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What The Terrorizer Sounds Like To Chthulu

[Ozarck]

Doctor Ozarck here wants to invite everyone along for the Grand Tour of Reality. He pops up in everyone's personal room and gives you option to ascend beyond humanity, immortality via nanomahchines, super powers from god and membership in swarm soul communications network. The man is either very selfless or plans to integrate your individuality into the collective by force.

third in line on death count? I started slacking off at some point.
To be fair, once I started being able to reach into their brains without actually cutting them open, my death count stopped going up.

I volunteer my resources to create combat zones in non-occupied locations - even complete with non-sapient human clones, for realistic interactions.

Spoiler: soldier equipment (click to show/hide)

My soldier has:
limited swarm soul (non-self replicating)
nanite body
all robotic construction bits - like those lego style structural thingums
myomer and other advanced materials for building blocks
corrosion resistance
the camouflage we designed: I believe it adapts to appear as the terrain below - or mimics stuff like an octopus
Portable Annihiliation engine for energy.
Confundium Control units - one for each function - slaved so they don't interfere with each other.
lasers
as many brains as he can use to control whatever bits he chooses.
back-up copies of his brain for when he possibly dies
improved reflexes
improved spatial awareness
psionics: teleportation, limited matter annihilation, gravity manipulation, electromagnetism, detect minds, alter perceptions, automatic counter-intelligence
body reconstruction and neural reconstruction for when he wants to become human again - if he does.

Edit: some nonpsi gravitic control units, non psi electromagnetic guns.

Edit 2: a limited ability to clone himself to retain parity with his opponents. (This might be redundant, but hey. If one of hte others sends fifty of their supersoldier, Hache should be able to do the same.

I think that 's everything

@Dustin Hache: did I miss anything?

[Dustan Hache]

you forgot weapons tech ozarck, not counting psionics.

[killerhellhound]

Solider Reporting for murder duty

((Solider Snaker, is that you? Also huzzah, the soldier lives!))

Prepare for the final day. Have literally a ton of coffee hauled into the workshops. This is gonna be an all-nighter.

Spoiler: Activities (click to show/hide)

((I have decided on names. It's kinda obvious in retrospect. I blame lack of sleep.
The body itself is called "Artax", following its A/RT-ACCS designation. It's the "material component" of the unit, dehumanized and thus most likely to end up in reports and various documentation.
"Atreyu" is the generic proper name for the synthetic intelligent entities, again following the ATREIU designation. This is what you call a synthetic when you don't know his name and don't want to refer to him as an object.
"Reingeist" is the name of the particular military unit we've created here, Atreyu soldiers in Artax bodies. Hopefully simple enough.))

First thing, ask Atreyu Prime for an estimate on how long it will take to distribute the accumulated training between all bodies. This is going to be his entire task for today, accumulating experience and distributing it, preferably the distributing will be done during the nighttime, so that we have the day for training and testing.

Testing and activities to be performed by the Reingeists and assistants today in the available time:

• Thermal endurance - Get a small insulated room, a treadmill for a Reingeist to run on so they generate heat, and some industrial air conditioning units pointing into it. We'll get three environments - one normal, one dry and cold, one humid and hot. Make sure that each set of conditions is accounted for, and the unit performance is adjusted so as to stay within the capacity of the cooling system.
• Visibility - Specifically to thermal sensors, metal-detectors, and radar. An Artax does not have much in terms of conventional metals, but it probably still has a noticeable radar signature. Likewise with thermals, the active cooling it can perform on its surface can reduce its visibility if used correctly. Check how visible an Artax is to these detection methods, and make sure to try out the TOC grenade; how much concealment it provides, how close to the cloud an active Reingeist can be and remain concealed, whether the UV vision mode can penetrate the cloud, those sort of things.
• Variable locomotion and dynamics testing - This is an extension of the practice from yesterday. Check if a Reingeist can carry another (say, disabled; hey, Yorick! Got a job for you!) Reingeist. How much can they carry? Could one lift and carry a civilian car? Tow a bus?
  
