so i had a silly brainworm, and while i ultimately decided it truly belonged on Wasteworld, i'm posting it here for what i hope will be obvious reasons.
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yes.. Liberty Prime. originally i'd imagined it as a syberian 'evil optimus'.. but the more i worked on making the mech work, the more i realized that i really needed to remain closer to its inspiration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3l6oGGcROA
Not to burst any bubbles, but the LP-838
Patriot, in
Plenty of Room was meant to be their version of Liberty Prime (hence the "LP"). It was a 40-ton 'Mech that mounted a large laser (to mimic the beam weapons) and an "arm-mounted heavy rifle, modified to fire specially prepared nuclear ordnance" (to mimic its "nuke grenades"). I didn't give it a robotic control system, but since such a control system would've been about the same, I didn't feel much of a need to. (I'd recommended the
Thunder for its proxy. I felt it matched Liberty Prime's look best, IMO.)
The "Eastern Federation" who represented Wasteworld's USA analog, DID already have their own AI tech which might have done the trick (as seen with their Milibots and Handybots), which could have made autonomous
Patriots possible. No Syberian tech required!
- Herb
(P.S.: This is not an admonition in any way, but since
this thread is all of 3 pages from lock-down, I might recommend any non-Syberian NebCal units get their own threads, so they have more room to discuss.)