Skydance (Worm/Macross AU/C53)
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Taliserian
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I'd like to thank everyone for their support. Neither this nor Northern Light are officially dead yet. I've been excessively busy with real life that's seen me doing 16+ hour days on a tight deadline. I've still managed some work on this, however I don't consider a 600-word snippet sufficient for posting; and PHO is going to be difficult to get all the viewpoints in that I want. AllSeeingEye is probably just going to fill her character count with 'bahahaha'. Armsmaster's being surprisingly sensitive, though. Give the man credit, when he sets his sights on doing something, he goes all out.
On the subject: This is the VF-31C with its full set of FAST packs. That's her appearance when she first arrived in Brockton Bay, but she stripped off most of the additional armor, excepting the additional shield plate / missile pack on the outside of the forearm.
This is the VF-31E showing the deployed rotodome. And you can see why I have concerns about the mounting of the rotodome replacing the gunpod / mission pod pack that forms the dorsal turret in hybrid mode. Also, not a fan of the yellow; so I stuck with the C's purple color scheme. Though there is one episode that shows them having the ability to change the color of the craft in a couple seconds while already on the catapult and ready to launch.
Edit: Full specs on the VF-31. Note that at 1/10th scale, that 15m height works out to a hair over 5'. She's actually kinda tiny; but it's a nice round factor and makes my math easier.
On the subject: This is the VF-31C with its full set of FAST packs. That's her appearance when she first arrived in Brockton Bay, but she stripped off most of the additional armor, excepting the additional shield plate / missile pack on the outside of the forearm.
This is the VF-31E showing the deployed rotodome. And you can see why I have concerns about the mounting of the rotodome replacing the gunpod / mission pod pack that forms the dorsal turret in hybrid mode. Also, not a fan of the yellow; so I stuck with the C's purple color scheme. Though there is one episode that shows them having the ability to change the color of the craft in a couple seconds while already on the catapult and ready to launch.
Edit: Full specs on the VF-31. Note that at 1/10th scale, that 15m height works out to a hair over 5'. She's actually kinda tiny; but it's a nice round factor and makes my math easier.
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Going Rogue 2.3
Taliserian
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Piggot threw the tablet on the conference table and scowled at the armored hero. "Report."
Armsmaster sighed slightly and gestured to the large flatscreen on the wall. "You watched it live, Director. I don't see what else I can add. A child with what appears to be arthropod control powers took down the single most dangerous villain this side of the Mississippi. On her first night out."
"Live on that damned robots' youtube stream in front of eleven thousand people. Which is raising some serious questions about our effectiveness. More questions, that is, than were already crawling across the internet since it started broadcasting."
"She."
"Excuse me?" The director's voice was the studied calm of someone barely controlling their fury.
"Skydancer is female, Director. She may look mechanical, she may lack what we'd generally consider female anatomy; but she is a human being who refers to themself as female and it is not our place to disrespect her self-identification as such. She is not just a machine; and using objectifying pronouns treads perilously close to the sort of dehumanizing rhetoric that Kaiser's followers espouse." Armsmaster was adamant.
Emily Piggot rocked back in her chair slightly. Never mind the insubordination implicit in Armsmaster's defense of the robot; that had been far more insightful than the tin soldier was famously thought incapable of. "But we have Lung in custody."
"Yes ma'am; with Panacea monitoring to ensure that he remains safely sedated; which is fortunate because I underestimated the volume of insect venom in his system when dosing him with tranquilizers. We're coordinating with the US Marshals' service and Dragon to arrange secure air transport for he and Mr. Meadows to the Birdcage. The Air National Guard and Skydancer have offered their services as escorts to ensure delivery."
"Any indication of who these 'children' are that our as-yet-unnamed bug Master claims Lung was going after are?"
"No ma'am. I cannot personally think of anything a group of children could do to infuriate Lung to the point of infanticide. The man is many things; but killing children is beneath him."
"I see. And how are you going to stop Skydancer?" Piggot steepled her fingers.