  • Practice movement without use of some limbs. It's not unreasonable to expect a leg to get damaged at some point in the testing. Practice using a bipedal stance, rearing up and using the tail for balance - like a velociraptor.
• Practice defensive behavior - it might not come up in testing, but it might be helpful in other ways. Have some assistants dress up in full-body protective armor, to act as scared and confused civilians. Have some guys from security stand as a group some distance away and attempt to "kill" them with rubberized pistol bullets and beanbag shotgun roungs. Can a single Reingeist, in armor but armed only with a sword, interposed between the "killers" and the "civilians", prevent the civilians from being hit by bullets? Can several of them? Start with only one "killer" and one "civilian" and gradually increase the difficulty until the success rate starts dropping off. (Killing Security personnel is heavily discouraged. Rule it so that if the Reingeist moves within a few feet of a shooter, the shooter is considered dead and stops firing. The Reingeist can deflect bullets with more than just the sword, obviously, pretty much all of an Artax is bulletproof.)

The Scientist and any Reingeists not occupied in testing will make sure that armor, ammo, and weapons are all available in sufficient quantities. The plan hinges on whether or not a multi-unit team will be allowed in testing. But in either case, the best way to go about equipment load is using "classes".

• Recon - Equipped with the Sidearms, the Hypersword, and the SAM-Bow. The autocannon is removed in favor of a lower profile, a less cluttered equipment load that won't make much noise, and an increased supply of arrows that would be stored in the "saddlebags" that previously held autocannon ammo. Carries TOC grenades and some regular thrown bladed weapons. Probably using a cut-down version of the armor that does not protect the extremities fully.
• Support - Equipped with the SAM-Bow, the Autocannon, and the Hypersword. Intended to engage from a distance using the long range of its weapons. Arrows for the bow carried in quivers that replace sidearm holsters. Carries TOC and explosive grenades, as well as mostly conventional ammunition that works better at range.
• Assault - Equipped with the Sidearms, the Autocannon, and the Hypersword. Basically maximum firepower. Carries mostly explosive grenades but at least one TOC, as well as a mix favoring superalloy, HATAK, and explosive ammunition.

Once testing is done, The Reingeists split into groups of 8 and get camouflage applied to them. They can probably receive the training update from Atreyu Prime while this is happening. Each group gets camouflage for one of the testing environments - arctic, jungle, and urban. Remember to cover up the cameras with clear film beforehand, and clear out any muffled microphones afterward.
Once the base layer of camo is added, everyone gets to do a bit of personalization. Have every Reingeist choose a specific unique overlay pattern (in the colors of their camo, of course) that get hydrographics'ed onto their face and limbs, thus enabling people to tell them apart without using the stupid-ass name stickers. That's probably going to be the best way for them to differentiate, going forward.

I'm not sure how to read the the production results from yesterday. Assistants produced 1 sword and 1 bow per day, so they made 2 of each so far. The Reingeist A-H squad produced two, is that two of each?  Is that two of each for each of the eight of them? One sword and one bow for each? Basically, how many of each of those do I even have? It might not be important if I can only field one unit per test, but we'll see.

Either way, have at least one bow and sword camo'd in each of the three color patterns.

And as the final act of everything done thus far, attempt to design self-tying shoelaces. With myomers and working off tiny batteries in the aglets. The world will never again be the same.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Synchronization takes probably whole night. And it's not like Company can observe or understand data traffic happening during synch, so you aren't very limited in terms when it can happen.

Tests:
Thermal endurance:
    Normal room temperature: Running without rest requires deployment of radiator wings in a half hour. Electricity running in myomer causes heat rather easily.
    Hot and humid: It's humidity that is more problems than heat itself. Wings are out in five minutes.
    Cold and dry: Wings are remporarily deployed after three hours. It's doubtful Artax have to run so long without breaks, and if enviroment has snow then wings are probably not needed at all.
Visibility:
    Thermal: Artax is regularly exhaling hot air, so cooler the enviroment easier it is to see. Wings can flare quite bright initially before temperature drops. Not thermally visible two meters into TOC cloud, but it seriously shouldn't breath that stuff. Covering radiators in thermally reflective stuff is not very bright idea.
    Magnetics: Superalloy is magnetically as active as block of wood, but electric circuits formed by myomers do generate detectable electromagnetic field. Naturally strength of this field depends of myomer activity. Relaxed myomer is not detectable.
    Radar: Unfortunately rather clearly visible. Superalloy reflects those radar pulses effectively. TOC could naturally helps.
Variable locomotion and dynamics:
    Artax should be able to carry another, but tail, cannon and wings may be annoyingly on the way. How much it can carry depends actually how big it is, something that has not been established yet. We'll go over that part tomorrow.
    Even a human can tow a bus. Human can tow even a damn Boeing 767, so there's no way Artax cannot.
    Artax is not a velociraptor. It is a cat with head and tail of velociraptor. But cats can walk on their hind legs and the tail actually helps acting as a third/fourth limb depending of situation.
Defensive behavior:
    As long as there's only one shooter, Reingeist won't have any problems. Biggest concern is spread of both shooters and civilians. Minimal on both parties means two shooters can semireliably handled, but it gets hard to be in way of three or more projectile paths. Physically impossible even.
   
