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- [ ] [Expo] Write-in: LexCorp Hiring/Job Application Booth
Never say no to rolling for more Hero Units in Events.
Oh yeah, I already edited that in Neg.
But
as of when I first drafted the plan, I hadn't even
read that snazzy write-in option.
Aaaanyway. Comparison!
OK, so the differences between "Not Glamorous, But Effective" and "Maximum Spy, Expo, X-osuit" are as follows:
I'm allowing non-LexCorp events. This is because I want Lexpo to be
BIG, and I want to network as much as possible with it. It will also make it
look less like a colossal monument to our ego, which makes it more effective as a colossal monument to our ego.
I'm demonstrating an exosuit because I want to put "LexCorp makes power armor" firmly in the minds of the public.
I'm showing off our service robots. We want those to go mass-market soon.
I'm encouraging presentations by prominent individuals, showing off some of our new weapons (in addition to the exosuit), and a lot more of our advanced tech, such as our 3-D printers, our tractor/pressor beams and holograms, and our subatomic imaging.
I am NOT showing off our AI because I'm worried about weirding people out; it's still kind of glitchy.
I'm having Lex give a speech; this may be redundant with "Have Lex Luthor speak," which IS in
@KnowledgeKing 's plan. Not sure. I'm doing (reasonable) product giveaways.
Aaand the tickets. Basically,
@KnowledgeKing is using an older version of the same basic approach as mine; I won't criticize it. I approve of free tickets for employees; that was a nice touch.
Now, as for the drones. Um.
Basically, my Drone 1 is a more or less realistic version of the real US Air Force's Predator drone. It's slow-flying, but high-flying to keep it out of the effective range of AA guns and shoulder-fired surface to air missiles. It's long-ranged- probably even more so than the real life Predator because of kryptonite batteries. It can be armed with Hellfire missiles or the like. It takes pictures and video, and has an infrared camera. It's not stealthy, but it isn't really intended to be.
My Drone 2, the 'Butterfly,' is a small palm-sized infiltration drone for spying on people. It's got urban camouflage (I figure it's small enough that in most wilderness areas it'll be hard to spot even without camo), but its main virtue is that it can give us real-time streaming video from anywhere we can fit it... and because it's so smol, we can fit it a LOT of places.
@KnowledgeKing did things a little differently.
His Drone 2 is a pretty straightforward low-end flying killbot with a camo scheme, weapons attachment, and voice command functionality. Mainly useful for killing things IMO.
His Drone 1 has a lot more trimmings. It's got all sorts of camo
and is disguised as a bird apparently, probably a big one since it's like a foot across, it's got camera systems as good or better than my 'Predator,' it's got radar stealth, high flying speed, and a suicide detonation charge if we feel like blowing it up. Or, I suppose, using it as a long-range guided missile and going all
Abqaiq on someone.
Honestly I don't have a good feeling about these designs. These are to some extent
fighting drones, not spy drones, and they make some design compromises accordingly. We picked the 'spy drones' option to increase our Intrigue capabilities and surveillance. Personally, I'm trying to optimize my drones accordingly while avoiding any unnecessary 'bells and whistles' not directly related to the mission of the drones.
My Drone 1 is for when we don't really need to hide what we're doing- we can just legally overfly something, or we're operating in a part of the world where no one can really stop us except by shooting down the drone. My Drone 2 is a 'spy drone' in the classic sense, something that can get into a crawl-space and spy on everything that happens around it. I wish I could add a few more surveillance features to the 'Butterfly,' honestly, but I hesitate to give up the weapon mount or IR cameras on the 'Predator,' which is about all that's left to cut.
That leaves us comparing the exosuits. My 'Myrmidon' exosuit is modified with a variety of weapons (though I thought we already had the shoulder-mounted laser,
@King crimson ). This includes surface to air and (presumably) surface to surface missiles, flamethrowers, blades for close-in work if applicable, along with upgrades to maneuverability and (importantly) a GPS system.
This is something we can probably market to the military, either as a complement or a competitor to STRIPE. It's got a lot of customizability in terms of weapons loadout, it's well suited to fighting enemy vehicles or blasting troops out of fortified positions, and it has the ability to respond effectively if it's attacked from the air.
@KnowledgeKing took a different approach.
His suits are physically faster (not an area I saw fit to upgrade since I don't see that as very useful for either urban environments or the military's likely roles for the suit in the near future).
They have "extra automated arm attachments" and honestly I'm not even sure what that
does @King crimson , could you enlighten us?
They have tractor/pressor beam capability, which is cool. I steered clear of that because we haven't really developed that tech much and I'm hesitant to integrate it into our suits until we've worked with it more. Also because of the 11-point cost, for which I could snag, for example, surface to air missile batteries AND a GPS system.
His suits might well be better suited for fighting a lot of kinds of metahumans, depending on what goes into those arm attachments.
The one thing I question is the 'remote detonation.' I don't think it's worth spending points just to install a suicide bomb into our armor suits.
