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[NUKE9.13]

Crasher_Coil.exe ():
FlyingDuctman.exe ():
DJ King Upgrade: Sabotage ():
CF_Dogcatcher Upgrade: Subtle Ember ():
Wako.exe ():
Dragonfly.exe ():
Wako.mon (4): SK, testmen, TricMagic, NUKE9.13

[Scholar Knight]

Tric was asking for a tunneler revision, so I will give it a quick pass.

Earthworker.exe - Class: Viri - tl;dr: Not garbage Tunneler + basic terrain manipulation

A second pass at the Tunneler.exe by Firmament codemonkeys, after numerous... complaints by our hackers. Sure it works, technically, but let's make it not a painful experience for all involved.
Revising of the entire code structure to put tunneling first and foremost, without the need for constant micromanaging or deviations from more important work. Both AI wise and Tunneling drill power wise.
Along with the code to reinforce and better route power to the drill, a secondary compartment is added to "store" a portion of the terrain.dat files that are dislodged while mining. The Earthworker can "drop" these chunks of data to make rudimentary terrain features. Allowing for construction of not just tunnels, but trenches, Glacis, and defensive mounds.

[Happerry]

Turn 5 : Design Phase

Wako.mon - Class: Viri - tl;dr: Cyborg Pirate Samurai Ronin Cyclops Warriors

The Cyclopes of the Archival Sediment are a strange lot. We have little information on the culture of the deeper tribes, though it is evident that they are both skilled warriors and craftsmen, capable of creating high-quality digiquipment for themselves from the forgotten relics strewn throughout their homes. For now, the fight with them remains a stalemate. However, with our control of the moderate-depth tunnels, the Outcast Cyclopes are under our dominion. Sort of. We can't control them directly, but they've learned to leave us alone, which is what matters. However, it seems a shame to leave such strength unused. Attempts were made to capture some for conversion into subservient .mons, but capturing live specimens turned out to be almost impossible. So we tried diplomacy.
As it turns out, the cyclopes are intelligent enough to understand basic negotiations, and when the prospect of payment (in the form of fresh code harvested from across the web) was raised, they became a lot more cooperative. While these exiles are not the greatest of the cyclopean warriors, and their equipment somewhat patchwork, they are still great big giants capable of shooting lasers from their eyes, and surprisingly intelligent at that.

With Firmament resources, these ronin have been recast as pirates, identifying them as Firmament forces. Unfortunately their cyclopean nature prevents us from giving them eyepatches, but adding skull-and-crossbones motifs to their armour and giving them tricorn hats is easily done. They wield distinctive datana blades (capable of slicing .steel files) made from archival data that has been compressed and resaved hundreds of times. Their armour consists of many rectangular scales sown together, made from scraps of dense archival data- which while not the strongest armour in the world, is quite capable of absorbing large numbers of basic pulse-pistol shots. They also have freaking laser beams they can fire from their eyes.

Massive, but surprisingly good at moving and fighting in (to them) narrow confines (thanks to their cave experience), the renamed Wako.mon are a fearsome presence on the battlefield. Their eye lasers are effective at sweeping through massed infantry, or taking out fliers, while their datana are perfect for taking down larger or more heavily armoured foes. Their combat logic is effective and flexible, and they can be given reasonably sophisticated orders... the main downside is that they might not actually follow said orders. Wako are free spirits, and can refuse to follow orders for any number of reasons- from thinking the order is suicidal to just not feeling like it. A Hacker may need to take time to negotiate in such situations, offering bonus pay in exchange for compliance, or giving alternative orders more to the Wako's liking.

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4 + 1 - 1 = 4 : Below average (Hard)

The cyclopean Agathan warriors of the deep tunnels are normally unreceptive to outsiders, but everymon has their price. Unfortunately, the price of the Wako Warriors is an expensive one, demanding access to good food, luxuries, and the right to tell stupid orders to buzz off, as well as a lack of conquest of the deepest tunnels which they hold as holy. Of course, they offer no small ability to decimate the Firmament's foes in return. While the Wako Warriors lack the most advanced gear of the deep tribes, they still come with surprisingly high quality armor of bronze scales, heavy datana blades forged from the compressed data of the Sediment, a skill for close combat in confined and tight quarters that warriors of such size are not generally known for...

...and of course they have laser eye beams. While draining on the Wako to use, even unable as they are to replicate some of the feats the deep tribes have shown with their eyebeams, and of fairly limited range all in all the the beams are still a potent trump card. Usable in either concentrated blasts against single heavy oponents or in wider sweeps against swarming enemies like the Wyrm.exe, the eye lasers will be a lethal surprise for Stagehand forces.

Despite these skills and proven ability at battle, the relatively high cost and effort of deploying them limits the numbers that hackers are willing to hire, rendering them Complex.

