Super Robot Quest
- Thread starter Basarin
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Science Report: Carlson Laboratories, Kaiju Biotechnology Study #3
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- USA
Good god. That was a terrible week of crunch time. I don't recommend it to anyone, but sleep deprivation was the least of our worries. It's done though!
Daniel Khana's also whipping up some new art. I won't spoil the nature of it, but you'll get to see additional visualizations of what the DFRI has developed up to now. Stay tuned!
Daniel Khana's also whipping up some new art. I won't spoil the nature of it, but you'll get to see additional visualizations of what the DFRI has developed up to now. Stay tuned!
"Sam here. A quick announcement to everyone in the know - we have made another breakthrough in Kaiju Biotechnology!"
"Right, pop quiz: What is the one thing you imagine when the word 'dragon' comes to mind?"
<Images of early 20th-century aircraft fly across the screen>
"Okay, they fly, but no. Other thing."
<Images of flamethrowers spewing flames replace the former images>
"No, the OTHER other thing-"
<Further images of a dragon terrorizing a village with a mockup of a knight riding into battle replace the next set of images>
"Editor, ARE YOU EVEN PAYING ATTENTION TO THE NEWS LATELY-"
*bzzt*
"Right. Quiz was canceled, I'll spell it out for you. We've fully mapped the ins and outs of Kaiju Sample One - the Dragon's Horn."
"Now, this is an entirely different specimen than Sample Zero. Sample Zero is effectively scale mail." An image of the Beowulf and Timberwolf being struck in battle are slowed to a stop as calculations of kinetic force and its effective nullification from the overlaid schematics of K-Scale are displayed. "It's very, very good at becoming a layer of protective armor - but it's not so great when you try to make weapons out of it." Further images of failed attempts to utilize K-Scale in weaponry - most noticeably the aborted Pilebunker prototype and a Beowulf-scale sword - are displayed as well. "We chalked it up to the original character of Sample Zero: it was protective armor, therefore every derivative of it was damned well also going to be protective somehow. Good news: it's very good at that job. Bad news: it's only going to do that particular job."
"Enter the Dragon's Horn."
A playback of the Kaiju Dragon at San Diego spewing acid all across the Naval Base, along with its repeated attempts to gore the Timberwolf, reveals itself in the background as footage focuses on the horn itself. "This thing is a beast. It had one basic goal in mind: to destroy. Did a fair job of cracking K-Scale - the only real thing aside from Kausen technology that comes close to doing it - and it's incredibly versatile. It's shown it can be used to shoot things, and to stab things - it's like a biological version of a pistol bayonet."
Ivanna's avatar materializes in the corner, bowing momentarily before addressing the viewers. "We also had a hypothesis that if the K-Scale resisted attempts to form itself as offensive weaponry, this would also resist attempts to model itself as protective equipment. And initial attempts are proving this to be correct - " Brittle imitations of K-Scale, all made from samples grown from the Horn, are shown to abruptly shatter under stress tests, " - so we highly advise against attempting to craft armor out of it. It's just not proving to be very practical at all."
"Just like Ivanna said. But it makes for one hell of an offensive piece of kit. Initial small scale tests are promising, but we didn't have the budget left over to make anything concrete." Images of ammunition tipped with Sample One piercing through modern armor, ranging from Chobham to K-Scale, a personal-sized knife lined with Sample One, and others are shown, all proving to be rather terrifying in their efficiencies. "Techies aren't sure what the hell to call this yet; we're not just calling it Dragon's Horn or Sample One anymore, no more than we kept calling K-Scale Sample Zero. So the jury's out on an official designation for the newest line in K-Class Materials. Marketing or not, we've done some great Science!"
SCIENCE!
"Thank you, boys and girls."
Ivanna again speaks, "This will open up entire new lines of approach for the Engineering department to begin pursuing. Retrofits of older equipment, new classes of weaponry...we could try all sorts of things. And, as always, we remain ready to try even newer things or to refine what we have - it's up to the decision of the command staff and the Commandant of the Institute. Thank you for your support!"
"We'll keep digging into it, but this is another major step forwards. Along with that weird triple bot Yukimura and Lana's cooked up, we're making great strides here, and there's nowhere else to go but forward!"
