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Voting closed: April 07, 2013, 10:34:35 am

[Grunhill]

"Great."

Get podded.

[GreatWyrmGold]

((We're 14 posts from 1,000 pages!))

[Unholy_Pariah]

((We're 14 posts from 1,000 pages!))

((And i shall do my part to help by posting this question:
Would emergency combat braincase spiderbots be worthy of prototyping?

1000 pages in 13 posts))

[GreatWyrmGold]

((For what purpose?

12...))

[IronyOwl]

((And 29 posts from 15,000 posts. We should celebrate with something.


Also, I'm seriously not sure whether I should say screw it and just buy the synthflesh, or hobble along with crowd shock gauntlets or using a manipulator from inside my mining suit.

I also hate to say that one of the reasons for my indecision is that I want to look my best for the incompetent god-king.))

Would emergency combat braincase spiderbots be worthy of prototyping?

((If you could make them cheap enough, they might be.

That's the limiting factor in a lot of otherwise useful inventions, though. You'd pretty much have to start with an existing robot or something.))

[GreatWyrmGold]

((Well, what are the limitations on what synthflesh can look like? Also: 10...))

[Unholy_Pariah]

((Realistically they wouldnt be that expensive, probably just a token or two.
After all theyd only be four legs and an arm or two so that once your robot body is too damaged to function you just crack open the chest then you can grab your gun and scurry off once yoy pop out, the only downside is they would have to be pretty weak stat wise in order to keep them cheap enough to be feasible.

1000 in 9))

[IronyOwl]

((Well, what are the limitations on what synthflesh can look like? Also: 10...))

((If you've got a shitton of tokens, probably anything. I'll likely be stuck with a standard model, which is still better than a robot hiding in a mining suit trying to be useful.))

((Realistically they wouldnt be that expensive, probably just a token or two.
After all theyd only be four legs and an arm or two so that once your robot body is too damaged to function you just crack open the chest then you can grab your gun and scurry off once yoy pop out, the only downside is they would have to be pretty weak stat wise in order to keep them cheap enough to be feasible.

1000 in 9))

((You have really not been paying attention to how costs work for custom stuff, have you? Scrap costs a token or two. The parts for a custom robot, even a simple one, will probably run at least 5 unless you harvest them from something cheaper, and scout eyes and individual laser drones are pretty much your only options on that front.

Though, we never did figure out the limits on harvesting free robot bodies, did we? Even then, I doubt you could make something that modular using just a spare body. Interfacing the "nerve" connections and such in a way that disconnected cleanly would be a complete pain.))

[PyroDesu]

((Better option, in my opinion, would be to modify a robot body with receivers where a brain would be, each linked to a transmitter in a second that actually houses a brain. That way, a brain in one body would be remote-controlling a brainless body. No danger of brain death unless your dummy body gets destroyed to the point you have to go out in your controller-rigged body, or being forced to by radio not working properly, like in the Abyss mission or the radiation sector of the current one. Heck, you could probably rig that exosuit as a dummy body.

And if you make the transmitters powerful enough, you could even just send a dummy body or two on a mission and have your brain remain aboard the Sword.))

[Unholy_Pariah]

((Funnily enough i was actually gonna cannibalize that braincase ive been trying to open in mission and have mesk surgically attach the nueral interface to the back of my neck so that i could hook it into my comms system and control the body i constructed.
I planned to use it to seatch the headfuck zone and other dangerous anomalies.))

[IronyOwl]

((Hah, why do I get the feeling Steve wouldn't like us staying on board even with a dummy body?

But yeah, that'd be nice anyplace we could rely on a signal. Not sure I have the resources and positive I don't have the time to pull it off right now, though.))

[Caellath]

((I also hate to say that one of the reasons for my indecision is that I want to look my best for the incompetent god-king.))

((Good ol' Faith as always. ))

[PyroDesu]

((Hah, why do I get the feeling Steve wouldn't like us staying on board even with a dummy body?

But yeah, that'd be nice anyplace we could rely on a signal. Not sure I have the resources and positive I don't have the time to pull it off right now, though.))

((Yeah, Steve's an issue, but I doubt he'd complain if you at least went along in the shuttle. Although for hot-drops, he might not want to send along the dummy bodies, or they could be damaged, or whatever.))

[IronyOwl]

((Ooh, another problem that just occurred to me- lag. The further you got from the bodies, the more delay you'd get, and thus the less effective you'd probably be in combat and other actions requiring precision or speed.))

[Unholy_Pariah]

((Ooh, another problem that just occurred to me- lag. The further you got from the bodies, the more delay you'd get, and thus the less effective you'd probably be in combat and other actions requiring precision or speed.))

((My idea was to control it from the ground and not our glorious planet destroying prison transport.
In my current mission i could transmit instructions from 500km away with a receiver delay of 1.668ms and a response time of 3.336ms utilizing standard radio frequencies alone.
The lag you speak of would be entirely based on the processing speed of the control system, distance was never a factor.

Spoiler: combat brain case (click to show/hide)

partial guide to making an escape pod.

• acquire complementary free robot body to replace your aging meat sack.
• remove fingertip camera and connected cables then attach camera directly to brain case in desired location, reattach shortened optical cabling and perform diagnostics to confirm functionality.
• buy, construct or salvage 3-6 hydraulic or mechanical devices capable of being re-purposed to serve as legs and if necessary arms.
• find a competent mechanic to attach pseudo-limbs to your brain case and install the necessary wiring using leftover cabling from step 2
• have a "qualified" mechanic alter your free robot body to accommodate the new limbs and allow the chest cavity to be opened from within.

1000 in 1?))