Editing Lugh (section)

=== The superweapon's remains ===
The skull and skeleton of that titanic superweapon, built by Professor Ibott's mentor, are prominent landmark in the city.  The titanic beast was killed around ten years before the events of the story. In the time since, bacteria and vermin have been unable to consume the remains of the monster. Leading it's flesh to calcify and erode as time passes on.  It is so large that instead of trying to dispose of it, the denizens of Lugh have simply begun to build around it. Docks and buildings made since the corpse appeared have built around the massive tentacles.<ref name=":0">But the capstone, the element of Lugh that made people want to drift close enough to ''see'', should they be on a boat, was the impressive sight of the great superweapon.  Or the ex-superweapon.  It had died at sea and drifted inland, or it had died at the coast and languished there.  Either way, it was too big to really dispose of, so it had been left to rot.  The armored exterior and the skin had proven too resilient for even vermin and disease to eat at, and much of it had calcified over the last decade or two, the remainder falling away.  As new buildings and sections of dock had gone up, they had done so under, over, and around the tendrils and tentacles that flowed from the armored carapace.  Here and there, wood had been grown and brickwork laid to reinforce the structure.

“Professor Ibott’s mentor created that thing,” Jamie remarked.

“Really?” I asked.

The waves were heavy in the bay, and the ship rocked this way and that.  We were heading for the dock, and it didn’t feel like we were slowing down enough to avoid crashing bodily into it.  I tensed a little and gripped the railing.

“They made the project a recurring one, they keep a pack of those things in the water, but the batches are smaller.  At a certain point, with size, you’re not getting any more effective, you’re just showing off,” Jamie said.  He smiled.[https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2015/12/15/bleeding-edge-8-3/]</ref>