From:	"Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject:	Re: EW-209 (was : Aztec Armored Troopers)
Date:	Tue, 26 May 1998 19:09:04 -0300

Danyel N Woods escreveu:
>
> Quoth Ubiratan P Alberton (1502 22-5-98):
>
>
>
> Well, for one thing, Bira, radio links can be jammed, and Identification
> Friend or Foe (IFF) systems are too dicey: what happens if you have to
> turn off your IFF to penetrate enemy lines (who also have IFF), and the
> unit interprets the lack of signal as an 'enemy'? Remember Robocop 1,
> when ED-209 was first demonstrated to the Board? Remember how they had
> to take a guy out of the room in a bucket? That was a faulty threat
> routine in the IFF software.

Make it a drone and you'll have the perfect adaptation. It's not the
ED-209
without those tons of bugs :) . I bet they used a Microsoft OS in the
thing :) .

> For another point, the whole *idea* of my mean-machine was to have a
> human (or what was left of one) inside these things. When (*if*) the
> PCs take one of these things down and take to it with a DiKoted
> can-opener, they'll be shocked/horrified to find a 'brain in a jar'
> running it. Y'know, sort of an editorial on the inhumanity the corps
> are capable of?
>
> <PC conversation>
> "Jesus, they cut off the guy's limbs and *permanently* wired him into
> this thing? What about the rest of him?"
> "Spare parts."
> "Aw, shit, man...What's that gotta do to his mind? D'you think he's
> still sane?"
> "D'you think the Azzies care?"
> "...!"
>

How about building something like those Labos (humanoid walker
vehicles) from the
anime Patlabor? Something about 7m tall, humanoid, with room for a
pilot. Carries giant
versions of "normal" weapond, such as a 90mm shotgun >) .

Bira