It is Turn 5, in the Revision Phase. During this phase you must vote on what revision to do to your current assets.

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

Hackers
CF_Dogcatcher
Ophilia Bailey is a hacker specialized in the obscure and weird forms of viri which she finds most interesting, but is also very familiar with standard corporate security fixed defense programming, as her last 'real job' was as a corporate data-security officer. Tactically, CF_Dogcatcher is specialized to figuring out the enemy's cunning plans and ruining them, but she can suffer when she tries to figure out the cunning plan of a hacker whom is not using cunning schemes and just has a metaphorical, or more literal, hammer.

DJ King Cabaret
A man once sued for reasons of 'we have more money then you', DJ King Cabaret has a well working understanding of shock and awe tactics, and his experience running a pirate radio station has also given him a well honed sense of trickery and deception from the need to befuddle and avoid the Net Police. Despite this preference for attention getting, in battle the real threat with him is a hidden dagger. However, his actual skills as a hacker are somewhat lacking, which can hinder him in a variety of ways including his ability to properly deploy battle chips into conflicted codespheres. As well, his mixed feelings about an AI songtress such as Sonata may sometimes cause him to be less then rational in direct engagements with her Stagehands.

Viri
Minion.exe
These roughly humanoid programs are neither very sophisticated (intelligence and coding wise) or very strong, but they are mass producible and smart enough to obey orders without continual direct supervision. Which isn't always something you can take for granted with generic digital constructs, as a lot of them are dumber then rocks. They're not coded with anything more powerful then a basic energy pulse pistol, but they can still defeat the average civilian whom thinks too much of themselves. Just avoid putting them up against Data Police Agents. (Simple) (Obsolete)

CarbineMinion.exe
Roughly humanoid digital constructs with just enough brains to obey commands without needing continual direct and personal supervision. They've been upgraded over the original Minion.exe programs with a somewhat more advanced Pulse Carbine weapon that includes a charged shot function and slightly greater firing rate and normal shot damage, but have very limited programming on when to use their charged shot. However, ADI or a supervising hacker can use a command call to order local CarbineMinions and Officers to fire a charged shot at a target if needed.
(Simple)

RifleMinion.exe
Roughly humanoid digital constructs with just enough brains to obey commands without needing continual direct and personal supervision. They were supposed to be upgraded over the original CarbineMinion.exe programs with a cut down version of the Hunter.exe's Pulse Railrifle, but unforeseen issues resulted in their weapon exploding when the program attempts to use it. This makes them fairly undeployable.
(Simple - Theoretically)

Wyrm.exe
Mindlessly aggressive flying snakes with plenty of teeth, the Wyrm.exe is an utterly expendable melee virus used as often as ablative distractions for other viruses as anything else. Being even stupider then a Minion, Wyrms are entirely dependent on outside authority for things such as 'targeting priority' and 'not giving away an ambush' and 'knowing when to retreat', and require very strong hard-coded friend foe identification coding to prevent friendly fire. And even then they still tend to kill each other off. They've got some swarm programming, mainly enough to keep them from getting in each other's way too much, and despite being theoretically a Simple virus their dependency on outside control limits the amount that can be safely deployed.

They've been updated with superior swarm programming, allowing for increased teamwork, less fratricide, and a cloud computing/bit torrent based memory system that allows them to remember longer and more complicated orders.
(Simple - Theoretically)

Officer.exe
Based on the generally available in the Undernet Minion programs, Officer.exe constructs aren't much stronger then their lesser kin, still only coded with a basic energy pulse pistol, though officers also come with basic melee coding. But the big difference between and Officer and a Minion is that Officers are coded with noticeably more advanced bit-brains and have a basic tactical library integrated in their knowledge banks, allowing them to lead teams of Minions on operations without needing constant hand holding.

They've been upgraded to use more advanced Pulse Carbines with slightly greater firing rate and damage, as well as a charging function, and now are programmed to know how to both use the charging function personally and how to command the CarbineMinion.exe programs to properly use their own as well. Instead of firing a charged shot, they can alternatively use it for a short term moderate-minor boost to their speed or toughness. (Complicated)

FirstMate.exe
An upgraded Officer with a piratical look. The FirstMate.exe has a vastly expanded tactical library that was designed to be easy to customize or expand on for new unit types later on, as well as dedicated coding for using special abilities that is also easy to expand on later on. They also have a secondary six slot tactical library for immediate use to prevent time wasted considering all the plans in their large tactical library. FirstMates carry a basic charge carbine and an energy cutlass with a magnetic attraction effect against enemy weapons and shots. Lastly, they have seventy-five alternate uniform skins. (Complicated)

