We dont have any tech for Power Generation unfortunately. Though hmm maybe a Faedeum Generator might work especially if we succeed on the Predasaur Power Core research.
Super Robot Quest G
- Thread starter Basarin
- Start date
- Original Sci-Fi
I mean, worst case scenario, we can get more generators, maybe a small Nuclear Reactor if need be. When in doubt, Brute Force the solution with what we've got.
Edit: Huh, I forgot we had the Charged Cannon. That might make for an interesting Base defense unit. Meant to stun and disable.
Edit: Huh, I forgot we had the Charged Cannon. That might make for an interesting Base defense unit. Meant to stun and disable.
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- Location
- Three feet to the left
- Pronouns
- He/They
I say we donate the drone body to somebody. We don't need it, but someone else could use it to hassle our rowdy neighbors. Not sure who, though.
Ace of Scarabs
Mechanoid Pilot
- Location
- Singapore
Typo, should be expecting
I like the term 'Emergent Intelligence' myself.
Probably one of the new groups, though whoever that is will need to be read in on Kaus Tech.
- Location
- Malaysia
Methinks this is a place where researching that Westphalian friction formula would've come in handy.
I think reverse-engineering this Shard reactor is the way to go. We technically don't have any kind of exotic power source other than Shards (K-class material just refines it, Faedium just focuses and integrates power from other sources), so reproducing a way to really juice up our bots is a way to go, especially since we could integrate any new reactors into our base and dropships.
And I also agree on donating the Kausen drone body to another project; we already have a surplus of robot bodies as compared to available pilots. Speaking of; how is that academy program to find pilots going (the one where we found Zhang)?
Plus, it would make for a good trifecta; the DFRI started off reverse-engineering Kaiju bodies, Ground Pound started off reverse-engineering Westphalian tech, so we could complete it by getting a third Super Robot project started based off of reverse-engineering Kausen tech.
I think the only flight combiner options we have are the Saddle and TMU.... unless we combine with a second Seeker?
- Location
- Singapore
I'm thinking we give this to the Legion to play with for diplomacy.
I'm thinking the TMU. The TMU cannot transform into a mecha but we use it to transfer into parts & weapons.
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The Saddle is pretty solid as is in its unmodded base, able to limp to safe places even after getting shot at by hostile forces instead of outright exploding.
It's also noted to have a lot of space available to it now after Faedium freed up its mundane innards so we can stuff it to the gills with tech along with the sheer bulk it has.
It's also noted to have a lot of space available to it now after Faedium freed up its mundane innards so we can stuff it to the gills with tech along with the sheer bulk it has.
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Hmmm Saddle for Primary Battle Body, TMU for Rapid response/Reloads?
TMU is V1 of seeker so its redundant as combo.
hmm good idea can even improve improve the steed by imporving its weapons.
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Yeah, the TMU is just a less good Seeker with no humanoid form so it'd be kind of weird.
It'd still be kinda weird to fuse two Seekers together too but at least that would be a lot better than using an inferior previous generation vehicle as a power pack.
That said, I'm imagining the Seeker plus Saddle to be something like a Macross unit equipped with a Gundam ZZ Full Armor pack so that's a pretty cool mental image to have.
It'd still be kinda weird to fuse two Seekers together too but at least that would be a lot better than using an inferior previous generation vehicle as a power pack.
That said, I'm imagining the Seeker plus Saddle to be something like a Macross unit equipped with a Gundam ZZ Full Armor pack so that's a pretty cool mental image to have.
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we made it honestly out of spite
Paging Dr. Dinym - Pt. 1
- Location
- USA
1335, 20 March A.D. 2073
Engineering Bay
"Truly?" Boris asked. "Your work was actually accepted prior to the Valiant?"
