devinpatterson Posted August 26, 2012 Author Share Posted August 26, 2012 Like the god idea, but what about the greek gods? I mean, isn't everything in space named after them eg. Olympus Mons, the planets etc... Yeah definitely. Now that they'v run out were seeing some asteroids named after hindu and other mythos. I think a large planetoid or asteroid was recently named after a Hawaiian deity because it was discovered by a observatory there. But there is some confusion here that is my fault. I actually started a gamma world/sci-fi mashup thread *inside* the mars thread. I mean't to put up a separate thread, but won't have time until a little later in teh day (also going to pitch a dark tower mod, are you a king/dark tower fan trooper?). The walking city, the egyptian (geno)techno gods and their floating pyramid, along with most of everything in posts 361 to 363 are all referring to a non canon sci fi/post apocalyptic mod (although the walking city may show up in microscopic form as a walking lab). It's just a chance to include tech that is wildly beyond fallout, mutations ala gamma world, and just cash in all the amazing sci-fi and fantasy fiction/lititure just begging to be created. oh and I can only imagine what might happen iif the dual brain-bot's commie half learns that Curiosity "deserted" from its mission and ran for its life. :tongue: Definitely, Curiosity has gps locations of the alien site, plus valuable security information that would be a windfall for the Red menace......it's also completely irrelevant that the Chinese fell centuries ago. Because as I'm sure the Chief would convey, the commies are always out there, waiting to strike at democracy and freedom :wink: Might even be an either/or scenario, with one of the three brains (don't forget there's also the doctor trailing alongside/with the McCarthy officer, his reaction would be interesting...) biting the dust or something, but I think that the three-way arguments (maybe the doc is an old OWB dropout or something, perhaps too "pinko" for that project a la Arthur Miller, or has a personal/professional connection with the probe's robo-brain) would be morbidly hilarious. Well Curiosity isn't really up to the intelligence levels of the doc, or even really the Chief. I mean his brain functions have been greatly increased by the FEV exposure, but he/it doesn't have an education, the ability to speak, etc. Think of him as a super genius dog (a enhanced boarder collie....maybe that will be the breed the brain came from). Although we could try for some pitiful little sounds and shaking if the Chief is threatening him. And if he has his radar dish back before he meets the the pair, it's emp pulse could temporarily disable them. But other than that, mostly Curiosity has survived by using his wits and making him/itself scarce. So I'm not too sure if we can have much of a three way conservation....probably about as much as you could with ED-E and a third party. Then again lonesome road did convey some cute conversations with ED-E (2), so maybe I'm off target here. But I'm sure, it would spark quite a dialog between the doc and the chief. I can't see a "either/or scenario, with one of the three brains" with the possibility of loosing one of the two brains from the mark IV. He just wouldn't be the same character without both of those two radically different personalities.....so we can't have that. Brief summ of the bot's story-the Chief a Center-right red-blooded american officer, chief of security on a major base; close friend and confidant of the left-leaningDoctor, who is his disgruntled companion in their tin hell. OK got it added to my memory banks. If you could think up a name for him/them, even if it's just a working name that would be great for when I draw up the outline. Even if it's just their two last names together, for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrooperScooperMKII Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Heh, yeah, I try to put off naming characters because I have sooo much trouble.Trying to keep things in one place: I'll PM you later today (or perhaps tomorrow?), I just moved into dorm yesterday so things are a little hectic... as to Dark towers, I'm not a fan but I should be; never read any of the books, but I've heard nothing but praise (and that everyone dies at the end, which sucks because of how invested I get in my favorite characters...) so I'll get around to it. Eventually. :psyduck: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devinpatterson Posted August 26, 2012 Author Share Posted August 26, 2012 I'll PM you later today (or perhaps tomorrow?), Cool, but could you drop it here in the forum, my mailbox is full. If there was any mail coming in, I probably won't get it. I just moved into dorm yesterday so things are a little hectic... :thumbsup: good times :thumbsup: as to Dark towers, I'm not a fan but I should be; never read any of the books, but I've heard nothing but praise Yeah they are really good and have a lot in common with FONV, which is partly why they'd be such a good match. The ending of the series is a let down, but IMHO King's best writings bar none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrooperScooperMKII Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Alright, so: This is all pre-war,Chief Hardass: "strict but