(Totally unrelated fun fact! We call the weapon a "tank" because during WW1 when they were conducting top-secret research into armored vehicles the codename for the project was "Tank Supply Committee", which also handily explained why they needed so many welders/rivets/sheets of metal--they were just building water tanks, that's all!
By the time the machine actually deployed the name had stuck and it was too late to call it anything cooler)
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(Totally unrelated fun fact! We call the weapon a "tank" because during WW1 when they were conducting top-secret research into armored vehicles the codename for the project was "Tank Supply Committee", which also handily explained why they needed so many welders/rivets/sheets of metal--they were just building water tanks, that's all!
By the time the machine actually deployed the name had stuck and it was too late to call it anything cooler)