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Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)

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God, those poor Titan AIs. Joe's gotta find an alt-earth to give them, or find a way to auto-update them to be ambulatory on their own.

Can I just reiterate how wonderful of a character Garment is? I'm still blown away they were a joke perk from Dodgeball of all things.
 
LordRoustabout said:
On the brighter side, Survey and Garment were set to meet with Parian in her studio in the afternoon, discussing a collaboration of some event for Garment's charity auction. Garment had been ecstatic about the idea and had been preparing all morning. I was happy for her, both for her chance to meet Parian and the good the event could do. It was nice to know that not everything happening was a disaster in that making, or something that would blow up in our face.
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Oh no.
 
LordRoustabout said:
I nodded in understanding. "This stuff always looks a lot better from the outside. Now, come on, I'll show you the Laboratorium."
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LordRoustabout said:
After the summit the flow of powers dropped from its torrential rate to something more manageable. After Aisha left I saw failed connections to the Magic and Alchemy constellation before eventually securing a small mote from the Vehicles constellation.
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LordRoustabout said:
I shifted my attention back to my surroundings as we approached the entrance to the Laboratorium.
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This sequence seems like a consistency error because Aisha has already left in the second quote but is still there in the third. Probably, you meant after Aisha left the room. But until the third quote it reads as though Aisha left the Workshop!
 
How many people are there in the hostage situation? Hmm. You get a titan and you get a titan. Also interesting that Joe's passenger didn't wig out at the word titan.
 
Worth noting is that the game shows a Titanfall Titan working on a farm, implying they are used for more than war in universe. I think it was sending the message of "Titans and Pilots work together no matter what, even outside combat."

But considering that they are very weak by Forge standards, it would be funny for Joe to just be like "Oh these Endbringer sized warmechs? No you've got it all wrong. They're just utility vehicles. Barely more than a tractor really."
 
If you want the Titan chassis to have their own pilots, you could relocate the AI cores into human-scale frames like Fleet and then make them pilot... themselves?
 
cocopanicky said:
I meant Aisha's shard.
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The Shard's observation has been just as thoroughly blocked by the Privacy Curtain as the Simurgh's precog has. The fact that her power still works in there despite this is down to the Washu-tech given by Simple Scientific Solution being what is designed by a literal creator deity of a universe deciding to better understand her own creation in more detail by limiting herself to what can technically be done by a human's ability to manipulate the system they live in with the level of knowledge she has.
 
Psiidmon said:
God, those poor Titan AIs. Joe's gotta find an alt-earth to give them, or find a way to auto-update them to be ambulatory on their own.
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Should be easy enough to do, their not exactly hightech compared to Joe's other techbases.

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How many people are there in the hostage situation?
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Hundreds, also not good to be giving out small war mechs to untrained, tramuatised civies.
Mojave Courier said:
even some of the Primarchs were accepting of xenos, depending on circumstance. The Mechanicus also have sects that are xeno "friendly", so to speak.
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'Urge to insert heresy meme intensifies'.

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Mojave Courier said:
All that's missing now is the literal angel.
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Just need to find a way to turn Survey into a real angel.
 
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I mean, at least if his base is on the moon he's following proper safety protocol. For the most part. As long as he doesn't blow it up as we kinda need it - S class threats escaping his lab will be moonbound for the most part, so it's less a problem! :V

One day, I look forwards to the slip of "Ah, my lab is in another reality. For OSHA Safety Reasons."
 
Can't Joe just design a Super-Multirole Titan that can be used for construction, farming, doctoring, and other various roles with a bit more independence and just enough weapons for self defense and set the factory to making that?

Then just unleash the Armigers/whatever name to provide aid and help out places with a line back home for if they get in trouble.
 
Really, it was a miracle that I was able to teach as much as I had. To say the technology was complex would be underselling it by a ludicrous degree. Even without the near supernatural skill with energy efficiency and miniaturization, it was a tech base that dwarfed any other I had encountered, in breadth if not sophistication.

It was the breadth of the information that actually made teaching it somewhat practical. I had other archives of science and technology to draw upon, but those existed within their own spheres. Each had an assumption of understanding of certain principles and access to certain facilities and materials. Teaching someone the science of Star Trek wouldn't be much use if every practical application needed tools and components that were four centuries away from what could be found on Earth. I had run headlong into the same problem with Master Builder. The scientific principles had their use, but most of the technology was impossible to recreate without energon and cybertonium.

With my tinker power I didn't have that problem, mostly because it was a tinker power. The principles behind even 'simple' projects were still advanced, but the practical applications could always be scaled down to a usable level. It was the famous 'scrap tinkering' phase of building up, where you're stretching your power to work with things that barely fit your needs. What you ended up with was crap compared to more refined projects, but it was functional crap, and that made a difference.
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I like your explanation for why even if humans un black boxed tinker tech they still probably couldn't replicate it. A lot fic's just assume that if tinker shards was less restricted normals could just replicate and mass produce it forgetting that its the Shard that does most of the work. If you gave the Egyptians step by step instructions on how to build a nuclear reactor not only would they fail to grasp the science behind it but would also lack the tools to gather the materials to build it. Dragon at least has a better chance than most given her own shard and her nature as an AI and even then she has trouble doing so.
 
LordRoustabout said:
The Titan Hangar was a combination factory and deployment system, able to produce any kind of Titan I had plans for, and the other item, Titan Chassis – Medium, contained those plans. I could construct any type of Titan on a medium grade chassis just by feeding the materials into the system. It was a highly useful ability that would have probably defined me as a cape if I had gotten it earlier in my career. But just being able to make Titans wasn't enough for the Celestial Forge. No, my power had to automate that.

The Titan Hangar would automatically construct one Titan each day, regardless of material availability. They just rolled out, fully formed with A.I. programmed and installed.
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If the plans for each Titan require Joe's crafting perks (like X component being handmade, Y component needing to be made with X facility, etc) will it produce the Titan with those effects? Furthermore, what sort of ridiculousness would quality boosters do to plans for a device?
 
Really loving this chapter dude! It feels like the pace is picking up even further👍
Is it me or has the crafting aspect of the story taken a backseat as of late? It is probably because the crafting time is so small that any crafting is done instantly, but it is a bit sad that that spark of wonder from the beginning is a bit muted😕
@LordRoustabout is there potentially going to be a Megaproject, that will make Joe partake in the crafting process instead of just his clones? They feel a bit Deus Ex Machina lately🤔
 
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Soon... If the AI is a Friend of their pilots, and the mech is disposable, is the AI backed up?

You don't really befriend someone you know you will only deal with for 15 min, and then never see again...
 
LordRoustabout said:
They decided on MatrixUC79, which leaned a bit hard into the Gundam reference for my taste. Still, it was their preferred form and I wasn't going to argue with that.
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Calling it now, the Matrix is going to be a Gundam Otaku, aren't they? Next thing you know they'll be having Survey import the latest Anime from Aleph, then they'le start shaping themselves into Gundam figurines.
 
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