"Sam Carlson, we're done here!"
New K-Class Materials researched!
Dragon's Horn [new name pending] unlocks new Research Actions!
Dedicated K-Class Weaponry Materials can be pursued!
Dragon's Horn [new name pending] unlocks new Research Actions!
Dedicated K-Class Weaponry Materials can be pursued!
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
- Location
- USoA
Sounds like the horn is a focusing device shaped like a spear.
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
Well now that was informative. And now we have more stuff to try out with the Kaiju Tech that we have unlocked thanks to the Dragons Horn I kind of hope to turn it into a ray gun of some kind since we do need something like that.
I think that if you have an idea you pitch it in turn vote on the experimental projects option.
(Bolding's mine)
As I understand it you pitch an idea and the engineering team sees if that is workable.
meganeshounen
*tips glasses*
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- Far East Asia
So yeah, until we crack the Master Code for reshaping K-Material, like Dr. Sheol, we're stuck replicating the abilities of the original samples.
Fortunately, we have two of them, and they're both different.
Weapon Plan Proposal: Spiked Knuckles, Halberds
Fortunately, we have two of them, and they're both different.
Weapon Plan Proposal: Spiked Knuckles, Halberds
- Location
- England, unfortunately.
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- She/They
Wait
We're basically gao gai Gar right?
I think we all know what we're aimming for eventually...
Edit: It's either that or Sanger Zonvolts Sword, and if we go the latter, I demand the person using it yell "CHESTOOOOOO!"
We're basically gao gai Gar right?
I think we all know what we're aimming for eventually...
Edit: It's either that or Sanger Zonvolts Sword, and if we go the latter, I demand the person using it yell "CHESTOOOOOO!"
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So, now we can upgrade the Blazing Fist, to be even better?
meganeshounen
*tips glasses*
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- Far East Asia
That's good too.
I was just also taking into consideration the Dragon Horn's "stubbornness" in being reshaped into something that doesn't resemble its original part. Thus, the halberd.
Then again, with just a scale, our scientists managed to get as far as electrically charged weaponry, so your point still holds.
EvaUnit01
Kept you waiting, huh?
Not that I disapprove, but how are we going to make the things that get smashed disappear into light?
Still a lot more research before we can get into that.
....although right now I'd actually rate a Dividing Driver or similar tech as higher priority in case of collateral damage prevention...
???
Acid that conducts high levels of electricity or other forms of destructive energy to cause the weakened solid matter to lose cohesion and thus evaporate in a way that serves to refract the ambient light in the area?
Seems obvious to me.
GilliamYaeger
M'crazy.
- Location
- USA
*checks back in*
*sees a large number of tags for his post*
Welp. Least I know I'm not too rusty yet.
@TehChron, @Massgamer - You now have a rough idea of what you can use it for. You can pretty much see how the kaiju was using it during the San Diego mission, but now you have to see what your samples can do on a Super Robot scale.
And @SITB is also right in that while I will provide some ideas that the Engineers are going to come up with (along with additional advances Carlson will suggest), if you want to be creative, go for it! Whether it works or not is a discussion between you and the almighty number gods.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to catch up on sleep. Blessed, blessed sleep.
*sees a large number of tags for his post*
Welp. Least I know I'm not too rusty yet.
@TehChron, @Massgamer - You now have a rough idea of what you can use it for. You can pretty much see how the kaiju was using it during the San Diego mission, but now you have to see what your samples can do on a Super Robot scale.
And @SITB is also right in that while I will provide some ideas that the Engineers are going to come up with (along with additional advances Carlson will suggest), if you want to be creative, go for it! Whether it works or not is a discussion between you and the almighty number gods.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to catch up on sleep. Blessed, blessed sleep.
shinkiro
absolute madmage
- Location
- Gensokyo
hmm whats the densest material we have abaible. because i have an iea forming in my head if we ever get anti gravity techs. lance with a dragon horn tip, the rest of the outer layer being k scale, and then a combiantion of the anti grave and said dense material let us havea weapon that is lightwight till we need the extrea inerta to punch holes in things.
meganeshounen
*tips glasses*
- Location
- Far East Asia
Sorta maybe kinda?
We can probably make a bigass sword that instead of using a normal or superheated blade, its edge would be near-perpetually filled with acid.