Scout.exe
A three wheeled trike with a turret mounted pulse pistol stolen from a Minion.exe, a flare launcher and a powerfield ramming prow that prevents the pistol from firing while active. Recent updates have made it noticeably more intelligent then the baseline Minions who's brain-coding the Scouts used to share, and it is now far more able to actually scout or harass enemies without dying pointlessly and without a report. They are noticeably better at teamwork then a baseline minion for scouting or combat by way of using swarm coding meant for real life drones. (Complicated)

Hunter.exe Ver. 0.9-B
A specialized sniper based on, but much more advanced, then the CarbineMinion.exe who use rifles almost as tall as they are. They have specialized sensors for long ranged fire, and can fire charged shots at up to the third stage of charging as well as being able to 'double tap' their second stage charged shot for two rapid fire projectiles at the second charge of power. They have limited abilities for independent operations by use of two 'hot loaded' tactical slots that can be filled from either a highly limited personal tactical library or by local officer type programs, but have minimal capacity for making any tactical choice more complicated then 'who do I shoot first' on their own. (Complicated)

Tunneler.exe
A very buggy modification of the Scout that replaces all of the Scout's old equipment with a drill tipped prow to allow for tunneling. Unfortunately, a collection of issues ensures that the Tunneler barely works, from difficulties actually tunneling, a badly formatted way of plotting out where to tunnel, and legacy aggression issues making it try to ram enemies instead of tunneling whenever possible. Still, it's better then no tunneling... probably. (Complex)

Chamelee.mon
A feathered dinosaur raptor virus with mantis like bladed hands and hind-limbs, Chamelee.mon viruses are not anywhere near being properly self aware but still possess a high quality and flexible tactical library for teamwork based hunting and skirmishing tactics even if said library is almost solely focused on those subjects. They are near invisible while still, and less so but still hard to accurately pinpoint when in motion making them hard targets to land a shot on even though, if shot, they are not much if any tougher then a minion. They can be manually assigned a high priority target though how they go after said target is still up to them, and have a slider for effecting how highly they rate their own self preservation. Officers can use these, but are not programmed to except for setting the self preservation slider to max when they decide it's time for all forces to retreat. (Complex)

Wako.mon
Cyclopean pale giants recruited from the tunnels of the Archival Sediment, Wako Warriors weld distinctive datana blades and wear high quality armor coded from bronze scales as well as possessing the ability to unleash searing, if short ranged and stamina draining, eye laser blasts. They also demand a high price for their labor, requiring both high quality 'food' and access to a variety of luxuries, as well as demanding that the deepest tunnels of the Archival Sediment remain un-invaded. These requirements, and their tendency to refuse what they consider to be 'stupid orders', makes them hard to deploy. However when deployed they are potent warriors, skilled in tighter confined and closer quarters then is usual for combatants of their stature. (Complex)

Autonomous Digital Intelligence
Vivi_Paltest.dat
A gelatinous and gluttonous naga with a collection of strange and interesting code shards and a habit of eating things she finds interesting to add them to her collection, Vivianaja Palladian is the Firmament's first ADI champion, and serves it well with her variable armaments and defenses pulled out from her collection as she remembers them as well as her own noticeable personal toughness and ability to patch herself up with loose data. Worryingly, her collection includes what seems to be coding of military origin, though Vivi denies ever visiting the military owned sectors of the Cyberworld before this conflict started. (Memory 4)

Battle Chips
Recovery 10
This tactical battle chip is designed to mend damaged and corrupted code, healing the individual it is applied to by a minor amount. (Simple, Memory 1)

Atk+10
This tactical battle chip pre-allocates resources to empower the next program used, improving the targets ability to deal damage for a short while. (Simple, Memory 1)

MinionCall A
This strategic battle chip creates temporary replicas of the commonly known ‘Minion.exe’ program, causing a short term burst of reinforcements in the targeted zone. (Simple, Memory 1)

SquadSummon S
This strategic battle chip is an upgraded, though more complex, version of MinionCall A that can summon a (smaller) squad of minions and officers of variable, if pre-set before the mission, type, It may only summon one version of minions and one version of officers, and can not be adjusted in the field. (Complicated, Memory 1)

CallChiptune
'CallChiptune' is a Battlechip that uses the Firmament's vast archives of abandonware soundtracks to summon appropriate music for any occasion. It's ability to figure out what music is appropriate can be a little off at times though, but who doesn't like a cheery 8-bit soundtrack going on in the middle of a desperate battle to keep viruses from deleting your homework? (Simple, Memory 0)

[TricMagic]

Earthmover.exe
A second pass at the Tunneler.exe by Firmament codemonkeys, after numerous... complaints by our hackers. Sure it works, technically, but let's make it not a painful experience for all involved.
Revising of the entire code structure to put tunneling first and foremost, without the need for constant micromanaging or deviations from more important work. Both AI wise and Tunneling drill power wise.
Along with the code to reinforce and better route power to the drill, a 7-zip program is added to "compress" terrain.dat files that are dislodged while mining, which are then used to reinforce the tunnel wall as the Earthmover.exe passes by, much like a real-world tunnel is made. This allows it to continue tunneling without needing to take a break and ensure they won't collapse easily. Our hackers only need to use the semi-random password(determined by a simplistic mathematical algorithm before deployment, with the list of codes being held by the hacker) holding the compression file together to unzip the terrain.dat when we are done, often the job of Firstamtes pointing a wand containing the unzipping program(though not the code for security reasons, hackers can activate them and FirstMates can wipe them with a simple switch setup).