Armor, ammo and weapons will be available in sufficient quantities, they can be produced without limits before and in between testing rounds. Assuming you don't build large amount of Reingeist's more.

Talking about that, the task was to http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/Themes/darkling/images/bbc/code.gifcreate a supersoldier, not supersoldiers. Notice the singular form. How do you plan to pass a group of Reingeists as one?

The thing about personalized camo produces as many conflicts as there are Reingeists. They all basically have identical mind, so their though process and decision making follows same line, meaning almost everybody ends up with same camo customization plan.

It's two each, so 16. It doesn't particularly matter, because you have a week or two worth of simulated time to build more.

Self-tying shoelaces? Easy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Talking about that, the task was to create a supersoldier, not supersoldiers. Notice the singular form. How do you plan to pass a group of Reingeists as one?

I'm going to argue that as these guys are so quick and cheap to produce (compared to the others we already have a production line) and how easy logistics are (transporting one of the compatetors would fit a dozen Reingeists) that we should be able to use multiple to represent accurate battlefield conditions

[Ozarck]

you forgot weapons tech ozarck, not counting psionics.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I mentioned the laser, and the confundium launcher. Um, nanites can be used as bombs. you have a type of nanite that eats whatever you launch it at, and dies afeter a few rounds, so as not to, you know, go full grey goo.

the confundium control device can act as a shield, or it can launch projectiles at massive speeds. it's better than the railgun I was working on when I discovered confundium to begin with. So, for weapons, you have:
a gun that fires projectiles by manipulating kinetic energy itself,
lasers
nanite bombs
swarmbots and hunterkiller bots
psi: electromagnetic control
psi: gravity control
psi: mental influence
psi: mater annihilation.
you want the non psi versions of those? I'll edit that in then. any other weapons I missed?

Edit: oh, and your nanite swarm can pretty much deconstruct and reconstruct anything it encounters to be made into whatever useful item you want. so build yourself a tank, yo.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Solider Reporting for murder duty

((Solider Snaker, is that you? Also huzzah, the soldier lives!))

Prepare for the final day. Have literally a ton of coffee hauled into the workshops. This is gonna be an all-nighter.

Spoiler: Activities (click to show/hide)

((I have decided on names. It's kinda obvious in retrospect. I blame lack of sleep.
The body itself is called "Artax", following its A/RT-ACCS designation. It's the "material component" of the unit, dehumanized and thus most likely to end up in reports and various documentation.
"Atreyu" is the generic proper name for the synthetic intelligent entities, again following the ATREIU designation. This is what you call a synthetic when you don't know his name and don't want to refer to him as an object.
"Reingeist" is the name of the particular military unit we've created here, Atreyu soldiers in Artax bodies. Hopefully simple enough.))

First thing, ask Atreyu Prime for an estimate on how long it will take to distribute the accumulated training between all bodies. This is going to be his entire task for today, accumulating experience and distributing it, preferably the distributing will be done during the nighttime, so that we have the day for training and testing.

