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Looks okay. Yeah sure some of the things could be fiddled with, but frankly it doesn't matter the metrics I am worried about aren't being busted, so meh. My only nitpicky comment would be on the low production values for a couple of the later items, but, with those prices and me figuring that its not going to matter much they're fine.
Just as an FYI due to previous discussion about the nature of the Hasta I've divided it into 3 variants the S (Short ~30cm), L (Long ~60cm) and R (Rifle ~90cm), I'm leaving the original one as the L, because the math works out nicely. I'd change the original one to match the new naming scheme, but I think that'd break a few formulas.
Any way hopefully that clears up the Hasta thing.
So, if this is how super-hacking works, then we're probably going to want to look into advanced Faraday shielding, and other hard-counters to insane omni-tool hacking.
I'm still playing with ideas here, but maybe part of reason you need to be close to hack is because of these counters? In other words you need to be close so you can use the omnitool to bypass some of the defenses.
Stupid Hollywood magic hacking, make it hard to write the why behind it if you need to. The how is pretty clear: Get close to it with an omnitool, fiddle for a bit and, assuming it isn't protected by plot, then bypass.
Did Revy have any friends before The Invasion? If we're looking for purely social contacts we should probably look to people who knew us before we became humanity's darling new heroine.
I'm going to go with a no not really. Maybe a few acquaintances or hang out buddies, but friends proper... well it hasn't come up in the past three years. I'm imagining that Revy's raw smarts and her technical drive kept people away and her busy. (See inventing revolutionary power source) She also strikes me as the "I prefer to hang out with adults," type. They're smarter thus I can learn things and have interesting conversations.
On top of that its been around three years or so IIRC, So yeah.
Question for @Hoyr: how many Eclipse mercs are currently under Liara's employ, and how many security teams would we need to meet or exceed that number?
IDK 30-50? So 2-4. Do recall that they are contracted for the Altahe, thing not later. Also if you ask the SA for help its not like they don't have people. The SA's relation to civilian initiated projects that interest them can be... complicated. If it's in the interest of the SA assigning a military guard is a thing they may do.
Question for the thread: think we should assign some of our security guards--who at this point have been with us for years, are nearly all ex-LEO or ex-Marines--as Liara's guard detail, under the auspices of ParSec?
Just as a reminder not all of the people in your security force would be interested in much of anything other than guarding PI stuff. That's what they signed up for. So security forces does not automatically equal freely usable parsec forces. In this case its kinda gray, as its a PI thing, but I just though I'd add in a reminder.
Also parsec commander(s), getting one could be good. You could look for one amongst your recruits, but there's no guarantee of skill. Just noticed that for @UberJJK and @Sylvire 's plans. Feel free to highlight skill level or talents your looking for.
Okay, so say I wanted to upgrade Agility and Reaction to 6s, Body and Willpower to 5s. If I'm reading this right, that would take a base of 4 quarters (four stats to upgrade) +2 (2 large upgrades) -1 (merely "high" Body and Willpower) = 5 quarters normally. Alternatively it will only take 4 quarters as a sort of package deal for a single "full" upgrade to do the same thing, but in that case it takes the same amount of time no matter what you upgrade so you may as well boost everything to 6s across the board. Is that right?
Okay so instead of willpower I'm going to pretend you said strength because of what I'm going to say below, but that's an equivalent substation so same deal.
Firstly Peak human set all your theoretical maximums to 7 (unless they were higher to begin with) due to gene modding, so use that for maxed*.
Done separately (Don't know why you'd do it that way, I just added that in in case you guys only wanted to upgrade a single stat or two quickly.):
4 Stats => 4 quarters
Agility +2
Reaction +3
Body +2
No special penalties assessed. 4 quarters
Large upgrades was meant to cover the large jump from a 1 or a 2 to a 6 so like 4+ points
All ready high stats (or a small upgrade) was meant to cover jumps of 1 or 0 (Zero would occur in the case of bulk upgrades)
But frankly yes you could just do a bulk upgrade to 6 for those 4. End result is the same. Some of that was just for the sake of having some notes on how long things might take, not all of them will apply to Revy.
I've tried to clear up some of the terminology:
[ ] Begin peak human treatment (May be chosen twice per quarter. One quarter per single stat upgraded (stat=>6) or four quarters for a "full" upgrade (physical=>6), +1 quarter for large (>=+4) upgrades, +1 correcting extreme health issues, +1 for attempting maxed or super human upgrades (=>7+) ala Captain America, -1 [min 1] for smaller (<=+1) upgrades. May choose to raise stat to a lower level than 6 if desired)
I think that may be clearer, but yes doing all four at once is meant to be faster, or at least the same.
*I'm not sure what to do with Revy's 7 Logic, here yes she is just that good, but part of peak human is trying to distill the potential for that just that goodness and share it. Revy is the example of peak human for that stat. I'm tempted to just leave it and acknowledge that peak human means that if some is driven and has a little luck they may become a pier for Revy. Of course they'd also need those science stats and that R&D stats, but it could happen. (Odds low, even compared to human pop)
Oh, and can mental stats be upgraded via Peak Human? Willpower, for example, or Intuition?
I've been playing with this idea, and I've been leaning toward not exactly , but sorta kinda. My idea is thus: since you have the ANI tech you could take a mental training action while your body was being modded. I think that works out well. So no, but you could train them at the same time. That seem fair?
If that okay with the players I'll go add that to the update. If a the winning vote lacks that detail I'll do my best to pick a reasonable thing for you to do while being modded. (maybe based on the next runner up?)