making a body for archie

Shades of Eternity · Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:53 pm

I was reading revised sourcebook and it sounds like Archie is finally making a "backup body" in case he ever has to make a run.

What do you think it should be?

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:54 pm

Probably something that'd make a glitterboy pilot weep bitter tears of jealous admiration.

rat_bastard · Unread post by **rat_bastard** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:58 pm

given his Mechanoid modified factories, I would assume it would be a giant mechanical beast that can "eat" minerals and process them into servant robots and other high tech nightmares.

Lucas · Unread post by **Lucas** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:58 pm

A Giant walking robot Jesus! not Joking

Armorlord · Unread post by **Armorlord** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:03 pm

I'm drawn between saying disguised as a 13-year-old kid (loaded nanobots to help him 'grow' later) or a Mechanoid spider fortress. I can manage to picture both, but things would have to be incredibly desperate for Archie to give up his true body, the complex.

Blight · Unread post by **Blight** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:03 pm

he did have a god body once

Lucas · Unread post by **Lucas** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:07 pm

yes but he can use the line that he is the new resurrection.....it could work

Josh Sinsapaugh · Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:14 pm

Blight wrote:he did have a god body once

Not true.

He has never left the Allegheny Facility since the Apocalypse.

The God-Robot was just a robot.

~ Josh

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:21 pm

Maybe the mechanoid spider fortress will be the diversion.

Lucas · Unread post by **Lucas** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:28 pm

or maybe he will be a chip on Hagen's Shoulder

bigbobsr6000 · Unread post by **bigbobsr6000** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:56 pm

Or maybe a walking castle?

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:59 pm

How about a 300 foot tall robotic lizard that will stomp Chi-town?

Incriptus · Unread post by **Incriptus** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:06 pm

Josh Hilden wrote:The giant brain ... Genius!

The brain has been done . . . this time he'll be pinky

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:09 pm

Incriptus wrote:
Josh Hilden wrote:The giant brain ... Genius!

The brain has been done . . . this time he'll be pinky

Egad!

Lucas · Unread post by **Lucas** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:26 pm

He will make a new body with a Huge Head and constantly Scream "42, 42 ,42 ,42 ,42,42,"

Shades of Eternity · Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:28 pm

Jefffar wrote:
Incriptus wrote:
Josh Hilden wrote:The giant brain ... Genius!

The brain has been done . . . this time he'll be pinky

Egad!

narf actually

well strap on a countragrav generator from a wasp, and pile on the possibilities of a mobile center with good weapons a solid nuclear generator, and you got a mach three.

and because he has megaman in his database, it has a mini ship if the main one is destroyed, not unlike those russian dolls :-p

glitterboy2098 · Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:28 pm

here's a scary thought. he has his bots find one of the Tinconderoga's sisterships and has it refitted into a massive mobile base with onboard factories. then he has his braincase installed into it.
(given that he's a nueral intellgence, i doubt he could just download himself. he'd lose the connective links that allow him to think. revert back to the way he was when first activated.)

a Tico class would be sufficently large enough for him, and i'd bet he does know where to find them. plus it would keep the ship(s) out of republican hands.

Lucas · Unread post by **Lucas** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:32 pm

nice Massive thinking ship that doubles as a factory, submarine and battleship in the words of my favorite Red VS, Blue Char "i could blow up the whole world with this!!!!"

glitterboy2098 · Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:37 pm

if he fits the right gear onboard, he could even make it self sufficent. send out robots to mine the seafloor for petroleum, minerals, and other raw materials, process and refine them onboard, then produce more robots.

plus some hydroponics bays and fishing bots to keep Hagan supplied with food.

Lucas · Unread post by **Lucas** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:54 pm

man, he could take is show across seas, inforce is views on everyone and sinse he really would not care if crew died he could show the world what he was really capable of, wow that little bugger could get really mean.

Daikuma · Unread post by **Daikuma** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:21 am

Archie figures out how to download himself into the computer mainframe of Chi-Town. He cannot be ousted, and he starts playing conscious to the city government (not to mention making it impossible for the Proseks family and thier lapdogs to use the automated "facilities")

bigbobsr6000 · Unread post by **bigbobsr6000** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:29 am

One trillion-gazillion-billion nano-bots.

