BAT might make the VF-17 - it's good to have a dedicated stealth-unit on the production lines. Definitely gonna build the VF-27 Lucifers. That's gonna be Mayonaka's upgrade.
Really, I can see BAT being fully in cooperation with SBA, to the point where all (or most) Veritechs pretty much wind up being branded SBA-BAT. As it is, looks like I'm gonna have to retcon a post or two in Shinji Ikari Raising Project to include Chris Marsden's involvement on the VF-4. And speaking of which...
On another note.... Really, I think that BAT's factory lines are gonna be the scary-awesome aspect of Ben's genius that people underestimate. Think about it... these are fully automated factories that require very little in the way of human intervention (read: none at all). And the scariest part about it is that the whole kit-and-kaboodle functions as one big Von Neumann machine and can not only create fully assembled aerospace ships and craft from nothing but raw materials (or even wrecked machines)... it can build itself up and break itself down to fit production needs. Scary stuff indeed. Good thing it seems to really like Ben because he comes up with all kinds of cool stuff for it to build. (Don't forget, I already detailed all this before.)
And Chris Marsden just gave it a fully mobile and self-sufficient platform to operate out of.
Fenspace now has a mobile factory that can build just about anything you have plans and raw materials for. Chuck that into Candle in the Dark and watch as the Inner Sphere starts shitting itself in horror. This is, for practical purposes, a weapon unto itself... With this I think Ben would actually be reasonably satisfied - no need to actually build armies (yet). In the mean time, Ben would continue to improve upon existing designs and come up with more fun toys.
Really, I can see BAT being fully in cooperation with SBA, to the point where all (or most) Veritechs pretty much wind up being branded SBA-BAT. As it is, looks like I'm gonna have to retcon a post or two in Shinji Ikari Raising Project to include Chris Marsden's involvement on the VF-4. And speaking of which...
ClassicDrogn Wrote:"All the angles for the (VF-4) fit together (..) in robot mode itDear God, man! Where did THAT come from!? It's perfect! It's beautiful! I love it! It's going into the official BAT-SBA brochure! XD
creates a heavy robed, almost medieval look, while still leaving all
those joints free for motion. The shape of the arms, the legs, even the
upper legs and nose cone, screams extravagantly aggressive. We all love
the VF-4 jet mode - it's sleek and beautiful (..) but the battroid mode
takes that and turns it into a tough, violent, brutal looking robot. The
VF-4 looks like it skinned a plane and is wearing it as a pelt." -
NeoverseOmega
On another note.... Really, I think that BAT's factory lines are gonna be the scary-awesome aspect of Ben's genius that people underestimate. Think about it... these are fully automated factories that require very little in the way of human intervention (read: none at all). And the scariest part about it is that the whole kit-and-kaboodle functions as one big Von Neumann machine and can not only create fully assembled aerospace ships and craft from nothing but raw materials (or even wrecked machines)... it can build itself up and break itself down to fit production needs. Scary stuff indeed. Good thing it seems to really like Ben because he comes up with all kinds of cool stuff for it to build. (Don't forget, I already detailed all this before.)
And Chris Marsden just gave it a fully mobile and self-sufficient platform to operate out of.
Fenspace now has a mobile factory that can build just about anything you have plans and raw materials for. Chuck that into Candle in the Dark and watch as the Inner Sphere starts shitting itself in horror. This is, for practical purposes, a weapon unto itself... With this I think Ben would actually be reasonably satisfied - no need to actually build armies (yet). In the mean time, Ben would continue to improve upon existing designs and come up with more fun toys.