Testing and activities to be performed by the Reingeists and assistants today in the available time:

• Thermal endurance - Get a small insulated room, a treadmill for a Reingeist to run on so they generate heat, and some industrial air conditioning units pointing into it. We'll get three environments - one normal, one dry and cold, one humid and hot. Make sure that each set of conditions is accounted for, and the unit performance is adjusted so as to stay within the capacity of the cooling system.
• Visibility - Specifically to thermal sensors, metal-detectors, and radar. An Artax does not have much in terms of conventional metals, but it probably still has a noticeable radar signature. Likewise with thermals, the active cooling it can perform on its surface can reduce its visibility if used correctly. Check how visible an Artax is to these detection methods, and make sure to try out the TOC grenade; how much concealment it provides, how close to the cloud an active Reingeist can be and remain concealed, whether the UV vision mode can penetrate the cloud, those sort of things.
• Variable locomotion and dynamics testing - This is an extension of the practice from yesterday. Check if a Reingeist can carry another (say, disabled; hey, Yorick! Got a job for you!) Reingeist. How much can they carry? Could one lift and carry a civilian car? Tow a bus?
  
  • Practice movement without use of some limbs. It's not unreasonable to expect a leg to get damaged at some point in the testing. Practice using a bipedal stance, rearing up and using the tail for balance - like a velociraptor.
• Practice defensive behavior - it might not come up in testing, but it might be helpful in other ways. Have some assistants dress up in full-body protective armor, to act as scared and confused civilians. Have some guys from security stand as a group some distance away and attempt to "kill" them with rubberized pistol bullets and beanbag shotgun roungs. Can a single Reingeist, in armor but armed only with a sword, interposed between the "killers" and the "civilians", prevent the civilians from being hit by bullets? Can several of them? Start with only one "killer" and one "civilian" and gradually increase the difficulty until the success rate starts dropping off. (Killing Security personnel is heavily discouraged. Rule it so that if the Reingeist moves within a few feet of a shooter, the shooter is considered dead and stops firing. The Reingeist can deflect bullets with more than just the sword, obviously, pretty much all of an Artax is bulletproof.)

The Scientist and any Reingeists not occupied in testing will make sure that armor, ammo, and weapons are all available in sufficient quantities. The plan hinges on whether or not a multi-unit team will be allowed in testing. But in either case, the best way to go about equipment load is using "classes".

• Recon - Equipped with the Sidearms, the Hypersword, and the SAM-Bow. The autocannon is removed in favor of a lower profile, a less cluttered equipment load that won't make much noise, and an increased supply of arrows that would be stored in the "saddlebags" that previously held autocannon ammo. Carries TOC grenades and some regular thrown bladed weapons. Probably using a cut-down version of the armor that does not protect the extremities fully.
• Support - Equipped with the SAM-Bow, the Autocannon, and the Hypersword. Intended to engage from a distance using the long range of its weapons. Arrows for the bow carried in quivers that replace sidearm holsters. Carries TOC and explosive grenades, as well as mostly conventional ammunition that works better at range.
• Assault - Equipped with the Sidearms, the Autocannon, and the Hypersword. Basically maximum firepower. Carries mostly explosive grenades but at least one TOC, as well as a mix favoring superalloy, HATAK, and explosive ammunition.

Once testing is done, The Reingeists split into groups of 8 and get camouflage applied to them. They can probably receive the training update from Atreyu Prime while this is happening. Each group gets camouflage for one of the testing environments - arctic, jungle, and urban. Remember to cover up the cameras with clear film beforehand, and clear out any muffled microphones afterward.
Once the base layer of camo is added, everyone gets to do a bit of personalization. Have every Reingeist choose a specific unique overlay pattern (in the colors of their camo, of course) that get hydrographics'ed onto their face and limbs, thus enabling people to tell them apart without using the stupid-ass name stickers. That's probably going to be the best way for them to differentiate, going forward.

I'm not sure how to read the the production results from yesterday. Assistants produced 1 sword and 1 bow per day, so they made 2 of each so far. The Reingeist A-H squad produced two, is that two of each?  Is that two of each for each of the eight of them? One sword and one bow for each? Basically, how many of each of those do I even have? It might not be important if I can only field one unit per test, but we'll see.

Either way, have at least one bow and sword camo'd in each of the three color patterns.

And as the final act of everything done thus far, attempt to design self-tying shoelaces. With myomers and working off tiny batteries in the aglets. The world will never again be the same.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Synchronization takes probably whole night. And it's not like Company can observe or understand data traffic happening during synch, so you aren't very limited in terms when it can happen.

