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  1. 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.
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M085

    Bolt made a face as he stared at the design program in front of him. Lilly had requested he bump up training mechs as a priority. It was a good idea. He just sort of... Well, the thing of it was training mechs were pretty close to being a solved issue. There were legions of them out there...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M084

    "I'm very tempted to tie him to a bed for a few days!" Lilly said to the void and the beast in front of her. "Can we like go a month without somethin' interesting?! Oh check out this strange thing I found and give me your opinion! No explanation and no actual warning!" The mix of...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    Bolt is very straightforward and his version of subterfuge is just not speaking of it. Otherwise he assumes that secrets are mostly pointless. He grew up knowing that the big boys could see anything he did and is operating under the assumption that he's under surveillance.
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M083

    It was only once Bubbles left that Bolt finally internally let himself acknowledge that they'd done good. They'd done better than good. He could literally do nothing else and he was set for life. His family was as safe as they could be. He was getting a steady income. Even the planet was...
  12. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    A little bit. It wasn't that obvious and some happened off screen. I didn't want to emphasize it because Bolt was completely missing it.
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M082

    Travel time could get very strange when you added FTL to the equation. Lilly was encountering that first hand. She'd barely been back home more than a few days before Bolt came back home himself. Though his way of returning was far more spectacular than hers. He teleported into the main...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M081

    "I had expected more trouble." Bolt observed once he'd settled back in on Blubbles' ship and they began to leave MTA's territory. "Being polite and willing to work within the system tends to keep the obvious trouble away. With you officially registered I can handle most of your MTA contact...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Appendix: 1st, 2nd, 3rd

    So, this post is going to be me half reasoning out things in text and half me defining how it works in the setting. 3rd rate mechs are the cheapest of the cheap. They take pilots from D-A rank. D rank pilots frequently get stuck in something called frontline mechs, which are the real cheap...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M080

    If they were going to be honest, Bolt and his allies had a low opinion of their work. Sure they'd succeeded, but the weapon system had shown itself to be flawed and cumbersome. There was potential there. It just needed a lot of work before it'd be useful. Work that they couldn't do. They'd...
  17. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: I014

    As a faction in the MTA, The Rim Guardians lacked the full might of the organization. If one were to be brutally honest, they were basically on the bottom. Their stated goal was helping the poorest of the galaxy after all. This meant that their best relationships was with the poorest parts of...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M079

    Second Rate mechs were different than Third Rate. By necessity Third Rate mechs were best described as mechs designed to work with the bare minimum of resources. They had a very narrow focus, a limited space, and were extremely frugal in exotics. Second Rates were typically able to handle at...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M078

    To Bolt's mild entertainment, the designing station was right in the little pavilion. It was actually part of an entire system that could be adjusted. Basically a smart room that could become whatever they needed. It answered more than a few questions. They'd left it at park like settings...
  20. lost star

    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    They're actually the designers with the most promise.
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