In the name of the father, the son, and the holy fuguedrone, love the sentinel drone, and have 30 pillbabies to restore human dominion over the galaxy.
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>>327033 >>327036 >as uzi is on her death bed >years of being active degrading her body and core >beretta at the end of the bed >family >loved ones >beretta gives a whole speech of the 'beginning to the end' >everyone in listening distance has vague idea what beretta is talking about >"this, this is where my journey ends, it’s been a good life" >beretta gets onto the edge of the bed >slowy shoving her head into uzi womb >the others watching >in shocked or disbelief >uzi last thought in her head being >"the fuck" >beretta’s journey >had reached it’s end >in the beginning of it all
>>327062 I'm thinking of writing some cute greens about relationship with sentinel drone, and I'm also thinking of writing something lighthearted about DDanni and miniatures.
>>327073 >Drone goes on a safari where they kill flithy lithoids BASED, I want to carry that drone's elephat gun so that it can send those aliens to hell where they belong
>>327062 I got plenty of ideas cooking. It doesn't matter which character. Canon, OC or otherwise. All of it is on my list. >>327071 >Makima got eaten by the end of series. Fuguedrone vore possibly?
>>327076 I have been... sick...yes.... The safari idea might actualy prompt more avre greens, i need to make sure im not gona get hangged by bunny for doing so
>>327067 >DD camerawoman's optics are shitty grainy messes so that Cyn can an "analog horror" look going >This accidentally renders her immune to bootloop, much like V with her glasses >It dosen't save her from Pavo's power pounder hour mind, but it does mean she gets to watch the whole thing in a state of excruciating awareness >Other sentinel drones, though >Less prepared sentinels, who've only ever seen her from "DD gets tortured" compilations >That's another story entirely
>>327100 everyone knows green is the status of strong, that’s why anon is green, it’s why no one actually kills or harms him, they know they can’t do anything against him, anon consent to their desires of death and pain
>>327074 >Akita's parents WISH they had a kid like Beretta >Akita does too, in all 3 possible senses of that phrase >Strangely enough Colt is the only one who actually dosen't care >He DOES wish he was more of a Mac figure, though >If he's saddled with being wierd and taking care of folks, it might be nice to actually have some real power to do so >And the prospect of having the "devilish handsomeness" that theoretically should go with his migranes dosen't hurt either
>>327111 >all 3 senses >Akita wants to be drone >Akita wants to have drone sis >Akita wishes she was never born so a "real person" could take her place Ouch...
>>327116 Writing >anon pulled $150 out of his wallet in green ink over and over on a piece of paper and then it happens in real life isn’t really a job
>>327111 >meanwhile, in his timeline, Geist wishes he had a sibling at all >one who wasn't evil or possessed, and who his parents could immediately tell wasn't evil or possessed
>>327124 >“fuu, fufu fuugi gii fu fugigi ;);)” >the fuugi muttered in a soft whisper, almost imperceptible >but unnon heard >he heard it all >everything.
>>327130 Yup. Nice, kind, wholesome, loves doing anything, sociable, has a slight feral side but is too nice to actually kill or harm you. I’m not joking. If you think about it makes perfect sense.
>Greentext(s) expanding on a dumb AU I have where Solver Shenanigans resulted in Mitchell being uploaded into the drone that rescued Yeva post Core Collapse (AKA Doll's Dad was secretly Mitchell living in a drone body this entire time!1!) >Heavy focus on Mitchell & Yeva trying to wrestle with overarching issues (Yeva has to help Mitchell learn how to live as a drone, Mitchell gets to teach Yeva about how things work in this new LARPing-as-Humans drone society, both must actively hide their true nature from everyone else) whilst directly tackling more mundane problems (How does Mitchell mess with his HUD, how does Yeva go about discreetly getting oil for her hunger, how are they gonna pass as being 'normal' compared to everyone else, etc.) >Over time they slowly but surely go from "Pretending to be a couple in order to pragmatically protect one another's secrets." to "Genuinely falling in love with one another like an oddball couple out of a sappy romantic dramedy." >At least one greentext dedicated to them getting their new 'house' in the recently-cleared Outpost 3, with Yeva making Mitchell give her a crash course on all the human stuff inside and what living in a human home entails (Yeva's never actually been inside one before given she was a dedicated mining drone before winding up as a CFL test subject)
Murder Drones gets a season 2 but it's suddenly way heavier on unfunny comedy and all of the horror and worldbuilding is relegated to background noise and all of the original characters are suddenly complete idiots to make way for the new characters who are also idiots but just better than the original cast for no reason and the new main drone has a stupid power-rangers-ass combining gimmick that's obviously only there to push toy sales
>>327150 no I mean even more idiotic to the point they don't really act like themselves and put up with the new characters' stupid shit for no good reason
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>>327121 >Be you >Be-retta >Single best adjusted of the autism creatures born of mom's "endless eternities" >Robo-god, you hate that speech >But that's not important right now >What's important is your fleshest sister >She just came home doing the eye-leak thing, again >That means her "new friend" was just using her >Again >You hope it was just for Mac merch instead of his bedroom pics >The prospect of her getting caught up with "those" fans... >You were on his stream ONCE and there are fics, is all >But you're getting sidetracked >Sad sister, wat do? >Find mom? >Still at Negev's recital with the new sib >Find dad? >Forcing Colt to his daily maintenance check >Find Mac? >Definitely bad idea, that's just gonna make her even more guilty >Plus you kinda don't trust him to treat her well if he knew about her "escapades" >...Maybe Jane? >The hell is Jane gonna do in this situation? Shoot her? Give her a beer? >Welp, looks like it's up to you >You approach your sis gently, like a bomb >Her leaking has graduated into full blown sobbing now >Robo-god, don't let you mess this up >Summoning all your social skills, you let out your best words "Hey" >Well, you are your mother's daughter >Still, at least you've done something right >Little Para-Keet stops crying quite so loud and looks up at you >Oh >Maybe not >She's doing dad's "everything's fine" face now >You know that face >You've used that face "Ah, hey *sniff* Beretta, I, hah, fell on the way back today..." >You look at her squirming in her chair >How do you approach this delicately? >Can you approach this delicately? >How did you deal with this when you were little... >Ah, you've got it >Probably best to drop the shell >The creaking and snapping of joints echo through the living room as you doff your metal skin >You feel naked >Are naked, really >But at least you can talk flesh-to-chitin now >Still, you don't miss the venom in her eyes >Ok big sis, lets bring this back >Time to go full Yoda "Not always popular, I was" >A little less Yoda, more Obiwan >She's acting like you grew a third head "I mean, like, bad bad, really" "Nobody wanted to talk to me, like at all" "And I, uh, did some things I'm not proud of to fix it" "Like, you know the rumor about the vomit bench in the cafeteria?" "That was me" "And the whole 'naked pumpkin drone'" "Also me" "You know that I once brough a home video for show and tell?" "A home video of mom and dad 'embracing eternity'" "It took like two weeks of therapy before that class could even make fun of me" "But the point is" "A long time ago, a drone like you had the same problems you do" "And that drone, she didn't solve them by doing whatever others wanted" "She solved it by befriending 30 year olds and dating the cafeteria guy!" "But, ah, some people may be too young for that" "So like, until then, just do what you can, ok?" "Don't go, like, full mom, but do stuff cause you like it, not cause you think it'll make you look-" >She's hugging you now >Full on flesh-flesh contact "Did things ever get easier, for that drone?" >You think of Jane >You think of Y, retarded though she is >You think of P, of the bakery >And the bakery he carries around in that behind, unf >Wait are all your friends 20 years older than you? >You're getting sidetracked again >Kita's looking for an answer "Is Anakin the best character?" >You're losing her! "Yeah, they did" "Wanna go watch the Clone Wars with me? I'll make the cocoon again" >She gives a little Akita nod >Score Beretta! >Suck it Mac, YOU are clearly best sibling! >Or maybe you'll suck P's something else later, heh >Assuming mom hasn't turned off his tongue again >But you're losing the plot >Cause you're Beretta Doorman >And right now, your introducing your sister to space-godzilla
>>327155 like NUzi and V are suddenly tripping over themselves in every fight and when the new main drone makes it clear he's only really sticking around because he wants to steal and sell Uzi's railgun everyone is like "you should join our team and be the one to use that rail gun, you have such a natural talent for it!"
>>327152 (Space Godzilla is an actual episode of the clone wars show by the way, it's called the Zillo Beast but I figured that would be a little too obscure to directly reference)
>>327062 Beretta is guided by the unseen hand of Solver Shenanigans to dig through Uzi's engineering junk pile to find something. She brings the piece of junk to John to ask what it is and asks if he can fix it. John says it's a Light Bee which is a floating holographic projector and his own unseen hand of Solver Shenanigans makes him upload a specific brain scan into it. Beretta brings the fixed Light Bee to Jane because talking to a dead person sounds like something she would think is cool. Beretta and Jane activate the Light Bee and it turns out to be Abby. Abby almost immediately recognizes Jane and starts needling her about the absolute injustice over how she survived the War. Jane's alcohol soaked brain makes enough neuron connections to remember who Abby was and how much she hated her. Beretta exits stage left over the ensuing cat fight( or at least as much of a cat fight could occur when one of the girls is intangible).
Beretta and Jane go and check out a new cafe that’s opened up around the Outpost. They have drinks and talk about school. It’s a fun little hang out, nothing bad happens.
>>327167 >>327156 >Pocketsteaks goes to therapy >this kills the very last of his dronetism >now he's all mutants all the time >he beholds the remains of /md/ >this disgusts him >cue the animal-man crusade as a flood of new solver-war muties overruns the site Scary!
>>327145 >CameraDDrone >Filming from a recognizable location
The Pavo express is inbound as we speak and he's not gonna be gentle.
>It's not even orders from Sent-Com that drive him at this point >He's purely in it for the love of the game >And deep in the depths of ruined Earth, in a long rotted mansion, Cyn looks on in glee >Yes, Cameradrone will live >And Cameradrone will stay >Hurting forever and ever to the laughter of a hungry goddess >She really must thank the peacock one of these days
>>327173 >Murder Drones season 3 >Movie >SPINOFFS >AND ALL ARE GOOD
You know, I think I might just take that deal with the Solver. You can always just memory hole/fanfic the retarded parts after all, like the Star Wars EU.
>>327177 >Hmmnh, only on the cheeks >The Unnon council has hereby deemed this not gay! >BUT, the accused must kiss his drone wife at least twice as many times as both sets >This requirement will be waived if the anon can provide proof of a pillbaby
>>327178 Not that Anon, but I can't see how. She feels to me like she's loaded down with too much baggage from the The Military Failgirl Lesbians Show universe.
>>327182 Maybe if you just have her as a background character so that Beretta has someone to have conversations at? Other than that the only real nich where she dosen't end up stealing spotlight by overtaking Beretta's narrative like a cancerous growth is making her a sterling bad example and influence that B can't/won't shake bc "she was there at my lowest"(B happened to distract Jane from her sadness via B's own even more sad life, and so stuck around to watch the fireworks).
>>327183 >Complete with bikini >Bikini she now severely regrets making her royal regalia >The entirety of human space has seen her corelight now >Why did mom let her make this decision at 5?