Tests:
Thermal endurance:
    Normal room temperature: Running without rest requires deployment of radiator wings in a half hour. Electricity running in myomer causes heat rather easily.
    Hot and humid: It's humidity that is more problems than heat itself. Wings are out in five minutes.
    Cold and dry: Wings are remporarily deployed after three hours. It's doubtful Artax have to run so long without breaks, and if enviroment has snow then wings are probably not needed at all.
Visibility:
    Thermal: Artax is regularly exhaling hot air, so cooler the enviroment easier it is to see. Wings can flare quite bright initially before temperature drops. Not thermally visible two meters into TOC cloud, but it seriously shouldn't breath that stuff. Covering radiators in thermally reflective stuff is not very bright idea.
    Magnetics: Superalloy is magnetically as active as block of wood, but electric circuits formed by myomers do generate detectable electromagnetic field. Naturally strength of this field depends of myomer activity. Relaxed myomer is not detectable.
    Radar: Unfortunately rather clearly visible. Superalloy reflects those radar pulses effectively. TOC could naturally helps.
Variable locomotion and dynamics:
    Artax should be able to carry another, but tail, cannon and wings may be annoyingly on the way. How much it can carry depends actually how big it is, something that has not been established yet. We'll go over that part tomorrow.
    Even a human can tow a bus. Human can tow even a damn Boeing 767, so there's no way Artax cannot.
    Artax is not a velociraptor. It is a cat with head and tail of velociraptor. But cats can walk on their hind legs and the tail actually helps acting as a third/fourth limb depending of situation.
Defensive behavior:
    As long as there's only one shooter, Reingeist won't have any problems. Biggest concern is spread of both shooters and civilians. Minimal on both parties means two shooters can semireliably handled, but it gets hard to be in way of three or more projectile paths. Physically impossible even.
   
Armor, ammo and weapons will be available in sufficient quantities, they can be produced without limits before and in between testing rounds. Assuming you don't build large amount of Reingeist's more.

Talking about that, the task was to http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/Themes/darkling/images/bbc/code.gifcreate a supersoldier, not supersoldiers. Notice the singular form. How do you plan to pass a group of Reingeists as one?

The thing about personalized camo produces as many conflicts as there are Reingeists. They all basically have identical mind, so their though process and decision making follows same line, meaning almost everybody ends up with same camo customization plan.

It's two each, so 16. It doesn't particularly matter, because you have a week or two worth of simulated time to build more.

Self-tying shoelaces? Easy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Talking about that, the task was to create a supersoldier, not supersoldiers. Notice the singular form. How do you plan to pass a group of Reingeists as one?

I'm going to argue that as these guys are so quick and cheap to produce (compared to the others we already have a production line) and how easy logistics are (transporting one of the compatetors would fit a dozen Reingeists) that we should be able to use multiple to represent accurate battlefield conditions

Spoiler: Addendum plus GM note (click to show/hide)

More to the point, I believe using a squad fits the spirit of the task, if not the letter.

If I were to, say, make a "soldier" that consisted of a loose cloud of individual drones, I would not be limited to bringing one drone, because the strength of the soldier is in the whole, not the individual part. My Reingeists are intended to work as a conventional small squad, because apart from their unconventional appearance and abilities they perform the same function as actual soldiers - so my "soldier" is technically a squad. And besides - they all are one soldier. They have radio comms for synchronization, they have the same mindset - they are only by a technicality (that pesky individual personality) not a hive mind, so a squad can well be submitted as a single "unit", in the military and logistical sense both.

That's not to say I'm completely not confident that just one Reingeist could make a decent showing on the battlefield. Still, it's in the nature of velocicatraptors - you focus on one, two take you down from the sides.

As to the size - they are almost literally a cross between a large cougar/mountain lion and a "Jurassic Park" stereotypical velociraptor. So, about three feet high at the shoulder, body length of about two meters (plus another meter and a half or so of tail), neck shorter than a 'raptor's but longer than a cougar's - standing straight a Reingeist would be just about exactly staring into an average human's solar plexus. They're low to the ground but about twice the size of a human overall.

Reference: standing in a relaxed posture in front of you it would look somewhat like this. Minus the teeth, unless it's annoyed.