"Electric power is electric power." Marcus Dinym shrugged as Boris escorted him from Major Devin's office in the Command Center. "Unlike most of my peers, thankfully mine is a field that politicians are familiar with. Even if they turn it down, they at least know enough about it to listen to my proposals. None of them use the actual Dinym Currents Valiant does, but the basic principles retooled to infrastructural power are there."
"But how did that bring you to-?"
"To Charles?" That topic prompted a laugh out of the old man. The man's hair had long since lost the fight to old age and was a ragged mix of salt and pepper – now it seemed as if his body was just fighting to keep his head from balding. An impressive beard extended down to his chest, giving the impression of some old sage from a storybook. "Oh, that was an easy decision. Knew him long before he went gallivanting into the Royal Navy. I just was tired of having to convince another pack of lackwits on the efficacy of my designs, then Charles comes along like the mad lad he is and made an offer. Seemed interesting, so I took him up on it."
Boris nodded, filing away the information for later. So far, Dinym seemed more content to answer questions about himself rather than his work – and, more importantly, what he seems to be really hoping to get out of this visit. It just bemused him that he had been chosen to show Dinym around. He had thought that Lieutenant Wilde or Sergeant Henry would have been the natural choices, but the Commandant had different projects he had prioritized for them. Dr. Carlson or Dr. Brand would have been other natural choices, but there were some concerns over letting even an ally see the secrets behind K-Class Materials or Xenotechnology too soon. Even young Mr. Yukimura, but he too was busy – and Boris noted with some satisfaction that he was able to overcome the conundrum of the Funnel project where he couldn't.
So that left him. And the unfortunate question was what he would show him.
He was fairly certain that Dr. Dinym would see not just some of the Golems left behind, but possibly any visiting members of the Legion, or even the Sisters. They were so ubiquitous across the facilities that not calling on them was growing more and more unthinkable by the day. On the other hand, while they had certainly made great strides in the more mundane computational networks as his original commission had demanded…
…it all felt just a slightly bit dishonest, didn't it?
He could offer to provide a more rudimentary version of the Sisters, help to facilitate an intelligence more like that of Delphi. Perhaps the Man Machine Interface (at least some pared down version of it), or something along the lines of the Golems as AI support for the Valiant…something. Or he could do his best to try and explain the other Engineering principles, though he himself wasn't the most well suited for it.
What to do? What would Boris show him?
This vote will run for a few days. What does Ignatov show him? Choose ONE.
[] Super AI (if you choose this, you can emphasize one of of the following sub options)
-[] AI 'Sisters'
-[] Golems
[] MMI
[] Configuration
[] Write-In
QM Note: A bit of a smaller update, but here you will choose what Ignatov chooses to showcase to Dinym. Think about what you know about Valiant, what you think would best help it and what you think Dinym would be interested in. But also remember who his host is, and what he's been good at so far.
Engineering Bay
"Truly?" Boris asked. "Your work was actually accepted prior to the Valiant?"
"Electric power is electric power." Marcus Dinym shrugged as Boris escorted him from Major Devin's office in the Command Center. "Unlike most of my peers, thankfully mine is a field that politicians are familiar with. Even if they turn it down, they at least know enough about it to listen to my proposals. None of them use the actual Dinym Currents Valiant does, but the basic principles retooled to infrastructural power are there."
"But how did that bring you to-?"
"To Charles?" That topic prompted a laugh out of the old man. The man's hair had long since lost the fight to old age and was a ragged mix of salt and pepper – now it seemed as if his body was just fighting to keep his head from balding. An impressive beard extended down to his chest, giving the impression of some old sage from a storybook. "Oh, that was an easy decision. Knew him long before he went gallivanting into the Royal Navy. I just was tired of having to convince another pack of lackwits on the efficacy of my designs, then Charles comes along like the mad lad he is and made an offer. Seemed interesting, so I took him up on it."
