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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Calvin, Martians, Earth entitled The Weapon? Start with the sentence 'The Weapon (short story): Democracy has been all but eradicated on Earth as a result of wars waged by totalitarian states'.
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conversations.value: The Weapon (short story): Democracy has been all but eradicated on Earth as a result of wars waged by totalitarian states.\nPreston Calvin travels to Mars to seek the assistance of the technologically superior Martians.\nHe asks them to provide him with a weapon: not a weapon of destruction, but a chemical which the Martians used on themselves aeons ago to temper the emotions of anger and hate, allowing them to reject war and violence, and which Calvin intends to use to influence humanity for the better.\nBut the Martians refuse to give it to him, insisting that "every civilization must work out its own destiny".\nCalvin resolves to steal the chemical.\nHe infiltrates a laboratory and, after a long search, eventually finds the information he needs, but at the moment of discovery he himself is discovered by the Martians.\nIt transpires that they knew he would attempt to steal the weapon and had been monitoring his progress since he began.\nHowever, the Martians tell Calvin that by attempting to steal the weapon (even though they could easily have prevented him), he has taken Earth\'s destiny in his own hands, and so has earned the right to keep the weapon.\n"It has not been given you; you have taken it".\nHe returns to Earth with the weapon.
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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Zhou, Weapon, Tommy entitled The Weapon? Start with the sentence 'The Weapon (comics): Martial arts enthusiast Tommy Zhou invented a means to create solid objects from light—and invented a superhero persona to promote it:The Weapon'.
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conversations.value: The Weapon (comics): Martial arts enthusiast Tommy Zhou invented a means to create solid objects from light—and invented a superhero persona to promote it:The Weapon.\nHe even concocted an origin story for himself based on ancient Chinese legends, his grandfather told him as a child.\nWhat Tommy never suspected, though, were that his grandfather\'s legends were real—and now an all-too real millennia-old assassin cult, the Lin Kuie, (Forest Demons) is after him, convinced he\'s unlocked ancient mystical techniques of Order of Wu-Shi — "The Way of the Weapon" — and they\'re sending waves of killers after him to steal it back.\nTommy was born in Honolulu, in Hawaii\'s Chinatown, a third-generation Chinese American, raised by his grandfather.\nTommy accuses his grandfather of clinging to the old ways of a country they could never return to, knowing they would never be accepted by the racist society they have entered.\nHis family name of Zhou may be a reference to the Zhou Dynasty.
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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Erik, Andrews, Elsa entitled The Weapon?
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conversations.value: The Weapon (film): Lizabeth Scott plays Elsa Jenner, widowed mother to her young son Erik.\nWhilst playing with friends in an abandoned and deteriorated old building, Erik finds a small handgun stuck to a brick.\nAs all the boys try and pull it free, it accidentally fires a shot from Erik\'s hands, hitting another boy.\nBelieving he has killed his friend, Erik immediately runs away.\nLocating Erik becomes the mission of Captain Mark Andrews (Steve Cochran), who soon discovers the gun Erik found has a past that may have caused a dangerous criminal to pursue the young boy.\nAs he inches closer to finding Erik, Andrews comes across Vivienne (Nicole Maurey), a dance hall hostess with a connection to the gun\'s original owner.\nBut she has all but lost her faith in all things good, declaring to Andrews "I am dead".\nAs Andrews continues his investigation into the whereabouts of the gun, Erik\'s mother Elsa finally locates her son, with the assistance of helpful though relative stranger Joshua Henry.\nErik had apparently stolen a bottle of milk from Henry, though Erik has no memory of this.\nIt soon becomes clear that Henry is the one with ill intentions, prompting Elsa to demand Erik run away for help.\nHenry runs after the boy, leaving Elsa in the passenger side of a speeding car.\nAfter crashing into a ditch, members of the public come to Elsa\'s aid.\nAmong them is Captain Andrews, with whom she pleads not to worry about her, and save her son instead.\nAndrews immediately enters the old building where Henry was seen running, where shots are fired.\nBut after both parties exhaust their weapons, a long fall to death awaits.
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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Chinran, Freehold, Nauman entitled The Weapon?