"Stop her from what, Ma'am?" Armsmaster managed to convey a look of confusion. "She's providing valuable real-time reconnaissance and coordinated dispatch services for the entire city, captured one villain on her own and enabled myself to arrive in time to save a new hero who'd overreached, assist them in capturing Lung, and make a favorable first impression in the process. She is not, as she pointed out and our legal team confirms, breaking any laws."
"Meanwhile making us look like a bunch of corrupt, ineffective frauds in front of the entire world!"
Armsmaster hesitated. He knew, without Dragon's prompting for once, that what he was about to say was the wrong thing, socially. But he'd had a very pointed lesson already this evening that sometimes... "Ma'am, that concern about optics over effectiveness is exactly the point that Skydancer's been hammering us with in her broadcast."
Director Piggot stood up abruptly; hand twitching at her hip for a sidearm that wasn't there as the chair toppled to the floor behind her. Instead, she reached for the phone in the middle of the conference table and punched the speaker and a speed-dial button. "This is Director Piggot, authorization code zulu four six alpha. Security to conference room two immediately to escort Armsmaster to Master/Stranger isolation."
"At once Director." The operator on the other end hit the security alert button on her terminal. "We have Chief Director Costa-Brown holding on line one, ma'am. Shall I tell her you'll be a few minutes? She sounded... upset."
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"
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♦ Topic: New Tinker in BB?
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
FineGrind (Original Poster) (Veteran Member)
Posted on April 8, 2011
So I was browsing through the market earlier looking for a replacement pot for my coffee maker when I caught sight of a new face for the Bay's diverse and colorful cape scene. What's so special? Well, from everything I've gathered it's rather rare for a Tinker's first efforts to look this good. If this isn't a first outing; then someone's rebranded themselves radically because I couldn't find a match anywhere on the internet.
Needless to say, I kept my distance. When most of your experience is with Leet and Squealer; you kind of grow to expect tinkertech to just explode randomly. Can't say it exploded; but next thing I knew it had a crossbow bolt lodged in its shoulder courtesy of our local teenage anti-hero. Stalker may have shot it again; because it didn't seem to notice Armsmaster coming up behind with his bike in that stupid-quiet electric drive mode. He hit it with a big flash of electricity from his halberd and the bot went down.
PRT roped the area off and hauled it away. Anyone got more details?
Edit: Thanks to our friendly neighborhood community relations agent, Reave, we now know this is actually a Case 53; not a robot or power armor. That's one of the most radical changes I can think of offhand for a 53; that we've seen, anyways.
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Victoria flipped ahead to the end of the thread and clicked the minute-old livestream link she found there; apparently this new cape was starting a webseries called Panopticon and wanted to share the first episode. After a minute, she lowered the tablet and raised her voice. "Mooooom! I think you'd better see this!"
Armsmaster sighed slightly and gestured to the large flatscreen on the wall. "You watched it live, Director. I don't see what else I can add. A child with what appears to be arthropod control powers took down the single most dangerous villain this side of the Mississippi. On her first night out."
"Live on that damned robots' youtube stream in front of eleven thousand people. Which is raising some serious questions about our effectiveness. More questions, that is, than were already crawling across the internet since it started broadcasting."
"She."
"Excuse me?" The director's voice was the studied calm of someone barely controlling their fury.
"Skydancer is female, Director. She may look mechanical, she may lack what we'd generally consider female anatomy; but she is a human being who refers to themself as female and it is not our place to disrespect her self-identification as such. She is not just a machine; and using objectifying pronouns treads perilously close to the sort of dehumanizing rhetoric that Kaiser's followers espouse." Armsmaster was adamant.
Emily Piggot rocked back in her chair slightly. Never mind the insubordination implicit in Armsmaster's defense of the robot; that had been far more insightful than the tin soldier was famously thought incapable of. "But we have Lung in custody."
"Yes ma'am; with Panacea monitoring to ensure that he remains safely sedated; which is fortunate because I underestimated the volume of insect venom in his system when dosing him with tranquilizers. We're coordinating with the US Marshals' service and Dragon to arrange secure air transport for he and Mr. Meadows to the Birdcage. The Air National Guard and Skydancer have offered their services as escorts to ensure delivery."