Future Design idea, Wolrdshaper.exe

Taking the form of a rolling sphere propelled by compressed air, Worldshaper.exe is specialized in the collection of data from the cyberworld. It takes the files and compresses them for storage and later use. It then uses it's library under the direction of other units and basic prediction software to generate a compressed light.dat hologram for previewing it's structure generation, with most structures coming in a preformed template that can be altered depending on the location. Bridges are the most common that need to be altered, as forts only need the ground flattened and cleared, which it can do just fine on it's own. Common designs include trenches, spikefields, covered spike pits, walls(which also fall under constant alteration to be in line with the land, though in that case it's just changing height.) and the aforementioned forts. Less common are compressed icefields and muddy flats to hamper ground charges, as that requires access to water.dat or the respective files. The others can be made out of wood, stone, or metal depending on data available, including compressed forms that require more resources and time to set up. It's an all-round complex program more suited for setup than direct combat. Though it can just as easily deconstruct data it makes.

... There is one exception though, Fire.dat can be compressed into a lava.dat file when combined with most earthen data. Fire.dat is not naturally generated though, and quite rare, so most hackers would need to make an effort to gather it from heat.dat, though it's well worth the effort for the coolness factor. And the fact it's something that literally melts data.

[Scholar Knight]

If we're just fixing something up and not giving it a whole bunch of new features, just leave the name the same.

Tunneler V2.exe - Class: Viri - tl;dr: Not garbage Tunneler

A second pass at the Tunneler.exe by Firmament codemonkeys, after numerous... complaints by our hackers. Sure it works, technically, but let's make it not a painful experience for all involved.
The entire code structure of the tunneler is revised and refined to put tunneling first and foremost, without the need for constant micromanaging or deviations from more important work. The drillhead and engine's power is increased to dig through thicker bedrock or for longer periods of time, wheel traction to allow for steeper grades, and numerous plotting and routing rehauls to make tunnel directing by hackers far easier.
And to top it off, a basic code compressing ability is added to allow it to compress sides of the tunnel rather than mine them, allowing tunnelers to reinforce their tunnels with support beams and arches should the hacker choose to. Making them harder to fall apart and more physically durable.

Earthworker.exe (1): Tric
Tunneler V2.exe (1): SK

[TricMagic]

Tunneler V2.exe (2): SK, TricMagic

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[NUKE9.13]

The buggy Tunneler has done good work, fixing it up could revolutionise combat (in some zones).

Tunneler V2.exe (3): SK, TricMagic, NUKE9.13

[TricMagic]

ADI ideas.

Seadra.mon/X/dv-waru/
Originally far stronger, Seadra.mon was found being buried in the sediment. After capture and transport, our team successfully revived it, though the control program we installed broke down, and it attacked wildly in it's weakened state. Vivi intercepted and it eventually calmed down in containment before it initiated dialogue.

It turns out that it was part of the Dark Sea faction of the Sea of Recycling, but the Stagehand's push led to infighting and it's eventual defeat. It had to catabolize it's evolved code and revert to a previous state in order to survive, and fled into the Sediment where it encountered the very forces we have been having trouble with. Needless to say, it's very angry at being ousted from it's position of power. And with some incentives including the right code to recover, it's fully willing to fight for the right to power as a Commander in the Sea of Recycling. Along with other zones to get there.

Code: [Select]

/// Initialize: Seadra.mon/X/dv-waru
/// Summary
/Level: Complex
/Element: Ice, Water
/Attribute: Data
/Type: Aquatic
/Family: Deep Savers
/Mod: Devolution, X-antibody

SeadramonX makes use of absolute-zero breath from it's mouth to freeze the water it fires into an Ice Arrow, and can do so continuously to form Ice Spears it fires forward. It can also simply wash foes away with it's Water Breath, clogging data opening and drowning foes. It's sense of smell is able to scent data from a huge distance and determine it's strength, and it's instincts are top notch. It's battle for survival has left a .mon well suited to hunt down prey and stay away from stronger foes. However it is no beast, having maintained some of it's sly mind for cunning plots, and the electrical generation of it's evolved form, primarily manifesting in it's Maelstrom attack, sweeping water and lightning into a tornado to sweep up foes with great power. It's access to it's virus ancestry however has been lost, and without a horn to control the lightning, the only other thing it can do is coat itself in lightning. Or channel it into it's water breath as Surge Breath, electrifying those caught by it. It should be noted it's energy is not infinite, and will require rest breaks.