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conversations.value: The Weapon (novel): Kenneth Chinran is a citizen of the Freehold of Grainne and chooses to join the military as a means to get away from the monotony of life.\nDue to his incredibly high test scores a recruiter offers him a spot in Special Warfare, the Freehold military\'s special forces unit.\nEn route to training Chinran meets a fellow recruit Denise "Deni" Harlett, who comes from a Wiccan community.\nThe two form a friendship and eventually become lovers.\nChinran eventually completes basic training (despite mouthing off to the drill instructors) and begins Special Warfare training, an equivalent of BUD/S training.\nThe recruits are put through grueling exercises that expose them to the elements, including the vacuum of space.\nMany recruits die but in the end Chinran and Deni complete their training and gain the title of Operative.\nChinran spends the first part of his Special Warfare career on security missions and training exercises.\nHis first casualty comes when a teammate is killed during a space combat exercise when he suffers a suit malfunction and dies of CO2 poisoning.\nThis takes a toll of Chinran, whose holds himself responsible for the death and is reminded of his own mortality.\nDespite this he continues to grow as a soldier and quickly advances to the rank of Senior Sergeant.\nEventually Chinran receives his first combat mission, in which he is to find and make an example of a terrorist by the name of Ali Muhammed Ghassan whose recent terror attack on a space cruiser led to the death of Freehold citizens.\nChinran and his team track the terrorist to a remote planet and take him into custody.\nGiven strict orders not to kill Ghassan, Chinran resorts to extreme torture and castration.\nThis act further breaks Chinran\'s psyche and continue to weigh down his soul.\nShortly after the Freehold enters a coalition along the United Nations of Earth to fight in a war against the multiple ethnic tribes of the planet Mtali, a direct parallel to the war in the Middle East.\nChinran is promoted to Warrant Leader (the equivalent of a Warrant Officer) and given command of a platoon of Operatives.\nThe combined armies of the Freehold and the UN attempt to maintain peace and order on the planet, however progress is halted by tensions between the tribes and the bureaucracy and effectiveness of the UN forces.\nAlready fed up with botched intel and bureaucratic interference by the UN, Chinran finally snaps when the Freehold forces discover a mass grave in a village, left behind after the invasion of a rival tribe, including women and young children.\nChinran requests his unit be given jurisdiction over the whole area and be under the direct control of Chinran, without interference from the UN.\nChinran\'s commanding officer, Commander Alan Nauman, readily agrees.\nChinran and his team spend the next few months going from village to village, forcing cooperation with one another using fear as a motivator.\nThe team\'s training, choice of dark attire, and use of a hormone fueled microchip that gives their physical abilities a "Boost", the team earns the nickname The "Black Ghosts".\nHowever, Chinran\'s tactic backfires when a single rebellious villager incites a group of extremis against Chinran and his men during one of the team\'s raids.\nChinran is forced to kill the extremis and in order to maintain the Black Ghosts credibility, executes everyone else in the village, including women and children.\nThis event, as well as the later death of one of the unit\'s members during a combat rescue, leads to further psychological damage amongst the team and causes Chinran to have a further disdain for the United Nations.\nAfter UN forces pull out Nauman forces cooperation amongst the tribes for at least a short time.\nHowever, after the Freehold forces pull out conflict of Mtali returns within weeks.\nChinran is promoted to Lieutenant before being recruited by Nauman for a secret mission to plant Freehold sleeper agents on Earth as a precautionary step towards war between the planets.\nChinran is furthered promoted to Captain and is tasked with assembling a unit of 200 sleeper agents from across both Special Warfare but also the regular forces of the Freehold.\nThe recruits, including Deni and many of Chinran\'s former unit, conducts 10 days worth of training in intelligence gathering, parachuting, tactical insertion, and deep cover identities.\nEventually Chinran and his unit deploy for Earth.\nAfter a length insertion process that included the loss of 13 agents, Chinran and his unit are finally situated in cities and towns on every continent of the Earth and begin to blend into life under the bureaucratic, overbearing, and corrupt United Nations.\nEventually a small UN force invades the Freehold in an unsuccessful attempt the take the capital city, prompting Nauman to order Chinran and his team to attack the UN Defense Forces headquarters in Langley, Virginia.\nThey successfully complete the raid but only manage to incite the further wrath of the UN, who invade the Freehold with extensive military might and weaponry.\nNauman orders the Operatives to lay low until orders are given and it is during this time that Deni becomes pregnant as a result of a sexual encounter between her and Chinran.\nShe eventually gives birth to a baby girl while still in deep cover and names her Chelsea, though Chinran is initially reluctant to take on a roll as a father.\nThe Operatives are finally activated by Nauman and proceed to commence massive attacks against cities all over Earth using explosives and nerve agents to knock out water supplies, transportation, and cause terror.\nThe attacks cause massive panic and severely weaken the UN government, around the world billions of lives are lost as a result of Chinran and his teams.\nAfter the attacks Chinran and company return to their warehouse/safehouse and watch the terror unfold on the news.\nIn distress over the lives he has taken Chinran left for a walk but returned to find the UN had raided the warehouse, killing Deni and the other Operatives.\nChinran escapes to a secondary safehouse where he spends three days in an alcohol induced depression as a result of the death he has cause.\nThe situation is further worsened as Nauman orders the dropping of nuclear warheads and high energy weapons on majors cities across Earth.\nChinran finally returns to the warehouse in an effort to find Chelsea.\nChinran locates and rescues his daughter before fleeing.\nChinran and Chelsea spend the next two years travelling around Earth in an attempt to find their way home.\nChinran continues to alter his appearance through use of cosmetic techniques and keeps a hefty stash of ID\'s on hand.\nEventually he and Chelsea make their way to Washington DC and manage to board a Freehold humanitarian vessel.\nChinran explains that he remained emotionally unattached from the child due to his fear that he would have to kill it in order to complete the mission.\nHe mourns the loss of both UN citizens and Freehold Operatives alike and claims that despite his wrongdoings he will do whatever he can to take care of his daughter.
