This was an M109 155mm Enigmatic Crowd Cannon, a fairlike gun of the type he deplored. Some demonic wiseacres had taken the Zero Approach principle of etheric consent and introduced a randomizer into the gridpulse - when the cannon let rip at a crowd a few people would get it who didn’t deserve it and vice versa. By a tortuous route, artillery technicians had created a gun which accomplished by precision engineering what other guns did by chance.