"Any indication of who these 'children' are that our as-yet-unnamed bug Master claims Lung was going after are?"
"No ma'am. I cannot personally think of anything a group of children could do to infuriate Lung to the point of infanticide. The man is many things; but killing children is beneath him."
"I see. And how are you going to stop Skydancer?" Piggot steepled her fingers.
"Stop her from what, Ma'am?" Armsmaster managed to convey a look of confusion. "She's providing valuable real-time reconnaissance and coordinated dispatch services for the entire city, captured one villain on her own and enabled myself to arrive in time to save a new hero who'd overreached, assist them in capturing Lung, and make a favorable first impression in the process. She is not, as she pointed out and our legal team confirms, breaking any laws."
"Meanwhile making us look like a bunch of corrupt, ineffective frauds in front of the entire world!"
Armsmaster hesitated. He knew, without Dragon's prompting for once, that what he was about to say was the wrong thing, socially. But he'd had a very pointed lesson already this evening that sometimes... "Ma'am, that concern about optics over effectiveness is exactly the point that Skydancer's been hammering us with in her broadcast."
Director Piggot stood up abruptly; hand twitching at her hip for a sidearm that wasn't there as the chair toppled to the floor behind her. Instead, she reached for the phone in the middle of the conference table and punched the speaker and a speed-dial button. "This is Director Piggot, authorization code zulu four six alpha. Security to conference room two immediately to escort Armsmaster to Master/Stranger isolation."
"At once Director." The operator on the other end hit the security alert button on her terminal. "We have Chief Director Costa-Brown holding on line one, ma'am. Shall I tell her you'll be a few minutes? She sounded... upset."
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"
Activate active stealth systems. I could feel the energy conversion armor start to feast on the radio waves painting my skin. Just to make my point absolutely clear, I used the primary phased-array in my rotodome to paint a pencil thin beam down a reciprocal bearing at the same frequency and a couple orders of magnitude more signal strength. Either they got the hint or I burned out their antenna; but the lock broke without a launch.Aerial said:
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♦ Topic: New Tinker in BB?
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay
FineGrind (Original Poster) (Veteran Member)
Posted on April 8, 2011
So I was browsing through the market earlier looking for a replacement pot for my coffee maker when I caught sight of a new face for the Bay's diverse and colorful cape scene. What's so special? Well, from everything I've gathered it's rather rare for a Tinker's first efforts to look this good. If this isn't a first outing; then someone's rebranded themselves radically because I couldn't find a match anywhere on the internet.
Needless to say, I kept my distance. When most of your experience is with Leet and Squealer; you kind of grow to expect tinkertech to just explode randomly. Can't say it exploded; but next thing I knew it had a crossbow bolt lodged in its shoulder courtesy of our local teenage anti-hero. Stalker may have shot it again; because it didn't seem to notice Armsmaster coming up behind with his bike in that stupid-quiet electric drive mode. He hit it with a big flash of electricity from his halberd and the bot went down.
PRT roped the area off and hauled it away. Anyone got more details?
Edit: Thanks to our friendly neighborhood community relations agent, Reave, we now know this is actually a Case 53; not a robot or power armor. That's one of the most radical changes I can think of offhand for a 53; that we've seen, anyways.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On April 9, 2011:
I mean, it could be a hybrid. We've seen tinkers build prosthetic arms before, why not just build a couple into your power armor if you couldn't beat a three-year old at a game of patty-cake?
►Sean_Knot_Herd
Replied On April 9, 2011:
That still doesn't explain the waistline, Cowboy. I'm telling you, there's no way there's enough interal volume to fit a person. Remote control makes the most sense; but that's , like, Dragon level tech and I can't see a Tinker developing the infrastructure to deploy something like this without making a public showing beforehand.
