I'd offer, but I have this odd tendency when editing stuff to forget I'm editing stuff, read it, move along to the next thing to read, and come back hours later realizing I forgot to edit.
And now I'm hearing everything he says in that voice... it's a good thing.
Of course not! Arcadia is a shuttle of wealth and taste, she has standards!Like I would let some backwater dirtsiders finger my controls.
Yeah, I'm gonna throw my argument in as well. It's something of an in joke for Winter and only Winter's friends who ask about it. Plus it's practical for a pile of reasons. I at least loved it to death.
And does it have a Sovereign voice modulator for "aggressive negotiations"? Or just plain intimidating the heck out of people. If he can't have the Reaper body he might as well go for the Voice...I'm just wondering how paranoid Arcadia is ... is the shuttle body armed? Do they have the 'heavy duty body' on board, you know, just in case.
I'm just wondering how paranoid Arcadia is ... is the shuttle body armed?
And does it have a Sovereign voice modulator for "aggressive negotiations"? Or just plain intimidating the heck out of people. If he can't have the Reaper body he might as well go for the Voice...
Or just outright Out of Context Problem.You should save the really good ship names for when you get to pilot something larger. The Federation wouldn't really know what to make of a starship that named itself the General Disregard for Convention or some other suitably Culture-esque name.
IIRC, all shuttles are armed. Not enough to be remotely a threat to anything bigger than another shuttle even with an AI letting them aimdodge incoming fire, but enough that bringing a shuttle to an infantry fight is pretty much the same as bringing a tank to gunfight.I'm just wondering how paranoid Arcadia is ... is the shuttle body armed? Do they have the 'heavy duty body' on board, you know, just in case. Heck, do they have the Geth body, just in case they need to get out and around for some reason. I'm thinking, if they can do custom upgrades to the shuttle body, some dedicated small drones that it can deploy internally or externally would be useful. Hands are almost always useful.
Oh, and not that it counts, but I have to say, I'm another vote for the mini-reaper body ... even if the sphere has tractors and can fake being a culture drone (yay, effectors), there is something to be said for manipulators (and a last ditch mobility system) that weird local physics is less likely to break ... because it's not like that ever happens in ST.
As a variant term for their bodies, Transhuman Space uses the term 'shell' for situations like this, not sure if that's a bit of slang they want to try and use.
I will say, it's a lot of fun to see somebody who's really diving into the "I'm not human, let's see how far we can take this." thing.
I wasn't thinking a runabout specifically, but something the size of one. Basically, just big enough to carry around cargo or a few biologicals in reasonable comfort when you want to bring friends along.Pair of phasers ... okay, so he's got weapons, cutting tools, cooking systems, and random zap covered ... needs a proper deflector dish[1] though for the full USS Make Shit Up fun and games.
I have to agree with @Crazael that a runabout would be a good next step for him, though I can see Starfleet be twichy about long-range FTL, micro-torps, and all the other amusements those bring along.
[1] I can never remember if those shuttles are FTL capable or not[2], but even it does have warp capability and the associated navigational deflector systems, you seem to need a highly visible dish for proper treknobabble bullshit.[3]
[2] In my defence the writers could never seem to make their mind up about it either.
[3] Also Hiver does have a tendency to make the rules for the settings he's running around in more coherent to make for a better writing experience, so I'm expecting to see less 'bullshit of the day' shenanigans anyway.
On one hand, using something that's a somewhat modified Runabout has the advantage of 'off the shelf' parts, and presumably Starfleet ships (that are big enough to expect to dock a Runabout at all) have bays with a ship of that exact size in mind, including all the standard connections for refuelling and so forth.I wasn't thinking a runabout specifically, but something the size of one. Basically, just big enough to carry around cargo or a few biologicals in reasonable comfort when you want to bring friends along.
"off"
"that", "would"Besides, when sitting on as much Telxinite a beam up with leave about as much left of them as if I turned my phaserbanks on them.
"off"Most likely it was either remote detonated or pressure triggered to go of when I left atmosphere, but I didn't really feel like risking it when I was outright sitting on what from the energy signature of the bomb was about the equivalent of about five tons of TNT.
"fine"When I hit the upper atmosphere it would initiate a reaction in the contained warp plasma, creating a detonation powerful enough to turn me into a very find cloud of shrapnel. Make sense, they didn't want to explode their entire space port.
... while I hailed the Andromeda. I can beam the resulting mess of atoms down when I get into orbit again.
Then I activated my subspace transmitter.
I'm here, as always.
I believe the problem with the reaper was limited throughput. Putting the ball inside the reaper would not help in any way.i have a solution to the no chibi reaper problem. you can just have the ball in a reaper, then the reaper in the shuttle. that way theres even more possibility for escape than just the ball.
'let those' 'let them' One of those has got to go."We can't let those dictators let them tear our world apart. You know they will."
I suspect that was meant to be 'off' the ground.
It has two detonators?It looked like the detonator was attached to a battery linked to what I could only assume was a detonator linked to a containment unit holding warp plasma.