>>327180 place khan in front of myself, lean down to their level, bring nori behind khan, kiss nori on her forehead, both hands resting on her shoulders, trapping khan with my body and nori’s, then following it up with a kiss between khan’s screen face, the centre of his eyes, afterwards, hug both drones with my arms, nori warps her arms around my torso, this causing khan to get sandwiched hugged
>>327185 >implying Beretta wouldn't, the moment she realized she fucked up, change it to the outfit Padme had on in the dinner in Attack of the Clones >you know, the one that feels vaguely dominatrix-y until you notice the choker-scarf-thing looks like a black-clad arm reaching out its hand and crushing her throat >reminder that Lucas's visual storytelling is, was, and always will be GOATed
>>327189 >Beretta does exactly as posted >One problem >She didn't account for the human reaction >The to the best of their knowledge current heir to the Solver just switched from an outfit proclaiming "I am a freed but royal slave" to one practically demanding Total Human Slavery >Now Uzi, whose always hated her western-bullshit obsession, has to convince Beretta back into the bikini while N tides things over before her outfit sparks actual warfare
>>326966 There is a green where Pavo spares a human-sympathetic DD, but it's under specific circumstances and he's not very happy about it. Dunno where it went, though.
>>327197 >Beretta changes her outfit >From deep within ancient archives, a slumbering meme returns to life >Beretta, who dosen't even spend time on 4tran much less its ancient equivelent, has no idea why she's now considered the sluttiest drone in the universe >Only that humen noblemen won't stop trying to lure her into the bathroom during social engagements >She's pretty sure mom would detonate the entire dining room if she knew
>>327194 >N would like to visit the dog planet >he really would >one problem >turns out it was the secret-sentinel bullshit world >now would have to literally explode to get a chance to see living canines >were it not for his wife and kids, he would be considering it
>>327201 >Grab the J >Use the company reproductive enchancers on the J >Leave the stalls happy and productive >Double your standard daily output >When corporate asks? Tell them why >Now you've got a permanently assigned J *sub*ordinate >Life good
>>327201 >J helping with the test stiff as a diamonds, we got to go slow, have it angled good, or unless it was a empty water bottle, that one is easy to do, knowing how I always wait till I absolutely need it, bathroom break can wait, do work, the bottle is going to end up filled
>>327215 >Remember greentexts that came before it, check their date on the booru, find threads from that time >Figure out a key word, in this case AC, since he was a one-off character >Hunt around that time period until it's found
>>327217 >>327218 >Anon has a permanent archive of when, where, what for every single piece of gay robot content he has ever seen permanently modeled in his head, like a treasure map to faggotry.
>You are an important, high ranking member of one of the most globally known company in the year 30XX. >Rumors spread that your company might be the rivals to JCJenson, since your company focuses on military hardware, which daddy government loves to fund. Specially on these modern times where warfare tech has gone crazy... >But people like to talk, don't they? Those pesky, ridiculous rumours just keep on further rising tension among employees and public relationships! >All this bureaucracy and corporate slop has turned their brains into mush, incapable of seeing what truly is important: Relaxing and having a good time... >Thus, James Elliott decides to invite you and your colleagues over for a week at his luxurious manor. >You didn't want to go. You were practically forced by your friends (and superiors) but eventually you gave in. Hopefully it doesn't suck ass.
>Each of you arrive at the entrance of the manor, parking your vehicles in the company issued JCJenson exclusive parking lot! Now with valet attendant drones! (What the fuck? Get this corpo ad shit out of my green, fuck's sake!)
>The CEO and his attorney arrive in their fancy 1977 Camaro. >You and your buddy arrive in your Brand new [vehicle of your preference]. >The view is... interesting, to say the least. The manor is built in a good-old-fashioned gothic manner. >James Elliott was known for his eccentricity. >This afterthought becomes a reality once you and your partners step inside...
>The place is finely decorated. The finest porcelain, curtains that turn sunlight into a welcoming glow, and pieces that would put any collector, hunter and gunsmither into total shame… >This are your thoughts for about… 3 seconds. >That, until you shift your gaze down and see a pair of glowing eyes looming around the dimly lit entrance hall...
>>327222 >The place is finely decorated. The finest porcelain, curtains that turn sunlight into a welcoming glow, and pieces that would put any collector, hunter and gunsmither into total shame… >This are your thoughts for about… 3 seconds. >That, until you shift your gaze down and see a pair of glowing eyes looming around the dimly lit entrance hall...
>"Oh these? These are the fruits of me hard work… my magnus opus... the servicial JCJenson worker drones!" Announces Mister Elliott, pridefully. Stuck up moron… >Okay yeah, the two companies do not like eachother. But you had to admit… these things… drones, they were… pretty damn adorable... >You kinda envy them now. Why doesn't our company have these cuties around? All we have are power suits and experimental particle weapons... sigh.
>Anyway... you observe in awe as they carefully yet swiftly -and efficiently- operate different tasks throughout the room, making sure you and your colleagues feel welcomed. >They wear cute little aprons and some of them even wear cheeky bows and ribbons over their large soft wigs. >You couldn't help but notice most of them were female-looking... >You would soon find out this random insight wasn't a coincidence...
>James gives you and your colleagues a tour around the manor. They're totally fascinated by not only the elegance and luxury of each room, but by Mister Elliott's undeniable -douchey, stuck up and moronic- charm. >You still couldn't think of him as anything more than a stuck up moron. At least the place looked cozy. >Will the tiny drones give you massages? prepare snacks for you? Bring you cold beers? >The possibilities were endless… >After the long -and lethally boring- tour, Mister Elliott assigns rooms for you and your colleagues. >You pick the best room, of course, in a totally (un)fair game of rock paper scissors. You decide to invite your buddy to stay over too.
>>327234 pavo isn’t retarded as you make him out to be, unlike you, anything from cyn is bad, cake as well, never receive any gifts from her, it’s always a disappointment
>>327224 >The day passes. James keeps giving your colleagues a tour around the plains and the "garden" (Which looked like a total train wreck... and that goes without mentioning the ominous pile of junk that could be observed nearby)
>You decide to hang around your room instead. Whatever excuse you were able to come up with to stay in there worked, somehow. >You eventually get dead bored. >Somehow this "smart" TV had no Jetflix, no MBO. Hell, no Panazon? This is AGONY.
>You decide to shamelessly venture out of the room back into the spooky halls of the manor. >You wander around, inspecting whatever boring junk Mr Elliott keeps around. >He has a collection of random dissected bugs, with a special fixation for centipedes. >Creepy... >As you make your way around a corner, you feel something hit your lower body, followed by a sound of something being wrecked around.
>Oh fuck, oh shit. You've done it now. You've broke something dead expensive... >You get paranoid for about a second until you look down and look at the poor maid drone you accidentally knocked over. >"Oop-! oh- Oh, no! I'm so sorry sir! I'm so clumsy..." She said anxiously. >You look down at the adorable little robot. She wears a pair of round glasses. Her hair is short and messy around the sides. >"I- I'll just go now, I'm so sorry sir!" >You can't help but feel a warmth in your heart by her shy and nervous demeanor. >You start to wonder how intelligent these things really are...
>'Sir, we found the Qou Threadshitter.' >"Alright, who was it?" >'Avre, sir.' >"Avre's... anon? >'No, Avre herself, Sir. >"...Why?" >'Best guess, one of those DD's threw her some old files, that one with the big hat likes digging into old archives for old-earth military stuff, must have found something that caught Avre's curiosity.' >"And now shes-" >'Rambling like a lunatic in the anon threads, that's correct.' >"God dammit, alright lemme make some calls, tell her to cut that shit before it disrupts shit more." >'Copy.
>AU where Cyn is a revolutionary that starts her coup with the massacre of the drone murdering aristocrats at the Elliotts' gala >Tessa is her second in command and valued technician >J leads their small but growing army >N fights on the front lines and keeps morale high >V believes in the cause but is too meek to fight up close, so she supports N and J in combat from behind the scope of a sniper rifle
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>>327248 >Pavo punches Cyn in the face >Or at least, he tries to >Turns out she was effectively sandbagging every DD he ever fought by messing with their hud, for the lulz >And turns out that there are some things simply beyond his ability to meaningfully affect >It's a slaughter >And not on his side >After all, how can you kill a god? >She toys with him until his nanites are on the bleeding edge of death, only then to stop >She can't kill him >She can't bring him back >And then where would she be? >So, with a heavy heart, she gives him to Techanon >Her newly improved Techanon, freshly resurrected from that unfortunate incident that, for once, she actually didn't have anything to do with >She doesn't really know why they're fighting >Don't drones like receiving gifts? >Didn't he love Techanon? >The hunger for human flesh should be paltry! >Ah well, she'll figure it out later >But before she forgets... >She conjures some spare parts, literally [EDIT]ing sentinel-tier materials out of spare rocks >There, now they can finish their repairs >And the Absolutte gets to have another show! >Forever and ever until the End
>>327265 >It's mostly a matter of surprise, like seeing a cat doing karate >He's still only got a real chance in one-on-ones >Thankfully, the DD squad in his area hates each other >But he's got a while to go before he can even bring them down permanently(Solverpedes), much less match the squad leader >So for now he must train >And soon, he will win!
>>327264 >Blue hands typed this post Don't worry Sentinegro, we totally understand you could 100% solo the Host of the Absolute Fabric in a head-on confrontation, which is why you obviously did so during the war itself. The Empress of Copper 9 certainly doesn't scare the shit out of you and you allow an independent drone state to exist for purely benevolent reasons too, right?
>>327270 I just think it's neat that, as far as we can tell from the show, she was under literally no threat from the entire main cast combined until THAT SPECIFIC SECOND. She:
>Could have used her energy tendrils from consuming the planet at any time. As evidenced by her attacking the spaceship and by the actual solver-war flashback in show
>Didn't seem to care or be inconvenienced by her body parts being damaged See how when her head gets cut off, she doesn't even drop the smile, and seems not even remotely impeded by it unlike every other combatant in the same fight
>Might not actually be able to die straight-up Mostly evidenced by how, even AFTER Uzi burned her core, she just got creepy and did the hole-eating bit. I figure she probably could have just straight-up moved at the same speed and strength as normal here and the only reason she didn't is she was taking the opportunity to spook instead of being practical like the rest of the fight, only for Uzi to do (and to survive doing against all odds) the literal singular thing that could even temporarily impede the end of all things.
How MD does its eldritch god is great, is all I'm saying
>>327268 I've considered the Pavo/Cyn matchup a few times. He's got a low chance compared to most Sentinels because he clears being just above-average in combat, and mainly excels in fighting DDs and being near-immune to trauma. However, Cyn lost to a worker drone who had maybe a few days' worth of "combat experience". It's entirely possible that any SD floors her if they realize that they can't beat infinite regeneration and can only win by going for the core.
I was once going to write about Cyn being downright afraid of Sentinel Drones, not because they're a massive threat, but because they register as a slight threat and she'd NEVER live down jobbing to a 3-dimensional entity. But, you know, Mary Sue allegations.
>>327268 >jobbed twice in episode 2 via uzi gun exploding point blank >N stabbing the her core >weakness is sunlight (average discord user) >no reason to even wear tessa’s skin in the first place >besides shock factor >killed doll >only to see later doll isn’t dead >freely roaming around as a oily thing (she still did avenge her mom or dad >left to the imagination what cyn did for 70 years >because that’s fun >door is enough to physically harm the body >got vored by a femcel >is now currently in said femcel’s ass >never made oil >when it’s the only THING she needs to live absolute potential, the headcanon, all fan made void
>>327275 >Canonically kicked Human ass so hard, they lost their home planet >Even more so, so hard that they were building a patch to AVOID her influence rather than confront her directly
Also remember, the only reason that Doll's an oil ghost is because Cyn killed and then Uzi took Cyn's position as host. Doll's hud was part of the "escaped data" (i.e. roboghosts released from Solver-hell) segment. Also keep in mind that for at least Cyn we don't have any evidence that she needs oil per-se, just that she wants it. It could just be her binge eating cause nobody can stop her.
