Wheelbuilding / Wheel Building / Wheel build help

O rly? Spoke breakage from impact is very rare, usually the hub flange or rim eyelet lets go first, or nothing gets overloaded (apart from the rim in bending) as the wheel transitions between its two stable conditions, circle and taco.

I've seen a spoke get pinged by another bike's QR striking it (when they were just being wheeled around, not ridden). Although it was a pretty crappy old wheel IIRC...