►Pushing_Tin
Replied On April 9, 2011:
I work in Cheyanne Mountain. Back in the day it was all hush-hush, watch-for-nukes Norad stuff. These days, with the manned space programs ended, we really don't have a lot to do but keep an eye on a certain Endbringer. Then I get a handoff from Boston area; a new parahuman with a transponder (I wish more would carry them!) doing flight envelope testing. Described themself as being a 'six foot tinkertech jet'. When they were handed off to me they were already up in the speedbird routes reserved for the Concorde and military fast movers.
in a 45-degree climb, this new parahuman broke mach five and got outside the atmosphere. Retrograde. While in space, they changed their orbital inclination enough to decend towards Hawaii. On her return trip, she kept it to a much more sedate mach 3.5 atmospheric flight.
I'm pretty sure that makes them one of the fastest fliers short of Legend that I can find record of.
►Skydancer (Unverified Cape)(Case 53)
Replied On April 9, 2011:
Aloha Tin; did you see the video I uploaded of that flight? Should have thought to pop out a drone for an external shot or two. That'd make for a hell of a verification pic; wouldn't it? Instead I sent in a couple shots of me flying around Haleakala. Nobody up there but astronomers; and they're not known for daytime photography.
►BrocktonBayMod (Verified Moderator)
Replied On April 9, 2011:
Welcome Skydancer; we'll accept your photos, considering you livestreamed your suborbital flight (O.O) and I've personally seen you down by the DWU.
►Skydancer (Verified Cape)(Case 53)
Replied On April 9 2011:
Thank you BBM. So; hello PHO. As you can guess by the above, I'm a Case 53 who happens to look like a totally awesome purple transforming robot jet. Which has its ups and downs.
Getting some things out of the way first: Yes, I am almost entirely mechanical. Think about it kinda like having a really advanced prosthetic arm, except for your entire body. According to Dragon, only parts of my organic brain haven't been replaced as well.
That would probably keep me up at night but thankfully I can switch myself off.
As Pushing_Tin has described, in my fighter shape I'm faster than anything air-breathing that's ever flown; though I won't confirm or deny any guesses as to my actual top atmospheric speed. I was going fast enough when I throttled back that flight; I didn't want to end up in China. I am capable of exoatmospheric maneuvering; but I won't disclose my total delta-V capabilities. I will say that they're high enough for me to consider the Simurgh a navigational hazard and I have no desire to get anywhere close to that feathery menace.
My other capabilities also make the poor, aborted F-22 Raptor program wish they could have copied me. I have reconnaissance, ecm/eccm, elint and infowar capabilities Lockmart only fantasized about. I am also armed (No; I'm not describing my weapons for you) and carry a small number of deployable utility drones. They're slow, but versatile.
So, that's the brief description, anyone have any questions? Other than the obviously pointless ones to ask a C53?
►Dreadnought (Verified Cape)(Verified Shipwright)
Replied On April 10, 2011:
Skydancer, you had said that you're a c53, but does your robotic body heal or do you need to actually repair damage done to you? If you have to repair yourself, are you a Tinker beyond said self-repair? If so, do you have any interest in potential collaboration projects?
►Skydancer (Verified Cape)(Case 53)
Replied On April 10, 2011:
Dreadnought, I do heal at about the same pace as a normal person; but a patch of titanium and a welder fixed the hole Shadow Stalker shot in my starboard canard a lot faster. (I also feel pain, Shadow Stalker. Just an FYI) I don't know if I'd call myself a Tinker, per say; but I do understand my own systems well enough to fabricate replacement parts, given the right tools and resources. Or provide blueprints detailed enough for any competent aerospace engineer to fab them. I've checked out some of your work on here and I have to say, I'm impressed. I'll shoot you a PM and we can discuss collaboration. Stars know I could use a hand getting my ow shop off the ground.
►Faultline (Verified Cape)
Replied On April 10, 2011:
I might be able to help with some startup capitol as well, if you're interested in some paying work. But as you say, that's the sort of thing best discussed in PM.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On April 10, 2011:
Wait, when you say you want a hand getting your shop off the ground; do you mean literally strapping jet engines to it and having it hover over the city? Because that'd be pretty cool!
Replied On April 9, 2011:
I mean, it could be a hybrid. We've seen tinkers build prosthetic arms before, why not just build a couple into your power armor if you couldn't beat a three-year old at a game of patty-cake?