Boris nodded, filing away the information for later. So far, Dinym seemed more content to answer questions about himself rather than his work – and, more importantly, what he seems to be really hoping to get out of this visit. It just bemused him that he had been chosen to show Dinym around. He had thought that Lieutenant Wilde or Sergeant Henry would have been the natural choices, but the Commandant had different projects he had prioritized for them. Dr. Carlson or Dr. Brand would have been other natural choices, but there were some concerns over letting even an ally see the secrets behind K-Class Materials or Xenotechnology too soon. Even young Mr. Yukimura, but he too was busy – and Boris noted with some satisfaction that he was able to overcome the conundrum of the Funnel project where he couldn't.
So that left him. And the unfortunate question was what he would show him.
He was fairly certain that Dr. Dinym would see not just some of the Golems left behind, but possibly any visiting members of the Legion, or even the Sisters. They were so ubiquitous across the facilities that not calling on them was growing more and more unthinkable by the day. On the other hand, while they had certainly made great strides in the more mundane computational networks as his original commission had demanded…
…it all felt just a slightly bit dishonest, didn't it?
He could offer to provide a more rudimentary version of the Sisters, help to facilitate an intelligence more like that of Delphi. Perhaps the Man Machine Interface (at least some pared down version of it), or something along the lines of the Golems as AI support for the Valiant…something. Or he could do his best to try and explain the other Engineering principles, though he himself wasn't the most well suited for it.
What to do? What would Boris show him?
This vote will run for a few days. What does Ignatov show him? Choose ONE.
[] Super AI (if you choose this, you can emphasize one of of the following sub options)
-[] AI 'Sisters'
-[] Golems
[] MMI
[] Configuration
[] Write-In
QM Note: A bit of a smaller update, but here you will choose what Ignatov chooses to showcase to Dinym. Think about what you know about Valiant, what you think would best help it and what you think Dinym would be interested in. But also remember who his host is, and what he's been good at so far.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Well, the Valiant is basically Jeeg, right?
Jeeg's whole thing was being basically Modularity Given Form....
Wait, does she still control it with levers and switches? What's basically a modular lego-mech is great, especially when you can just hot-swap parts on the fly. But if you're using old WW2 controls to handle it, that's got to be producing a lot of lag for something so comparably fragile. Jeeg worked because the pilot was literally a cyborg who curled up into a ball and somehow transformed into the head with Old School Anime Powers. It didn't have direct controls. Then you had Jeeg 2 if you're taking Koutetsushin Jeeg as canon (Which it kind of is but can be ignored if you want), but that also had another 30-50 years of development and the controls were more sophisticated anyway.
Jeeg's whole thing was being basically Modularity Given Form....
Wait, does she still control it with levers and switches? What's basically a modular lego-mech is great, especially when you can just hot-swap parts on the fly. But if you're using old WW2 controls to handle it, that's got to be producing a lot of lag for something so comparably fragile. Jeeg worked because the pilot was literally a cyborg who curled up into a ball and somehow transformed into the head with Old School Anime Powers. It didn't have direct controls. Then you had Jeeg 2 if you're taking Koutetsushin Jeeg as canon (Which it kind of is but can be ignored if you want), but that also had another 30-50 years of development and the controls were more sophisticated anyway.
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Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
[X] Super AI (if you choose this, you can emphasize one of of the following sub options)
-[X] AI 'Sisters'
I want to show him the sisters.
-[X] AI 'Sisters'
I want to show him the sisters.
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SaberFail
All Ideas. No Skills. a bit hungry
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] MMI
If Valiant is like Jeeg, then maybe the interface would help with driving it.
You forgot the X between the brackets
If Valiant is like Jeeg, then maybe the interface would help with driving it.
You forgot the X between the brackets
- Location
- Queensland, Australia
So, just looking at the list of options we're given without touching Write-ins...
We have 'co-ordinate their entire set up better', 'provide their Super Robot pilot a co-pilot', 'allow their pilot to be tied into the machine more deeply' and 'give them tech which should allow them to harden and expand upon their modular components'. Honestly, looking at that list I want to go with Configuration the most but I also feel like that's a 'lesser' option due to how far we've spread it already. Basically not really worth the favour we're repaying here, particularly as they're likely to either already have or soon get the option to pick up that tech from reverse-engineering the new war machines the Westphalians are rolling out.