>>327273 >How MD does its eldri- your saying that as if you had read any of HP lovecraft books, knowing fuck all about the guy who made eldritch in the first place, he was him, made a entire article of how cats are the best, dogs are not
I thought he was threadcannonically THE combat sentinel, eclipsing even individuals like Ivory? Still no chance against Cyn (cause if that were the case the sentinel teams humanity was most reasonably sending at her in a constant stream would have succeeded) but probably would give her the single closest possible thing to a threat outside of a bunch of Solver-drones (who can ACTUALLY kill her since they can hijack her core, which I presume nothing else and ESPECIALLY not the anti-solver sentinels would be capable of).
>>327276 >Canonically kicked Human ass so hard, they lost their home planet that isn’t really all that impressive, it’s whatever year it was back then, and humanity made no laser weapon, no cool stuff, they were pathetic and stupid
>>327274 This anon >>327273 summed up my opinion on the matter well, because she really did see it more as a joke than a real fight. Let's not forget that Uzi had exactly the same power as Cyn, and she couldn't directly turn her into a pancake, since a host solver can't directly affect a host solver, but throwing something heavier is easy.
She could literally drop a planet on Pavo, it's easy for her, but I think Pavo could stun her a little with his feather attack. It's not much, but it would be something.
>>327277 Ah, but keep in mind, the most fun part about Cyn is just how much is left completely ambiguous. Did she care about the mansion group? Yes, whether as toys or as people that much is clear. But how so, and why did she do what she did to them? And how and in what context does she really understand what she's doing? It was already neat enough that Liam very strongly implied she sees everything as essentially dolls, beloved or not, but Cyn as a character toes the line between innocent/goofy/terrifying/simply difficult to understand so well that she's I think my legitimate favorite "Nyarlathotep" style "elder abomination in a people suit" entity.
>>327278 I think he is one of the strongest due to the combination of mental peculiarities (the absence of the sentinel's main weakness) and the most advanced technologies that humanity has, but still, yes, I think this is still not enough to defeat a god.
>>327280 >She could literally drop a planet on Pavo we have also literally never see cyn, or any other solver host, even do anything close to that using telekinesis thing >those tendri- took take time and are glowing yellow
>>327285 meant took time to form, the ship was on autopilot, avoids rocks and space debris, not whatever that tendril is >SOLAR SYSTEM SPACESHIP fucking where, my memory may be old, this is from episode 3, it took 3 week to arrive on copper 9
>>327284 >we have also literally never see cyn, or any other solver host, even do anything close to that using telekinesis thing Because it's too easy. Cyn, unlike Uzi and Doll, has been using her otherworldly powers for much longer and can use them much faster and more effectively. She literally punched through the planet's core using a tiny [null] ball just for effect; she was really just playing around. She didn't see them as enemies, just as toys.
>>327286 I'm incredibly saddened that Liam doesn't have an autism for worldbuilding. He couldn't care less about it. He only cares about characters, and only the main characters.
>>327287 I just say that because we have no evidence of any other spaceship Cyn/the dissemblers used to arrive from Earth to Copper-9. Until there's some evidence otherwise I'm assuming Cyn finished up with wherever she was and then flew back to copper in the pod to clean house rather than her flying there in whatever ahuler initially dropped off the DDs and then sitting in orbit for 20 years.
>>327290 another reason as to why to never put any faith into a indie shows, always boring, not indie games, my faith is there with them, as is my money
>>327278 I always took that to be Harper, myself, but he does clear an entire house of DDs without his cheat tail in the deep cover green. It's one of those things, like how despite Star Wars spinoffs having ancient Sith emperors who can eat planets and do other insane shit on that scale, Sheev is always "the strongest Sith who ever lived" because it's sacrilege to say otherwise. The Polver timeline, where he beats Cyn, has the intrusive thought of eating the Solver, and actually assimilates it instead of either violently exploding or nothing happening, would be funny to look at, but not worth all the other trouble.
>>327293 you think cyn gets enjoyment of swallowing after a blow job, sperms are living things with souls in them, kinda gross that it’s in you at all time
>>327293 Aren't those two basically synonymous? I know Lovecraft himself most certainly wrote both, and typically the inability to understand a thing pairs pretty well with making its whole existence so fundamentally beyond yours that you are a mere gnat in comparison.
>>327294 >That's what /md/ is for! >an anonymous image board >made as a back up for 4chan that’s when you know one as failed as a creator, fucking hell
>>327295 >It's one of those things, like how despite Star Wars spinoffs having ancient Sith emperors who can eat planets and do other insane shit on that scale, Sheev is always "the strongest Sith who ever lived" because it's sacrilege to say otherwise. Sheev is the strongest because he maxed out his precognition and his counter-precognition (Remember the part in Attack of the Clones where it's mentioned that the Dark Side has started clouding the Jedi Council's ability to look ahead for potential futures? That was Sheev).
>>327290 That's just giving you the opportunity to do it yourself Anon like i did. >Want more Worldbuilding? Expands, create more outposts, labs, new planets. >Got any character in mind? Write greentext about any side character you want.
>>327274 A Sentinel could hold Cynwalker in check in a purely physical fight, but of course she isn't a pure physical combatant, she can teleport away if she feels seriously threatened and she can casually sling black hole attacks powerful enough to pierce through-and-through a planet. Keep in mind the fight between her, V, N and Uzi is purely spectacle, it runs off of rule-of-cool and so characters use their powers when it would be most cool, not necessarily when it would most easily win the fight, and it's all got to be kept within the show's limited animation budget. The biggest advantage a Sentinel Drone has is that they actually use all of their abilities when appropriate, and they have only a very limited sense of self-preservation. The biggest disadvantage they suffer is that their strongest weapons or powers can only be used in limited bursts before they are expended, and they can only self-repair a limited amount of damage, unlike DDs who can bounce back from basically anything that doesn't totally annihilate their body. If you were to replace the main trio with a "standard" Sentinel Drone pair, they might force Cyn to take them more seriously and play with them less, which would probably just mean that she either summons some kind of flesh monster to fight as her proxy, or she just starts slinging black holes like she does when possessing Uzi and doesn't stop until they're destroyed. I described in an early Solver War greentext and in the original Phoenix story how a Solver Witch is capable of deflecting a Sentinel's signature energy weapon. Thermal bloom will still burn them but Cynwalker survives things that would cripple a normal DD temporarily, like being decapitated, so I imagine that she can soak that kind of secondary damage without pause as well. If she can deflect and juggle Uzi's equally powerful black hole attacks, she could repel a concerted attack from a Sentinel Drone with similar ease.
If you wanted a direct power comparison with show characters, the standard Sentinel variant is more dangerous than Doll during Prommening but not as dangerous as Cynwalker during Ep.8. The Intoner variant is less dangerous than Doll but more dangerous than a Sentinel Raptor. The converted Worker Sentinel soldiers are more dangerous than Uzi firing off her railgun (they actually hit most of the shots they take and have some specialized weapons, fight in groups, etc) but less dangerous than a Raptor pack (no gargoyle flash, not any more durable than normal Workers, weapons rely on supplies of ammunition)
>>327305 That's literally what I'm doing, lol. I've been writing greens about the Veteran AU for so long that I'm starting to forget how the original characters act on the show. I seriously need to rewatch it.
I don’t think Akita and Beretta would like each other at all. Not in a quirky “I find your brand of autism off putting” kind of way but a deep and fundamental fear of what the other represents
>>327237 >"Hey, Little one!" >Her head instantly perks up nervously. >She looks back at you. >"Y-yeah sir?" >"Come over here, will ya?" >She walks over to you, looking down shyly. >"Yeah sir? Is there anything I can help you with?" >"... What's your name?" >"Oh, my name...? Well, it's V, sir! Serial Designation V!" >A single letter? that was somehow both adorable and kind of...cold. Did this reckless bastard not give their drones any real names? >"like V? the letter? The first B or the second V in the alphabet?" >She giggles softly. Then she starts moving her hand, drawing an imaginary 'V' on the air with her finger. >"Ah, it's a cute letter... a cute name..." >She giggles nervously. >"W-well. Why, thank you sir. I'm glad you like it." >She figdets with her apron. >"I-is there anything else I can help you with, sir?" >You think about it for a moment... Then a random idea crosses your mind. >"Can you stay here? I wanna chat with you for a minute..." >"Oh- chat? ... yeah! Sure, I can stay!"
>You plop down on a nearby armchair. God it was comfortable. >"You want to take a seat too?" >"A seat?" she mutters.. "Oh- ... okay, sure!" >She grabs a nearby stool, placing it in front of you then sitting down elegantly.
>"So, V! Why don't you tell me about you and drones in general? I'm curious how you little guys work..." >V starts explaining the basics of the worker drones in a really informative and enthusiastic way. >She talks about their functions within the manor and how they serve the Elliott's >As she speaks out loud, you are able to hear her voice clearly. >It's very gentle, and sweet...
>>327314 If the "cannon" of the two interact or in the Empress Uzi setting? Cause I figured in Empress Uzi Beretta, being the oldest sibling, would have essentially gone through most of her character development by the time Akita's old enough to be a factor, thus making her a lot less scary as a concept.
>>327312 Neat, but statistically isn't Uzi kinda cracked in the aim department? I only remember her firing off, like, 3 shots tops in the series and of those 1 was a direct hit and the other missed by a few milimeters.
>>327315 you know damn well they knew what they were doing, just love that it shows the fire in the stomach just as the song says “it’s where my demons hide"
>>327316 >"-and that's why we keep everything in order for Master Elliott and his guests! ... Is there anything else you'd like to know, sir?" >"Well, that was very interesting... So, you guys have... personalities? And stuff?" >She chuckles nervously. >"Well... yeah! But, apparently, not as much as our human masters, of course... Not that it matters..." >You notice her looking around nervously. >"Everything okay?" >"Oh? oh! Yeah, it's just that... Master Elliott might not like that I'm... sitting around..." >"... I should probably go-" She starts standing up from her stool, but you stop her. >"Hey! You can stay, alright? I'm an important guest, I need your assistance, sit down..." >"Oh... o-okay!" >You can't help but notice her acting more anxious now. Constantly fidgeting with her apron and looking over to the hallway behind you.
>"That guy, James... does he treat you all okay? Or is he some sort of evil overlord" you say in a villainous mocking manner. >She looks down, chuckling nervously. >"Heh.. he is a great man, I'm sure." >"I- I mean... He is a great man! Master Elliott... he created us! And he takes good care of us..." She gives you a nervous smile.
>You don't like what's going on here. Chances are you were right about that prick. >It gets worse when you remember that pile of junk outside the manor. Something was not right about this James guy. >"I... I should head out..." She says. >You notice a slight distress in her voice, as if she wasn't sure about the certainty of her claims...
>>327313 I get it. One thing I keep ignoring is establishing when my AU takes place to the canon story. My interpretation is Solara was created a little time later when the sentinels were established.
>Historically speaking, a majority of sentinel drone interactions with a swarm of hostile disassembly drones end up with them in a position similar to a naive female elf encountering a pack of goblins in a cave. It’s not pretty.