That should make for sharp (yet potentially messy) cuts.
Or if you want a ranged option, make a gun that fires a superfast, supercompressed stream of acid. Like an industrial water jet cutter, but more hazardous.
Okay, so the K-Scale is mostly layered over whatever its protecting. Like scales.
The Horn apparently is best at offensive applications, but it tends to take a penetrative angle, it doesn't seem to have very good durability(as seen by it being severed relatively easily). So to sum it up.
Most of the applications would be using horn-tips as cutters, penetrators or injectors.
I propose K-Shard Weaponry(it was going to be K-Tip but it sounded weird):
-Kat Claws - K-Shard retractable claw weaponry on anything with fingers in case of tentacle monsters or other grapplers. This is to be considered holdout weaponry unless we have a martial artist pilot that can actually use them better. For those we might want to consider K-Shard Katars, spiked helms, shard-whips or bladed bracers.
-K-Fangs - K-Shards would be difficult to use on a blade unless you use it like a Macuahuitl, because it doesn't like to form coats and its brittle if used to parry, it likes to form pointy bits. You can get around this with a different supermaterial sword spine(steel or Zirvitium with K-Scale reinforcement) and then mounting the tips into slots so that the tips don't have to withstand much damage and can be ejected and replace like a shark's teeth...which brings to mind, why not mount the shards on a movable belt so you can reload them throughout the fight from a magazine in the hilt? Which goes to "why not make it go faster" and accidentally arrive at a chainsword.
-K-Thunder - So, remember our big railgun? The gun is fancy and shit, but the ammo is 'just' steel at sufficient velocity. Why not make it a K-Shard penetrator backed by a steel core so the railgun still works?
-K-Stinger- Or we could just use the horn straight, grow a spear, attach a more durable shaft and use that. Since this would be using a 'whole' horn mounted on a stick, it could probably include a powerful acid injector once it penetrates outer armor.
You know, I never realized Hammer Connect involved shoving the fist up Goldymarg's butt until an unfortunate 2 second lag showing that scene in slow motion...
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Kinda underestimating the synergies with Psi-energy leaving imprints in terms of functionality and it's ability to synergize with K-Scale.
We don't need it to be limited to projecting acid.
We can train it to project other things as well.
Probably. These are just v1 ideas. You know, like when we first got K-scale? We sure as hell couldn't do a quarter of the things we're doing now. But we're in a constant war, and we need stuff we can fab right now before the next fight, and we also need longer term researches.
From what I can tell our current research is already fully capable of creating all my proposals. It just needs to grow lots of relatively small pieces of horn. Which we already do.
We can retool the weapons over to these in one turn easily while we work on the longer term prospects of training it to form whole blades, thrusters, catalysts or blunt weapons.
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
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- Liberl Zemuria.
@Basarin can we have some more options to increase our income? I ask because we are about to enter Tier 2 on the tech tree and I would like to have some more resources to work with. And since we just acquired 2 new researchers for our team that means that research will go a little better and faster. And then there is the 3 AI from the Mechanical men that are due either next turn or the one after. As for my own list I wont change anything an djust jave the next AI that is created use the body as its own.
GilliamYaeger
M'crazy.
I really like all of these, especially the claws and the chainsword. What else...maybe we could make a K-Shard tipped drill? Or maybe a bladed whip similar to the one used by Takeda from Mortal Kombat? Since it'd be a pretty fucking big whip we'd be able to fit some servos or artificial muscles inside the whip itself, making it prehensile.
You could probably make a pretty dangerous serrated blade with K-Shards too, perfect for a backup cqc knife for both pilots and mecha. And of course there's the possibility of making shotgun shells with the stuff. Maybe we could also use them as tips for harpoons designed to restrain Kaiju-sized targets?
Since they'd presumably snap off easily, it'd be really nice if we could get them to vibrate and burrow deeper when they break off inside a target, tearing it up from the inside.
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Drill probably easily. Whip would be harder, we'd need to make the material behave in a new way(which we could, but would take time)
GilliamYaeger
M'crazy.
The core of the whip itself could just be standard non-K metals. Here's a clip of Takeda's whip so you can see what I'm talking about (It's a Fatality so obviously NSFW because of gore)