As a .mon, it primarily makes use of others to do it's fighting, only striking at opportune times and always attempting to have the files stacked in it's favor. An ambush specialist and siege weapon type of combat, sweeping away the weak. Though this also manifests in the fact it's after power, and won't enter a battle it's going to lose, preferring to strike elsewhere. We can't really rely on it to fight other direct ADI like Vivi, an instinct only strengthened by the fact she shrugged off what damage it could do when it rampaged.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One seadramon. Note the existence of MegaseadramonX which shares Maelstrom and lightning gen, and Gigaseadrmon which is a literal sea carrier with missiles. (Most Seadramon aren't really smart, more animals. Waruseadramon is a good devolution base.)

Also have a mantis warrior.
We also have a healer/debuffer. And a more likely first form. Both insects of course.



Morpho.mon
A gentle creature who's data was found within sediment. Analysis dates it to the Viral Jungle of the ancient past, somehow. Gentle, carefree, and kind, it helps it's allies by fluttering it's wings with a 'rinrin' sound, spreading medicinal scales to heal allies. Rinrin Therapy can also be used defensively to paralyze foes caught in the fluttering scales. The creature itself has no means of attack though, which is likely why it died out originally. While fairly simple and light enough to float around by flapping it's wings, it's still a complicated .mon file to compile. It's antennae are used to communicate with others via touch, and it somehow gathers allied thoughts that way, though it has no output for them, they just compile in their runtime processes for some reason, though it at least makes them easy to talk to. They really don't like evil or mean things though.

Hudie.mon
A cautious being that is slow to trust, but cheerful and innocent once it opens up. This creature evolved from Morpho.mon that have accumulated enough thoughts from allies. It's ability is to store a copy of all digital data in an area nearby for safekeeping, making them ideal communicators on the battlefield when there are multiple about(and can include Morpho.mon as gatherers). Their scales can spread these thoughts and heal the wounded with copies of their own data, or corrupt enemies with poisonous or paralytic scales, ignoring defenses against it via their own runtime data being used as the carrier. By flapping it's wings, it sends a gust of these scales, giving it much more range than Morpho.mon, and it works well with others thanks to knowing their thoughts. As a humanoid with it's butterfly wings, it also uses it's legs to fight. Not very effective, but's it's Flying Kick still has a lot of force behind it. It's voice is extremely melodic, and while not having any cybernetic effect can be considered a treasure on it's own. It's ability to store vast amounts of runtime data is unparalleled in all of cyberspace. Infinity Dream can even restore damaged structures in the cyberworld given time and a personal touch of their hands to the structure, though this requires they have data of it undamaged. Useful for repairing damage from conflicts after the fact, not so much in the heat of battle. Due to it's evolution requirements, it's complex, requiring quite a bit of time and personal attention from humans to evolve. There is generally a limit to the number of Hudie.mon created, likely due to Morpho.mon only evolving a certain number and no more.


[Morphomon. Healing and paralysis scales, can gather thoughts from others and store them. As the scales flutter.]
[Hudiemon, upgrade carrier of the scales to a unit's own data. Better healing and negative effects. Legs and wings gives it some method of defense beyond the scales, and it can spread them farther. Specializes in data copying and storage over a wide area. Natural evolution of Morphomon.]


Though these would definetely be better Stagehand designs given how cute and melodious they are. Or DJ could fall in love with them.

[Happerry]

Turn 5 : Revision Phase

Tunneler V2.exe - Class: Viri - tl;dr: Not garbage Tunneler

A second pass at the Tunneler.exe by Firmament codemonkeys, after numerous... complaints by our hackers. Sure it works, technically, but let's make it not a painful experience for all involved.
The entire code structure of the tunneler is revised and refined to put tunneling first and foremost, without the need for constant micromanaging or deviations from more important work. The drillhead and engine's power is increased to dig through thicker bedrock or for longer periods of time, wheel traction to allow for steeper grades, and numerous plotting and routing rehauls to make tunnel directing by hackers far easier.
And to top it off, a basic code compressing ability is added to allow it to compress sides of the tunnel rather than mine them, allowing tunnelers to reinforce their tunnels with support beams and arches should the hacker choose to. Making them harder to fall apart and more physically durable.