►Sean_Knot_Herd
Replied On April 9, 2011:
That still doesn't explain the waistline, Cowboy. I'm telling you, there's no way there's enough interal volume to fit a person. Remote control makes the most sense; but that's , like, Dragon level tech and I can't see a Tinker developing the infrastructure to deploy something like this without making a public showing beforehand.
►Pushing_Tin
Replied On April 9, 2011:
I work in Cheyanne Mountain. Back in the day it was all hush-hush, watch-for-nukes Norad stuff. These days, with the manned space programs ended, we really don't have a lot to do but keep an eye on a certain Endbringer. Then I get a handoff from Boston area; a new parahuman with a transponder (I wish more would carry them!) doing flight envelope testing. Described themself as being a 'six foot tinkertech jet'. When they were handed off to me they were already up in the speedbird routes reserved for the Concorde and military fast movers.
in a 45-degree climb, this new parahuman broke mach five and got outside the atmosphere. Retrograde. While in space, they changed their orbital inclination enough to decend towards Hawaii. On her return trip, she kept it to a much more sedate mach 3.5 atmospheric flight.
I'm pretty sure that makes them one of the fastest fliers short of Legend that I can find record of.
►Skydancer (Unverified Cape)(Case 53)
Replied On April 9, 2011:
Aloha Tin; did you see the video I uploaded of that flight? Should have thought to pop out a drone for an external shot or two. That'd make for a hell of a verification pic; wouldn't it? Instead I sent in a couple shots of me flying around Haleakala. Nobody up there but astronomers; and they're not known for daytime photography.
►BrocktonBayMod (Verified Moderator)
Replied On April 9, 2011:
Welcome Skydancer; we'll accept your photos, considering you livestreamed your suborbital flight (O.O) and I've personally seen you down by the DWU.
►Skydancer (Verified Cape)(Case 53)
Replied On April 9 2011:
Thank you BBM. So; hello PHO. As you can guess by the above, I'm a Case 53 who happens to look like a totally awesome purple transforming robot jet. Which has its ups and downs.
Getting some things out of the way first: Yes, I am almost entirely mechanical. Think about it kinda like having a really advanced prosthetic arm, except for your entire body. According to Dragon, only parts of my organic brain haven't been replaced as well.
That would probably keep me up at night but thankfully I can switch myself off.
As Pushing_Tin has described, in my fighter shape I'm faster than anything air-breathing that's ever flown; though I won't confirm or deny any guesses as to my actual top atmospheric speed. I was going fast enough when I throttled back that flight; I didn't want to end up in China. I am capable of exoatmospheric maneuvering; but I won't disclose my total delta-V capabilities. I will say that they're high enough for me to consider the Simurgh a navigational hazard and I have no desire to get anywhere close to that feathery menace.
My other capabilities also make the poor, aborted F-22 Raptor program wish they could have copied me. I have reconnaissance, ecm/eccm, elint and infowar capabilities Lockmart only fantasized about. I am also armed (No; I'm not describing my weapons for you) and carry a small number of deployable utility drones. They're slow, but versatile.
So, that's the brief description, anyone have any questions? Other than the obviously pointless ones to ask a C53?
►Dreadnought (Verified Cape)(Verified Shipwright)
Replied On April 10, 2011:
Skydancer, you had said that you're a c53, but does your robotic body heal or do you need to actually repair damage done to you? If you have to repair yourself, are you a Tinker beyond said self-repair? If so, do you have any interest in potential collaboration projects?
►Skydancer (Verified Cape)(Case 53)
Replied On April 10, 2011:
Dreadnought, I do heal at about the same pace as a normal person; but a patch of titanium and a welder fixed the hole Shadow Stalker shot in my starboard canard a lot faster. (I also feel pain, Shadow Stalker. Just an FYI) I don't know if I'd call myself a Tinker, per say; but I do understand my own systems well enough to fabricate replacement parts, given the right tools and resources. Or provide blueprints detailed enough for any competent aerospace engineer to fab them. I've checked out some of your work on here and I have to say, I'm impressed. I'll shoot you a PM and we can discuss collaboration. Stars know I could use a hand getting my ow shop off the ground.