"He's everywhere, He's everywhere."

bigbobsr6000 · Unread post by **bigbobsr6000** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:26 am

"Resistance is futile, you will be absorbed into The Collective.

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to infinity................................................... :shock:

In unison: "Have a nice day."

Spark · Unread post by **Spark** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:54 pm

If ARCHIE is half the genius he acts like he is, he's body would be the largest a believable human can be... like 6'8, and look like it weights 350-450 lbs. Then make it look like a human, even using bio-system skin graphs. That way he could to an extent blend in with a crowd, and if checked seem like a download graded or decommissioned borg, at best. After all he's sent spies all around in much the same way.

But likely Kevin is going to have ARCHIE have something the size of a GB, nano-bot enhanced, with weapons that would make the Coalition pee their pants.

bigbobsr6000 · Unread post by **bigbobsr6000** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:36 pm

A.R.C.H.I.E. IS all the zombies in Dead Reign!! :eek:

Blight · Unread post by **Blight** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:38 pm

Josh Sinsapaugh wrote:
Not true.

He has never left the Allegheny Facility since the Apocalypse.

The God-Robot was just a robot.

~ Josh

I'm sorry let me reword, he controlled a god robot at on time. which he used to interact with the early survivors.

glitterboy2098 · Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:45 pm

jackylcale wrote:Is it possible for him to divide his conciousness/program between 2 or more different pyhsical bodies/ You would think so, see as how he is a program. Or is he forever only able to exist within the original toaster box?

archie thinks the same way as anyone. lots of neurons firing, moving bits of information around a vast network. it's just archie's neurons are silicon and glass, not protein and lipids.

if archie were to transfer his programming to a new "brain", all that would happen is the new copy has all the memories of archie, but none of the thought processes. it would be like if you were to wake up one day with all your current memories but the mind of an infant.

his thinking is tied to the connections between the parts of his "toaster box", if those change, he'll lose large parts of his ability to think, and have to relearn all over again.

not unlike humans, actually. computer nueral nets are based on our understanding of the human brain, after all.

Shadyslug · Unread post by **Shadyslug** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:27 pm

He'd put himself into the SDF-1

glitterboy2098 · Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:24 pm

Shadyslug wrote:He'd put himself into the SDF-1

only if he can sneak his braincase into the city of Splynn...

Spark · Unread post by **Spark** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:10 pm

glitterboy2098 wrote:
Shadyslug wrote:He'd put himself into the SDF-1

only if he can sneak his braincase into the city of Splynn...

If he can sneak in to Splynn, then he might as well try and take over the Dragon Dreadknot that is being built. No more powerful body then a massive nearly unimaginably powerful ship exsists.

Tiree · Unread post by **Tiree** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:36 pm

Spark wrote:
glitterboy2098 wrote:
Shadyslug wrote:He'd put himself into the SDF-1

only if he can sneak his braincase into the city of Splynn...

If he can sneak in to Splynn, then he might as well try and take over the Dragon Dreadknot that is being built. No more powerful body then a massive nearly unimaginably powerful ship exsists.

He might as well go for the SDF-1 that is just sitting there!

ShadowLogan · Unread post by **ShadowLogan** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:19 pm

No Archie has secretly converted his hidden facility in MD into a giant Robot Body. All he has to do is transform from "Fortress" into "Robot" mode, possibly even coming with a "vehicle" mode.

Daikuma · Unread post by **Daikuma** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:55 pm

Tiree wrote:
Spark wrote:
glitterboy2098 wrote:
Shadyslug wrote:He'd put himself into the SDF-1

only if he can sneak his braincase into the city of Splynn...

If he can sneak in to Splynn, then he might as well try and take over the Dragon Dreadknot that is being built. No more powerful body then a massive nearly unimaginably powerful ship exsists.

He might as well go for the SDF-1 that is just sitting there!

The SDF-1 is sitting in Splynn? Which book said THAT?

Shadyslug · Unread post by **Shadyslug** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:19 pm

Daikuma wrote:
Tiree wrote:
Spark wrote:
glitterboy2098 wrote:
Shadyslug wrote:He'd put himself into the SDF-1

only if he can sneak his braincase into the city of Splynn...

If he can sneak in to Splynn, then he might as well try and take over the Dragon Dreadknot that is being built. No more powerful body then a massive nearly unimaginably powerful ship exsists.