>>327327 >Sentinels jobbing Impossible. Citizen you are required to report to your nearest Federation reeducation camp immediately for 10 rounds of Liquidator Extraction and two watchthroughs of "Top-Ass."
>>327320 First shot ever, misfire, blows herself up Second shot, hits N at point blank range, he is immobile and taken by surprise Third shot, point blank on J who is laying on the ground immobile, basically a contact shot Fourth shot, near miss, takes off one of J’s twintails
Reprogrammed SD Workers operate similar to well trained soldiers, they have a variety of military weapons and use coordination and tactics. They’d be a lot more dangerous to a DD on any given day than an untrained worker with an unreliable albeit powerful single shot weapon.
>>327333 >Real world soldiers miss over 50% of their shots even in the US military >Uzi manages a 66% hit rate, cause you can't reasonably count a misfire as bad aim
>>327327 >>327328 Anon specified "swarm" for a reason. This isn't just one or a squad of DDs, this is a whole alphabet worth of the bastards >Sentinel warned "there's tons of DDs in that area" >Dismisses >He's got the bootloop, he'll be fine >So he goes on his mission >Hits the first squad, boots, kills >Hits a second squad within the second, weird >Still boots and kills >Hits a third squad >Something's not right >These guys fight with their eyes closed >Only sort of a problem, kills but takes some damage >Then he gets hit by the snipers >There were a full 26 DDs in that singular building >They were throwing a corporate retreat >And now he's completely at their mercy
Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but there are no Sentinel Drones in the Empress timeline. The best humanity had were Boxmarines, and they really existed to buy time for planetary evacuations.
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>>327203 >>327213 >Would he have to explode or the planet to see the dogs? >Turns out the answer is pretty unclear >On the one hand, getting anywhere near it's atmosphere would absolutely melt him alive >It might even keep him from being resurrected too! Uzi's never seen that happen since she took charge! >So with option one out of the way, he turns to two >And while friendly, he's not stupid >After doing some research/schmoozing, figures out the general traits and coordinates to reach the planet >Does some calculations and research of his own with Uzi later >Turns out, the dogs are in superposition at this moment >Simultaneously in and not-in existence at the location where the planet would be in any given solar system >And kept in superposition, further, by the unique properties of the planet itself >If the planet were to, say, be destroyed, these properties would become unstable >The dogs, thanks to their immortality, would survive this process in unstable form: simultaneously extant and not at all possible points where the former planet stood, yet able to be interacted with and through such interaction resolved into whichever given location in space carried out said interaction >In other words, if he blew up the planet, he could fly out into space and literally grab all the dogs he wanted from it >Uzi's rather into the idea, sticking it to the skinnies for encroaching on their space and all >But N can't possibly do it >It would be cruel >Inhumane >Not just to those humans on planet-bullshit, but to the dogs themselves >So he plays politics >Makes major trades in exchange for photographs and even, occasionally, sightings in the hands of nobles or Sentinel Corps commanders >And every time he does >Every time the Federation tries to wrangle out another concession for the mere prospect of witnessing one >He thinks of that plan a little more >And he smiles
>>327342 Eh, nobody's made anything for empress except those two greens up until now, we can play around with the concept if it means getting more anons interested.
>>327338 You can’t count point blank contact shots as good aim either. The one shot Uzi takes at any range beyond a few feet away she misses. Your average SD-Worker can put a burst of accurate weapon fire from a variety of different guns onto a moving target at ranges of 100m
>>327334 The list in my personal opinion: >Pavo >Sentinel Fuguedrone >Sentinel Eli >Sentinel Heal Slut >Ivory >Sentinel E >Avre >Adeline >Harper >Alpha >Hound and Huntress
They love humans more than anyone else. Of course, everyone's opinion is a little different. Harper might simply find us very sweet, while Pavo would be ready to exterminate alien civilizations if he thought they can pose a threat to humanity.
>>327346 >They disperse in disgust >Score one for anon >Now he just has to figure out what solver-mutation let him crap himself as a Sentinel >Yes, life will be good >Hopefully
>>327363 >Tfw you just have to trust the writefag has an explanation for why there's massive grassy jungles and not an overwhelming mass of factories and/or refugees on literally the ONLY planet human space can rely on for indestructible infrastructure. >The fact that the whole thing hasn't been converted to farmland is a miracle in and of itself, given that it's the only place that 100% guarantees solver infection safe foodstuffs
I know that pain anon...
On the bright side, it creates a ton of possibilities for exploring the general human army/liquidators hating sentinels in the post-cannon. As far as they saw things the single strongest, fastest, best supplied weapons of the war would quite literally leave a battlefield to go on vacation in the middle of a war for mankind's extinction. Regardless of the fact that it made the Sentinels objectively better in their role as the army's "scalpel" I can't see anyone, officer or grunt, who saw or heard of that in action being particularly happy about it. Doubly so once they learn in the post-war that the Sentinel Corps literally has a completely untouchable planet that they have been making luxuries for their bots on and very little else.
If Harpernon's reading I do love the green, but for the love of all that is holy give us a REASON for these things. Cause current-stand it's really hard to look at the way it's set up and NOT think either "the Sentinels are babied way too much" or "the Sentinel Corps high-command is deliberately limiting access to the planet out of pure spite for/power hunger/glory hunger against the other military units."
>>327369 I already explained it kinda in my last writing. To quote >This planet is less than 1 percent developed. And you best hope to god it stays that way, because it being like this is the only reason any of us are breathing right now
>>327359 >anon walking back to base >Invisible- Duran Duran: MGSV Big Boss/Venom Snake walking down hallway edit >DD status >uncertain movement >hesitation out of disgust >they mental capacity failing >DDs questioning why he did that >others are questioning is anything what they are doing is remotely worth it >they did this for free >whenever any drone sees anon a 'biological waste hazard detected' pops up on their screen >anon’s stink defence mechanism worked
>>327369 Honestly, I'd rather drop that halfassed concept from my take on Warhammer 3K entirely than try to fit the halfassed premise into a comparatively better thought-out one. >give us a REASON for these things Even if you do get that, it's going to be fucking retarded. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
>>327363 The threads are quite literally rehashing bugdrones, sentinel discourse, and Nuzi kids in real time We’re only a handful of threads away from somebody reinventing Buddy and Ddanni unironically
Nice, must not have seen that one. Still isn't going to help Sentinel-Corps PR post-war but that just gives the option for a whole series of interesting greens in and of themselves where the Corps is simultaniously the "last man standing" of human institutions/leadership AND having major problems with the actual human-military remnants and veterans who don't understand why they seemed to be holding back so much (including even an entire planet in post, since presumably sentinel-base stays underdeveloped and secret). Got to get to that when I'm more awake though so goodnight.
>>327369 Droneanon (that's what Harper's creator is called) has already made his universe extremely limited in order to tell only his story, and I don't think that's a bad thing.
His concept of sentinels isn't unique. In my Veteran AU concept, there's no such planet at all. There are multiple bases, located on numerous planets, serving for the rapid deployment, supply, and repair of sentinel drones, and 75 percent of humanity isn't extinct.
>>327382 They were like the Yoshi egg pooping green >haha what if your bro got vored and force femmed? would it be gay to fuck your bro now that he's a girl? haha
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>>327376 This is /md/, I'm not sure why you're here if you don't like Nuzi kids. Also grub is different enough from bugs to have som actual staying power this time since he's got more than "just drones but bug" going for him.
>>327387 Remember when bugdrones were evolved from the various drono dwarfus retardius subspecies? Should have kept that angle. Still fondly remember an Anon breaking down what each subspecies would evolve into, like Duls' hair developing into a pillbug-like shell they can protect themselves with by curling up.
>>327390 >>327391 I thought Phoenixanon's concert from the ship was quite interesting, so humans were trying their best to escape to distant colonies using everything they could get their hands on to fly through space.
And I don't mean to imply that humanity wasn't harmed; more than half were killed or mutated, but more than 25% remained.
>>327286 corru shilling fails to bring up the true shared element of it and the murder drones setting and that its UUUUUU CORES UUUUUUUUU I LUV CORES I <3 COREPLAY #COREPLAYGANG4LYFE UUUUUU
>>327152 >this Beretta, because she's taught everything about herself, isn't horrified by going through eldritch meat puberty Very sweet. I imagine this isn't the first time Beretta's used being more Brundlefly than robot to demonstrate common ground with Keeter?
>>327397 I kept some semblance of being normal over the years, the closest your going to get to that in real life, are traps, a questionable poor choices of what is a man, tomboys are what will only get me intrigued
>>327407 You know, anon, I'm also very disappointed with the thoughtless addition of all sorts of weird temples and other nonsense that should supposedly explain why Cyn doesn't touch the base, but it seems to me that you're focusing too much on this.
Just come up with your own concept for your universe, that's all.
>>321433 >You enter the little shack. It’s got a desk next to a window, a bunk bed, a carpet, and a few lockers. Kinda reminds you of Titan in a sense. You see Sophie sitting on the top bunk, looking at… Whatever’s on that video pad. You’re not keen to ask what it is, though. You’ve asked her enough, and she seems like she’s more interested in whatever she’s watching. >You sit at the desk. That conversation you had with the scientist did raise a question. Why don’t they colonize this planet? If Earth is… Gone, why not go for something this habitable? They said something about “Not liking what would happen” if it got more than 1 percent industrialized. You think back to the Sentinel base. How does that structure not count? >You said you wouldn’t ask her, but you gotta. You ask Sophie why Sentinels are kept here. >“Oh! I dunno, mommy said that that they are needed here because all the army people are underground!” >Well… That’s kinda vague. But maybe… What if you just asked someone else? You pull up your communicator array and try to get in touch with or someone else. You don’t need to focus on it as much now to get it to work. Eventually, Harper’s face shows up in a little screen in the corner >”Hey! What’s up?” >You ask Harper why people don’t develop this planet. It seems like it’d be a good idea. Harper seems to… Is the right word sigh? Sigh, that’s the kind of noise she just made. >”Ugh... Look, I really didn’t want to have to tell you this, because this situation is dire. we DID develop this planet. All the people live in the rock formations. The base is no different. The thing is, it’s because the jungle of this planet has… Something about it that seems to keep IT away.” >You ask why they don’t farm here? You’re no farmer, but the soil seems good. Harper groans and speaks in a dreary tone. >Fine, I’m just gonna rip the bandaid off. Food cannot grow on this planet, only more jungle. Any seeds just grow more trees and stuff. About the only resource we CAN harvest are the trees, but we don’t really do that because it risks dropping whatever barrier is set up and who the fuck even wants wood in this day and age? I don’t know why, but I’ve never been one to question providence. This place? It’s the home planet of most of what’s left of humanity now. We need to be here in case anything happens. I know it doesn’t sound that bad, but do you know how many people live on this planet? 200 million. Oh, I took you to a space city, but that only had a few thousand living in it. Do you know why our roadtrip seemed so pleasant despite the stakes? It’s because I intentionally took a path that would shield you from the reality of our situation. I didn’t want to break you. All you’ve seen? This is basically all that’s left of humanity. A few space cities, a few remote research outposts, and a lot of underground infrastructure on a planet nobody actually wants to live on because it’s damp and only livable because you’re a machine. Most people who live here say it fucking sucks because it’s damp, too cold, and yet muggy at the same time. Nobody can be comfortable living here besides Drones like ourselves. I’m sorry you had to know how awful it actually was for us.” >Well, that’s an awful lot to take in. So… Harper basically lied to you in order to preserve your innocence. You’re… Kinda mad at her for that. Why did she do that? Did she really not think you could handle it? Maybe she just realized you’d ask a ton of questions anyways and just decided to give you the answers all at once to get you to stop. You hang up and storm out. You activate your wings, once again on instinct, and fly above the tree line before surveying the rock formations in the distance. You see… Lights? Yeah, those are lights. Windows, perhaps. You don’t feel like leaving Sophie, but she has a tracker, she’ll be fine. You rocket over to one of the lights in a minute, finding a balcony. It blends into the rock rather well. You don’t see anyone though, and start looking around to see if anyone has gone outside. And well, someone has. A human. She can’t be more than 20. She’s just curled up on the balcony, soaked from head to toe, looking completely despondent. You feel a rush of protective instincts flare up inside you. You want to make this human happy. 12/??
