in the middle east we lost some people to IEDs, even though we got their main body back to base. When on patrol, enemy would hang their bits along our route to provoke fear or irrational responses. Same can be said about the bodies of dead US soliders after the failed mission in Somalia, black hawk down. Even after they were dead the corpses were dragged through the street, dismembered and mutilated with foreign objects inserted in places.
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> This is the difference I mean between the result of a weapon and malicious use of weapon.
I hear you, and I agree that mutilation can be a deliberate act in and of itself - just saying that it’s also just the description of what has happened to your body. Falling down concrete stairs could leave you mutilated. But yes, totally know what you’re saying.
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> I can’t remember what book it was, but it had Black Team. A Sanghelli prisoner apparently had his forearms burned with an energy sword as a mark of shame for running from battle by his also Sanghelli captures. That is if I remember all the details.
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> Possibly the same book there was a prison for the drones that had there legs amputated. I believe they used energy swords for that.
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> It’s been a damn long time since I read that book.
That was from the Cole Protocol. Thel 'Vadamee Had one of his fellow Zealots, Saal, mark himself with criss-crossing patterns on his arms for disobeying 'Vadamee.
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> > > > I think you all are confusing the effects of super heated plasma and mutilation. As in the case of headhunters that is just the effects on the body as the plasma made contact. I think the best example of mutilation is in halo envoy where an elite terrorist uses his sword to torture and kill an oni operative. Beyond that the sword is treated with honour so you wouldn’t get too many cases.
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> > > They’re one and the same dude, the effects of super heated plasma will mutilate you.
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> > > There’s an excellent short story by our man Frank O’Connor - Midnight in the Heart of Midlothian - that has a little of what you’re after OP.
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> > Meh, yes and no. As I said the result of superheated plasma on the body is grotesque, it is just the consequence of that weapon. The same can be said by being hit by 7.62 machine or mini gun or a headshot from anything or being too close to a .50 round. What I take away from mutilation is the users intent to be excessively violent to further disfigured a corpse or body so as to create shock and fear among anyone who is sent to recover the body.
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> > A real personal example, while on tour in the middle east we lost some people to IEDs, even though we got their main body back to base. When on patrol, enemy would hang their bits along our route to provoke fear or irrational responses. Same can be said about the bodies of dead US soliders after the failed mission in Somalia, black hawk down. Even after they were dead the corpses were dragged through the street, dismembered and mutilated with foreign objects inserted in places.
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> > This is the difference I mean between the result of a weapon and malicious use of weapon.
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> I hear you, and I agree that mutilation can be a deliberate act in and of itself - just saying that it’s also just the description of what has happened to your body. Falling down concrete stairs could leave you mutilated. But yes, totally know what you’re saying.
I get you and fair point.