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[Parisbre56]

1. Ah, OK, I understand. Just saying that you could also issue some production orders. Maybe make some prototypes of your robots built. It's not like they'd cost you anything.

2. Yeah, what I was describing was less of a frontline unit and more of a support unit, a mobile hospital/repair pit if you will, something you could use to repair battlesuits and much larger vehicles while the repair bots skitter around and bring in wounded from the frontlines or make simple field repairs or bring in raw materials they scavenge. It could even act as a mobile war factory if it's advanced enough. Not the same production capabilities as Hephaestus of course, but it could have the repair bots assemble simple stuff, provided it has the raw materials. But anyway, if our stuff is cheap enoug and mass produced enough, that thing would probably be useless, since sods or your repair robots could do the same job.

3a. From when I was keeping track of the stockpiles on Canary Base, I remember that active robots need about a nutrient pack a month. Hibernated robots could probably last even longer. So having the sods activate once every 6 months, go to a stockpile to "eat" and then go back to storage (maybe even help some of their comrades that have been damaged by wear and tear) shouldn't be very expensive. And I don't think sod brains will go "stale", although you should probably check that to make sure.

Hmm... There's another problem with robosods: They can't eat and you can't eat them. Except for their brains, I suppose. But you'll have to crack their braincase open. Like nuts. Joking aside, a mobile nutrient pack recycling unit (put in spent nutrient packs and food, gain full nutrient packs) would be a good idea.

3b. Even if they cost more or if you lack the facilities to gain enough biomass to make enough nutrient packs, it's not like building extra facilities would be a problem. Extra fleshpits would take time to build and you shouldn't dedicate all your production on that. In the meantime, you could do anything. Research better farms. Tow some asteroids in an orbit near Hephaestus and turn them into farms that take raw materials from one of the other planets in the solar system, use some ultra-efficient genemodded bacteria to convert them into suitable form and send them to hephaestus to be made into nutrient packs. Build space elevators that double as shipyards to move resources around. Or mass drivers. Make a contract with whatever company prevailed in the food chain wars to provide you with unlimited pizza (Demolition Man says Pizza Hut). Anything you want, you can do. The world is your oyster.

[Sean Mirrsen]

We kinda need to make sure half our production lines aren't on the floor requiring some reassembly, or at the very least recalibration first. So while the postapocalyptic cleanup session is getting underway, Anton's going to go and fix up a party... wagon.

And yeah, we can do anything, and not even the sky is the limit - we'll get right on that as soon as we clear this mess up, assuming we don't make a bigger mess in the process.

[Yoink]

...Assist Mesk in jacking in his suit.

Well, that's gonna be a pain to clean.

[Radio Controlled]

Hey Hep people, now that the flesh horror stuff is over, could you outfit and send a platoon of sods our way? Flesh sods will be good enough for now, since the robosods still need to be designed. You'll have to build them a ride as well. Asking now so we can get them before this batch of missions end (so we can maybe use them on the next missions).

[Sean Mirrsen]

I think any sods we send your way will retroactively be available for your next batch of missions. Expect new personal weapons as well. (And an Artee or two if I can sneak them in )

And all we have are robosods. Saint's converted a fleshpit to produce brains only, and our production lines have been cranking out robobodies to match. There's a lot I don't understand in how exactly that works - we're going to have to do some serious laying-out of our facilities and capacities in the immediate future. Part of why I'm requesting a list of all vehicles we have, rather just if we have a shuttle.

[Radio Controlled]

Standard robobody sods are also good for me. I just need to ensure pw can't say "Sorry, no sods available for these missions."

Also, if the next mission starts in a real life month, and designing the upgraded sods takes a month and a half... Yeah, then we won't be able to use them. And I think I recall pw saying that we could get a 'supply ship' from Hep at the end of each batch of missions. Which is why I'm asking to send them our way now before missions end.

You can just give them standard equipment for now, or maybe even ask Steve to outfit them with stock from the Sword.

[Unholy_Pariah]

What kind of manouvreability does a robosod have anyway?

[Parisbre56]

What kind of manouvreability does a robosod have anyway?

It's a robot body with a sod brain. So I'd say probably equal or a bit better than the average inmate.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Better trained, more mentally stable, and probably far more competent than an average inmate overall.

[Parisbre56]

Better trained, more mentally stable, and probably far more competent than an average inmate overall.

An average human dog is probably better than the average inmate, as shown by the gunner bot. Probably because of stasis dementia and/or space magic. I was just talking about mobility.

[Parisbre56]

"Ha, ha. I fooled you. This is not really Mesk. You have reached the automated answering machine. Please leave your message after the beep. Beeeeep."

[Toaster]

Mission 15's debriefing is going to involve a lot of electricity and paddling.  Steve does not sound particularly pleased.

[Toaster]

"Honestly it was probably that crazy robot's fault

You're going to have to be more specific.

[Devastator]

I recommend the Paranoia principle.  Blame it on the dead guy.

[Caellath]

Good thing we have Plan: Roid Rage as backup for Mission 13. In case the situation gets too screwed up, we can always take some delicious combat drugs and temporarily gain superhuman powers in a desperate attempt to fulfill our task.