3 + 1 + 1 = 5 : Average (Easy)

In the end, this is not a project that needs innovative genius. It is simply a project that needs patience and sustained effort to find each and every flaw in the Tunneler's coding and stamp them out. And as the Firmament can provide persistence and patience this project, while time consuming, is not something the revisionary coding team finds in any way difficult. At the end, they present the refined Tunneler program to the rest of the Firmament and it is effectively what was asked for. A Tunneler that works without substantial errors or need of semi-constant hand-holding.

While this does not allow for any true new capacities, the increased ease of use allows the Tunneler.exe MKII to be deployed more frequently, causing it to be redesignated as a Complicated program, instead of a Complex one. However it can probably be expected that, due to the specialization of the program in question, it will still be deployed at the Complex level unless a hacker has reason to believe there will be a need for large scale tunneling.

It is now the Deployment Phase of Turn 5. During this phase you must decide which of your hackers will be leading your attacks (you currently have two attacks), and decide what they will use their memory space to bring with them in terms of chips and champions (You currently have 8 memory).

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

Hackers
CF_Dogcatcher
Ophilia Bailey is a hacker specialized in the obscure and weird forms of viri which she finds most interesting, but is also very familiar with standard corporate security fixed defense programming, as her last 'real job' was as a corporate data-security officer. Tactically, CF_Dogcatcher is specialized to figuring out the enemy's cunning plans and ruining them, but she can suffer when she tries to figure out the cunning plan of a hacker whom is not using cunning schemes and just has a metaphorical, or more literal, hammer.

DJ King Cabaret
A man once sued for reasons of 'we have more money then you', DJ King Cabaret has a well working understanding of shock and awe tactics, and his experience running a pirate radio station has also given him a well honed sense of trickery and deception from the need to befuddle and avoid the Net Police. Despite this preference for attention getting, in battle the real threat with him is a hidden dagger. However, his actual skills as a hacker are somewhat lacking, which can hinder him in a variety of ways including his ability to properly deploy battle chips into conflicted codespheres. As well, his mixed feelings about an AI songtress such as Sonata may sometimes cause him to be less then rational in direct engagements with her Stagehands.

Viri
Minion.exe
These roughly humanoid programs are neither very sophisticated (intelligence and coding wise) or very strong, but they are mass producible and smart enough to obey orders without continual direct supervision. Which isn't always something you can take for granted with generic digital constructs, as a lot of them are dumber then rocks. They're not coded with anything more powerful then a basic energy pulse pistol, but they can still defeat the average civilian whom thinks too much of themselves. Just avoid putting them up against Data Police Agents. (Simple) (Obsolete)

CarbineMinion.exe
Roughly humanoid digital constructs with just enough brains to obey commands without needing continual direct and personal supervision. They've been upgraded over the original Minion.exe programs with a somewhat more advanced Pulse Carbine weapon that includes a charged shot function and slightly greater firing rate and normal shot damage, but have very limited programming on when to use their charged shot. However, ADI or a supervising hacker can use a command call to order local CarbineMinions and Officers to fire a charged shot at a target if needed.
(Simple)

RifleMinion.exe
Roughly humanoid digital constructs with just enough brains to obey commands without needing continual direct and personal supervision. They were supposed to be upgraded over the original CarbineMinion.exe programs with a cut down version of the Hunter.exe's Pulse Railrifle, but unforeseen issues resulted in their weapon exploding when the program attempts to use it. This makes them fairly undeployable.
(Simple - Theoretically)

Wyrm.exe
Mindlessly aggressive flying snakes with plenty of teeth, the Wyrm.exe is an utterly expendable melee virus used as often as ablative distractions for other viruses as anything else. Being even stupider then a Minion, Wyrms are entirely dependent on outside authority for things such as 'targeting priority' and 'not giving away an ambush' and 'knowing when to retreat', and require very strong hard-coded friend foe identification coding to prevent friendly fire. And even then they still tend to kill each other off. They've got some swarm programming, mainly enough to keep them from getting in each other's way too much, and despite being theoretically a Simple virus their dependency on outside control limits the amount that can be safely deployed.

They've been updated with superior swarm programming, allowing for increased teamwork, less fratricide, and a cloud computing/bit torrent based memory system that allows them to remember longer and more complicated orders.
(Simple - Theoretically)

Officer.exe
Based on the generally available in the Undernet Minion programs, Officer.exe constructs aren't much stronger then their lesser kin, still only coded with a basic energy pulse pistol, though officers also come with basic melee coding. But the big difference between and Officer and a Minion is that Officers are coded with noticeably more advanced bit-brains and have a basic tactical library integrated in their knowledge banks, allowing them to lead teams of Minions on operations without needing constant hand holding.

