Friday, March 31, 2017

Increasingly Lethal Enemy


Played Straight, especially when it comes to weapon systems developed by the GODS (that's what I'm calling them for now).

The Bushbot is a perfect example of this. Due to the fact that the fractal branches on a Bushbot can manipulate things on a molecular scale, if they are not taken out quickly and with sufficient force they will use any matter that hits them (like grenades and flechettes) or that is available (other bots, cars, ships, people) to assemble their own launchers and guns with which to shoot back.

Top that off with the fact that damaged branches can be caught and reprocessed into new limbs and that they are capable of moving in ANY environment means that the best way to kill them is not to hit them directly, but to melt/vaporize/blow up the entire area immediately surrounding the bot with any and all heavy firepower that will not give it any physical matter to scoop up.

This is also best done from long range as the Bushbot can very quickly and very efficiently turn you into component atoms if it runs into and then through you.

The only upside to a Bushbot attack is that they are very good about cleaning up their own messes.  

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Spot of Tea

Spot of Tea: Played Straight


Part of the blended culture created by the Commonwealth - and a biological need for every basic biomod bearing morph - to take in up to 3,500 calories to power the bodies boosted metabolism, a tea time meal is common in every Commonwealth habitat from Sol to Frontier Colonies.

Monday, March 20, 2017

Love Floats

Love Floats: Played Straight


For 1/5th of all habitat bound Commonwealth citizens this is something that tends to happen with each romantic grouping, as they all live in microgravity habitats. The idea of lovers in a romantic embrace hovering a few inches off the ground is the reality rather than the fiction. 

Sunday, March 19, 2017

In a Single Bound

In a Single Bound: Played Straight.

With humanities spread throughout the solar system and pushing into space via the Gate Relays many a number of rocks have been found where a simple jump from a baseline human can lead to exiting orbit of said rock.

Also massively popular in most microgravity habs is a very advanced and dangerous game of horse, where one tries to set up a near impossible leap that others have to copy without launching themselves into space. In regular or simulated gravity most Commonwealth citizens who are using civil service body mods and Exo-Suits are capable of feats of athleticism that would have been the envy of any 21st-century Olympic competitor.

Some drones and bots also use a "hopper" based form of propulsion where nanite assembled muscle analogs can fling a 20-kilo robot into the air at an average height of 10 meters in standard gravity. Though this is often not equipped on larger bots used in low or microgravity habitats, as the associated repairs and rep damage can be extreme.