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And the main bad guy in Mortal Engines. I still like the movie despite its failur
Yeah... I could never figure how larger cities could ingest smaller ones, though. The gain in resources would be overwhelmed by the permanent increase in population... unless they were killing the occupants of each city they ran down.
 
Yeah... I could never figure how larger cities could ingest smaller ones, though. The gain in resources would be overwhelmed by the permanent increase in population... unless they were killing the occupants of each city they ran down.

Probably or just keeping them down in the bowels of London doing all the unsafe and shitty stuff and killing some off where no one can see them
 
Yeah... I could never figure how larger cities could ingest smaller ones, though. The gain in resources would be overwhelmed by the permanent increase in population... unless they were killing the occupants of each city they ran down.
Iirc they don't kill them. But it's just dumb, eventually you run out of cities to devour
 
Iirc they don't kill them.

Which means with every "ingest", they get a finite amount of resources, but a continuing drain on their resources from the extra mouths to feed. Unless they don't give the new arrivals food, water, or living space, which only kills them slower.

But it's just dumb, eventually you run out of cities to devour

They were already nearly there. They observed that the Bavarian town was hardly worth running down.
 
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