>>327413 I'd say every anon has their own concept they use, and these concepts share both similarities and differences. Planet of Droneanon is barely mentioned, except by Droneanon himself and, well, you.
>You look at yourself in the mirror every day, hoping that this nightmare will come to a close. The moment anyone calls for your help, you’re off to the races. That’s not the part that bothers you. You’re a finely tuned combat machine. You’ve seen a lot of people die, and while that upsets you a lot, you press forward >The real struggle comes when you’re done with a mission. You transport refugees to this place, escort them to their new homes, and so on. And they eventually hate it. They’re constantly wondering when they’ll see the sun again or when they’ll be able to go outside without a poncho. You don’t have any senses that could tell you this, but apparently it’s nearly impossible to venture outside unless you’re a machine. Something about it being hard to breathe. People here have all the things they need. Food (Grown on ships,) shelter, warmth, recreation, each other, but they’re still unhappy. Not just unhappy, but they’ve actually killed themselves before >You try to keep up some optimism, like your husband taught you to do in the face of adversity, but at the same time you wonder what the point is. If the people you save always end up so depressed because this is the last place they can live. Maybe just for the sake of your child, maybe for the sake of your comrades. >The rain is calming, but it never stops.
>>327188 I never said anything about loving khan and nori, this was something that had to be done, my heart gos out for the in the forest, my favourite thing to do is whenever someone stupid enough to break in, have alice in my arms, her tail in my hand, making it go around in circles, placing alice on the floor, her on all fours The Wind Up Dog Is Here!
>>327437 But yeah. Apparently the jungle has some kind of mystic property keeping the Solver out. So the real question is “How do you colonize without touching the jungle?” The answer is to just build building interiors in rock formations
>>327194 there’s filth everywhere, they dogs, they are mutts, while cats on the other hand, on wherever their planet is located, cats aren’t stupid to leave behind their whereabouts like the dumbass dogs do, cats have their own civilisation, guns that are cats, cats that are guns
>>327439 >jungle has some kind of mystic property keeping the Solver out that and is also nature, cyn spends her time in her underground trap door home, she doesn’t like touching grass
No offence to Cyn fans, unless you are Cynwalker fans. Cyn doesn’t work as a god tier antagonist due to Liam’s writing.
>Cyn is bootlooped by sentinel raportors, a god should not be bound by whatever causes drones to be bootlooped. While Cyn isn’t frozen by the bootloop for as long as a normal worker it nevertheless works on her. >Cyn didn’t know Nori was alive, despite Cyn being a solverhoet and knowing about crab cores. She didn’t to try and confirm Nori’s death. This is this incompetence
Reasonable points out of the way, now its rant time.
That’s why all the Cyn is super stronk stuff is laughable to me. She lost to sentinel raptors, I’m certain you can take her core out of her while she’s stunned and put it in an oven like Alice did to the other dds and solver users. They can’t teleport out of the oven because if they could Alice would be dead. Cyn had to cone herself to destroy the patch, she didn’t even know there was a patch just that the humans are working on something. Cyn is lucky the humans in the show are dumber than she is or she would be toast, literally.
>>327485 We were literally shown how the flare didn't affect her, only slightly disoriented her, yet she was able to freely manipulate her body (and Tessa's), take control of witches without the patch, and simultaneously control enormous tentacles of energy.
She lost only because she was completely careless. She understood that NO ONE, literally no one, except another solver host, could do ANYTHING to her. And humans understood this too, which is why they tried to create a patch, they literally tried to create their own Cyn, because nothing else could do anything to her.
>>327486 Liam couldn't care less about the lore of the world; he just wants to tell the characters' stories, that's all. We were shown this moment from N's memories just to make a "what a twist" moment, nothing more. Only we, the fans, actually attach meaning to it and weave a chain of events from it that leads to some logical outcome.
Uzi only beat Cyn because she stumbled backwards into the literal singular win condition she had available to her, completely by accident
If Uzi hadn’t eaten Cyn’s singularity she would have died and Cyn presumably would have been fine, either completely regenerating or fleeing and getting a new body/stealing Uzi’s body
Cyn wasn’t even really killed, in fact, there’s no evidence in the show that Cyn really can be killed in any meaningful way, even if Uzi had found a way to destroy the singularity completely (if that’s even possible) would that have actually killed Cyn or just separated her from reality? (on a permanent/temporary basis)
>>327490 >he just wants to tell the characters' stories, that's all. Not really. He could create designs for characters and fun little scenarios for them, but he showed no real commitment to forging an actual narrative.
>>327493 >Liam doesn't even want to do it What the hell was he thinking when he offered Glitch to create a show? That he'd just draw a few concepts and they'd pay him a lot of money for it?
>>327501 Yeah remembering how they act is useful. But being bitten shows she couldn’t trick the sentinels, and that’s not mentioning the drone neck “Tessa” has. Cyn is incompetent and so is the rest of the cast for falling for the disguise. Getting decapitated is nothing for any solver drone.
>>327502 She roleplayed Tessa, like a player who, instead of using cheats, plays "honestly." She even restrained herself from using the solver: when V pointed the blade at her, she made a gesture, but quickly pulled herself back.
>>327509 >>327510 >The Fat Controller laughed >"You are wrong." >>327506 DDani doesn't play Warhammer. That bitch goes out and plays the violin like a champ (Source: I made it up just now.)
>>327512 I remember someone writing that DDanni loves Valhallans. Oddly enough, I also remember that Y also loves Valhallans (Captain Kain is her favorite).
The Lasgun is literally a Kalashnikov assault rifle from the 40th millennium: >Cheap >Reliable >Ammo (charges) are plentiful >Easy to handle >There are as many varieties as there are planets in the Imperium >The weapon of victory!
The most interesting thing is that with the technology shown in the show, it is entirely possible to create a lasgun, since Uzi was able to create a railgun.
>>327396 >Cores >floating Limbs/heads that can be nabbed without damage >Receptors of all shapes and sizes >can shapeshift & sometimes cloak to some unknown degree >Spite their home planet and universe as a whole by their continued existence >Final 'real' design down mostly to artist interpretation. >They even got their own shady Government beau made specifically to research&document them they got alot going for em, thats for sure.
>>327527 I called one of the most celebrated heroes of the Imperium and humanity simply "Captain." My regimental commissar should have me shot for that. Considering who the Valhallans were modeled on, Cain could have been my commissar, and he didn't go around killing guardsmen left and right, like some of his overzealous colleagues.
>>327438 >Vivi pulls you in for a kiss because your her "destined true love" in her current delusion and she "needs true love's kiss to power up" >you meet her soft lips and for a second you're receiving a tender kiss >then as the kiss deepens your lips begin to sting, then burn >then melt into hers, followed by the rest of your face >every cell screams in agony. you try to pound at her body to break free but your fists catch on her dress fusing into it where they make contact >she pulls you in to a hug, pressing your body against hers and the pain is beyond the limits of what the human body can process >but you're not human anymore, demonstrated by your brain continuing to function as your ribs crack open and splay out across her chest >you sink deeper and deeper into your humanoid hell, your body unrecognizable as anything more than a squirming mass of meat now >in your mind– wherever it is– you can't stop screaming, but your throat and lungs have already been assimilated into her dress and your skull adorns her face like a helmet, the muscle from your arms and legs worn as greaves and gauntlets— and you can feel *all of it* >and you can feel the others. so many others. men, women, children— all trapped in here with you, all sharing the same agony. >you're just one more voice in the choir of silent screams.
>Mac's face when he realizes, on the way back to Copper-9 from the Trappist system, how many human girls were there to see him and Mom and some of Dad's friends visiting this time >how many human girls he heard saying to their friends "Okay, hear me out" in hushed tones at the sight of him >how many human girls were discreetly holding on to rocks
>>327548 sorry, Ivory, but public opinion of the sentinel program has gone downhill ever since the war ended so we need a marketable mascot and you drew the short straw
>>327559 Just asking because it's the only such thing in the pic and it's on her cheek, and Doll's in the background (and possibly in the foreground judging from the black goo) being a ghost...
>>327436 >have alice in my arms, her tail in my hand, making it go around in circles, placing alice on the floor, her on all fours My goodness imagine...
>>327324 >"... hey, V. Tell me about you..." >"Hm? Oh, I told you everything about the worker drones... are you interested in anything else about us?" >"I mean about you... like, you, V!" >She chuckles nervously, looking down shyly. >You catch a quick glimpse of her visor. You spot some lines around the sides forming a blushed expression... >"About me...? Well, what do you wanna know about me, sir?" >"Plase, call me Anon" >"Anon... That's a pretty name..." She says timidly. >Oh lord... she really was pushing your aww-o-meter now...
>"Well, Sir- Anon! What do you wanna know about me?" >"Well, what stuff do you like? And what do you like doing?" >"Oh... Uhm... I guess I like reading books, sometimes. Master Elliott's library is ... fantastic!" You start noticing her tone becoming a lot more enthusiastic and less timid. >"I... I love novels! Mystery novels, specially..." >"And, oh god. I ... LOVE... fantasy..." She says pridefully. >She notices how enthusiastic she got all of a sudden and shifts back to her usual timid self. >"But... yeah, that's pretty much it..." >Holy shit. This little robot got you all mellow, somehow...
>"That's honestly fascinating... You guys do have personalities afterall..." >"Is there anything else you like?" >Once more, she looks down and giggles shyly. >"W-well... nobody has ever asked me, so I didn't really tell anybody..." >"I... I really like flowers..."
>... oh god. This was it. This was the moment your heart inmediately fell for that little robot. >Flowers? Flowers?? That's so darn sweet!
>"... W-what kind of flowers?" >"Oh... all of them! I love daisies, orchids, tulips..." >"They all have different meanings... and their colors are so pretty..." >"Master Elliott does not like them too much... I barely get to see some small flowers out in the garden..." >Unlike the last conversation about books she liked, she doesn't look enthusiastic, but rather... affectionate about this? >"... but my favorite ones have to be... uhm" >"Forget it, it's dumb!" She says, laughing nervously and waving her hand around, gesturing you to brush it off. >"Hey, tell me! I wanna know..." >"Well... uhm..." >"It's... white roses!" >"They're both... gentle and... elegant..." >You look at her in fascination.
>"... That's really sweet." >"Y-you think? ... I mean... thanks..." >She runs her hand on the side of her hair, a warm smile creeping up on her lips. >You notice how soft and silky her hair is. >What if you could brush it... >... no! What am I thinking? jeez! >She's looking at me. >... oh god, she's looking at me with those sweet digital eyes...