[Sean Mirrsen]

So. Unit capabilities and armament. I... have no idea how to do this. Do I just summarize everything done so far?

edit:

Spoiler: Tactical-technical characteristics (click to show/hide)

Body description goes here. Actually just have a picture. Three feet high at the shoulder, six feet body length plus four feet of tail, massing at at least a quarter-ton. That might actually be an underestimate. 400kg?

Abilities
I guess I can just say that it's fast, agile, and strong?
- In full kit, it's bulletproof, blast-resistant, impact-resistant. Somewhat resistant to lasers and energy weapons just because superalloy is so tough.
- It can see in regular, infrared and ultraviolet light, it has true 360-degree vision with multiple auxiliary cameras.
- It is equipped with a telemetry suite that tracks temperature, pressure, and vibration throughout the body.
- It is equipped with a passive radar antenna on the back of its head by default.
- It has a secondary supercomputer (SPU) that allows it to accurately calculate things like trajectories and other physics- or math-reliant things in realtime.
- It can move out of predicted lines of fire or block bullets with its bodyparts or weapons.

Armaments and equipment:
- It has extremely sharp velociraptor teeth and mountain-lion claws, that are made of hyperalloy.
- It wears a kit of superalloy plate armor that covers the body in an additional layer of protection.
- It's armed with a modified 30mm RARDEN autocannon in a swivel turret mounted over its back legs, which it can fire with utmost accuracy thanks to the SPU. It can fire in bursts of 3 rounds if firing straight forward (over its head) or back. The standard thighpack ammo bins carry something to the tune of 100 rounds of 30mm ammo (50 each), auto-loaded.
-- The autocannon is paired with an active radar suite.
- It's armed with two custom 20mm revolvers. They can be reloaded automatically by holstering them (holsters in V shape over the back) for a few seconds. Ammo carried in compartment on the back, either 60 or 90 rounds.
- It's armed with a superalloy/myomer compound bow. It can fire regular arrows up to a point, but it can also launch them at hypersonic speeds, which requires custom superalloy arrows or they just disintegrate. Ammo load depends on where the arrows are stored, anything between 40 and 160.
- It's armed with a hyperalloy broadsword. The sword is ridiculously tough and sharp. Can easily deflect bullets.

- It has custom superalloy ammo for the cannon and sidearms. If used, it has less effective range, but much greater armor penetration at closer distances.
- It has custom HATAK ammo for the cannon and the bow. If used, it has even less effective range because aerodynamics, but is nigh guaranteed to go through the hardest armors at closer distances.

- It has Total Opaque Concealment grenades that create a super-smokescreen against visual, thermal, and radar detection.
- It also carries regular explosive and fragmentation grenades, just because.

- Its outer armor layer and autocannon can be quickly discarded (separately!) if the situation calls for it.


Design quirks:
- Internal fuel stores are cell-based, designed with intent to cause a steam explosion with internal water stores if puncture occurs, venting combusting material out of the breach via steam pressure.
- Cooling system is double-redundant: primary coolant pump and heat exchanger are protected by the chest cavity. Secondary mechanical coolant pump is towards the back of the spine, and secondary external radiators are in the form of articulated faux-wings.
- Power generation is distributed: primary fuel cells and storage are protected by the pelvic assembly, small secondaries are present in the chest cavity.
- Primary brain is located inside the chest cavity, surrounded by extra shell of skull-like superalloy armor; the head houses the SPU, all senses save radar are present on the body itself. In a tactical bind, a destructive headshot is preferable to sustaining heavy body damage.

Other resistances:
- As a non-organic, it is immune to anything specifically targeting organic lifeforms.
- As a consciousness built on a synthetic platform it is resistant to conventional means of influence (hypnosis, etc).

Weaknesses:
- If without armor kit: "dragonscale" deteriorates with repeated impacts into the same area, radiator wings and eyes are vulnerable to damage.
- Performance decreases with increasing environment temperature. Sharp increases of surface temperature, e.g. via wide-beam energy weapons, can significantly reduce soldier's ability to dissipate heat as well as drain their strength.
- Autocannon and sidearm ammunition bins are external, even if covered by sheet superalloy. There is danger of ammo explosion if they are breached.
- A penetrating hit to the back torso that fails to ignite the fuel mixture or puncture the water storage can result in severe corrosive damage to surrounding muscles and systems.
- Rather visible to radar.