►Faultline (Verified Cape)
Replied On April 10, 2011:
I might be able to help with some startup capitol as well, if you're interested in some paying work. But as you say, that's the sort of thing best discussed in PM.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied On April 10, 2011:
Wait, when you say you want a hand getting your shop off the ground; do you mean literally strapping jet engines to it and having it hover over the city? Because that'd be pretty cool!
Victoria flipped ahead to the end of the thread and clicked the minute-old livestream link she found there; apparently this new cape was starting a webseries called Panopticon and wanted to share the first episode. After a minute, she lowered the tablet and raised her voice. "Mooooom! I think you'd better see this!"
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- Location
- Hell
And crazy cape mom is going to go hypocrite on us isn't she?
HereticMIND
[happy_robot_dinosaur_noises.flac]
- Location
- Howard County, MD
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- He/Him/His
If she didn't, I'd be crying foul.
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- In the depts of despair.
I don't see which button can Sky press for the crazy to happen.
What I would pay good money to see is how Piggot is going to word to her superior officer refusing the request of legal aid inside the office of a federal law enforcement agency of a grievously injured Case53 and do so under pain of death or dismemberment.
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- Hell
She or coill will find a way to twist it you just for those 2 schmucks to do that.
Even my dice agrees!
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- Location
- Italy
One minor nitpick, you put her down as unverified and then verified. Since we see the posts from GG's perspective rather than real time, she should only see the verified tags.
- Location
- California
I have to admit that if Armsmaster started being socially perceptive to me, I'd call M/S alerts.
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- In the depts of despair.
There are very few villains in the BB area that can counter the threat Skydancer represents even if they catch her in the ground. Grue is a very soft counter in which his darkness may be able to degrade radar enough to get under cover (ideally a place filled with people to discourage a bomb in the center of the black spot), the Merchants and/or Leet might be able to improvise either an AA vehicle or even a jet if they get the time and materials (bet you $5 it falls into pieces even before Sky starts dogfighting), a few other blasters and portable SAMs in the hand of experts. But the only two person with something approaching a chance to deal with him are Purity and Bakuda, with the former being a mover with enough firepower to actually force Sky to evade the lasers and the later a bomb tinker who is probably capable of creating a tinkerteck missile capable of tracking and hunting an hyperadvanced Space rated fighter bomber.
Taliserian
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- They/Them
Grue's darkness will be quite effective against almost all of Sky's senses; except her fold wave detectors which are only really useful for spotting teleporters. With the right resources and inspiration, Leet can build anything. Purity isn't a direct threat because, again, Sky is hypersonic. The only canon flyer I can think of that can actually catch her is Legend. Purity is however a threat to civilians.
Of course Bakuda can make rockets. A rocket is just a shaped charge where whole point is to maximize recoil.
Bakuda is going to have issues hitting Sky Dancer unless she's caught by surprise. Macross variable fighters do have good point defenses. There's a reason it's called a Macross Missile Massacre. You need that many missiles to overwhelm a aware VF's defenses.
And since she's the E model, Sky Dancer can probably mess with Bakuda's bomb control system.
I wonder if there's a way for Protectorate members to lodge complaints against misuse of the master/stranger protocols.
And since she's the E model, Sky Dancer can probably mess with Bakuda's bomb control system.
I wonder if there's a way for Protectorate members to lodge complaints against misuse of the master/stranger protocols.
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it wouldn't degrade radar it'd show up as a blank hole in the radar detection cause his darkness absorbs the radio waves rather than allow them to bounce which depending on the signal handling might either make him invisible to it or stand out like a sore thumb as the only point not providing any sort of radar echo
Battleship_Fusou
(The Itty-Bitty Pretty Battleship Kitty)
- Location
- Surigao Strait
Excellent chapter and I wonder what will come of that collaboration... *laughs softly*.
Regardless, I'm betting that Armsmaster is so perceptive and reasonable with Skydancer because of her mechanical nature. Much in the same way he relates to Dragon much more easily than to flesh and blood humans.
