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[Beirus]

Well, at least I can punch a wall to get the hell out of a situation!

Or to get into one. You could be like the futuristic Kool-aid man.

[Gentlefish]

[PyroDesu]

Since you won't ruin the surprise, will you at least tell me if you're killing him or not? I would like Lerman to say a few words, if the former is the case.

It wouldn't really be fair to kill Lerman, since he was mind controlled; I highly doubt Radio would do so.  Hell, I doubt he would permakill Lerman even if he hadn't been MC'd- we've had plenty of intentional murders, most of which went basically unpunished.  Sure, death is the most common punishment for minor infractions, but the punishments for murder are typically closer to a time-out.

Travis.

If it comes down to shooting our allies, never aim for the head. Aim to maim, disable or disorient, in ascending order of priority. Feyri said as she lifted the Rotary and readied her other gun.

May want to amend that for the sake of our robotic and synthflesh-bodied allies, whose brains are in their chests, but for whom a shot to the head disables their primary (only, for the synthflesh?) cameras.

[Sean Mirrsen]

"Never aim for the brain" would probably be a good summation.

And when in doubt, aim to bisect at the waist. As long as nobody has the bright idea to put their brain into their butt, it's going to work as a fairly effective first step.

[yobbo]

Oh it's over the knuckles? Man I thought the whole glove worked such that it increased the force put out by the whole thing. Which is why I was gonna brick-throw.

Common misconception. Somebody should really make an illustrated guide to basic ARM weaponry sometime, even if R&D is working hard on making the current lineup obsolete.

/me raises hand.

Willing to do an illustrated guide here.

It might be nice to have this sort of thing actually as an in-game thing on the ship.

I mean it would be like a book in-game, but to see what's in the book you go look at a page on the wiki or something.

An "illustrated guide to ARM weaponry" book thing that was assumed to be lying around the rec room or something would be pretty awesome.

"Never aim for the brain" would probably be a good summation.

And when in doubt, aim to bisect at the waist. As long as nobody has the bright idea to put their brain into their butt, it's going to work as a fairly effective first step.

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[Unholy_Pariah]

Ive said it before and ill say i again, we need braincase ejector seats.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Ive said it before and ill say i again, we need braincase ejector seats.

I believe one of my more deranged initial Tinker ideas that I never got to try was a Mk2 suit helmet upgrade that would clamp off the user's head and use miniature mounted rockets and the helmet cameras together with a drone AI to get the head to a safe(r) place in an emergency.

Also, *raises hand*. As a resident sketch artist, I feel like I could contribute to any such guidebook project.

[Harry Baldman]

How about making a version of the MK3 suit that keeps a set of combat and exploration data of its user so that it may adequately simulate their behavior in the event of their death on a mission? They wouldn't speak or anything, naturally, only move around and act as if they weren't dead at all. Or maybe not even the user's data, but sort of a sod combat protocol, where it begins, using the user's dead brain as wetware to supplement other processing systems, to act like a sod after the user dies (or is rendered unconscious by teammates or Steve via zapping).

[Yoink]

That would be creepy. +1.
Perhaps able to be easily controlled by still-alive teammates, otherwise we might as well just be sending sods in the first place...

[Harry Baldman]

That would be creepy. +1.
Perhaps able to be easily controlled by still-alive teammates, otherwise we might as well just be sending sods in the first place...

Well, sods are easily controlled by teammates, hence their appeal. The problem with sending them out from the Sword is that we have a very limited amount of sods, compared to the nigh-infinite amount of idiots we can send instead.

I wonder how much a normal exoskeleton (one calibrated to be exactly the strength of an average human being) costs.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Zombie functions are a feature of the RT series support units, though perhaps it's not inconceivable that something similar could be done for a biped robot body, or an exoskeleton. Not inconceivable, but likely far from useful.

[Toaster]

Oh it's over the knuckles? Man I thought the whole glove worked such that it increased the force put out by the whole thing. Which is why I was gonna brick-throw.

Common misconception. Somebody should really make an illustrated guide to basic ARM weaponry sometime, even if R&D is working hard on making the current lineup obsolete.

I'd love to see this; I can just see it made up to look like those airline safety brochures.


Or this:

You head to the armory and ask the armory master for a manual for the laser rifle. She digs around under her desk for a minute before handing you a small, rather cheap looking paper booklet. On the front of the booklet is an anthropomorphized Laser rifle with a giant smile and army helmet flashing you a salute. The title reads "Mr. Zappy". You look at the armory master with a raised eyebrow and she shrugs back at you.

"It's army standard. You know how they are these days...or maybe you don't, stasis and all."

[syvarris]

Travis.

...Was the only case of murder being punished by death.  And he didn't even commit murder- it was self-defense.

The worse your crime is, the less likely the punishment might be permadeath; We've never killed someone for actual premeditated murder.  I know this is horribly inaccurate and not something to rely on- but it's entertaining that the stats support it.

Ive said it before and ill say i again, we need braincase ejector seats.

An ejector  'seat' would probably be going too far, but something simple which would physically sever the braincase's connections to the body might be a good idea.  Especially if we can maintain puppeting functionality.

Zombie functions are a feature of the RT series support units, though perhaps it's not inconceivable that something similar could be done for a biped robot body, or an exoskeleton. Not inconceivable, but likely far from useful.

Something similar to that whole idea was one of my original plans with Saint.  Literal zombie functions, mostly limited to using an exoskeleton or robobody whose operator is dead to drag them back home, or to fire weapons at designated targets.  It's mostly fallen by the wayside at this point, since I have so experimenting to do.

[Yoink]

I'd describe this sled we're boostin' as a truck, personally.
Although maybe Jobasio would call it a "lorry" to keep up his foppish speech pattern... nah, truck it is. It is a truck. Lorry just sounds too painfully ridiculous, even safely inside my head.

[Tavik Toth]

Lorry is reserved for the UK anyway.