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conversations.value: \nDue to his incredibly high test scores a recruiter offers him a spot in Special Warfare, the Freehold military\'s special forces unit.\nEn route to training Chinran meets a fellow recruit Denise "Deni" Harlett, who comes from a Wiccan community.\nThe two form a friendship and eventually become lovers.\nChinran eventually completes basic training (despite mouthing off to the drill instructors) and begins Special Warfare training, an equivalent of BUD/S training.\nThe recruits are put through grueling exercises that expose them to the elements, including the vacuum of space.\nMany recruits die but in the end Chinran and Deni complete their training and gain the title of Operative.\nChinran spends the first part of his Special Warfare career on security missions and training exercises.\nHis first casualty comes when a teammate is killed during a space combat exercise when he suffers a suit malfunction and dies of CO2 poisoning.\nThis takes a toll of Chinran, whose holds himself responsible for the death and is reminded of his own mortality.\nDespite this he continues to grow as a soldier and quickly advances to the rank of Senior Sergeant.\nEventually Chinran receives his first combat mission, in which he is to find and make an example of a terrorist by the name of Ali Muhammed Ghassan whose recent terror attack on a space cruiser led to the death of Freehold citizens.\nChinran and his team track the terrorist to a remote planet and take him into custody.\nGiven strict orders not to kill Ghassan, Chinran resorts to extreme torture and castration.\nThis act further breaks Chinran\'s psyche and continue to weigh down his soul.\nShortly after the Freehold enters a coalition along the United Nations of Earth to fight in a war against the multiple ethnic tribes of the planet Mtali, a direct parallel to the war in the Middle East.\nChinran is promoted to Warrant Leader (the equivalent of a Warrant Officer) and given command of a platoon of Operatives.\nThe combined armies of the Freehold and the UN attempt to maintain peace and order on the planet, however progress is halted by tensions between the tribes and the bureaucracy and effectiveness of the UN forces.\nAlready fed up with botched intel and bureaucratic interference by the UN, Chinran finally snaps when the Freehold forces discover a mass grave in a village, left behind after the invasion of a rival tribe, including women and young children.\nChinran requests his unit be given jurisdiction over the whole area and be under the direct control of Chinran, without interference from the UN.\nChinran\'s commanding officer, Commander Alan Nauman, readily agrees.\nChinran and his team spend the next few months going from village to village, forcing cooperation with one another using fear as a motivator.\nThe team\'s training, choice of dark attire, and use of a hormone fueled microchip that gives their physical abilities a "Boost", the team earns the nickname The "Black Ghosts".\nHowever, Chinran\'s tactic backfires when a single rebellious villager incites a group of extremis against Chinran and his men during one of the team\'s raids.\nChinran is forced to kill the extremis and in order to maintain the Black Ghosts credibility, executes everyone else in the village, including women and children.\nThis event, as well as the later death of one of the unit\'s members during a combat rescue, leads to further psychological damage amongst the team and causes Chinran to have a further disdain for the United Nations.\nAfter UN forces pull out Nauman forces cooperation amongst the tribes for at least a short time.\nHowever, after the Freehold forces pull out conflict of Mtali returns within weeks.\nChinran is promoted to Lieutenant before being recruited by Nauman for a secret mission to plant Freehold sleeper agents on Earth as a precautionary step towards war between the planets.\nChinran is furthered promoted to Captain and is tasked with assembling a unit of 200 sleeper agents from across both Special Warfare but also the regular forces of the Freehold.\nThe recruits, including Deni and many of Chinran\'s former unit, conducts 10 days worth of training in intelligence gathering, parachuting, tactical insertion, and deep cover identities.\nEventually Chinran and his unit deploy for Earth.\nAfter a length insertion process that included the loss of 13 agents, Chinran and his unit are finally situated in cities and towns on every continent of the Earth and begin to blend into life under the bureaucratic, overbearing, and corrupt United Nations.\nEventually a small UN force invades the Freehold in an unsuccessful attempt the take the capital city, prompting Nauman to order Chinran and his team to attack the UN Defense Forces headquarters in Langley, Virginia.\nThey successfully complete the raid but only manage to incite the further wrath of the UN, who invade the Freehold with extensive military might and weaponry.\nNauman orders the Operatives to lay low until orders are given and it is during this time that Deni becomes pregnant as a result of a sexual encounter between her and Chinran.\nShe eventually gives birth to a baby girl while still in deep cover and names her Chelsea, though Chinran is initially reluctant to take on a roll as a father.