While my access is too irregular to really take much part in this, I do kind of feel like putting the brim of my hat in the ring - and with the talk of mechafen, this is possibly the time to do it, though it kind of ends up being similar to the wheelchair guy, if less extreme. Well, extreme in a different way, at least.
See, I figure my guy was obne of the fuirst-wavers who just unexpectedly happened onto a batch of the stuff, and didn't really INTEND to do the space thing at all. He kist kind of went a little insane after a couple of hours staring at the pretty shiny when the Autobot Matrix display peice he'd bought on Ebay arrived, and was in fact not the same as every other example of themmm... being about the size of a person instead of at human scale, with a big crystalline chunk of handwavium as the core instead of a lump of acrylic lit by LEDs, a base that could float the thing and double as a heavy duty optical computer core, and a Key to Vector Suigma that actually turned other materials inhto an unidentifiable bright metal. He spent the next few years working with solid insulation foam (the kind that's a single chunk, not little beads) to make a (non canon) transformer mockup in scale to it and changing the foam into what he'd dubbed Cybertronium, only realising the Matrix core was probabkly Handwavium after it started getting into the news.... and was done with that and hooking up things that at loeast looked like actuators just a bit too late to avoid the anti0-handwavium laws. Undeterred, he started it up anyway, the rather limited internal vulome allowed by the transformation mechanics making for a very cramped cockpit space... and was detected, becoming one of the famous fugitives of the Damelaw until he could get a functioning aerospace engine in place for its (triplechanger) flight capable form. Somewhere along the way, there was a SWAT team whose sniper managed to put a .50 cal round through the cockpit... and the autorepair systems any good transtector (as the no-intelligence-of-thier-own Japanese Headmasters were called) needs did its thing on the biological component of the system. Eventually managing to escape the greedy clutches of ground and atmosphere, he became one of the more irragular gearhead fraction members - the Macross and TF and Brave Series fans love him because, well, giant sentient robot, the Gundam fans are not so enthused because he pretends not to understand what they want when they ask for some of his Gundanium sheets. None of the three original artifacts can be reproduced, though the Matrix can awaken AIs in any sufficiently advanced computer core, and the Key's metalization is more a "spray no goop and wait" process than the intsant transforming ray from the cartoon. He goes by Mainspring, now, and is mostly green and gold - the character is one I came up with as a fanfic musing on what if Springer had been faster than Roddy when the Matrix got fumbled, and turns into a tech-truck (natch) and a large-winged aircraft, the wings folding into the truck box or hanging of the robot back ala Sweeps or angelic wings. The truck box is kind of small relative to the overall size because the 'wave doesn't allow for budianskyization to shrink and expand parts, but has room for the usual car-mod or a hab module and can fly that way in space ala Star Convoy. He's one of the ones who's Just That Paranoid to have traded a good sized supply of Cybertronium to the Gearhead team working on coilguns andget one configured as an approriately sized rifle with some heavy duty smartgun enhancements so it's actually useful in the depths of space, and has a human partner (quite possibly a biomod so Shuko the Cat-Girl can pop up - nekomimi have got to be the most popular bio-mod, like, ever...) to deal weith things in places too small for a giant intellignet robot. Oddly enough, lots of places are in fact large enoguh if he bends down and moves carefully, as in TF source material - then again, this in fenspace, who says some of them weren't figuring on catering to giant robots to begin with? I(f not a partner, some kind of human-sized telepresence thing, in order to be part of the story with other, human-scale characters.
Although, I suppose it would be an IC exceuse for not seeing much of him. ANyway, my time at the library is about to run out, so I'd best get to steppin'. If response is not too negative I'll work up a proper prose intrro and tie ins as time permits.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
See, I figure my guy was obne of the fuirst-wavers who just unexpectedly happened onto a batch of the stuff, and didn't really INTEND to do the space thing at all. He kist kind of went a little insane after a couple of hours staring at the pretty shiny when the Autobot Matrix display peice he'd bought on Ebay arrived, and was in fact not the same as every other example of themmm... being about the size of a person instead of at human scale, with a big crystalline chunk of handwavium as the core instead of a lump of acrylic lit by LEDs, a base that could float the thing and double as a heavy duty optical computer core, and a Key to Vector Suigma that actually turned other materials inhto an unidentifiable bright metal. He spent the next few years working with solid insulation foam (the kind that's a single chunk, not little beads) to make a (non canon) transformer mockup in scale to it and changing the foam into what he'd dubbed Cybertronium, only realising the Matrix core was probabkly Handwavium after it started getting into the news.... and was done with that and hooking up things that at loeast looked like actuators just a bit too late to avoid the anti0-handwavium laws. Undeterred, he started it up anyway, the rather limited internal vulome allowed by the transformation mechanics making for a very cramped cockpit space... and was detected, becoming one of the famous fugitives of the Damelaw until he could get a functioning aerospace engine in place for its (triplechanger) flight capable form. Somewhere along the way, there was a SWAT team whose sniper managed to put a .50 cal round through the cockpit... and the autorepair systems any good transtector (as the no-intelligence-of-thier-own Japanese Headmasters were called) needs did its thing on the biological component of the system. Eventually managing to escape the greedy clutches of ground and atmosphere, he became one of the more irragular gearhead fraction members - the Macross and TF and Brave Series fans love him because, well, giant sentient robot, the Gundam fans are not so enthused because he pretends not to understand what they want when they ask for some of his Gundanium sheets. None of the three original artifacts can be reproduced, though the Matrix can awaken AIs in any sufficiently advanced computer core, and the Key's metalization is more a "spray no goop and wait" process than the intsant transforming ray from the cartoon. He goes by Mainspring, now, and is mostly green and gold - the character is one I came up with as a fanfic musing on what if Springer had been faster than Roddy when the Matrix got fumbled, and turns into a tech-truck (natch) and a large-winged aircraft, the wings folding into the truck box or hanging of the robot back ala Sweeps or angelic wings. The truck box is kind of small relative to the overall size because the 'wave doesn't allow for budianskyization to shrink and expand parts, but has room for the usual car-mod or a hab module and can fly that way in space ala Star Convoy. He's one of the ones who's Just That Paranoid to have traded a good sized supply of Cybertronium to the Gearhead team working on coilguns andget one configured as an approriately sized rifle with some heavy duty smartgun enhancements so it's actually useful in the depths of space, and has a human partner (quite possibly a biomod so Shuko the Cat-Girl can pop up - nekomimi have got to be the most popular bio-mod, like, ever...) to deal weith things in places too small for a giant intellignet robot. Oddly enough, lots of places are in fact large enoguh if he bends down and moves carefully, as in TF source material - then again, this in fenspace, who says some of them weren't figuring on catering to giant robots to begin with? I(f not a partner, some kind of human-sized telepresence thing, in order to be part of the story with other, human-scale characters.
Although, I suppose it would be an IC exceuse for not seeing much of him. ANyway, my time at the library is about to run out, so I'd best get to steppin'. If response is not too negative I'll work up a proper prose intrro and tie ins as time permits.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows