章 434: Successful Doctor.
Afton had just returned from Novac, he'd spent almost two days straight just helping the injured... Most people either had bullet wounds, breaks, or burns. Which was good and bad. Good because most would live, bad because the majority of people who were actually hurt in combat were outright killed.
Whoever the mercenaries were, they definitely meant business. Lethal cuts to the neck and vitals, headshots, etc... Most of the injured were a result of deflected shots, shrapnel from cover, and accidents.
Of course, Novac was in an uproar, and those who'd survived the attack were training far more than they ever did before, some to the extent of of passing out. As far as Afton was concerned, it was a wake-up call to those who were taking it easy 'under his protection'.
It wasn't like he hadn't noticed the few freeloaders who took his food and did bare minimal training. Something like that was like a vacation for most denizens of the Mojave... Now however they might actually try putting some effort in.
Afton himself decided to help speed up construction on the Power armour. It was time to make a message to the NCR and the Legion, make sure neither wanted to fuck with him or his people. He figured storming into the Fort under Caesar's nose and getting out alive and without casualties would do the trick.
Elsewhere :
Shani motions over to the bathroom for her close friends to join her, once inside she looks them all dead in the eye and states, "We are all going to die if we stay here."
The rest of the group look at her wide-eyed. "What? What do you mean?"
Shani scowls at their naivety, "You think they're just keeping u here to help tend to the fields? They are going to experiment on us and discard what's left!"
...
"No... Cass said we were staying here until the war ended. She wouldn't lie about something like that!"
"You don't understand!... I-I know what will happen, I've seen it!" Shani pleads, but is let down by their disbelieving and suspicious looks.
"I think you need a doctor Shani... You aren't acting well..."
"Yeah, have you been using Chems? Those things are really dangerous!"
Shani just shakes her head and leaves the room, she wanted to scream at the top of her lungs at their stupidity. Apparently her *close friends* she'd made during her stay here weren't her friends at all!
She walks straight out of the building and is about to head to an isolated spot to brood when she'd stopped by a floating drone with an orange eye.
"You are upset." it states and Shani quickly shakes her head.
"No, I'm fine... Just leave me alone!"
"If you are not upset then by my calculations you are being affected by an arrhythmia... I will report this to Doctor Da-"
"NO!" Shani cuts off the drone with a shout, afterwards clutching her mouth at her rather over the top reaction. "J-just no. I'm fine, I swear." she states and quickly walks past, ignoring the intense look the drone was giving her.
"Report, Organic worker 31 is acting unusual, requesting extra surveillance." Glados thinks after receiving the information from one of her drones... Indeed, she'd been keeping an eye on this human as it had suddenly been acting out of her expectations for no reason.
The spider bots she'd placed to spy on them had recorded the entire incident in the female bathroom, so it was clear the organism was having a psychotic break, or knew something Glados didn't... Glados obviously ignored the latter option as she was the most advanced AI that had ever, or will ever be constructed. It was impossible for her to ever be wrong, only misunderstood.
She lowers her body into the Think Tank and focuses her single orange eye on Doctor Dala, "Organic worker 31 needs a psyche evaluation, this must be completed within 48 hours." she states before leaving, not waiting for the scientist to respond.
One day later :
Shani screams as she's dragged into the Think Tank by hundreds of tiny spider robots. Her arms and legs were bound and she couldn't do anything but wriggle in a vain attempt to escape capture. Her heart was beating furiously at the fact her life might be ending soon, but not before agonizingly painful torture...
The spiderbots continue to take her through the facility, and eventually end up in a laboratory underground. She'd grabbed by a mechanical arm that sprouts from the ceiling and placed on a surgery bed, bright lights momentarily blinding her as she'd forced onto her back.
*Ssshck!* the sound of a door opening draws her attention, and she spots one of those freakish scientists floating inside, the weird monitors projecting facial features looking at her speculatively.
"Greetings, I am Doctor Dala. I have received information that your mental stability is in question... I will examine you, and after you have been deemed 'sane', you will be deposited at your work station or home, depending on where you should be." Dala explains, but this doesn't bring any reassurance to Shani who was still sure her death was near.
"Hmm." Dala hums, "No reply, possible damage to ears, eardrum, or auditory cortex... 31, do you hear me?"
"I-I do..." Shani stutters out, realising that being uncooperative would have very, very bad results.
"Did you ignore me before that, or could you simply not hear me?"
"I-I heard you... I just couldn't find the r-right words." Shani says, finding herself unconsciously focussing on the various scalping, drills, and saws attached to the scientist's manipulators.
"Oh? And why is that, my little skinvelope?" she asks curiously.
"I am a-afraid of you... Afraid of what you might do to me..." she admits, feeling like being called 'skinvelope' should derive a far bigger reaction than she gave.
"OOooooh? Why would you be afraid of me? 67% of my operations have resulted in a success, this does not include my 99% Lobotomy rate, the only one of which to fail would be my Teddy bear." Dala says, only scaring Shani more.
Does this psyche scan include a lobotomy? Shani thinks to herself as she starts sweating under the bright lights.
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章 435: The D's of Development.
Afton is back in the forbidden dome laboratory after helping the injured in Novac for a couple days. He could've stayed longer to tend to people, but he felt getting this project completed sooner would be better for everyone in the long run.