They've been upgraded to use more advanced Pulse Carbines with slightly greater firing rate and damage, as well as a charging function, and now are programmed to know how to both use the charging function personally and how to command the CarbineMinion.exe programs to properly use their own as well. Instead of firing a charged shot, they can alternatively use it for a short term moderate-minor boost to their speed or toughness. (Complicated)

FirstMate.exe
An upgraded Officer with a piratical look. The FirstMate.exe has a vastly expanded tactical library that was designed to be easy to customize or expand on for new unit types later on, as well as dedicated coding for using special abilities that is also easy to expand on later on. They also have a secondary six slot tactical library for immediate use to prevent time wasted considering all the plans in their large tactical library. FirstMates carry a basic charge carbine and an energy cutlass with a magnetic attraction effect against enemy weapons and shots. Lastly, they have seventy-five alternate uniform skins. (Complicated)

Scout.exe
A three wheeled trike with a turret mounted pulse pistol stolen from a Minion.exe, a flare launcher and a powerfield ramming prow that prevents the pistol from firing while active. Recent updates have made it noticeably more intelligent then the baseline Minions who's brain-coding the Scouts used to share, and it is now far more able to actually scout or harass enemies without dying pointlessly and without a report. They are noticeably better at teamwork then a baseline minion for scouting or combat by way of using swarm coding meant for real life drones. (Complicated)

Hunter.exe Ver. 0.9-B
A specialized sniper based on, but much more advanced, then the CarbineMinion.exe who use rifles almost as tall as they are. They have specialized sensors for long ranged fire, and can fire charged shots at up to the third stage of charging as well as being able to 'double tap' their second stage charged shot for two rapid fire projectiles at the second charge of power. They have limited abilities for independent operations by use of two 'hot loaded' tactical slots that can be filled from either a highly limited personal tactical library or by local officer type programs, but have minimal capacity for making any tactical choice more complicated then 'who do I shoot first' on their own. (Complicated)

Tunneler.exe MKII
A refined and bugfixed modification of the Scout that replaces all of the Scout's old equipment with a drill tipped prow to allow for tunneling. After a cycle of error-squashing the Tunneler.exe MKII now works without noticeable issues or need for sustained attention. Simple but high efficiency engine and drill systems allow for active tunneling even through tough substances and an easy to use navigation system allows for user friendly tunneling efforts. As the Tunneler tunnels, gathered waste data can be used to reinforce their tunnels, preventing cave ins. (Complicated -> Normally effectively Complex to Very Complex)

Chamelee.mon
A feathered dinosaur raptor virus with mantis like bladed hands and hind-limbs, Chamelee.mon viruses are not anywhere near being properly self aware but still possess a high quality and flexible tactical library for teamwork based hunting and skirmishing tactics even if said library is almost solely focused on those subjects. They are near invisible while still, and less so but still hard to accurately pinpoint when in motion making them hard targets to land a shot on even though, if shot, they are not much if any tougher then a minion. They can be manually assigned a high priority target though how they go after said target is still up to them, and have a slider for effecting how highly they rate their own self preservation. Officers can use these, but are not programmed to except for setting the self preservation slider to max when they decide it's time for all forces to retreat. (Complex)

Wako.mon
Cyclopean pale giants recruited from the tunnels of the Archival Sediment, Wako Warriors weld distinctive datana blades and wear high quality armor coded from bronze scales as well as possessing the ability to unleash searing, if short ranged and stamina draining, eye laser blasts. They also demand a high price for their labor, requiring both high quality 'food' and access to a variety of luxuries, as well as demanding that the deepest tunnels of the Archival Sediment remain un-invaded. These requirements, and their tendency to refuse what they consider to be 'stupid orders', makes them hard to deploy. However when deployed they are potent warriors, skilled in tighter confined and closer quarters then is usual for combatants of their stature. (Complex)

Autonomous Digital Intelligence
Vivi_Paltest.dat
A gelatinous and gluttonous naga with a collection of strange and interesting code shards and a habit of eating things she finds interesting to add them to her collection, Vivianaja Palladian is the Firmament's first ADI champion, and serves it well with her variable armaments and defenses pulled out from her collection as she remembers them as well as her own noticeable personal toughness and ability to patch herself up with loose data. Worryingly, her collection includes what seems to be coding of military origin, though Vivi denies ever visiting the military owned sectors of the Cyberworld before this conflict started. (Memory 4)

Battle Chips
Recovery 10
This tactical battle chip is designed to mend damaged and corrupted code, healing the individual it is applied to by a minor amount. (Simple, Memory 1)

Atk+10
This tactical battle chip pre-allocates resources to empower the next program used, improving the targets ability to deal damage for a short while. (Simple, Memory 1)

MinionCall A
This strategic battle chip creates temporary replicas of the commonly known ‘Minion.exe’ program, causing a short term burst of reinforcements in the targeted zone. (Simple, Memory 1)

SquadSummon S
This strategic battle chip is an upgraded, though more complex, version of MinionCall A that can summon a (smaller) squad of minions and officers of variable, if pre-set before the mission, type, It may only summon one version of minions and one version of officers, and can not be adjusted in the field. (Complicated, Memory 1)