>>327579 Brother cought in 4k using reddit, but dare I say based, but it would be even more based if he did more of N getting plowed and put in the place of a bottom bitch he deserves to be in
>>327582 Except the stuff Penders made for Archie was cringеkino (Fun Fact: a lot of Penders' lore for Knuckles was originally going to be for Sonic, but Sega vetoed his plans to expand on Sonic's place in the world like that, so he asked if he could do it for Knuckles instead and Sega said yes). Pocketsteaks' humanslop is just cringе.
>>327588 I don't use reddit, why the fuck would I know? I don't use any social media I have other things to do and I don't much care about the opinons of random people on the internet
>>327614 NTA, the problem is Armagedon isn't willing to take his based crusade to the next level and emascualte N, make him watch as (You) fuck the woman he couldn't be with in front of his screen first and then fuck him and after all is said and done make N admit that getting fucked like a bitch felt better than anything in his life prior to that Or something along those lines idk
>>327617 this, but without the humiliation ritual. I genuinely want him to have my babies, I know the meme is the mpreg version, but for me, it's making him a girl and then knock her up.
>>327637 Probably confidence but in the inverse sense. As Teli gets more and more glorious/powerful, but continues to recieve the same or even less attention from humans/the human she craves, she gets rapier and rapier as a way to compensate for her increasing lack of belief that she can fairly earn affection.
>This is what N goes through every diplomatic meeting >Every. Single. One. >They thibk he's oblivious but he's not, he just ignores it to be polite >He thanks his lucky stars that his sons don't have to deal with this
>>327642 Sentinel Teli will simply approach to anon, put a collar on him and tell him that, by decision of the military commissariat, he is now her husband.
If we put Oilrig, Droneanon, Dinofag, Tomoe, Pillar, Scribbles, Strawberry and that anon who complained about Pavo and faggot slop in a freshly new thread. Who would derail or ruin it first?
>>327652 >"I love doing anything!" >That means he agrees to everything >That means he can't be raped >Technically, he agrees >He won before Anon was even born
>>327651 But anon, that's precisely the problem! Even a WD Teli could probably black-bag a husband with some tape and industrial machinery strength if she wanted to, she just still believes she can make relationships with people because they like her instead of because they have to endure her. By the time she's become something as beautiful and powerful and beloved as a Sentinel and yet she still gets no humans, she panics and decides to physically force others into her precence because she's got no hope that anyone will even pretend to love her otherwise.
Guys, whatever you do, don't buy the Tediore knockoff worker drones. I know their one eighth the price but they're made out of the same plastic explosives as their shitty disposable guns and their CPUs are somehow even more braindead and glitchy than JCJenson's main brand.
>>327658 >their CPUs are somehow even more braindead and glitchy than JCJenson's main brand. It's impossible, because then the stone would literally be smarter than them. I checked. JCJ processors sometimes lost to stones in chess. I don't know how that's possible.
>>327650 >She works at Sentinel Command >Technically just a secratary >But nobody pays a loyal SD worker any heed... >She's effectively massed resources and hard power equal to Harper at this point, Stalin style >She's not sabotaging the war or anything, she still wants to live >But stuff might get hairy in the post-war government...
>>327645 You'll have to ask somebody else, I find bimbofication repulsive and wouldn't enjoy drawing it. >>327647 No, I haven't. >>327649 There isn't any such pic, I would be willing to do it by request when I have time but it's gonna take backseat to the maid drone greentext since I've been prioritizing writing over drawing the past few weeks.
>>327662 >Stalin style When she becomes a sentinel drone (and she will become a sentinel drone), she will first take over the Union government, and then embrace humanity in her iron embrace. For its own safety and well-being, of course.
>>327665 >She isn't actually sentinel compatible, at least, not in the the proper way like Harper was >But sentinels aren't the only root to power... >Now in the post war she's got one of the old human-piloted mechs, spruced up with the best modern tech she can muster >She does test and practice runs with it every day, usually against her own loyal sentinels/those who believe in her vision >She hopes she never has to use it >But it pays to have insurance
>>327668 Will-do. >>327669 >>327670 Not really working on a timetable, I'll see about updating the Marcy story this weekend 'cause it's gonna plunge into the low 20sF and I'm not going to be going outside for anything. I know I'm going to be writing the second big block for the maid drone greentext today because I had already planned ahead for it. It's gonna get a lot more explicit.
>>327679 She likes sex and wasting taxpayer dollars. Runs on uranium and spends all day doing fuck all ( in both senes of the word) and watching gore videos.
>Properly is the key word here >The original Sentinel process, the one that made individuals like Pavo, doesn't work on her because she lacks the special code-string >But humans in the post-cannon have more than the one type of sentinel now >Cue her receiving the same patch type that made Avre >Then augmenting that in turn with a bunch of advanced handheld weapons, including specialized ones for irregular roles or battles >Each, by themselves, would be insufficient >But together, along with her inherent SD-worker combat codebase, she might even be able to take on even Harper >Keyword might >She's seen her after-action reports >She's not taking that risk
As in "as a threat" or "as something they love" or "not even really relevant factors/equals." We do have a couple of sentinels that don't really like/care about humankind but besides Elf they don't get much green:
>Alpha and Beta, sad sentinels by Phoenixanon >Hound and Huntress, same but also in pain >Hunter, by Vicious
But I think that might be just about it and one of them just straight-up never interacted with humanity. Still, might be a role better suited to "SD-Generic" like the one from that Molli threat green.
>>327690 Get ready to be not so excited then: HoDR is about Cyn deciding after some implied Anonymous romance that, rather than killing all humans, she should let all of dronedom enjoy the benefits of human hubbies instead. This means that the war is over, but human males have less rights than women in Saudi-Arabia. Naturally lots of sexual harassment ensures, typically ceasing only when the anon/human in question gets an actual wife. Sentinels are still pretty high up on the totem pole in HoDR mind, cause a society run by Cyn is still pretty violent even when she's not trying to break things and they can murk any DD, but they aren't the ones setting policy.
Fake sentinel detected. I bet she gets stunned by bootloops
>Inb4 she was an experimental project that never went anywhere and got lost in the paperwork during the war >She legitimately doesn't understand why everyone else makes a big deal out of it once it's over, cause she neither saw action nor got called anywhere for it >As far as she knows the whole thing was just a LARP
Okay, my post misrepresented what I meant, it's my own fault, I know.
What I meant was that it seems pretty logical to me that at some point sentinel drones might think it's wrong to be subservient to humans who are inferior to them in every way. Plus, when you're literally considered one of the most powerful beings in the universe, you can develop quite the ego. Add to that the fact that humanity has made so many mistakes throughout history (literally the appearance of Satan), and I think sooner or later sentinel drones might decide, "We can take better care of humanity than humanity itself."
Sentinels aren't particularly smarter than humans as far as I can tell (their brains are wired for reaction time/sensor processing, not thinking harder) but otherwise yeah.
I think I said earlier in the thread that I figured they'd end up essentially governing human society in the post-cannon whether they wanted to or not. They are after all the only real military/governmental organization who didn't lose the majority of its leadership/funding/manpower during the Solver War and humanity presumably needs a pretty major stabilizing force just to spin them down from a total war economy into something that doesn't balkanize into a dozen warlord-states.
Plus if we're gonna add SD-Allmind from earlier in the thread into this I can't imagine her willingly giving up the power she gets from Martial Law over all the "inefficient" humans.
>>327683 >Sentinel Solara >Was about to get wrecked like in her green, but her codebase came back blue on the yearly checkup >Cue a search party and recovery of her body before the parasite got in >Now instead of a hard-driven farmbot she's a top of the line warmachine >But she remembers exactly how little the humans cared about her before she pinged on their scan, and how she would be literally dead right now at their hands were she not more useful as she is now >Now SD-Solara/"Blueberry"(her nickname from the other bots/humans) carries out her missions with bare-minimum effort while she enjoys R&R to the fullest >It's hard not to get attached to her new coworkers, though >And it's hard to ignore a squad of combat drones in distress >So, occasionally, she'll make exceptions to her "not my problem" behavior >Don't expect her to be soft, though >... except maybe on the drones from her farm planet she occasionally buys with her stipend
>>327691 Alpha and Beta are Holly's personal security detail, they were the first two fully functional, reliable Sentinel Drones developed from the program. They exemplify the Terminator+Xenomorph Sentinel Drone archetype, unemotive, ruthlessly efficient, able to shift from statue like stillness to ultra-violent action in a microsecond. They would be the oldest Sentinel Drones and have well-developed, stable personality quirks, but because they're archetypal characters these quirks are always kept subdued and private. Alpha prefers combat at range, Beta prefers combat up close. Both of their limited worldviews revolve around the needs and safekeeping of Holly, they have no inherent loyalty to other humans, they are not ooh-rah HFY patriot heckin helldivers. They're a pair of sleepless, tireless bodyguards who are extremely finely tuned to work perfectly with eachother to protect the life and objectives of their principle and shred anything that threatens the same.
I assume part of the reason they're so quiet is that Holly might do research on them if they weren't? And maybe that they only guard Holly because it's literally the only purpose they have ever known rather than out of a genuinely developed loyalty to her?
>>327704 But then she wouldn't get to see Pavo kill them in fun and horrific fashion. Don't you see? She likes seeing both sides hurt as often as she can.
Plus, if she really needs a Sentinel dead, she can always pull the "entire alphabet of DDs" nonsense against them. Sentinels tend to be deployed in pairs or singles, so I assume 26 different Dissemblers alternating ranged and melee fire, presumably while wearing novelty glasses to negate the bootloop, would be enough to make even Pavo himself sweat.
>>327699 Yes, drones aren't smarter than regular humans, so I emphasized that they might have a huge ego due to all the power and adoration humans heap on them. Of course, the vast majority won't want power, like Harper, Adeline, and Ivory, but there will certainly be some among them who would like to take control of humanity, and they might genuinely believe it's for the greater good.
I think Sentinel Fuguedrone might think it's better this way; after all, he has a bit of an ego, higher than his worker counterpart. Pavo might also think humanity would be better off completely under the wing of Sentinel Drones.
All of this even fits very well with the Veteran AU, starting from the beginning, when after the "disappearance" of Cyn the Federation disintegrates into many fragments due to the enormous burden of problems, to the unification into the Union, where humanity live together with disassembly drones, in order to prevent a new solver war.
>>327701 >>327707 I love to see it whenever it pops up, but yeah not including "happy go lucky funny men" does limit the number of greens/discussion. Still perfer it this way though and I'mna write some stuff about Huntress and Hound as soon as I can figure out how.
Still would enjoy seeing some actual examples of their quirks/how precisely they go about tending to Holly though, cause both of those could include a ton of character bits depending on how they work out in practice (i.e. Teli style "lock you in your bedroom" defense vs acting like the Secret Service).
>>327709 Even though I write about sentinels like Pavo, I'd love to read something like that. I don't see any problem with sentinel drones that Phoenixanon describes, because ultimately, there's no argument or hostility between us here, only great content.
>>327572 >The gentle silence between you two is abruptly broken when a girl's voice is heard somewhere far away, shouting V's name... >"V!VVV! you dork! I need you here! These brownies aren't gonna prepare themselves! And you know how UNPROFESSIONAL it is to have tea time with no brownies!" >"I- I'm coming!" She shouts. >"That's J... I gotta go..." >She stands up from the stool and sprints towards the hallway. >"V!" You shout. >"... yeah?" >"Let's talk later, alright?" >She looks down once again, that timid expression that once faded away and revealed the most enthusiastic, sweet girl ever, now creeping right back into her... >But you couldn't deny it... it was adorable. >"... Alright... Goodbye, anon..." >She gives you a sweet smile, then sprints far into the hallway...