He'd gotten news that one of the 'guests' had required a psych evaluation, but he ignored that for now and instead marched inside the lab.
It doesn't take long for him to locate Mobius and Klein who were already arguing about something while in front of what could only be the prototype chest plate. It looked very different from the T51b armour it was based on, instead of having large plates that'd limited agility for added protection, this armour was more akin to thick lamellar.
Thick plates intersected one another but were placed in a way to allow the utmost agility while not giving too much protection. The fact the scientists were able to use Saturnite probably gave them more options than the US Military had when designing their armour... Saturnite was simply just lighter and stronger, even with its few negatives.
Its chestpiece of course was one large piece of Saturenite that encompassed most of the upper body. You'd likely need a few thousand .50cal bullets shooting at one specific point to get through it, that's how thick and sturdy it was.
It traced down and had more lamellar-like metal plates on its abdomen to allow movement. Of course, at Afton's request, the armour also had significant crouch protection... Though, that part of the armour was covered by a synthetic cloth that had many tiny plates of Lamallar reinforcing it. It looked like any old plate skirt, it ended at the thigh and didn't go any longer to avoid potentially restricting movement.
After asking the scientists, the synthetic material's protection was better at absorbing energy weapon fire than actual bullets... The reason for this was obvious, one too many laser shots to the crotch would have his balls literally frying in the armour... Not fun.
The armour's arms were sturdy and plated in a way to protect the joints from lucky shots. Honestly, Afton thought that the scientists had taken massive inspiration from the medieval armours of old... Which wasn't a bad idea since move of their armours actually worked.
The hands were the same, riveted plates that'd protect the hands from a couple .50cal shots if needed, but still allowed you to grab, gesture, and interact with objects with acceptable dexterity. Of course, the knuckles had small serrated blade attached to them, Afton wasn't sure if they were more useful for combat or for intimidating folks...
The legs were more heavily armoured than the arms were, more metal over the joints, knee, and ankle. There were spiked bits of metal on the knee guards and feet, to allow Afton or anyone else wearing the armour to 'kick the shit and internal organs out of someone. Afton certainly wouldn't want to be on the opposite end of one of those attacks...
Back to the scientists, they were still arguing about what they should actually put inside the armour, as they had been last time when discussing the helmet. Apparently they couldn't decide on whether or not a jetpack would actually be useful to its user... It provided a massive target, and if the fuel compartment was breached it'd probably lead to instant death.
Plus, there wasn't really all that much the jetpack would be used for... The Mojave is essentially just a flat plain with a few canyon's here and there.
"Having air superiority would make the armour 400% more efficient in combat!" Mobius exclaims.
"THAT'S NOT WHAT AIR SUPERIORITY MEANS YOU IMBECILE! THE JETPACK YOU ARE PROPOSING WOULD ONLY ALLOW FOR MINUTES OF BARELY WALKING-SPEED FLIGHT! YOU ARE JUST IGNORING THE 300% INCREASED LIKELIHOOD OF DEATH TO THE USER!"
"Guys, guys." Afton walks in between them with a dull expression, turning towards Mobius first, "I like the idea, but for the mission this armour is built for a jetpack would be a liability... Perhaps if you developed a more efficient fuel and propulsion system it might be viable, but for now keep it out of the designs... Until we want a battalion of flight-capable soldiers..." he says placatingly.
"Afton?.. Hmmm. Very well..." Mobius says as if he were pouting...
"LOBOTOMITE!... EX-LOBOTOMITE! WE WERE JUST WAITING FOR YOU TO ARRIVE SO WE COULD DISCUSS THE ARMOUR'S FEATURES!"
Afton crosses his arms, ignoring the 'Lobotomite' name Klein continues to use for him and just nods for him to continue.
"WE HAVE ALREADY INTEGRATED THE VARIOUS DEFENSIVE OPTION YOU WISHED FOR, HEAT RESISTANT MATERIAL, ENERGY WEAPON DEFENCES AND THE LIKE. WE HAVE ALSO ADDED A PORT THAT WILL ALLOW YOUR STEALTH SUIT'S AI TO INHABIT THE ARMOUR AND MANUALLY ACTIVATE CERTAIN FUNCTION SHOULD THAT BE REQUIRED." he explains and Mobius continues.
"Indeed. Unfortunately, as you are urging the progress to be completed as soon as possible,we were unable to add the forcefield additions that you wished for... The devices still need to be downscaled enough to properly fit in the armour... We were able to create the HUD you wanted however, it will assist in targeting, identifying, distance estimation, and mapping.
Using your Stealth Suits inbuilt proximity sensor, it should be able to map out a small amount of territory around you, though, there are many factors that could scramble this data, so try not to rely on it."
Afton nods, "I hope you remembered that I wanted two suits made, right?"
Both scientists nod their bodies, "We have, though, without the Stealth Suit and it's AI the other suits functions would be limited. No mapping, no AI, etc." Mobius explains.
Afton shrugs, "That doesn't really matter, we can look to upgrading them more in future. Think of the mission as a stress test for them." he says but begins thinking about the servos... "Hey, do you think I could try it on for now? I think we may need to calibrate the servos to my strength specifically... I'm not really normal in that regard."
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