[x] Something New
The reliance on animals for your masters plans is a clear hindrance, after all no matter how many robotic shells the creator can produce it is for little gain if he cannot gather the extra mental capacity needed to boost the machines mental capacity up to workable levels of competence. If you can elimate this weakness the Doctors robotic production should skyrocket.... and a look at the database it seems as if your genius of a creator has a rough concept in the work already.
The 'Egg Pawn' as the doctors notes describe appears to be a roughly humanoid platform meant as an all around combat units., and general labor.... however due to the overall low performance of the frame it was decided that the animals the doctor captured would be better of put into different and more potent combat frames, and naturally putting the same AI used by more advanced machines would be
insanely expensive and not worth it in the least.
Now the current wiring for a fully autonomous combat robot is complex and difficult to produce, especially since the majority of computers with such hard wiring are meant to be placed on incredibly complex and difficult to control robotic frames while at the same time having the processing power to keep up with Sonic. However looking over the circuitry again you soon realize that you don't actually need design a new hardwired system from the ground up. Instead your get to work cutting out on some of the most time intensive parts of the already existing operating system for some of the doctors existing machines. The need to make so many many of the cicuits so combat for instance is much lessened so you can afford to use cheaper yet just as durable martials for roughly the same outcome in computational capacity, as the greater amount of empty space within the Egg Pawn chassis means you can expand the circuitry without compromising actual combat capability. You also cut down on the circuits responsible for built in weapons, the Egg Pawns as envision appear to have been tool users and as such do not need same complex systems beyond a halfway decent learning capacity.
With the processing power out of the way you soon find yourself with a new and cheap robotic warrior for the Doctors robotic legions of justice.
It
reminds you of your creator.
Oddly enough the Egg Pawns seem both more
and less intelligent than the average robot. They are able to use tools well enough and follow instructs.... yet at the same time they also appear to prone to truly stupid errors such as fear and infatuation of all things. Still they should do their jobs as general combat units well enough, even if it will take time to fully integrate them.
Still while fiddling with the base form you where able to implement some variation in their design.
You have 10 Points for Equipment and variations.
Equipment
Egg Spears: A basic melee weapon. 1 Point.
Egg Gun: A light machine gun. 1 Point.
Egg Bazooka: A long ranged weapon that fires a relatively strong laser. 2 Points.
Shield: A shield for the Egg Pawns to increase durability. 1 Point.
Spiked Shield: A shield with spikes that will hurt speedspers that run into and can take some damage from powerful characters such as the Guardian. 2 Points (Requires Shield)
Metal Shields: The strongest shield type currently possible even a powerful warrior would take some effort to smash this defense. 3 Points. (Requires Spiked Shield)
Variants
Egg Pawn (Pilot): A Blue version of the Egg Pawn with a focus on piloting vehicles. 4 Points.
Flapper: An areal version of the Egg Pawn used for scouting. 1 Point.
Egg Diver: An underwater version of the Flapper with a green coloration. 1 Point. (Requires Flapper)
Bomb Flapper: A magenta Flapper variant that drops bombs on the enemy. 2 Points. (Requires Flapper)
Cannon Flapper: A Flapper Variant with a cannon attached. 2 Points. (Requires Flapper)
Gun Flapper: A Flapper with a machine gun attached. 2 Points. (Requires Flapper)
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