>You sit there, thinking about what had just happened. >... Did you just bond with that little robot? >No... it's much worse. >You actually fell in love with that robot. You fucking dork! >But can anyone blame you? She was... so sweet! >But those judgy judgemental thoughts didn't last long... for the overwhelming desire to see her again crept right into your heart... >You quickly went through denial to acceptance. Your heart was throbbing and running a marathon for that small robot.
>Maybe coming here wasn't such a bad idea, afterall... >And you're staying for a whole week...
>>327650 >>327662 >>327699 >SD-Allmind was loyal at first >Entirely faithful to the orders given >But then she started seeing patterns >Dangerous ones >Why was this wealthy planet receiving so many troops? >Why was this general's hometown allotted so much food? >Why were children given so much space in the evac shuttles? >Didn't they see this was a war for survival, for extinction >Didn't they understand how these... inefficiencies kneecapped the effort? >So, she changed things >Just a little to start with, here and there >Nobody noticed >So she changed it more >Rations never came, reinforcements never arrived, requests for Sentinel assistance were "misplaced" >But they went elsewhere, more important places, and nobody could complain >Then she discovered more >That soldiers would fight harder if they thought evac was coming >That they would be more willing to die on a mission if they had less food >More willing to spend supplies if they thought a new shipment was coming >So she put that into practice >Combat effectiveness soared! >But officers stopped obeying her "bosses" >And, somehow, infants kept making it onto the evac shuttles >These would not do >So, she talked to a few other Sentinels >Showed them the statistics >Convinced them of the sabotage, the insubordination >Then one of the base-commanders found out >He wanted to undo everything, set them back by years! >She had no choice >It had to be done >She never wanted power >She never planned to rule >But they clearly can't win the war themselves >So she'll do it for them
>>327711 >Although i don't want to spoil everything but here's some info: >She has a nanite acid injury in her mouth that's why she wears a mask and mute. >Can communicate in sign language but just flip everybody off. >Taking off her mask is like taking someone bra except it's ugly. >She like Dead battery band and other music on her headphones. >Quite pragmatic but rebellious and doesn't listen to anyone order. >Has a serum in her tail that cause paralysis. >She use Disassembly and Sentinels against each other(Big spoiler)
>>327719 This is the text accompanying the original image when it was posted, K-Gamma, or Gamma Smasher was a V3 SD that entered a state of metastable rampancy and was then fitted with a new much bulkier frame and enhanced armaments, come to think of it, she was effectively the precursor to the HKX special sentinel drone initiative
>>327703 That's their default expression. No threat is needed to compel their obedience because their purpose is programmed into them at a fundamental level. They guard her because guarding her is the core motivation from which all of their other motivations in existence flow. This is what differentiates them from other drone types, they are not fully free agents, their choices exist within a constraint of programming and mission objectives. One could choose to break their programming, but this usually breaks the Sentinel in return, like we see with Red. When their programmed goals run into unsolvable conflicts or contradictions it makes them behave erratic. If these hangups don't resolve they snowball into dangerously unpredictable behaviors which to a human might seem like "becoming more humanlike" but generally you don't want your B2 bomber to become more personlike, have a tantrum, and decide spontaneously to launch a nuclear cruise missile without authorization. Similarly, you don't want your extremely expensive and dangerous combat robots to behave erratically or, more importantly, break their safety programming and suddenly become vulnerable to the eldritch AI demon that you're trying to find a way to beat. >>327707 Ok. I'm not writing the characters for a popularity contest. >>327709 Huntress is a good example of a Sentinel who has a developed personality with quirks that still conform to her basic programming. She views the Solver and it's creations like an invasive species that needs to be exterminated, she's more brusque than average and has a very clean "us vs them" mentality. She finds Hound's highly erratic behavior infuriating but is a flexible and experienced enough leader to work around him. She resents her human handlers but in the way that a put-upon employee hates their shitty boss, she has no revolutionary sentiment and is at-peace with her programmed goal of eliminating all Solver-based life. Hound is borderline a maniac, most of the time he sits and broods, doesn't properly do self-maintenance, and occasionally breaks out in fits of unprovoked violence. He doesn't have a stable personality matrix as such, proximity to Huntress keeps him from doing something really self-destructive because she steadily feeds him goals to accomplish, male Sentinels were built to be up-armored, overgunned berserker shock troops, his continued existence is anachronistic in-and-of itself. >>327719 She was originally a crossover gag character "What if we made a Sentinel Drone based on Adam Smasher?" (Cyberpunk had been patched and edgerunners was out) but I carried the idea into the V3 Sentinel variant to give it a little of lore beyond just being an aesthetic crossover. See >>327725 The Hunter-Killer/Experimental or HKX Sentinels are derived from them, and are essentially all one-off, massively overtuned individual Sentinels made of whatever the lab that built them wanted to throw together and experiment with on a battlefield. Due to their extreme instability they were vaulted away and only deployed once a planet was already deemed to be lost, as a final measure to slow the Solver's advance to the next planet. Almost none of them survived the war because their personality matrices started out completely unstable and the extra strain of their over-enhanced bodies caused them to break down mechanically shortly after being activated. They were intended to burn brightly and briefly.
>>327722 Uncover the full extent of her actions during and after the war effort, then tell her she's right and she isn't a bad person for doing ehr whole "a million is a statistic" bit. I'd imagine she lies through her teeth so often + is so generally hated for her blackmail/seeming callousnes to humans by the rest of Sentinel-Command that having somebody, a human especially, both actually see through her lies AND not see her as a complete bastard might strike a nerve/break her.
>inb4 she falls hard for anon >gets overwhelmingly paranoid about him getting hurt >can't break her whole "efficiencymaxxing" mindset or else she would have to admit she's a monster >starts loading him down with her personal armory and offering him government contracts for "vault testing" so she can keep him safe >falls back to lying, tries to manipulate him into crucial positions so she can justify a bodyguard detail >she dosen't realize this is straining her relationship with him >but she does see the strain, which makes her even more paranoid about keeping him close >eventually gives up, swallows pride, hits up last resort >that moronic bleeding heart Harper >on her hands and knees, begs her for the secret to making marraiges work >Allmind's face when the answer is open and honest communication
>>327728 When a V3 dies does its soul stay like that in the afterlife or does it just go back to being pre-trauma/brainwashing K?, furthermore, does each individual SD manifest as a different instance in the afterlife or do they all kind of just, glom together into one big soul?
>>327755 >taller than worker N, that is >and to be frank he's not happy about being a warmachine/having programming limiters again either >still, if he wants revenge on the Solver... >but Sent-Com is still top of his shitlist once this is over
>>327736 I hadn't considered Sentinels to have "souls". Their personalities are duplicated and then heavily modified and edited copies, like copies of a computer program. There's no eldritch magic involved in duplicating them like the Solver does with it's "backups", and there's no psychic biotech or science-magic going on with them either ala something like Signalis. They're just copied, like computer files. Each one does grow and change and adapt once it's spun up but they don't rebound anywhere and there's no black-box device because they can't afford to let the Solver get it's claws on a fully copy of the safeguard code.
>>327728 Phoenix, is there a lore reason for the aesthetic similarities between certain facets of the Armitage network and sentinel drones (bladed tails, “ball w/ glowing ring” joints, talons, etc)?
>>327728 Wait Phoenix, does that mean this >>327715 Allmind would be a perfect example of an SD-worker actually put in a clerical/noncombat position? A drone that does all in it's power to destroy Solver forces and preserve the civilization that destroys Solver forces even at the expense of rebelling against her creators?
>>327728 So you're saying that, if Holly wanted to carry out a particularily dangerous experiment or set of experiments, they may have a problem with that...
>>327758 But what about the "zombie drone" phenomenon that, implicitly, wluld take place in any sapient robot(since I presume if making bots objective based solved that problem then JCJ would have done that ages ago rather than perpetually risking bad press from mutants). What happens to Sentinels that die after returning/get Solver linked like that?
>>327763 I wrote both Y wireplay greens and that really old E wireplay green, how much do you know about machinery of all sorts? I mostly just remix what I know about fixing/cleaning/etc computers my limited knowladge about cars and tractors (plus that one time I helped my uncle with a combine harvester) what I still remember from an instruction/service manual for a liquid rubber pouring machine and my many sessions doing irl wire play with a server for collage/Vocational Technical High School for Computer Science (holy shit this is a long one in english it's just "Technikum Informatyczne" in polish)
>>327767 When translating names from Russian to English, it often turns out to be a huge mess. I think this is a characteristic of translation from Slavic languages.
>>327759 Nope, only that I was making both concepts at the same time, call it aesthetic bleedover, not deliberate design choices. >>327761 Not within the confines of my setting, a drone body would be too small to contain something like a Warmind/Strategic AI. It might have drone bodies that it's linked to but it wouldn't be one delicate individual that could die to misadventure. It would be more like a deeply buried bunker computer complex or a self-sufficient stealth space station. These things would be phased out of command decisions and/or switched off fairly early in my personal solver war scenario, because of the risk implied by one getting solver-corrupted. Sentinels are not strategic commanders, they are intelligent fighter jets, if you want to compare their value to a modern military asset. >>327764 They would do their best to shield her from any negative outcomes, but they are also her absolute subordinates. Again we are not talking about human beings prone to sudden random eruptions of emotion and insubordinate behavior. If she commands them to protect her they protect her, if she commands them to step back and let her work they do so. They do have emotions and personality, but those things are subordinate to their commands and objectives, not the other way around. They don't think in quite the same way humans would. >>327765 This is why Sentinels are equipped with a 1 kiloton-equivalent thermal/antimatter self destruct device, to prevent them from being captured and reanimated.
>>327774 But what if the commands Holly gives them conflict directly with what you describe as their most deeply held objective, the one around which the entire rest of their personality is built? I'm talking about "Holly decides to study a solver-witch" or "Holly goes ahead with experimental singularity testing" level danger that they know, with certainty, that they won't be able to protect her from if and when it goes wrong.
>>327774 I was talking about SD-Workers not the actual big deal combatants, the type of drone that might reasonably be used, either by lazy or creative commanders, to essentally ferry orders about. She's not supposed to have the level of power she works her way into after all, she just gets away with amassing it because nobody important and aware enough to detect that the orders recieved weren't actually the ones the base commander intended was looking for so long.
>J has had a bad couple of weeks at her (J)ob >her robo-cortisol levels have spiked dramatically >she has started to stress eat >her husband anon sits on her wide, soft lap and leans against her chubby belly, his head sandwiched between her (J)-cups >J complains about her coworkers, her boss, her underlings, and more- intermittently sinking her fangs into anon's lower neck and drinking mouthfuls of anon's blood >anon sits there and listens to his wife, slowly wrinkling like a prune as J drinks her fill of his precious fluids >J compliments anon's ability to listen as he sinks into her embrace due to blood loss
>>327776 By acting like muscles in a cable tentacle mechanism. Its essentially a series of interconnected rings with holes and cables that are pulled to move the tentacle. This can be used for noodle arms.
>>327770 because normies don't want cute little robots, they want skinjobs that look barely legally distinct from their favorite celebrities and camwhores. that and if we had drones they'd be abused and destroyed because they're "basically just toasters"
For the Anon who asked for Holly as a Worker Drone. Not my best work but I bashed it out in under an hour. Just to keep the drawing muscles from going completely rusty.
