Talk:Heroes/Hero Association/@comment-99.138.104.196-20161005101953/@comment-86.165.144.116-20190814181153

Why? The whole point of OPM is not to constantly focus on escalation of power levels like typical shonen but to focus on character development. And it would make sense that there would be heroes of different physical capabilities anyway.

If anyone would have a need to artifically make themselves stronger, it would be the police and the armed forces. The latter of which have been conspicuously absent. As people in the world of OPM live in vast mega-cities, one would hope there would be something analogous to a 'city defence force' or something rather than leaving the business of protection to what is effectively a private organisation.

Either this could take the form of surgical and genetic modification similar to the creation of the Adeptus Astates in Warhammer 40K, innovations in the creation of powered suits, cyberisation procedures or innovations in other military technology (devices that disrupt the brain-waves of ESPers, implosion bombs, depleted uranium shells that cut through armour like butter, smart rounds that seek established weakspots).

Perhaps the armed forces could use orbital kinetic weaponry like Project Thor. A satellite filled with tungsten rods that could be dropped onto an enemy; as it descends, the rod accelerates reaching a speed of ten times the speed of sound before impacting with the same force as an intercontiental ballistic missile. When it impacts, it penetrates the earth hundreds of meters, detroying any underground bunkers or complexes the enemy may have.

https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-rods-from-god-kinetic-weapon-hit-with-nuclear-weapon-force-2017-9?r=US&IR=T