I climb out of the stasis pod
Darn hobo's must have put me in there, and they took my clothes!
I put on my clothes
Then I go to the armory master and ask to look trough the available weapons, ultimately deciding on a Microwave Psychokinetic Amplifier
Hey there, could I get one of these brainwavey microthingies?
The armory master hands you a plastic card after taking your tokens.
"Head to the Infirmary, just follow the signs, and give them this card, they'll handle it. "
((Oh boy.))
If I'm relying on my Handiwork skill to attempt the modification, grab the nearest mechanic and get him to do it for me. If there isn't anyone around with a better Handiwork skill than myself (PC or otherwise) who will help me, then tell the AM good day and go see what the others are doing. If I am relying on my Auxillary skill to perform the procedure, purchase the parts I need and borrow any tools I could use to make the modification a clean one, remove my suit, take everything to someplace quiet and perform the procedure. If the procedure is successful (in any sense of the word), don the suit and test the GAP system for functionality. Use the results of the final VR test as a comparison.
It would be handiwork and since no one around you looks to be offering to help,
"Thanks, I'll come back later once I either have more tokens, more skill or someone with one of those willing to share."
You walk out of the armory and proceed to stand around in the hall like a weirdo.
"Oh.... Ok then, I think I'm supposed to go to- the armory? I think I saw a sign... And I think I need tokens from my locker..." Denzel muttered as he wandered off to the lockers.
"Oh, tokens... Might as well take them, I think I need them for something..." Walking into the armory, Denzel asks AM, "I ... I get my equipment here, ... Right?"
((Basically, he's much more coherent to himself than others.))
You grab your tokens before walking to the armory and asking about getting equipment.
"Yes, you can get pretty much anything here. And If I can't help you I might be able to point you to who can."
"Depends. You want a book or a movie? I have the official UWM report on the subject." she pulls out a datachip "34 thousand pages. Or a Documentary that goes over it in less detail. Your choice."
'I think I'll go with the shorter version, thanks.'
Go to rec room, watch documentary.
((But hey, Piecewise, if you feel like writing 34 000 pages worth of background, I'm all ears 
))
(maybe when I get some free time. Or a book with very small pages. For now, you'll have to settle for a short overview.)
You head to the rec room and pop the documentary into the tv, promptly grabbing the remote from the massive metal man and changing it to watch what you want.
The documentary is more of a military documentary then a social one and traces the origins of the Altered and the course of the war against them. The strain of gene treatments that gave rise to the altered was introduced to a series of 3 planets in a single solar system, with plans to introduce it to others if it tested well. The treatment was very effective and spread via unoffical (Gene hackers) channels to the other planets in the system and to a scattered number throughout the rest of human controlled space. It's unclear the exact date when the Altered Strain "Awoke" but what is clear is that at a single point in time regardless of distance, age, time of administration or other circumstances patients began to mutate and change at an incredibly accelerated rate. During this time they would violently attack, infect and attempt to devour or, in later stages, physically merge with any organic creature around them. The suddenness of the occurrence combined with the distance between the planets and the lack of an overseeing body to govern interplanetary and inter-system actions meant that the areas effected were quickly overrun. It is estimated that by the time the first aid ships arrived, nearly a year after the Awakening, that all planets with Altered individuals, as well as dozens of other worlds and stations, were unsalvageable.
At the time it is believed that more then 200 solar systems and an unknown number of worlds were under the control of mankind, though the exponential expansion of that time make hard numbers hard to come by. With in a year 50 systems were gone and close to a trillion were dead. What resistance there was was planetary or system based at best, just local armies trying to fend off a seemingly limitless supply of Fleshships and plague rains, a enemy of constantly changing, constantly evolving beasts that grew stronger upon the flesh of their dead.
The remaining systems, seeing with new fear what they faced banded together under the guidance of the best military minds they could assemble and pooled their resources toward a war which was quickly becoming a struggle merely to survive. This organization, The United Worlds Of Man, oversaw the creation of massive military projects, the production of weapons and tools of war, and the coordinated military actions of tens of billions of soldiers. They fought the Altered back through a brutal campaign of planetary and space based warfare which saw the whole sale destruction of hundreds of planets and the purging of any area thought to harbor even a single infected.
Hexbarax, a mostly industrial planet, marked the sight of one of the longest, bloodiest and most important victories. One of the original planets infected, Hexbarax was also the main source of the Fleshships and altered coated meteors-plague rains- which had so effectively infected many planets. When attempts to destroy the planet via long range bombardment failed the military began a ground war in which 12 billion men and women lost their lives. In the end, they drove the hordes back and with then help of low orbiting laser bombardment purged the planet.
The remaining altered were purged from the galaxy over the course of a 120 year long campaign of searching and extermination, until the war was finally declared finished.
Bishop gulped and raised his fists.
"This is going to end badly, and most likely for me. Calling it now."
Engage in training! Go for a cautious frontal assault first to get a feel for how he moves, then try to anticipate him.
[dex:1]
[doc dex:5]
The doctor doesn't even have to move as you attempt to do some sort of flying jump kick-punch combo and end up flat on your ass.
"They're not teaching you soldiers very much these days, are they?" He says, looking down at you with his head cocked to the side.
(( Hmmm good idea lol you wanna design it for me man? )).
Adds capacitors and tests again
Well, I would just tell you to use the Gunner bot, since it's cheaper then this thing and does the exact same thing, plus being able to walk around on it's own.
With the right configuration of capacitors the gun functions and follows your commands.
Lars frowns, stepping back from the cloud of parts. That's more than he had in mind.
Action: Unexplode the ARSC, then try to explode it in discrete chunks. Specifically, separate everything but the frame and the rocket pods- armor, weaponry, whatever; all gone. Move it up in the air out of the way, then examine what remains.
((I'm not quite sure how it looks with the rocket pods. Are they the only form of mobility it has, making it essentially a giant ramming pod?))
((But hey, Piecewise, if you feel like writing 34 000 pages worth of background, I'm all ears ))
((Considering the work he did on the current mission map in Minecraft, don't tempt him.))
The ARSC was basically designed to ramp through fortifications and deliver soldiers to the areas inside, so yeah, it just has rockets. In reality, in it's original use it was offloaded from larger transports and just screamed across the landscape till it hit the target; it's a bullet with people in it.
You compress the parts into sections and take a look at the frame, setting the rest of the parts to transparent. The frame looks like a pretty heavy duty thing, designed to do a lot more then just hold the thing together. It's a massive lattice of crossbars and reenforcing pieces, almost a layer of armor in and of itself.
"Ah, nuts. Even if it was one guy, he's probably dead already, anyway. Would serve the bastard right, too. Thanks, Ms. Armory Master. I feel all enriched by your knowledge now."
Shamble back into the rec room. Poke Mesk.
"Jig's up, Mesk. Messing with manipulators is something you get disappeared for, apparently. And they run on ass-backwards magic math, plus nobody really knows how they work. So they can't be used for the Superclaw anyway. Sorry for taking up your time."
Walk to the infirmary and find a nurse.
"Hey, I gotta ask, have you heard of anything, uh, strange happening to one of the nurses lately? Also, do you have any corpses I could borrow? For science, you know."
((Looks like piecewise won't be able to showcase the drawing method this time, considering the rate of player accumulation. Perhaps it's time to consider doing 15 or 20 person missions? Not this mission, of course, but maybe the next one?))
The nurse, after hearing what you have to say, turns on her heal and walks away very very quickly. Huh.
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