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  1. Tangent

    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM
    Threadmarks: Of MICE and MAYHEM - ch14

    I'm glad that the first robot other than myself that I was controlling was a friendly unit… Yes, Greasie, I consider you to be a friend as well as a partner. Yes, you are totally permitted to have friends outside your brothers! Who told you otherwise? Ah, a general assumption then because the...
  2. Tangent

    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM
    Threadmarks: Of MICE and MAYHEM - ch13

    I had Greasie raise his other hand to indicate to the others that we should stop. “Security patrol is staying on the loading dock instead of only coming out occasionally to check on things and then heading back in,” I explained. “Not enough guards for it to be a full alert, so they are probably...
  3. Tangent

    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM
    Threadmarks: Of MICE and MAYHEM - ch12

    "We know that the attack on Veldin was perpetuated by Blargtech and originated from their facility in the Skorg City Industrial Complex on Quartu," Qwark explained during the briefing. "Mousie's database of the personnel posted at Plant Z332 helped to identify many of the members of that raid...
  4. Tangent

    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM
    Threadmarks: Of MICE and MAYHEM - ch11

    "Okay, that's everything else installed," Ratchet announced as he straightened out and stretched his back for a moment. "Is the MOU dock ready?" "Just finished it!" Elaris replied with a grin, setting the component on the workbench. "It's a cockpit," Ratchet noted dubiously as he examined it...
  5. Tangent

    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM
    Extras: Robot Rights in the Solana Galaxy.

    I'm just going to say here that I'm going to use something similar to what I used in Widget & Clank: Robots sophisticated enough to actually be sapient typically serve temporary terms as "property" until they are deemed to have "matured" enough to direct their own lives. The lengths of these...
  6. Tangent

    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM
    Threadmarks: Of MICE and MAYHEM - ch10

    Captain Qwark pinched the bridge of his nearly nonexistent nose as Elaris rightfully reported what I had done and why their warbots had performed above and beyond expectations in defense of the Galactic Ranger's headquarters and the parts of Aleero City immediately surrounding it. "So…" Qwark...
  7. Tangent

    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM

    The left arm for the GR series warbots is already set up to be modular, so making a new module to put there is an intuitive solution for Elaris to come up with. Simple as that. It's not the only option that's going to be available, and it's not the only option that's going to see use, but it's...
  8. Tangent

    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM
    Extras: Introducing Mousie's upcoming partner: MAYHEM!

    Meet GR-513, the Galactic Ranger's field combat robot designated as the primary bearer of the upcoming Espionage/Reconnaissance arm module that Elaris is going to design and Ratchet is going to help her build: Even without Mousie in the mini-cockpit, the Espionage/Reconnaissance arm module...
  9. Tangent

    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM
    Threadmarks: Of MICE and MAYHEM - ch09

    Sadly, although I had been expecting it ever since Elaris said she was an MOU-53, Squeeks turned out to be an idiot expert. Bright enough for what she was, of course, since she was expected to handle calendar reminders, voice notes, desktop security, and adapt at least a bit to fit her owner's...
  10. Tangent

    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM

    Elaris: "AHHHHHH! The desktop calendar and notepad is making decisions!" :eek: Jotting down notes for after-market add-ons... ;)
  11. Tangent

    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM
    Threadmarks: Of MICE and MAYHEM - ch08

    Cora and Brax sat across from Grim and Ratchet as Clank and I went over everything we knew again, including playbacks run through a vetting Infobot they had brought that parsed through memories that we had downloaded into it for signs of tampering or artificial generation. I honestly had no...
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    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM
    Threadmarks: Of MICE and MAYHEM - ch07

    The next few hours were tense, to say the least. At one point the blaster fire and explosions were basically right next to Grimroth's Garage (the name of Grim's business), but the blast doors and reinforced walls held firm against whatever ordinance the Blarg forces had brought with them. And...
  13. Tangent

    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM
    Threadmarks: Of MICE and MAYHEM - ch06

    Next thing I knew, I was in XJ-0461's hand again, being presented to a familiar looking Lombax who… Er… I seemed to recall a vaguely digital white space with a floating green-eyed purple scientist who kept poking at me saying something that could have been either "interesting" or "interest...
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    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM
    Threadmarks: Of MICE and MAYHEM - ch05

    "What kind of robot are you anyway?" XJ-0461 asked as we entered Veldin's atmosphere. I'm not really sure why he waited so long to ask. We had just spent three hours in hyperspace together. Then again, most of that time had been spent comparing everything we knew about Drek's plans. Him from...
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    RATCHET & CLANK: Of MICE and MAYHEM
    Threadmarks: Of MICE and MAYHEM - ch04

    One thing about having as much prep time as I had was that, by the time XJ-0461 finally arrived I knew the internal layout and infrastructure of Plant Z332 from the tip of the lightning rod on top of the tallest comm tower down to where the support pylons connected the factory above to the...
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