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[Armok]

Spoiler: Argembarger (click to show/hide)

 How exactly do you do that? It's only guesswork that makes you think such a thing even exists.

NOTE: The limitations on what actions you can take STILL STANDS! Some have gotten further by finding applications that lets yu do certain things, and you can do things you have found documentation about how to do through those as well, but don't let this get to your head and think you can just say any vague action and do it!

Spoiler: Demonic Spoon (click to show/hide)

The strip starts up, and starts the agonizingly slow procedure... Then it stops.

Error, hatch (Solar array hatch 2) obstructed! Procedure aborted.

You also have a vague feeling at the back of your head that Argembargers story dosn't quite make sense...

[Demonic Spoon]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Use sensors to determine nature of obstruction.

[Argembarger]

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cd usr/share/doc/packages
ls

"All I'm saying is that if you find a Nuke Mars app you probably shouldn't run it."

[Demonic Spoon]

Speak: There seems to be some sort of obstruction in one of the solar array hatches. I'm investigating that now.

[Armok]

Spoiler: Demonic Spoon (click to show/hide)

 You go back to the sensors tab. You have no idea how to use this thing.
After a bit of looking, you find  sensors "Solar array hatch 2 opening servo feedback", "Solar array hatch 2 angular sensor 1", Solar array hatch 2 accelerometer" and "solar array bay internal IR". All of these are located in aproximately the same place according to the 3d view.

The servo feedback shows the servo is currently turned of, and it seems everything is normal, but you wouldn't really be able to tell if it wasn't.
The Angular sensor reads abaut 0.6 degrees, which according to a comment text might be how much open hatch 2 is.
The accelerometer shows [-6.1][1.5][0.9]. Acording to coments the normal reding in earth gravity is [9.8][0][0] when it is closed and [-9.8][0][0] when open.
The internal IR shows an black and white image of some small camber with what might be a folded up solar cell taking up almost all space and a bright splotch on the roof.

Through the 3d view you find a sensor called "external hull IR 385" supposedly a camera of some kind located right above the hatch, it shows only an uniform light grey.

Spoiler: Argembarger (click to show/hide)

There are 2853 folders and 52345 files in there. Seems to be mostly documentation for various computer things.

(OOC: can you please act the brain damage to not be TO obnoxious? The game is getting a bit to silly and going a bit to slow...)

[Demonic Spoon]

(OOC: I'm not sure what you mean by brain damage, I'm just trying to figure out how to deploy the solar array, and you switched our turns around)

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Assume control of a Fly-recog-248-4, go and investigate the hatch, try to fix it or open it manually.

[Argembarger]

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cd usr/X11R6/man; read man pages the manual

Speak: What does the Solar Array do, anyway? Is it for power generation, or terraforming?

(OOC: I think he was referring to my Nuke Mars comment)

[Demonic Spoon]

Speak: I'm guessing power generation as there is plenty of other hardware for colonization, and how could a solar array be used for terraforming anyway?

[Argembarger]

Speak: Perhaps temperature regulation by altering the amount of sunlight that reaches the planet's surface. I just took a glimpse at the array just now, I still haven't quite worked out how to control it or anything but it sounds like you're on that.

[Armok]

((AUGH yea I switched around the jnames. *facepalm* Argembarger you didn't do all that it was DS: ))

[Argembarger]

And lo, for a brief instant these two brain-damaged entities experienced the thoughts and senses of the other, and then everything was normal once more.

[Armok]

No there wasn't it was a simple GM mistake with no in game implications.

Spoiler: Demonic Spoon (click to show/hide)

According to your user profile log you have never used an avatar of   class "Fly-recog-248". It is recommended to never use a new class of   avatar for the first mode as a robot. would you like to practice in a   simulation first?

Spoiler: Argembarger (click to show/hide)

 You find manuals for all those apps you found earlier, as well as a bunch for how to program using some APIs related to that and stuff. Nothing new or useful  what so ever. You don't read them because it's thousands and thousands of pages of mostly useless junk.

[Demonic Spoon]

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Yes.

[Armok]

Spoiler: Demonic Spoon (click to show/hide)

You first get a short video presentation of the bot.

Fly-recog-248 is a model specifically developed for Project Dandelion. It's 28mm long and weights 17 grams. It looks vaguely like a headless silver bee, the front part with 4x 25mm arms ending in universal gripers capable of adhering to almost any surface, and two aerofoils hooked up to very powerful (for it's size) for flight that supports both flapping and rotor methods of flight. The back part is loaded out with sensors, a projector, communications equipment, large batteries, and some other stuff to support all this.
The fly is capable of 16 hours of maximum preformance or 72 of flight at top speed with other systems at rest. (standby time will not be an ussue due to other systems failing before then). Crusying speed is 40km/h and it is very agile. Like most things on the project it's shell is made from complex diamondoids (similar to things like dimonds, buckyballs, and nanotub) and thus very durable. The grippers can be used for walking over a surface ( a single one is enough to hold 1500 - 3000 Newtons of force depending on surface, and stays attached even if unpowered) or as hands.
The main role of the bot is as a mobile sensor and mapping platform, which among others include extremly high resolution 360 degree video with 4 visible light channels, 3 infrared, 2 ultraviolet, and microwave. Lower resolution video covers the entire electromagnetic spectra. There is sonar, spectrography, chemical sensors better than any bloodhounds nose, a microphone system that you don' understand the technobabble abaut, electromagnetic sensors, a DNA sequencer, and so on and so forth. There's a joke abaut it being able to sense everything except neutrinos.
It's a pretty damned neat toy.

You enter the simulation.

AAAAGH SENSORY OVERLOADFJKLHCKASDGHBCLAS

You throw yourself out of the simulation with a splitting headache with fortunately passes away after about half a minute. If you're going to try that again you'll have to reconfigure and turn most of those sensors of.

[Armok]

This thread now has a sister thread on the MSPA forums. Not that this is relevant right now or anything...