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  1. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M094

    As the sandmen continued to advance and break the defensive lines meant to stop them, things became more and more tense. Traffic started to increase around Bolt's planet, and people started to land on it and settle. Mercenaries from all over began to use the planet as a staging ground for...
  2. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: I017

    The update had come out before the sandmen had come. That was the only good thing about it. Changing out parts for the Shining Shrine Maiden had been mildly unpleasant on both the church's pocketbook and her. It had been necessary, but her church had not had the most donations so the changes...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M093

    Bolt had been exchanging a few text messages with Lilly when he got the request. His wife was currently halfway done with her trip and would return soon. She'd already scolded him for not making a monster, but did seem to like the rest of it. Something about having an everyman mech seemed...
  4. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: I016

    "Another wunder-kid design?" One of the techs asked as the blueprint came down. Crane gave a grunt and then a stern glance at the tech. "You got a problem with that?" He asked quietly. "Depends, we gotta think special again?" The man replied with a cheeky grin. "Rainbows and unicorns this...
  5. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    It's an open secret. The MTA have to test a lot and there's a lot of work involved in getting everything lined up. Typically 3-5 years before it's released anyone with their ears on the ground will know what's going to be next.
  6. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M092

    Lilly was off in space now, making connections and traveling to Cold Grave again. Bolt did not anticipate there being issues. The plan was mostly to go in and check a few things before returning. Minimal risk. Not no risk, but they'd identified most of the major threats on their first run...
  7. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    It will very likely be something like Vuture.
  8. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    Titles so to speak are more something that is given based on how they act rather than what they make. Ves got the Devil Tongue if I remember correctly. It's not really anything formal usually. Leo for instance just got headhunter because he tended to hunt heads and so on.
  9. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    They don't have them yet. Lilly's will likely be Wild Card. Bolt, probably something mildly derogatory.
  10. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M091

    The situation in space was deteriorating. Lilly didn't know the details exactly, but she could tell just based on how the space clans were reacting to her overtures. The mix of fear, caution, and opportunistic greed was achingly familiar. You saw this on all Rats when a war was about to...
  11. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    Gonna change it to above average survival.
  12. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    They got shanked before they boarded in favor of more children and a few minders. Since they were only important on the planet the officials looked the other way.
  13. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: I015

    Heff was not a happy man. If anyone asked, he'd say he'd been born unhappy. He'd frowned at his first birthday, and that had been his highest point in life. Today was just another shitty day in a series of them. "We have to hold for at least an hour." The leader of this shitty day said over...
  14. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    Halo on the back, the ammo is brought up to the face. The ammo doesn't interact at all with anything but the hand. It only works in space because the thing technically accelerates everything in a single point right in front of the mech.
  15. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M090

    Getting the mech up to space for testing had been the hardest part. They didn't have any space infrastructure at the moment, and you couldn't just casually build something capable of bringing a mech up. Well you couldn't at Third Rate. Second Rate manufacturing could produce a shuttle capable...
  16. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M089

    Making a rifleman was honestly not particularly hard. If there was a mech that was standard it was that. Firing a rifle was relatively intuitive and required very little training compared to other systems. Furthermore you didn't need much to make them work. Throw them in a line and have them...
  17. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M088

    Work never ended, and Bolt was still neck deep in it. His task after the training mech was catching up on paperwork and setting the groundwork for another design. This involved licensing. It was also a royal pain in the rear end. Bolt had to admit that even when he benefited from it. The...
  18. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M087

    His experiment was unsuccessful! Bolt should feel so ashamed. His designer credentials were going to be revoked because of his failure. Oh the humanity. The tangent was mildly bemusing to get into while he examined the blueprints. Then to the foreman who'd brought the issue to his attention...
  19. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    All old media and the like are free to download and easy to access. The Power that Be explicitly go out of their way to pass as much unifying culture as they can. Almost all entertainment media is free and it's so widespread that Bolt had access to it in the middle of nowhere. The MTA and CFA...
  20. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M086

    It had taken some thought on how to handle his next task. Some serious pondering to come to a solution to his problems designing training mechs. Bolt was going to cheat. He needed something to make the project easier and that was the best solution he found. It wasn't actually cheating. Many...
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