CallChiptune
'CallChiptune' is a Battlechip that uses the Firmament's vast archives of abandonware soundtracks to summon appropriate music for any occasion. It's ability to figure out what music is appropriate can be a little off at times though, but who doesn't like a cheery 8-bit soundtrack going on in the middle of a desperate battle to keep viruses from deleting your homework? (Simple, Memory 0)

[TricMagic]

Hacker: CF_Dogcatcher
Region: Application City
Duel Disk[8]: Vivi_Paltest.dat(4), Squad Summon S (1)x3, Recovery 10 (1), CallChiptune (0)
Other: The hunters become the hunted, as the Data Police crackdown begins! Will they manage to drive out the mysterious Firmament, or will the nefarious Dogcatcher outsmart them? Look out below!

Hacker: DJ King Cabaret
Region: BitMines
Duel Disk[8]: Minion Call A(1)x4 Squad Summon S (1)x4, CallChiptune (0)
Other: Day in, day out, the bits are mined and the miners become bits. No more, the DJ has come to rock this joint clear with an uprising from below!

credit for title and attack one blurb goes to Nuke.

With Vivi gone, The DJ King sticks to what he's knows, simple and surprising. Time to tunnel!
Meanwhile, Vivi-Kaiju. Let's grab some theme songs.

Suggested Song Suite 1- Deltarune Chiptunes

A Cyber(dog)'s World Find on Dogcatcher, show them that this world is not just theirs.

Tunnel of LoveFor the underpaid and unappreciated. Let the DJ show some Love to the overworked programs.

Anyone got other suggestions?

From Piratejoe, Jet Set Radio!

Two for the BitMines. An Upset and declaration of souls.
Up-Set Attack
Sweet Soul Brother


Also from Pirate, Set of Three(Four now) depending on the situation.(Happ can pick.)
Armageddon(flashing lights warning) The Military falls prey to the Dogcatcher. Everything's going wrong, there's a Kaiju on the loose, and your bases belong to us.

Electric Exodus(download mp3) Equal, Pressure put upon us. Odd song, compared to the other bangers on the list. Quite equal to an odd situation. Expect strange tricks from this Dogcatcher as she works to beat the military. And maybe something else as well...

PILOTPRIEST - FUTURE IS GONE Well this one is easy. Military+Sonata's Stagehands beating us... A dirge in honor of a future gone...
(Piratejoe:Actually
Was more along the lines of them waltzing into her trap.
Not realizing it until it was too late.
And being completely incapable of doing anything.
More from their perspective but still.)
Welll. Teh'che. The sound I made is hard to put into text.

You're Mine This is the song that plays when you are well and truly caught. No escape.
Likely with added Blue Devil.
If there was going to be a time for it, it's now.

[Scholar Knight]

Hacker: CF_Dogcatcher
Region: Application City
Duel Disk[8]: Vivi_Paltest.dat(4), Squad Summon S (1)x3, Recovery 10 (1), CallChiptune (0)
Other: The hunters become the hunted, as the Data Police crackdown begins! Will they manage to drive out the mysterious Firmament, or will the nefarious Dogcatcher outsmart them? Look out below!

Hacker: DJ King Cabaret
Region: BitMines
Duel Disk[8]: Recovery10 (1)x2, Atk+10 (1), Minion Call A(1)x2 Squad Summon S (1)x3, CallChiptune (0)
Other: Day in, day out, the bits are mined and the miners become bits. No more, the DJ has come to rock this joint clear with an uprising from below!

credit for title and attack one blurb goes to Nuke.


Sounds like a plan, still unsure on the music choice, though. Would rather tie the music to the situation and mood of the battle, rather than the person specifically in it.
Gonna give DJ a heal and an attack buff, just because he has elites to worry about still, in the form of the Wako.

S01E05 - Eye Eye, Cap'n! (DJ Duel Disk modification) [1] - SK

[testmen]

subbort

S01E05 - Eye Eye, Cap'n! (DJ Duel Disk modification) [2] - SK, testmen

[TricMagic]

I'll note the reason he doesn't have Recov and Atk plus chips is a combination of no Adi to support, and the DJ not being the best at using them. Meanwhile the Dogcatcher has a Recov chip since she does know how to use chips very well. Having access to greater forces in surprising locations is why I gave him 4 of each and ignored the ATK and Recov chip. Such affects one target.

[piratejoe]

S01E05 - Eye Eye, Cap'n! (DJ Duel Disk modification) [3] - SK, testmen, Piratejoe

[TricMagic]

S01E05 - Eye Eye, Cap'n! (DJ Duel Disk modification) [4] - SK, testmen, Piratejoe, TricMagic

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