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dragovianknight) wrote2014-07-12 05:32 pm
dragovianknight) wrote2014-07-12 05:32 pm
These are the kinds of things...
...that I would expect from a robotic race that has been at war for millennia.
The computer analyzes everything I see, overlays my field of vision with tactical symbols over every friend or foe in the vicinity, and then transmits the data to the rest of the squad. Whatever I see, the rest of my squad can see as their computers integrate the feed coming in from mine. If one of us spots a new threat, their tactical computer automatically sends the new data to the other squad computers through the encrypted wireless network, and the entire squad is aware of the threat within a few milliseconds.
Kloos, Marko (2013-03-14). Terms of Enlistment (Kindle Locations 759-762). Frostbite Publishing. Kindle Edition.
Our suits have a brand-new polychromatic camouflage system. It’s an array of tiny electro-optical projectors , designed to blend us in with any terrain. It won’t turn us invisible, but it works well enough that you have to be pretty close to a trooper in polychrome camo to spot them. We don’t know if the Lankies see the way humans do— we don’t even know if they can “see” at all— but the few times where troopers in bug suits have turned on their PC camo to hide from nearby Lankies, nobody has gotten killed.
Kloos, Marko (2014-01-28). Lines of Departure (Frontlines) (p. 23). 47North. Kindle Edition.
Instead, canon gives us an entire fleet of seekers bombing the wrong building because someone painted a new number on the front. *sobs* The closest we have to polychromatic camo is Bumblebee reversing his colors and magically becoming UNRECOGNIZABLE (to everyone but the 7 year old target audience). These are giant alien war robots! Let's give them some credit, here.
The computer analyzes everything I see, overlays my field of vision with tactical symbols over every friend or foe in the vicinity, and then transmits the data to the rest of the squad. Whatever I see, the rest of my squad can see as their computers integrate the feed coming in from mine. If one of us spots a new threat, their tactical computer automatically sends the new data to the other squad computers through the encrypted wireless network, and the entire squad is aware of the threat within a few milliseconds.
Kloos, Marko (2013-03-14). Terms of Enlistment (Kindle Locations 759-762). Frostbite Publishing. Kindle Edition.
Our suits have a brand-new polychromatic camouflage system. It’s an array of tiny electro-optical projectors , designed to blend us in with any terrain. It won’t turn us invisible, but it works well enough that you have to be pretty close to a trooper in polychrome camo to spot them. We don’t know if the Lankies see the way humans do— we don’t even know if they can “see” at all— but the few times where troopers in bug suits have turned on their PC camo to hide from nearby Lankies, nobody has gotten killed.
Kloos, Marko (2014-01-28). Lines of Departure (Frontlines) (p. 23). 47North. Kindle Edition.
Instead, canon gives us an entire fleet of seekers bombing the wrong building because someone painted a new number on the front. *sobs* The closest we have to polychromatic camo is Bumblebee reversing his colors and magically becoming UNRECOGNIZABLE (to everyone but the 7 year old target audience). These are giant alien war robots! Let's give them some credit, here.
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(At some point I should see if I can get words enough to write the outsider-newbie's POV on the Officially Unofficial walkthrough for newcomers to NEST, which comes the evening before the day of the Official Walkthrough. The Officially Unofficial one is so that the master-sergeant running it can say straightup things like "JUST DON'T FUCKING HIT ON, MAKE OFF-COLOUR JOKES ABOUT, LEER AT, OR IN ANY WAY DO ANYTHING TO, AROUND OR AT BAINES YOU WOULDN'T DO AROUND YOUR SHELTERED AND BELOVED LITTLE SISTER, OK? If it was just her, we'd honestly just let her kick your fucking moronic asses for it, but the 'bots get crabby when you disrespect their med, and you haven't experienced crabby until one of them's holding you upside down by one leg two storeys above the hangar floor growling at you to watch yourself.")
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I swear, I tried SO HARD to get networked attack squads sharing tactical data in realtime into the RP I was in, but everyone preferred G1 shenanigans instead.
Also, the officially unofficial tour sounds awesome and I would like to be taken on it sometime. :D Alternatively, I would like to see some idjit being hung upside down by one leg for dissing Mikaela. Or both. Both is good.
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Also, I really should read those books. I think I bought ToE last time you pimped it...
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