RE: Calling all BattleTechies
08-30-2018, 10:19 PM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2018, 10:21 AM by classicdrogn.)
08-30-2018, 10:19 PM (This post was last modified: 09-01-2018, 10:21 AM by classicdrogn.)
Hm, well, like I say, I'm not planning on turning it into a whole big thing that actually deals with the wider galaxy, because my will to write big things has never really worked out in practise. I'm hoping that keeping the scope strictly limited will let my usual dribs and drabs of a few paragraphs at once feel like enough tangible progress to keep enthusiasm up.
Mention of the Phoenix Hawk makes me remember LAMs -they're rare and expensive and finicky in 'verse IIRC, so not likely for a pirate band to have, but might one locked in fighter form be one of their ASFs? Effective as the Von Neumann swarming ones are, swapping MC's personal ride to a variable fighter is a point of intense personal interest. Just the sight of the BT implementation would be deeply offensive and inspire an upgrade in that direction near immediately.
Oh, and while I know what I mean just throwing the names out like I have is probably a bit annoying, so some explanation for the original units I've mentioned. The whole point is to have an anime character with anime mecha using anime tropes be OP about it, with tropes and extra cheese, so... yeah.
Grasshopper: A personal power armor with heavy Kamen Rider influences, MC's is actually external armor over a cyborg body, but Iron Man style versions (a little more bulky, and lacking the benefits of the cybernetics obviously) are the standard pilot suit when MC eventually recruits some minions. Optimized for melee combat and high speed movement, which means it can jump a good 100m and kick you for 32 BT damage points. (Half for non-MC version, double if using both feet. Damage scaled based on how much hurt a ton of BT Standard armor can absorb vs. Mekton Ablative armor.) MC's can also form the core of a Munkytrukk torso as a Combiner component and "repair" itself into a whole one.
Monkytrukk: Basically, classic Optimus Prime as a piloted vehicle. Various bed, cab, and trailer modules are available to let it fill APC, self-propelled artillery, cargo transport, and engineering roles. In Mekton terms, a 1/5 scale unit, if on the large end. Like the Grasshopper, MC's can form the core of a Rabbit or Krait Torso and "repair" itself into one.
Jackrabbit: A Rabbit wearing a second Rabbit as Combiner Armor. Rabbits "repair" themselves into this with salvage before decombining to duplicate.
Rabbit: basic humanoid at full mecha scale, vaguely samurai-ish with a pair of rabbit ears behind the shoulders instead of flags. Has numerous handheld or mounted weapon pod options, aside from fists, feet, and feeding tentacles.
Bit: the rabbit ears can detach and operate independently via AI and remote control. They fly via gravity warp (letting the Rabbit or Jackrabbit do so as well when the Bits are Combined) and have deconstruction and repair beams, just to make fighting a von Neumann swarm even more unfair.
And since I just decided on it, the variable fighter will be called a Krait after the snake, and probably be based on the VF-4 more than the VF-1. Or maybe a jet version of this. edit: Linked further down the page
Mention of the Phoenix Hawk makes me remember LAMs -they're rare and expensive and finicky in 'verse IIRC, so not likely for a pirate band to have, but might one locked in fighter form be one of their ASFs? Effective as the Von Neumann swarming ones are, swapping MC's personal ride to a variable fighter is a point of intense personal interest. Just the sight of the BT implementation would be deeply offensive and inspire an upgrade in that direction near immediately.
Oh, and while I know what I mean just throwing the names out like I have is probably a bit annoying, so some explanation for the original units I've mentioned. The whole point is to have an anime character with anime mecha using anime tropes be OP about it, with tropes and extra cheese, so... yeah.
Grasshopper: A personal power armor with heavy Kamen Rider influences, MC's is actually external armor over a cyborg body, but Iron Man style versions (a little more bulky, and lacking the benefits of the cybernetics obviously) are the standard pilot suit when MC eventually recruits some minions. Optimized for melee combat and high speed movement, which means it can jump a good 100m and kick you for 32 BT damage points. (Half for non-MC version, double if using both feet. Damage scaled based on how much hurt a ton of BT Standard armor can absorb vs. Mekton Ablative armor.) MC's can also form the core of a Munkytrukk torso as a Combiner component and "repair" itself into a whole one.
Monkytrukk: Basically, classic Optimus Prime as a piloted vehicle. Various bed, cab, and trailer modules are available to let it fill APC, self-propelled artillery, cargo transport, and engineering roles. In Mekton terms, a 1/5 scale unit, if on the large end. Like the Grasshopper, MC's can form the core of a Rabbit or Krait Torso and "repair" itself into one.
Jackrabbit: A Rabbit wearing a second Rabbit as Combiner Armor. Rabbits "repair" themselves into this with salvage before decombining to duplicate.
Rabbit: basic humanoid at full mecha scale, vaguely samurai-ish with a pair of rabbit ears behind the shoulders instead of flags. Has numerous handheld or mounted weapon pod options, aside from fists, feet, and feeding tentacles.
Bit: the rabbit ears can detach and operate independently via AI and remote control. They fly via gravity warp (letting the Rabbit or Jackrabbit do so as well when the Bits are Combined) and have deconstruction and repair beams, just to make fighting a von Neumann swarm even more unfair.
And since I just decided on it, the variable fighter will be called a Krait after the snake, and probably be based on the VF-4 more than the VF-1. Or maybe a jet version of this. edit: Linked further down the page
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