"Hah! Torro! Torro!" Thomas shouted, elated. He ran at the beast, jumping on it if it lowers it's head, stabbing it in the chest if it didn't lower it's head.
You charge forward, matching the giant and extending the tesla sabre as you do. [Dex:3+2] [Strength roll:2+2] You duck under one of the beast's sweeping claws and catch its throat with one of your massive hands lifting it into the air and then slamming it down. [Strength roll:2+2] You bring your armor clad foot down on the giant's head, pinning it and feeling the half meter thick skull crack.
"At least try to fight back!" You roar as you drive your tesla sabre into the creature's chest. [Uncon wep:5+1] The arcing force burns straight through the beast's chest, streamers of power coursing wildly across boiling flesh. The creature screeches and wraps it's three hands around your arm.
Please tell me society hasn't stagnated, but enough of that give me a data tablet with all technological advances since the space age
"Hate to tell you but I don't just have a list like that sitting around."
To the psychopath with the honey-badger armour: "Hey, I'm guessing you're one of our veteran's, right? Well, looks like I'll be fighting and dying alongside you pretty soon, lucky me. God bless the UWM! The name's Charro Hootzal. I don't know how long I've been in stasis, but I'd hardly be surprised if the name doesn't mean much anymore."
Milno kept walking towards the rec room. Although the armory master had mistaken him for someone interested in history, cars took much more time to disappear from his shitty backwater world than from most planets of the galaxy. It was less about history and more about finding something to watch while trying to avoid general stupidity.
"If being a veteran means surviving only one of the 'easy' missions, in which 11 out of 30 survived compared to the usual 20% survival rate, then yes, I am a veteran. And if you think I'll pet your head and let you cling to my back so you can use me as your personal shield, you are terribly wrong."
Watch the video.
You blow off your groveling fans and wander back to the rec room, slumping onto the couch and slipping the card into the tv. The video is more some sort of car porn (corn?) then anything. Lots of shots of cars, long shots of shining chrome, sultry female announcer talking about horsepower (whatever a horse is) and such. Not terribly useful in terms of how to repair anything.
Select the Action Movie setting.
The screen fades to black and then fades back to the inside of a house. Everything is in ruins; the wall paper is peeling, the windows are shattered, the walls are filled with quarter sized holes and the ceiling is a gaping wound bleeding dusty sunlight. The center of the screen is dominated by a large caption: YOU ARE BEING HUNTED. It fades after a moment.
"Dammit, I would have thought that someone would have come up with a working solution to that by now. Oh well..."
Bishop was dissapointed, but he could still probably find something else that could do the same job later. For now, he could finish up on the EMP bomb and then get to work on a new idea that had popped up in his mind when he saw the effects of a monoatomic razor...
Load up my saved file, then get back to work on it by reducing the armor plating to a more reasonable level, reinforcing the mechanisms and fixing that timer. Once that has been done to a reasonable level, the grenade has to be able to withstand a good throw and still work at least, then save the blueprint and start up a new file.
For the new weapon, take 6 or so small but powerful winding mechanisms that have been proofed to withstand monofilaments, some kind of attachment method, adhesive free if possible, for these winders to stick to a target, the frame and structure of a rifle, probably gauss would be best, metal tubing, some small mechanisms, a suitable power system to power gauss rails at a lower power setting and a lot amount of monofilament. I want to make a netgun, which uses a gauss propulsion system to fire a metal capsule that expands quickly into a net made from monofilament that is about a meter across when in full stretch, and will either slice right through a target or cause the net to wrap around them and the winding mechanisms to attach to the target and constrict the net on them. The weapon will probably have a rotating drum magazine, which will hold the nets when wound in and compacted to a small capsule.
((Going for ambitious and brutal results!))
(We'll just assume you got the EMP thing to work as you wanted it, because I don't really want to be rerolling this 30 times till you hit all 5's on everything. As per that net thing, I'll point out to you that one of the major components of the Razor is it's high frequency vibrations. The net you're making here would work as a net and would certainly do some nasty things to unsuited targets, but it's not gonna be the same effect as the razor. )
The first problem is making the net contract without relying on adhesives...[intelligence roll:6] Maybe something rocket propelled? Spikes that would propel themselves into the wall and use it as leverage to winch the thing in? hmm. [handiwork:4+1] You leave the problem of the nets to later and assemble the rifle itself. It's fairly easy to adapt a gauss cannon, replacing the magazine loading system with one from a revolver grenade launcher, to fit your needs.
Next you work on the construction of the net itself. You use the VR program to summon up the monoatomic filaments and have it lay them out in a grid for you. You attach them to a thicker ring of wire to form he outer edge of the net. The program makes it easy but in real life, doing this by hand, is going to be equal parts dangerous and frustrating.
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