The Future: Weapons: 'BUT' Can an African Child Ever Create a Xindi Superweapon? A planet-destroying weapon. A device capable of cutting vast swathes across a world’s surface with efficiency.
Can an African Child Ever Create a Xindi Superweapon? A planet-destroying weapon. A device capable of cutting vast swathes across a world’s surface, annihilating civilizations with impersonal efficiency. The Xindi Superweapon at the time of writing this, on Earth Planet is pure fiction, yet it represents an archetype—the apocalyptic tool of a species asserting its dominion over the stars. The question we now ask is not whether such a weapon should exist, but whether an African mind, raised on the soil of the cradle of humanity, could ever conceive, design, and build such a thing. To ask this question is to confront a legacy of systemic dismissal—of intellectual apartheid, of historical amnesia that has sought to erase the contributions of African minds to science, engineering, and military technology. But if history is any guide, not only is it possible for an African child to design something akin to the Xindi Superweapon, it is inevitable, should the right circumstances a...