Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
Being a security AI doesn't necessarily make her not a schoolgirl, y'know.
Super Robot Quest
- Thread starter Basarin
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Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
...if she's somehow attending school, I kind of want to see the shenanigans.
- Location
- USA
Best not dwell on that too long. That way lies madness.
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
So... it's just business as usual then?
They're robots, so I'd expect them to be more metallic than anything.
Not after K-Scale is done with them!
- Location
- USA
I'll try to have the narrative post up tomorrow. But in the meantime, lemme share something that the Youtube recommendations decided to chuck my way.
Yuusen Galient. I only ever knew of this because it was (for some reason) one of the series included in Brave Saga 2. It has a really cool aesthetic that I dig, but I otherwise know next to nothing about it.
Just throwing it out there because it does look pretty damned cool.
Yuusen Galient. I only ever knew of this because it was (for some reason) one of the series included in Brave Saga 2. It has a really cool aesthetic that I dig, but I otherwise know next to nothing about it.
Just throwing it out there because it does look pretty damned cool.
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
Yes, but don't we reserve K-Scale for our custom units? Support units probably won't be getting it.
The meat would only be skin deep
- Location
- Queensland, Australia
We're going to try to develop living metal Kaiju flesh/bone, right?
- Location
- Singapore
I was thinking Crystal Bones based on Faedium Crystals combined with C-Crystals.
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
I'd have to strongly discourage making any structural parts out of crystals of any description, since they're notoriously brittle.
Ace of Scarabs
Mechanoid Pilot
- Location
- Singapore
Crystalline marrow might be good for a super robot though.
For skeleton and framework you want something springy. It WILL be enduring a lot of forces from a lot of directions, so you want something that will bend before it breaks, and snap back to true without permanent deformation, while ALSO being very hard to bend. If it breaks, then you want the break to be as localized as possible rather than propagating through the structure.
So essentially, nothing consisting of large brittle structures.
I don't think we have any material better than steel for that right now.
So essentially, nothing consisting of large brittle structures.
I don't think we have any material better than steel for that right now.
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Once Known as The Nobody
- Location
- A place
I was actually just being silly. Something I cannot, in good conscience, DIScourage here.
All probabilities are 50%. Either it happens, or it doesn't.
Even then, it's gonna add a bit more muscle - making it more likely that the opponents get boned.
In that case, we should probably start thinking about what we should do with our b-list super robots. I'm leaning to giving the Valkyrie mk. II K-scale plus Antigravity, and start researching combinations for Banner.
Edit: Better idea for Banner: K-Fang external weapon. And I want to keep an upgrade slot free on the Valkyrie in case we get a breakthrough on the funnels, or we need one to mount a superheavy weapon.
Edit: Better idea for Banner: K-Fang external weapon. And I want to keep an upgrade slot free on the Valkyrie in case we get a breakthrough on the funnels, or we need one to mount a superheavy weapon.
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Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
At the moment the only question re: what upgrades to install in a core machine is how many pilots we want it to have. If the answer is greater than 1, we want a Psychic Theater; otherwise, we shouldn't waste our time on it. Thanks to the Anti-grav giving +1 upgrade slot without taking any slots itself, we can equip both K-Scale and K-Circuits even if the robot we're installing them into only has 1 slot baseline (case in point: Ichiro).
Personally, I kinda want to have a super Steed running around; it's surprisingly durable for what amounts to powered armor (Beowulf chassis has 12 HP, Steed chassis has 8), is better at dodging than anything else we've got (it's the only one that doesn't have any limitations on its dodge rolls), has incredible damage potential (Circuits + multi-hit attacks = scary; admittedly, though, said attacks are also inaccurate, which mitigates things, but when they hit...), and has potential as a support unit too. Preliminary name suggestion for said custom Steed: Sleipnir.
The only problem with building new super robots, of course, is getting new pilots for them...
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
This isn't SRW, and we're not looking for Ryuusei Date. Personally, I'd at least prefer our potential recruits to know what they're getting into before we throw them into a cockpit.
Historically, we've run Top Gun style training programs for the Real Robot guys, and then skimmed off anyone who did well in the Kobayashi Maru sims.
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
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- Kansas
Okay, been considering the "pilots" question a bit, and came up with a few possibilities, and some pros and cons of each. Note: Being listed here does not mean I can recommend it; they might just be here for devils' advocacy.
Of these, the one I consider most viable would probably be making an AI. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if there's a cap on how many AIs we can make total, or what it might be.
Also, I noticed that, for whatever reason, the Shade isn't actually listed in our equipment threadmarks. Maybe we should do something with that, like combine it with a Steed for a slightly bulkier ninja (variant of the Volfogg route).
Intelligence Operative Subcontract
+ Experienced Steed pilot
+ Trained covert operative, should one be required
- No reason to work for us
- Super robots are kind of the opposite of covert in most cases
Civilian Recruitment
+ Should be fairly easy to access
+ Almost completely malleable; should be possible to get someone for any given role
- Completely untrained; will have to start completely from scratch
- Severe security risk; high potential for getting an enemy spy instead
Military Recruitment
+ Reasonably predictable results
+ Pre-trained combatant, just needing a crash course in whatever they wind up piloting
- Pretty tapped out already
- Other branches might take offense to us poaching their guys, especially if we do it a lot
AI Pilots
+ Excellent control of personality traits
+ Can be done on-site without advertising
- Takes time off of other Engineering jobs
- Will need to find a template suitable for the desired machine
+ Experienced Steed pilot
+ Trained covert operative, should one be required
- No reason to work for us
- Super robots are kind of the opposite of covert in most cases
Civilian Recruitment
+ Should be fairly easy to access
+ Almost completely malleable; should be possible to get someone for any given role
- Completely untrained; will have to start completely from scratch
- Severe security risk; high potential for getting an enemy spy instead
Military Recruitment
+ Reasonably predictable results
+ Pre-trained combatant, just needing a crash course in whatever they wind up piloting
- Pretty tapped out already
- Other branches might take offense to us poaching their guys, especially if we do it a lot
AI Pilots
+ Excellent control of personality traits
+ Can be done on-site without advertising
- Takes time off of other Engineering jobs
- Will need to find a template suitable for the desired machine
Of these, the one I consider most viable would probably be making an AI. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if there's a cap on how many AIs we can make total, or what it might be.
Also, I noticed that, for whatever reason, the Shade isn't actually listed in our equipment threadmarks. Maybe we should do something with that, like combine it with a Steed for a slightly bulkier ninja (variant of the Volfogg route).
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Once Known as The Nobody
- Location
- A place
It would be nice to sink our teeth into such a savory subject as Super Robots.
Are these the stats for a single Steed, or for a Steed Support Unit, which is, unless I'm mistaken, a group of Steeds? And therefore a multi-hit attack (and some other stats too, probably) is because it's actually multiple Steeds.
Ace of Scarabs
Mechanoid Pilot
- Location
- Singapore
As long as we don't resort to posting want ads for pilots in Craigslist or something inane like that 