Regardless, I'm betting that Armsmaster is so perceptive and reasonable with Skydancer because of her mechanical nature. Much in the same way he relates to Dragon much more easily than to flesh and blood humans.
nullptr
Mostly Harmless
- Location
- The 906
Not thinking enough like a villan there. Can't hit your target because they won't sit still? Make them. Something to attract their attention and demand they do something predictable. The local civilian populace will be happy to help out. Well, not happy, really, but you get the point.
If you can get her to stand still you don't need a missile. Then again, Bakuda could make the initial mistake thinking black market shoulder launched missile with one of her warheads will be enough. "She's a jet, right? This thing is supposed to shoot down jets, right?" Only to have the thing swatted out of the air.
Not saying Bakuda would be an easy fight, what with all the hostages and weird effects from the bombs, but Sky Dancer has a lot more options then most others. Beside the obvious I'm mainly thinking about her electronic warfare gear. Bakuda has to use something that transmits and potentially receives data.
Not saying Bakuda would be an easy fight, what with all the hostages and weird effects from the bombs, but Sky Dancer has a lot more options then most others. Beside the obvious I'm mainly thinking about her electronic warfare gear. Bakuda has to use something that transmits and potentially receives data.
- Location
- Australia
- Pronouns
- She/Her
That, and he's always the sort to appreciate efficiency.
Tisaku
Head Chief Thinkomancer
appearance
-I believe it is called 'resignation'.-
- Location
- The deathworld-in-miniature that is Australia
- Pronouns
- They/Them
No, optics works here. The optics of an action or situation is how people see it.
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Taliserian
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- ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha
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- They/Them
Plus; corporate buzzword
Armsmaster isn't a stupid person, just a supremely focused one. His social difficulties are from considering them irrelevant details. Once it's pointed out to him strongly enough that "Hey, this stuff is important too." his own arrogance demands that he master this overlooked skill as quickly as possible.
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Got to ask, how the hell did Armmaster's Halberd Taser thing even managed to knock out our MC in the first place? Even if she is weaker due to being smaller and all, she is still one of the latest generations of Valkyrie in existence. Protection against EMP is practically standard for that kind of craft and would have been designed to take much more energy than the tinker tech taser Armmaster would have been able to produce. In fact, the Energy Conversion Armour, in particular, literally uses a system that makes use of its Overtechnology-derived laminated layered armour that increases in strength in response to EMPs. The taser thing that Armmaster used should have helped her rather than knock her down. It's like that scene in Avengers with Thor vs Ironman and Thor's lightning literally charged Ironman suit.
Got to ask, how the hell did Armmaster's Halberd Taser thing even managed to knock out our MC in the first place? Even if she is weaker due to being smaller and all, she is still one of the latest generations of Valkyrie in existence. Protection against EMP is practically standard for that kind of craft and would have been designed to take much more energy than the tinker tech taser Armmaster would have been able to produce. In fact, the Energy Conversion Armour, in particular, literally uses a system that makes use of its Overtechnology-derived laminated layered armour that increases in strength in response to EMPs. The taser thing that Armmaster used should have helped her rather than knock her down. It's like that scene in Avengers with Thor vs Ironman and Thor's lightning literally charged Ironman suit.
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Basically all of Sky's secondary systems except for basic visual/audio senses and locomotion were offline until Aerial activated. That includes the ECA. Also, there's a difference between an Electromagnetic pulse and a direct short circuit across an area not well-protected by ECA, such as the back of the neck. I couldn't find the exact model of ECA used on the VF-31; but the -25's from Frontier use a model called SWAG; it's one of the things that's listed as offline due to lack of power when she reboots in Armsmaster's lab.
If it makes you feel better, the taser strike was partially absorbed; it plus the power saved by shutting down Sky's consciousness temporarily is where the power to activate Aerial and start her integration came from.
If it makes you feel better, the taser strike was partially absorbed; it plus the power saved by shutting down Sky's consciousness temporarily is where the power to activate Aerial and start her integration came from.
This is entirely post-hoc ass-covering. I wasn't thinking in terms of ECA at the time; the story needed her tased, she got tased.
