Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
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- Limbo
*smashes headfirst through the wall, face-skidding across the floor, before coming up to rest against the opposite wall with a flop*
... I'm alive...
I'll list them in a minute.
... I'm alive...
That makes... five?
I remember these!
I'll list them in a minute.
And there's the GLaDoSNow for something completely different.
- (Unified Light/Counter Force) Magical Girl Machine Code
Caroline McLain
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And here is a fine example of Machine Code's Modern Arsenal. Crystal has dibs on the rest of the drones by the way should she ever appear.
- (Machine Code) Super Heavy Infantry Vehicle
SHIV-chan~
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Character notes:
After a year of working with Machine Code, the Unified Light is well aware of the fact that she is coldly logical. They have made deals and contracted her accordingly. Frankly, she's a lot closer to a merc than your average MG. If you've seen Darker than Black, think about the Contractors and the Syndicate, but with drastically less shady intentions. They actually even tried to get her to see a therapist by making it a stipulation in her contract before realizing after two meetings with her therapist that nothing would change besides irritating Machine Code.
Her drones and bots are specially constructed by Machine Code, with the Pillar providing all the materials necessary to build them. After seeing the performance of the first test batch of 5 (costing 500,000$) in live combat, the Pillar was interested in procuring more, but ran into the fact that Machine Code's programming was pretty much incomprehensible. As one programmer inspecting the code later said, "It's Magic, we can't explain shit." So direct copies of her work are impossible. On the plus side, some of her pieces of work have since been shipped out to serve as inspiration for improvements in the Pillar's autonomous drones, and is being pursued with a modest budget, most of which is for paying programmers to create new software for a planned mass-produced version of Machine Codes 'bots. They expect it to take three to four years to create something with 75% of the effectiveness of the average Pillar rifleman in certain roles. Particularly where discretion is not needed nor advised.
On Predictive Modeling, this ability is what turns an otherwise mediocre Magical Girl into a strategic asset. Her ability to predict how a battle will turn out 95% of the time has helped inform Commanding Officers what the correct decision in a battle is. Unfortunately, that success rate only exists in a perfect situation where Machine Code starts with all the information on both sides. The reality is that currently, with Earth under siege and the situation turning fluid, her predictions have turned sour due to a lack on reliable information on what exactly the Dark is up to.
Team Binary, Machine Code's team, is nominally there to protect her from any and all threats. And for the first month, they did! They deployed with her to several battles before losing two members and all the drones along for the ride, annihilating several brigades from the 18th Legion. At which point, Team Binary's CO realized that Machine Code could've done the same thing, back at base. Now the three remaining members still 'protect' her. Although generally they're really protecting the ignorants who try to interact with the hikkikomori otaku that is Machine Code when they're notbabysittingassisting her with whatever she needs.
Is it sad that I can still see these two being friends? As in best friends?
In all seriousness though, the Doylist reason I had her programming work be incomprehensible was that if the Counter Force had a viable way to supplement or replace the average soldier with semi-autonomous drones for an affordable price, they'd be all over it, and since she's been around for about a year now, they'd be in full mass production already if they had programming that could be reverse engineered. Instead, they're just in limited production minus any microprocessors for Machine Code to finish and then use at her discretion.
Kind of the reason she's not cannon.
Fixed,