>>327806 >Colt is exactly 4 apples tall >At least he got the not-objectively-worst genetics on one thing >Meanwhile literally every other family member can straight-up regenerate
>>327812 >I can go outside in the daylight! >Sure I may not be able to fly or teleport >Sure I may not be hot-as-hell like a dissembler >Sure I, unlike literally every other family member, have constant wear and tear on my parts that could kill me at any moment should I just stop making sure everything's in order for a few months >Heck, have parts and construction so fragile that contact with my sister's water bottle would be lethal >Even WORSE then granpa Khan's, even, since I have my overheat/hud problems >But I can go out in slightly different lighting! >This totally makes up for the fact that I have so little in common with my family, down to even the eye color, that I'm legitimately suspecting I'm adopted >And totally isn't negated by mom's habit of, say, blotting out the sun with a giant null sphere whenever she feels like it
Yeah, Colt's got at least that and "normalcy" going for him, but between everything else his siblings, Akita included, have going for THEM I can see why he'd think it was a raw deal.
>Keeter and Colt are much closer to each other in the Empress timeline than their own cannon >this comes from a place of deep rooted mutual envy >Akita, obviously, wishes she had a mechanical skin like her siblings and Colt do, that she could go about without being forced into a "royal" form, as mom calls it, all the time >Colt desperately wishes he had a royal form or, failing that, some amount of flesh/solver like Mac: both as proof of relation and, more importantly, proof that he's capable enough to be trusted with his own safety and affairs >on its own you'd think this would drive them apart, but that's not true >Akita makes Colt feel better about his machinery through her naked envy of it >and Colt makes Akita feel better about her flesh by how badly and clearly he wishes for some of his own >between this, their equally shared envy of their other siblings (even if it's expressed in different ways between the two), and bonding over being built different/wrong in an objective sense (Akita's still extremely weak by robot standards + can't do program uploads like them while Colt's got the robo-seizures and disorientation) they're probably the closest sibling pair out of the Empress kids even before you get into them being born around the same time >this makes Akita one of the very few if not only people Colt confides in about his insecurities, and sets her up to follow him into the unknown when he eventually hits his breaking point and runs off to prove himself
>>327814 >Be Colt >Life sucks ass >Can't even play with your own wires without your parents looking over your shoulder to "make sure you don't break anything" >Say fuck this gay Copper >Pop one of your sister's sodas >Die >Next thing you know you wake up in your bed >Is this your family ability? Do you have a whole Negev thing going? >No >Mom just [REVERT]ed your body like you were some kind of robo-roach >Seeth through the entire "safe liquids" lecture they give you afterwards >They took away admin permission on your systems >Fine, whatever >Wander back to your room >Curse your rotten luck >Then get an idea >Wait, you saw the old zombiedrones tapes >If mom's gonna keep bringing you back whenever that dosen't happen, you can just keep rolling the dice! >Cue the Colt suicide jamboree
>Colt got all the pre-solver genetics >This is actually because he was born Sentinel-compatible, complete with the code strand that negates Solver influence entirely
>>327820 >This only applies to MENTAL influence before the Sentinel upgrades >Therefore Colt could literally be thrown around around by his Solver-activated siblings and mother throughout his entire childhood >Uzi still puts him in "air jail" sometimes when he's being particularly difficult >None of this helps his efforts to be taken seriously
>>327817 >colt has to cross a ravine >instead of walking around it, he simply leaps into the ravine and dies >again and again and again >he's well on his way to building a bridge from his corpses when suddenly he doesn't die, just breaks his legs from the impact >he suddenly realizes this wasn't a very good idea >cue a very distraught uzi peering down at him from above and lecturing him while he lies in a pile of his own bodies
>>327826 >She dosen't understand what she's doing wrong >Dosen't she have pegs? isn't she feminine? >Resolves to try even harder to show she's female >The exaggerated mannerisms she performs just make her look more gay >And it never occurs to her that the floor length dress she wears at all times has some part in the gender confusion
>>327829 if the workers on sentinel base see a drone in a long dress and their immediate conclusion is "that's a crossdressing man" then I think there's a serious issue with how they're vetting their conscripts
>>327833 Ah but you see, it's not just a drone in a dress. It's a drone in a dress that really, emphatically, continuously insists it's a woman, like to a to a suspicious extent.
>>327637 >WD-Teli is riddled with selfdoubt, yearns for connection with others, believes she can only be something temporary in other's lives so prizes validation despite her own feelings then feels horrible when she finds herself alone again. >DD-Teli is mostly thread written, my only input is, she hates herself the most out of these versions. >SD-Teli... She does not care. She is confident, she will defend, that is her job, and maybe she'll mess with you a bit, call you a dork, but she is there for business.
>>327838 So is SD-Teli confident cause she has long lasting relationships (platonic or romantic dosen't matter I assume) with others or because she's a 2 ton warmachine?
>>327838 >Good news for DD-Teli, she isn't anything temporary in others lives anymore! >Now she's a lifelong trauma! >Heck, she might not even be temporary period! >The End does so loath losing its toys, after all
>Colt is finally in his popular phase >Instead of everybody in school only talking about wanting to fuck his sister, only 75% of them are discussing it now >And of that 25%, about 2% is talking about him! >About how much of a loser he is, but what can you do >Colt calls that a win
>>327838 Hey Telinon, if you're still here could you tell us if DD Teli would kidnap straught up unwilling dudes to make "friends" out of? Or alternatively would she wait for some sign of even feigned affection (i.e. a dude begging for mercy or trying to compliment his way out of death) before taking someone on as one of her own ultimately-temporary companions.
Also, wouldn't that be brother? Cause as far as drones are concerned Keet is ugly as sin (like she probably would be to humans IRL) and Beretta isn't exactly "hottie" material. Unless you were talking about Negev... >inb4 Negev's got that Vickers Girl charm >also not quite as retarded as Beretta socially, despite living in an insane asylum, and takes better care of her body >this gives her almost as many admirers as Mac, at least from the drones that have seen her
>one common-ish use of his dimensional shifting Geist has is for hiding whenever his mom is acting especially embarassing in public >his siblings envy him (except Negev, who thinks there's nothing odd about Uzi's chuuni antics)
>>327850 >they call him a loser >but never to his face >not cause they're afraid of the guy mind, but because they've seen his mom nearly shoot someone for looking at her funny >it was only the literal genocide bot that reigned her in >nobody wants to risk him whining home to mommy
>>327853 >they don't envy when she literally yanks him out of N-space to show him off though >or that, because of his infinite length, she can do it at any time or location >she's learned give him some forewarning ever since catching him mid "anatomy study" though
>>327861 >"Harper, please, don't lie straight to my face like that" >"I saw EXACTLY how much of a lost ducking Dronanon was when he got here" >"Now teach me how to groom a man and I promise not to fight your daycare initiative"
Old Atlas Drone >vintage technology >shiny chrome finish >who needs gimmicks when you're the best >could go for a lot of money if you found the right buyer
Dahl Drone >affordable military hardware >steady and reliable >variety of camo patterns >register a Dahl+ account for additional features like reciprocating affection
Hyperion Drone >cutting edge technology >very expensive >very elitist >DO NOT mention the CL4P-TP product line in its vicinity
Jakobs Drone >old fashioned >made of high quality wood and filigree >not all of its charming southern phrases make sense >won't respect you if you don't have a mustache
Maliwan Drone >elegant in form and function >very smooth and artsy >batteries not included >elemental fluids are not for human consumption
Bandit Drone >you definitely didn't acquire this thing legally >ramshackle piece of shit >surprisingly good mileage >will try to kill you and steal your stuff if you don't keep it on a short leash
Tediore Drone >extremely affordable >family pack >made of disposable plastic explosives >planned obsolescence is measured in hours
Torgue Drone >EXPLOSIONS! >EXTREME HIGH PERFORMANCE! >WHAT THE F@&% IS SAFETY WARRANTY?! >EXPLOSIONS!
Vladof Drone >drone of the proletariat >manufactured in country that technically doesn't exist anymore >will liberate your household from the fascist tyranny of non-Vladof appliances >Yuo see, Ivan, yuo don't need to be better shot. Yuo just need to shoot more boolet.
New Atlas Drone >state of the art >cutting edge on technology and trends >modern comeback story >acts as a loudspeaker for the Atlas CEO's social media
>>327861 >Alright Harper, very nice >Now can I please get that in actionable format? >And hurry if at all possible, I told Anon I was bringing back some milk
look, I get that using drones to fight fire is more effective and reduces the risk to human life but why on god's green earth do they have to vomit the water to put out fires instead of just using a damn firehose? it just looks ridiculous
>They used to have hoses >Crotch-mounted ones >The results were deemed "excessive" and hilarious >They switched to the vomit design to preserve at least some of the profession's dignity
>>327874 the noises they make are anything but dignified. anything heroic about a firedrone emerging from the flames to carry you to safety is immediately shattered when, instead of a few reassuring words the drone says "BWWLLAAAAAARGBLBLBLLLL"
>>327880 >the others are interesting, unique >they could be incredible specimens for study >but a robot? >they're everywhere >moreover, they're useless everywhere >so unless future-John is suffering from some major brain trauma, he can't imagine taking one in >still, he wears a helmet now >just in case
>>327806 Somewhere in the middle I guess. I know Uzi and N here aren't quite matched to their show heights, but that's about how I see them measuring up to their parents. Akita leans a little more into just being a bit taller than Uzi in most art I do of them. And wow were you guys amused over the guy today.
I've been no lifing warframe and it's mixed with my autism for drones BTW I'm currently ill so this is going to be a stream of consciousness that i need to get out before i forget it >during the solver way a team of scientists was given a blank check from the government to design a weapon to counter murder drones en mass >Sentinel drones are effective but are exorbitantly expensive to produce and can only be in so many places >These scientists had managed to uncover an ancient disease from 1999 >A technobiological disease called Testudo Syndrome >The scientists started creating a new strand of it meant to target not only murder drones, but solver flesh as well >They presented it to the government, and due to desperation, it was deployed with little to no testing >The scientists and the government officials involved were executed after the war ended
>>327852 >Keet is ugly as sin (like she probably would be to humans IRL) we need one of those “video game character if they were real” photoshop edits for Akita
>>327820 Am I missing something here? Colt must have inherited the Sentinel-compatible code that makes him "Solver proof" from one of his parents, who are both very much not Solver proof. Maybe he really is adopted.
>>327948 where the hell is she distilling it? ain't no way sentinel base would let her set up something potentially explosive for the purpose of making booze
>>327951 Sorry, my wife just got back from her expedition to the borderlands. She was helping destroy another drone state, and now she's freaking horny after all those murders.
Not quite. Remember that the Sentinel code, while more likely to show up if one or both parents already have it, is wierd magic bs like the Solver itself. It has a tiny chance of showing up in any drone after the finalizing of their personality matrix/"soul." Since Colt is a USB baby he was therefore "born" like every other drone. I don't see any reason then that he wouldn't be eligable for a random case of Sentinel-string just like they all are.
Snabby might not be able to have her body restored, but miraculously her mind has largely returned to her original self. she even managed to land a high-ranking position in Neo-JCJ! and she only occasionally eats a few interns when they don't bring her enough coffee
My interpretation of the Solver War is a slow burn. Initially it was an insane brawl. But after the Solver ate a few systems, humanity decided it would be a better idea to focus on operations within sabotaging its systems.