\nThe Operatives are finally activated by Nauman and proceed to commence massive attacks against cities all over Earth using explosives and nerve agents to knock out water supplies, transportation, and cause terror.\nThe attacks cause massive panic and severely weaken the UN government, around the world billions of lives are lost as a result of Chinran and his teams.\nAfter the attacks Chinran and company return to their warehouse/safehouse and watch the terror unfold on the news.\nIn distress over the lives he has taken Chinran left for a walk but returned to find the UN had raided the warehouse, killing Deni and the other Operatives.\nChinran escapes to a secondary safehouse where he spends three days in an alcohol induced depression as a result of the death he has cause.\nThe situation is further worsened as Nauman orders the dropping of nuclear warheads and high energy weapons on majors cities across Earth.\nChinran finally returns to the warehouse in an effort to find Chelsea.\nChinran locates and rescues his daughter before fleeing.\nChinran and Chelsea spend the next two years travelling around Earth in an attempt to find their way home.\nChinran continues to alter his appearance through use of cosmetic techniques and keeps a hefty stash of ID\'s on hand.\nEventually he and Chelsea make their way to Washington DC and manage to board a Freehold humanitarian vessel.\nChinran explains that he remained emotionally unattached from the child due to his fear that he would have to kill it in order to complete the mission.\nHe mourns the loss of both UN citizens and Freehold Operatives alike and claims that despite his wrongdoings he will do whatever he can to take care of his daughter.
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conversations.value: What is the first paragraph for the book?
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conversations.value: The Weapon
  The air inside was cold and dry, as if they were in the Montana mountains instead of the muggy South. They went down a corridor floored with gray industrial-grade carpet. To either side, men worked at computers in spartan offices. Dan didn't see any women.
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conversations.value: What is five more paragraphs? End with the sentence ' And finally the TEC agreed that, yeah, Teddy Oberg could serve as the copilot, thus meaning one less body to haul in and back.'.
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conversations.value: Eventually Dan had decided this was an advantage. Once they had control of the boat—assuming they got that far—all they'd need to do was ballast down forward, open the forward door, and let the weapon slide out, underwater, onto what a survey dating from back when U.S. ships had used Bandar Abbas, in the Shah's time, said was a soft sand-and-mud harbor bottom.
  It wasn't what he'd call robust, but it was a plan. According to Hines, the Iranians didn't stay at high readiness. It should be possible to get in without being observed. But to get out again, they'd have to do so submerged.
  They'd eventually learned to move the thing around pretty rapidly. The question would be, of course, how well they could do it in a strange torpedo room, working with non-U.S. equipment. Dan hoped they'd find the Shkval already in the tube. That would make it simpler, faster, and so, a whole lot less dangerous. The less time they spent smack in the middle of a hostile naval base, the better.
  Dan stood back while they went into the technicalities of recharge and reforming. Mangum kept asking if they could reform the battery. The TEC said they didn't have chargers that would do that. Mangum picked up a bulkhead phone. "Chief electrician, to my cabin. No, make it the wardroom—might as well sit down."
  At the end of another hour's conference and much unfolding of diagrams from manuals and arguing, they had something set up. The chief electrician seemed hesitant, but said he'd give it a try; if they brought down the batteries into the engine room one by one, he'd discharge and reform them, bring them back to their original capacity. And finally the TEC agreed that, yeah, Teddy Oberg could serve as the copilot, thus meaning one less body to haul in and back.
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conversations.value: What is the last five paragraphs?
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conversations.value: He's pointing it when a short bandit in a dirty Western-style shirt suddenly slaps him on the ear. He staggers, head ringing. The man grabs the weapon back, shows him how the brassy shining rounds lock into the magazine, the magazine locks into the gun, the bolt snaps forward and the lever on the side goes up and down. "Now it's ready to kill," he snarls. "Are you?"
  Then lowers it. "I have no quarrel with these," he mutters. "Soldiers in trucks drove us from our land. Not these."
  The men smile grimly. "Then don't kill those," the short one says. He looks past him, at the boys who stand to the left. The one whose hand he was holding stretches out his arms. Their gazes lock.
  He remembers his father's face. Wonders why he wasn't there when the soldiers came. If he had been, would they still own their land?
  Before the tall man's finished speaking the gun's jerking in his hands, deafening, like holding thunder itself. Its flashes show him the eyes of those he kills.