

Maybe I was not paying attention in class, but it seems Jormungand is an
autonomous AI system that destroys all aircraft indiscriminately once it has
been activated. It indiscriminately robs everybody of air travel, even Koko.
It would make sense if it could leave civilian planes alone or obey their
operators.

With what weapons does Jormungand enforce "no air travel, ever"? Does it
attack even low-altitude gliders? Is is completely indiscriminate, since it
destroyed all aircraft at once? Can Koko override it?


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What does the Jormungand system even do?


From the [Jormungand Wiki](http://jormungand.wikia.com/wiki/Jormungand_plan):

> Its purpose was to end war and arms trade by closing off the skies for all
> air travel. If humanity was not completely discouraged from war, Jormungand
> would be adapted to denying sea and land travel as well.
>
> How Jormungand could enforce aerial denial is unknown.


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From what I understood of the explanations in the anime and manga, I believe
the AI would hack into the systems of the planes and control towers and either
reroute them to collide with each other, or cause a malfunction in the plane
systems themselves to make them literally drop out of the sky upon activation,
and disallow any other planes to take off.


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