I... think I got everything?

[Egan_BW]

Doctor Ozarck here wants to invite everyone along for the Grand Tour of Reality. He pops up in everyone's personal room and gives you option to ascend beyond humanity, immortality via nanomahchines, super powers from god and membership in swarm soul communications network. The man is either very selfless or plans to integrate your individuality into the collective by force.

Quick! Whack the the ozclone with something heavy so I can steal the secrets in its brain!

Spoiler: Oceanic Soldier (click to show/hide)

Mostly normal human, excepting for the following implants:
* Several brain chips, to allow for data diving and selective remote control of "zombies."
* Tinfoil hat inside the skull, insulating from Terrorizer, and potentially other radiation.
* Physical port on the back of the neck connected to the brainchips, to interface directly with the Ecosuit.

Wearing a powered exosuit, featuring:
* Based on a preexisting powered lifting system, uses simple electric motors.
* Heavier version of normal combat armor.
* Miniature fission power plant. Boring, but it gets the job done.
* Array of six slaved brains (Three doctors that the solder kidnapped, three solders that the company acquired), connected by a port in the helmet to the solder.
* Two weapon hardpoints on either shoulder, aimed via MMI. Left shoulder holds a light machine gun, right holds a grenade launcher. Can select between normal explosive grenades and EMP grenades. Can these be considered to reload automatically from ammo in storage?
*Terrorizer, magnetic field microwave something something psionic bullshit weapon.

Commanding our very own "zombie" army:
*Humans with similar implants to the soldier, chips, tinfoil, wifi hub.
*Undergone a special house procedure to make them braindead, but still useful! They no longer have any sense of self, but can still control their bodies with some wireless poking.
*Without orders, they can stand around, not choke on their own tongue, and instinctively strike out at nearby people.
*Equipped with company brand body armor, rifles, and tomahawks.

[spazyak]

Doctor Ozarck here wants to invite everyone along for the Grand Tour of Reality. He pops up in everyone's personal room and gives you option to ascend beyond humanity, immortality via nanomahchines, super powers from god and membership in swarm soul communications network. The man is either very selfless or plans to integrate your individuality into the collective by force.

Quick! Whack the the ozclone with something heavy so I can steal the secrets in its brain!

Spoiler: Oceanic Soldier (click to show/hide)

Mostly normal human, excepting for the following implants:
* Several brain chips, to allow for data diving and selective remote control of "zombies."
* Tinfoil hat inside the skull, insulating from Terrorizer, and potentially other radiation.
* Physical port on the back of the neck connected to the brainchips, to interface directly with the Ecosuit.

Wearing a powered exosuit, featuring:
* Based on a preexisting powered lifting system, uses simple electric motors.
* Heavier version of normal combat armor.
* Miniature fission power plant. Boring, but it gets the job done.
* Array of six slaved brains (Three doctors that the solder kidnapped, three solders that the company acquired), connected by a port in the helmet to the solder.
* Two weapon hardpoints on either shoulder, aimed via MMI. Left shoulder holds a light machine gun, right holds a grenade launcher. Can select between normal explosive grenades and EMP grenades. Can these be considered to reload automatically from ammo in storage?
*Terrorizer, magnetic field microwave something something psionic bullshit weapon.

Commanding our very own "zombie" army:
*Humans with similar implants to the soldier, chips, tinfoil, wifi hub.
*Undergone a special house procedure to make them braindead, but still useful! They no longer have any sense of self, but can still control their bodies with some wireless poking.
*Without orders, they can stand around, not choke on their own tongue, and instinctively strike out at nearby people.
*Equipped with company brand body armor, rifles, and tomahawks.

All units to ozone 1 we have a 1ozy in progress. The ozarks have breach containment, repeat we have a 1ozy in progress.

I dunno, what I do depends on what daemonic spooner gives me to play with.