If we're talking giving them something worth the favour, my choice would be between the MMI and the Super-AI 'Sisters'. And with the latter I'm a tad worried about giving it to someone who's tied to corporations when we haven't really shared it with the military and government we're a part of yet. On the other hand, the personality we've been given for the businessman behind Valiant has him being the kind of personality we'd want the business scene exposed to the impact of Super AI through.
Because sure, the Super AI sister should allow him to make a lot of money, which will offset some of the solvency issues they've apparently had with Valiant, but he's not going to be destructive or overly self-centred with how he does things. Which will allow the business world to wake up to the 'threat' they've been exposed to and start taking precautions to avoid it rolling all of them up into a massive Megacorporation even before government regulation and intervention kicks in.
But still. Something I'm cautious about. Which basically leaves my position as "Give them Configuration at some point, but not for the favour. Offer them MMI, unless we're willing to risk the Super AI Sisters tech getting loose and causing an issue."
Hey @Basarin could we do a write in option along the lines of "Offer to walk them through the Configuration tech without any restrictions. But also offer to allow them access to one of our more potent and secret technological edges, with the note that we'd be watching their use of it rather closely if they take that option", or is that too close to 'not making a decision ourselves'?
We have 'co-ordinate their entire set up better', 'provide their Super Robot pilot a co-pilot', 'allow their pilot to be tied into the machine more deeply' and 'give them tech which should allow them to harden and expand upon their modular components'. Honestly, looking at that list I want to go with Configuration the most but I also feel like that's a 'lesser' option due to how far we've spread it already. Basically not really worth the favour we're repaying here, particularly as they're likely to either already have or soon get the option to pick up that tech from reverse-engineering the new war machines the Westphalians are rolling out.
If we're talking giving them something worth the favour, my choice would be between the MMI and the Super-AI 'Sisters'. And with the latter I'm a tad worried about giving it to someone who's tied to corporations when we haven't really shared it with the military and government we're a part of yet. On the other hand, the personality we've been given for the businessman behind Valiant has him being the kind of personality we'd want the business scene exposed to the impact of Super AI through.
Because sure, the Super AI sister should allow him to make a lot of money, which will offset some of the solvency issues they've apparently had with Valiant, but he's not going to be destructive or overly self-centred with how he does things. Which will allow the business world to wake up to the 'threat' they've been exposed to and start taking precautions to avoid it rolling all of them up into a massive Megacorporation even before government regulation and intervention kicks in.
But still. Something I'm cautious about. Which basically leaves my position as "Give them Configuration at some point, but not for the favour. Offer them MMI, unless we're willing to risk the Super AI Sisters tech getting loose and causing an issue."
Hey @Basarin could we do a write in option along the lines of "Offer to walk them through the Configuration tech without any restrictions. But also offer to allow them access to one of our more potent and secret technological edges, with the note that we'd be watching their use of it rather closely if they take that option", or is that too close to 'not making a decision ourselves'?
- Location
- west
[X] MMI
Hmmm, Super AI is probably the safe choice since they already know about Ichiro.
MMI is useful but requires decent Psychic potential to really get good use out of.
Configuration is pretty similar to Valiant's gimmick of Modular limbs, but different enough that both sides can glean some new insights.
MMI is useful but requires decent Psychic potential to really get good use out of.
Configuration is pretty similar to Valiant's gimmick of Modular limbs, but different enough that both sides can glean some new insights.
- Location
- Three feet to the left
- Pronouns
- He/They
If we show him the AI, which sister should we show him?
JmonsterNEO
Spouter of nonsense
- Location
- The quest forums
So the main question is, will valiant be getting her Merlin? Or her Knights of the Round Table?