Alright. Cooled down. Sorry about that. I do try not to get angry, since this is a game, but some things get under my skin. Luckily, I have music and headphones.
Better to come up with new equipment ideas or something like that.
Speaking of equipment, what do you think works better for Tacit, an upgraded IE-10 or a integrated electric claws to take advantage of his HtH stat?
IE-10 with upgrades, IMO. Claws are alright, I guess, but I feel like, due that whole "Arc Lightning" thing, Electric has more possibilities with ranged weapons. Plus, I like our Fangblades for melee. While having a backup is an alright idea, I'm not sure it's worth putting too much effort into.
Secondary elemental damage is weird, though. They may not actually deal electrical damage.
IIRC, there are weapons that do both, guaranteed, though they're pretty high-tech, and would likely require a lot of research time.
Another thought for communications beyond the safe range of radios without the high expense of angelnet.
Use Carbon arc signal lamps, visible to the horizon even in daylight. Sure you need a clean sight line, but we could do the whole beacon towers of Gondor thing.
Computer automate the reception & relay from tower to tower establishing a valid sight line. Sailors are capable of doing upto 14 words per minute an automated system could increase that substantially. If we wanted to be more covert we could use infrared lights.
Stationing relay towers on mountain peaks to maximize effective range and optimal sight lines.
*sigh* Again with this...building outside of the territory we can hold isn't a good idea. I'd honestly rather break out the carrier pigeons and micro SDs before going for semaphore towers, anyway. They're prone to issues whenever visibility is poor, or during the day (the light of the sun can make seeing the light of the lamps harder). Infrared could help with that, but a thick fog would cause problems with that, too.
Hell, what I'd really rather do is optimize laying fiber-optic, and repair existing networks. Sure, Kaiju will occasionally tear it up, but that's a small price for not having to rely on semaphore towers.
They are ripe indeed.
Fyrstorm already mentioned UV lasers could work and would be more powerful.
That's what we get for copying a crappy gun in the first place, apparently.
Also, I know Smith was making a joke about "kaiju scrotal tissue", but something similar to that would actually be fairly useful-- not for resources, but because the only way you can make a Bio-Jaeger is if you have a clone, and to get a clone you need reproductive cells from a Kaiju.
So, track down the Kaiju responsible for one of the sets of possibly native Kaiju. I think Inko/Umpo/whatshisface's (I can never remember all three's names...) progenitor would be a good option.
Wait, shouldn't we be able to harvest kaiju reproductive cells from our captured kaiju? Of course obtaining said cells would be an embarrassing affair...
More like "suicidal". Goryo's cells would have been completely internal, and so, I assume would be it's spawn. We'd basically be doing K-Scale surgery. Unless you mean...yeah, no, wait, I see what you mean. That...still seems suicidal.
That is one reason behind the high turnover rate for interns in the K-science branch.
"Wimps. Bet you a Clean-up guy would do it, even without a hazard bonus."
Now I have the image of a K-science intern with a chainsaw, scuba mask, and a 55 gallon fishtank trying to harvest swimmers on the battlefield
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and a senior scientist prodding them from behind saying: "Fresh is best!"
"Nah, man, the Clean-up guys are all adrenaline junkies. They'll do it with a smile, so long as it's already dead. I should know, I was one for a while, before I ended up in management. Why do you think I took up making home-made fireworks after I got transfered to the Navy? Need to get my danger fix somehow."
Not all kaiju have functional or present reproductive systems. The Myrmions don't seem to have any-- though it's unclear if that's due to being made as workers only, or simply being adolescents. The Seijin you've met and autopsied are also lacking any reproductive systems.
By comparison, Ooarashi actually did possess reproductive organs-- as did Erant and Ontran (the lightning lobsters). You didn't manage to save them, though.
Hm. Not sure if that means Ooarashi made the other two, or if they just come from the same progenitor. Which is important, since it's what determines if we've still got a progenitor-type lobster Kaiju running around or not.
Annnnnnnnd now I have an image in my head of our science teams being made of pyromaniac mad goblins.
This is a good image.
"You're not that far off in some cases, sadly. That's a pretty accurate description of the weapons guys. Doesn't matter if it's C-Tech or J-Tech, they're pretty much all pyromaniacs. Well, except the ones in J-Tech who specialize in melee weapons. Those guys are
even more unsettling, honestly. They watch videos of Jaegers ripping into Kaiju more than I think is strictly healthy."
...So, I know I'm not up-to-date, but I'm also in the path of nasty weather, so...might want to post now. Yes, I'm decently safe, but, uh....yeah.