He might as well go for the SDF-1 that is just sitting there!

The SDF-1 is sitting in Splynn? Which book said THAT?

Yeah...I'm kinda wondering about that one too...

And if it were a choice between a transformable ship that has guns that destroys EVERYTHING and guns that just do 1d4x1000 or whatever...I'd have to go with the former...

Jefffar · Unread post by **Jefffar** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:05 pm

The picture of Splynn in WB 2 has a familiar sillhoute in the background.

R Ditto · Unread post by **R Ditto** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:56 pm

Hmm...
how about a VW Bug?
Unfortunately, due to being installed with wrong voice chip, he can only speak using the horn. On the up side, during the summer, he can call in air strikes of geese to annoy foes. :lol:

But seriously, I can see three options.

1: A large human sized robot, big enough to house the brain case, yet small enough to not cause the CS or someone else to freak out and LRM the area into a huge hole in the ground.

2: A rather large vehicle, perhaps a Behemoth Explorer or something like the one oversized Triax/NGR APC (the one with the 'mini-tank' in the back). It can be mobile, has living space for Hagan, and the rest of the space can be used for small factories, processing/recycling equipment for refining stuff like ore or recyling salvaged stuff, not to mention hydroponics to produce food and air for Hagan in the off chance the CS accidentally ticks off something big and gets all life on the planet wiped out except those in safe places (like sealed environments)

3: A high speed super sonic capable stealth VTOL to take himself to a backup facility hidden elsewhere, perhaps built someplace Titan has influence.

Other random ideas.
Anime Mecha type thing (Gundam anyone? Er, I mean, a super anti-nerfed Triax Devastator anyone?)

A mini 'bullet train' and an nderground secret monorail to 'shoot' himself at a backup facility.

An infiltration type unit with a map to an old long forgotten back door to the Lone Star Complex that the CS has never found yet.

Mega-Maid. With anti-fruit spread sealant to keep the radar from being jammed...

A super sized big rig that has something like 2 steering axels, 3 drive axels, 3 more axels with semi-turning wheels in the middle, with massive sleeper, and the ability to do stuff like drive on water, or tranform into some roller skating robot...

An advanced bio-system unit that looks like a tree...

A huge robot with nanolathe, d-gun, laser, insane armor, and an anti-matter power plant, so he can go some random place, build up an army and nuke the CS in the time it takes for someone to a holiday meal.

A wooden pirate sailing ship concealing an MDC craft or sub or some such thing... maybe said ship flies somehow...

An Icecream truck.

An extra vote for the mention that it should be his present base changing into something else...

Anything good at saying "I'll be back" or "Hasta la vista, baby."

A massive ship sized tracked vehicle thing like in artwork by Larry Elmore that was in several old Gamma World books. Add on a giant bumper sticker of "We Brake for No One"
Hagan "It's a Coalition State Firestorm Base!"
*crunch*
Hagan "Um... Forget about it... it's Chi-Town!"
*crush*
Hagan "Er... nevermind... I'm going to take a power nap..."
*several hours later*
Hagan "It's Splynn! Er, wait a minute, how the heck did we get here?"
ARCHIE 3 "I think I took a wrong turn at that rift in Albuquerque."
Hagan "Oh... what is that ugly giant bug thing splattered on the bridge window?"
ARCHIE 3 "Not sure, I think it's a Xiticix... it ended up there on a detour through Duluth while I was fleeing from an apparently enamored Mechanoid Spider Fortress..."
Hagan "..." :shock:

A black Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, preferably resembling a 1982 model...

A fembot, because it was the only thing available at the time of urgent departure...

Anything resembling assorted cool stuff from the animes of Ghost in the Shell or Appleseed.

A life like horse, which answers to the name Ed, tended two by a life like android called Wilber.

A tracked soda can vending machine that fires soda cans... just be ready to dodge the cans of "Power Punch", it's a real blast...

A SAINT model NOVA robot. Often asks "Whose Johny?"
"No Disassemble!"
*shoots belt buckle off of CS officer with laser*

An ED-209, the special "Doesn't malfunction and randomly kill people or get hacked by little girls with laptops" edition.

A sci-fi airship.

Anything else that pops in mind due to illness induced sleep deprivation, such as an... :sleep:

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