Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160207164218/@comment-10390252-20160207205919

Coco was very clear in Breach that Velvet has some pretty significant limits. I'm guessing that it takes a long time for her to build up the energy to do something like she did in this episode and she has a long dry period afterwards.

Maybe, like the spells of AD&D mages, each replication is a one-shot and she needs to 'reload' the pattern with meditation afterwards or whether it just costs a hell of a lot to put together enough dust to charge her hard light replications.

I'm thinking of her as a 'Death Blossom'. Basically a one-shot attack-spammer who can do an immense amount of damge to multiple or even powerful single targets but only once per event. She's actually below-average power for most other scenarios.