Questing for an army of two

[electricyousei]

Who: Ruri, some monsters at a point, and open
Where: A couple locations around the city during the day and at night of the 11th. The park during the 12th.
Summary: Ruri is bored and while not an engineer, she's got schematics
Warnings: SCIENCE!



Build a robot model, she'd been pondering for a while, and after helping with the gundam, and the other giant robots she had a number of schematics. She also had the plans for a gravity wave engine power receiver and some left over parts but she wanted to try miniaturization. Mecha were large and ultimately not terribly useful if something got on the ship, but remote units that were say man sized, or at least Ruri sized would be quite useful. Spending most of the last week or so working up plans she decided it was time to collect parts.

Afternoon The 11th - Ruri is out in the Cancer and Virgo areas, she has a list of things, but other than a laser pointer which also tells distances she seems to be more looking over things instead of buying them. Occasionally she'll go into a store and make a purchase of some sort of circuit board or something but this seems more a scouting expedition.

The 13th Hour of the 11th - Ruri is out in the park, stalking a group of Chaos space marines and sorcerers, or perhaps robotic monsters. She's doing her best to hide, but she has that laser pointer out.

"Omoikane. Prepare all 6 tubes."

Afternoon of the 12th - Ruri is outside of the Nadesico at the park. She has a table set up and piles of various components purchased or won from monsters that she is looking over, categorizing and documenting.

"Hrm, I think that's enough, the only issue is I'm not an engineer, I'm a programmer."

Comments

[all_wound_up]

I guess most robots would probably want more attachments or weapons, wouldn't they?

[electricyousei]

"Omoikane just wants to look like Gekiganger III, which I find a little silly."

[all_wound_up]

Maybe you can compromise!

[electricyousei]

"Well, actually I don't have the parts for that. A Gekigan unit is considerably more difficult to manufacture than an Aestevalus."

[all_wound_up]

They're that different?

[electricyousei]

"Its how the joints are designed. If you want something to look like the cartoons in the ancient history of animation you need nanoreactive metal that can bend. I'm not sure if it was sloppy art or just silliness but the 1970's seemed rife with that."

[all_wound_up]

Wow, you really know a lot about this, Ruri-san!

[electricyousei]

"Things like this have taken over most of my life, and while I know theory more than actual practice, its still what I've been doing since I could walk."

[all_wound_up]

I'm sure whatever you end up building will be great, then.

[electricyousei]

"I hope so, theory is very different from practice and I'm not an engineer. Uribataki-san always did the bulk of this kind of work at home."

[all_wound_up]

I just wish I could help more. If Hakase were here, I'm sure she'd be able to.

[electricyousei]

"Was she your mother?"

[all_wound_up]

She's more like a daughter or a little sister... but she was my creator, so maybe mother is a more appropriate way to think of her?

[electricyousei]

"I don't know? I would think the creator bond to be different, but I really can't say for the life of me. I didn't have anything other than a fake memory of a mother till I was twelve."

[all_wound_up]

A fake memory...?

[electricyousei]

"....A cardboard cut out of a mother and father with a light behind it to make it seem like a person."

[all_wound_up]

That's terrible! Who would do something like that!

[electricyousei]

"The scientists who were responsible for the project I was born into. We didn't really interact with humans for the first 3 years of our lives. Just video screens, robots and fake people."

[all_wound_up]

That's so cruel... you were just a baby, how were you supposed to know?

[electricyousei]

"We weren't. It was to motivate us to study harder. You have to understand, there was a 95% failure rate in the program I was born into."

[all_wound_up]

What happened to the failures?

[electricyousei]

"I don't know. They left. In the end it was just me and then I was sold."

She shrugs a bit and shakes her head.

[all_wound_up]

But things got better for you after that, right?

[electricyousei]

"When I was twelve I met Akito, then Yurika and Minato."

[all_wound_up]

I'm glad everything turned out all right.