fair" he's tough on recruits but more in a "I'm always the first one in, and you'd better be right behind me 100%" sense; he's even tougher than his vets and kept them alive and healthy, so he's generally respected, if not necessarily loved.He generally toes the party line, but is perfectly willing to bend the rules for his colleagues and subordinates, or cover for the occasional foul up.. He lives quite a spartan lifestyle, married to the military etc. Unsurprisingly he was one of the first (if not the first) volunteers for the Mars Mission, he signed up only on the knowledge that he'd be leaving Earth for Uncle Sam and probably wouldn't return anytime soon.His time on Mars helped to insulate him from the... fallout... of the various scandals, corruptions and fascist tendencies of late-game US policy; he somewhat downplayed reports of bread riots and martial law, refusing to question the country he'd given a life of service for. The Doctor an Arthur Miller type who couldn't keep his mouth shut, he was shipped off to Mars more or less as a punishment, or "community service" if you will, and also to prevent him from causing too much trouble back home.He ent through a McCarthyist purge after (correctly) criticizing an expensive and ineffective project, basically like what happened with Thomas Drake and the Trailblazer Project but obviously inflated to Fallout proportions. He served as a mole in a Communist rally during his college years (or fed false info to a spy, or reported him etc. something to that effect) but made a strong impression on the more hidebound chief upon his arrival, who invariably vouches for him whenever the good doc annoys the local party elites. I'm not sure exactly how the surgery/transplant went down... obviously one of the doc's buddies would need to do his work (or maybe not, if he has an auto-doc type setup) but the question is- why? Right now, I'm thinking that the transplant comes sometime after the war hits Mars, as a result of some mutation type plague starting to affect the Chief. I'm not clear on your general outline, but I'm imagining something like a zombie outbreak, as if >90% or so of the ghouls in Fallout became feral or so, leading, quite understandably, to some degree of discrimination. I'm angling for the chief to be infected and wanting to die before he "turns" but the doc having the transplant completed. THis somehow stops the disease from progressing, and the doc wins a raffle/vote to be transferred into one of the brain slots (assuming they need someone else to do it for them, with the last guy not able to switch over and committing suicide or something) As a sidenote, a potential twist in this would be a radical surgeon that the doctor covered for, who somehow (and for some reason) interferes with the surgery/plan. Perhaps he smashed equipment or tainted the biogel or something (thsi being one of the loose screws in the chief's head :teehee: :psyduck: :ohdear: ) but basically this would "turn" the chief (or help to turn him; batshit insane brainbot-ism doesn't need much of an excuse) and one of the many sources of conflict between them in the following decades. That's it for now, I'm still kind of fried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknightfury Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Got some suggestions for names (yoinked from anti-commie scifi films): General Thayer , Dr. Charles Cargraves (Destination Moon) (Red Planet Mars) Dr. Boulting (who was played by a man named Robert House Peters Jr., how odd is that lol) and then use either Carey (for the admiral in the film, perhaps with a mention of his brother the admiral lol) or Sparks (for the secretary of defense in the film) (Invaders from Mars) Dr. MacLean( who was taken over by the mind controlling martians) or Dr. Stuart Kelston(who helped stop them), with Colonel Fielding getting the promotion to General heh As for the Dark Tower books...I have to admit I don't like them...not sure why I love King and I love books that have a similar mix of fantasy world and real world..especially when you mix in gunslingers....but for some reason I really disliked them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrooperScooperMKII Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Doctor Boulting Sparks? HEH. :tongue: OR Nicolas (Nikola doesn't quite fit) Boulting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknightfury Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 lol Well Carey and Sparks were the choices that movie offers for a name for the General *chuckles* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknightfury Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Thanks to what is obviously the work of Cthulhu (fhtagn) I have the NV Geck on my comp correctly! Now to learn to do more than a simple clothing/gun edit. *laughs* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaultPi Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 make sure to ask for some virgins from the rest of the community, dark gods are funny that way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknightfury Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Nah...he owed me anyway, now he gets to keep New Zeland when he rises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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