Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 04/Chapter 3

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Synopsis

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Characters

By order of appearance:

• Shokuhou Misaki
• Misaka Mikoto
• Shirai Kuroko
• Kamijou Touma
• Othinus
• Melzabeth Grocery
• Roseline Krackhart
• Roberto Katze
• Accelerator
• Qliphah Puzzle 545
• Dion Fortune (voice-only)
• Hamazura Shiage (mentioned)
• Dolly (mentioned)
• Misaka Worst (mentioned)
• Stiyl Magnus
• Helcalia Grocery
• Index Librorum Prohibitorum
• Citrinitas

New Characters

• Double Magnet
• Mr. Grocery (mentioned)
• Darris Hewlane
• Misaka 19559
• Misaka 10089
• Misaka 16360

Abilities

• Imagine Breaker - Kamijou Touma

Locations

• Academy City
  • School District 7
    • Heaven Canceller's Hospital
• United States of America
  • Los Angeles
  • Washington D.C.
    • White House

New Locations

• United States of America
  • Long Beach, CA
    • USS Iowa Museum (mentioned)
    • Space Engage
  • Anaheim, CA (mentioned)

Trivia

This section requires expansion Space Programs, Einstein/Thomas Becket, Jane (ジェーン, Jane?)

• Emptiness Marriage is a mistranslation of Space Engage by Transla-Pen.

Referbacks

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Cultural References

This section requires expansion Patriot Act

• The O-1 Grand Prix (O-1グランプリ, O-1 Guranfuri^?) is a real-life stand-up comedy show held every January by Okinawa Television Broadcasting.
• Several tech parodies appeared in the chapter.
  • Telomere is likely a parody of either Sony timer or Apple Batterygate.
  • Alkaloid is a parody of Android, a mobile operating system, designed primarily for smartphones and tablets.
  • Calexa is a parody of Alexa, Amazon's virtual assistant technology.
  • Dial Q is a parody of DIAL Q², Japan's premium rate telephone number service.
  • Panda OS is likely a parody of Firefox OS, a discontinued open-source operating system developed by the Mozilla and external contributors.
  • Bagel (ベーグル) is a parody of Google (グーグル).
• The name of the multi-stage rocket involved in the state-run space launch failure which killed Melzabeth Grocery's husband, Uranus III (ウラノスⅢ, Uranus III^?), has its roots in Classical Mythology, the planets named from it, and the past usage of it for the naming of spacecraft, rockets and space programs.
  • Uranus (also spelled Ouranos) is the primordial Greek god of the sky, who was overthrown by Cronus. Uranus is also the seventh planet from the Sun in Earth's solar system.
• Although considerably different from the notion of Russia considering nuclear power as a clean way to power satellites and developing a clean nuclear reactor for use in space, the incident of sending an active reactor into space, only to lose control and the satellite to fall back down to earth, might have been inspired by one of the incidents befalling the US-A programme (Upravlyaemy Sputnik Aktivnyy or Управляемый Спутник Активный, roughly meaning "Controlled Active Satellite", also known as Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite or RORSAT), a series of 33 reconnaissance satellites used by the Soviet Union between 1967 and 1988 to monitor NATO and merchant vessels via radar from low Earth orbit and powered by nuclear reactors.
  • Of incidents involving these satellites, three involving reactors falling back down include a launch failure in 1973 (with the reactor falling into the Pacific north of Japan, with radiation detected by US air sampling planes,), Kosmos 954 in 1978, which failed to boost the reactor into a storage orbit and nuclear materials leaving radioactive pollution in Canada's Northwest Territories, and Kosmos 1402 in late 1983, with the reactor core separated from the craft and the last piece to land in the South Atlantic early the next year.

Unanswered Questions

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