[Demonic Spoon]

Drones need a major revamp to make that possible. They are more aimed for pistol sized weapons, or small SMG at best. Giving them ability to carry three meter long particle accelerator and its pilot electrolaser AND a nucler reactor it needs is just not possible. Total and complete redesign is necessary. Or cheating. Cheating is easier. And faster.
Observing laws guidelines of this universe means after conversion they won't be drones anymore, but rather gunships, and that doesn't fit in term of super soldier any more. Seriously, how overpowered you want spaz to be? His particle cannon already gives him instant kill ability, but having a horde flying particle cannons isn't really fair anymore, not in IC nor in OOC. And I recall you saying he would be on his own...

Cancel it then maybe? I mean, you didn't specifically mention it was overpowered when I was making the supersoldier, even when I sort of outright asked, you only said that I needed to design better lift systems for the drones to use particle beams, so I was thinking it's fine. Was just trying to keep my super-soldier competitive, not overpower him.

Regarding on his own, I meant I wouldn't really develop any groundbreaking new technologies for him. I considered simply adapting the drones to carry some of the other super-soldier technology pretty minor. The quantum brain upgrade was more because that was an oversight on my part. I intended to add something like that all along, but seem to have forgotten to say it.

[Sean Mirrsen]

@killerhellhound: can you check my post and see if I forgot to mention anything?

edit: I also want to file "potential particle-cannon gunships" under the list of reasons why I'd like to have a squad.

[Egan_BW]

Next game should be "Roll to create a Supersquad!" Would make Dev happy, I bet.

[spazyak]

Next game should be "Roll to create a Supersquad!" Would make Dev happy, I bet.

Aka how the multi-god-verse was created...and prompty pranked by me

[killerhellhound]

@killerhellhound: can you check my post and see if I forgot to mention anything?

edit: I also want to file "potential particle-cannon gunships" under the list of reasons why I'd like to have a squad.

I think you got every thing now Its just up to me to make the most of your creations.

[Demonic Spoon]

Spazyak, feel free to make suggestions. Overall I've been pretty orthodox by mad scientist standards "Faster, Tougher, Bigger Gun, Swarm of Drones". He can't even fly with his main-body or make portals to send the enemies attacks back at them. 

Super Soldier design:

A main body housing the super-soldier's quantum brains. Has nuclear reactors, particle rifle and that mono-atomic blades. His body should be pretty damn fast due to Fast Body. Has an AR Hud to help him keep track of stuff. There are backup for his brains, incase he dies.

Drones co-ordinate with each other and the main body through QE comms. At least a few are unstealthed some of the time, so that they can share their photon senses with the rest of the swarm and main-body. Maybe specialize some drones for super-speed so they can do a rapid fly-by of the entire battlefield to locate all the other super-soldiers.

Both the main body and the drones have supermaterial-armouring, emp hardening, invisibility, super-senses, Thermovoltaics to take care of excess heat from stealth, and more conventional firepower than you would think thanks to Compact built-in systems. Both has some conventional weaponry, probably anti-material rifles, machine guns and missiles, and some mortars on some drones for artillery support? But the super-soldier can specify some things if he likes. Honestly, I'd like to use tactical nukes I could get away with it?

They have modular design, and some modules for different environments if that could be useful. Like different camouflages for the drones when they're unstealthed in the various environments, and possibly an alternate means of locomotion for the drones and super-soldier in the winter, for blizzards and thick snow. Maybe the high-tech equivalent of snow-shoes for the super-soldier and whatever you use to fly around in winter. Ramjets? The base super-soldier would probably be fine even if buried in snow, or if it sinks into a swamp, and probably just walk out. Plus, it's probably not even that heavy to begin with, so not too worried, since most weight comes from armour, I researched lightweight armour, and the design philosophy of the super-soldier from the beginning was light and fast.

And of course, the finalized super-soldier design was made by a super-genius, so it's pretty decent all-over I guess?

Commentary on the game:
It was fun! Good job! 

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If there were something I'd have done differently, it's to make research faster, but forbid singularity type advances, so that there'd be more focus on individual super-soldier researches. And maybe halve the total run-time from a rl month to half a month for the scientist part.

I kept feeling research was too slow throughout the game. Yes yes, from a realistic point of view I was advancing ridiculously fast, but that's a problem of the game design having each turn be a day, rather than me actually being fast. As such, maybe have each turn be a week or something ingame.