RE: Dexadventure: Derelict Dreams Contest!
05-22-2013, 05:11 AM
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Driver Name: Ophelia Staten
Base Data: Human / Female / 16 years old / 4'9" / 95lbs / In good health
Character Description: Ophelia is petite and has long dark hair and green eyes. She's sometimes mistaken for a little kid because of her size and finds it really awkward, so she wears lipstick to look more adult. She wears jeans or sundresses most of the time, but she has a violet pilot's jumpsuit to prevent chafing and so her clothes don't get torn. Additionally, she wears an EEG "crown" that contains the mind-reading AI interface of her mech. She's supposed to leave it on all the time while the AI is in its learning phase, and it's a bit too heavy but she doesn't want to bother anyone about it.
Biography: Ophelia never really liked sports, especially not violent ones. She just wanted to live a quiet life at home, work on her watercolors, and one day get a degree in programming, or possibly veterinary medicine. However, she had the unique misfortune of being the child of Reichard Staten, the independent mech mechanic, and Felicie Tripoda, the famous fighting-mech pilot. They both pushed hard to get their child interested in mech from a young age, and poor Ophelia was just too shy and afraid of disappointing them to say anything. Of course, she used to think mech battles were cool, but she was really starting to outgrow them, and after her mother retired Ophelia lost interest in the sport. She managed to delay her entry into actual mech piloting a few years by appealing to her age and schoolwork, but a few months ago her overjoyed parents made an announcement: they'd found a tutor to homeschool her, and Reichard had just finished a full-scale prototype of the custom battle mech he'd been working on for so long. Of course she'd be very excited to try it out, right? And so Ophelia Staten made her entry into the world of mecha fighting. Over the past months, she's fought as few matches as she could manage, and even won a couple of them by accident or in self-defense. Reichard is still itching for a real test of his new system, though...
Mech Affinity: 40%. The Olympian Ægis 0 is specially optimized for her body size and movements, but its AI still has a lot of kinks.
Driver Name: Ophelia Staten
Base Data: Human / Female / 16 years old / 4'9" / 95lbs / In good health
Character Description: Ophelia is petite and has long dark hair and green eyes. She's sometimes mistaken for a little kid because of her size and finds it really awkward, so she wears lipstick to look more adult. She wears jeans or sundresses most of the time, but she has a violet pilot's jumpsuit to prevent chafing and so her clothes don't get torn. Additionally, she wears an EEG "crown" that contains the mind-reading AI interface of her mech. She's supposed to leave it on all the time while the AI is in its learning phase, and it's a bit too heavy but she doesn't want to bother anyone about it.
Biography: Ophelia never really liked sports, especially not violent ones. She just wanted to live a quiet life at home, work on her watercolors, and one day get a degree in programming, or possibly veterinary medicine. However, she had the unique misfortune of being the child of Reichard Staten, the independent mech mechanic, and Felicie Tripoda, the famous fighting-mech pilot. They both pushed hard to get their child interested in mech from a young age, and poor Ophelia was just too shy and afraid of disappointing them to say anything. Of course, she used to think mech battles were cool, but she was really starting to outgrow them, and after her mother retired Ophelia lost interest in the sport. She managed to delay her entry into actual mech piloting a few years by appealing to her age and schoolwork, but a few months ago her overjoyed parents made an announcement: they'd found a tutor to homeschool her, and Reichard had just finished a full-scale prototype of the custom battle mech he'd been working on for so long. Of course she'd be very excited to try it out, right? And so Ophelia Staten made her entry into the world of mecha fighting. Over the past months, she's fought as few matches as she could manage, and even won a couple of them by accident or in self-defense. Reichard is still itching for a real test of his new system, though...
Mech Affinity: 40%. The Olympian Ægis 0 is specially optimized for her body size and movements, but its AI still has a lot of kinks.
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Mech Production Name: St800-Medium Amorphous Mecha
Mech Nickname: "Olympian Ægis 0"
Base Data: 10 feet in diameter in a resting position (height and width) / 3 tons
Mech Description: The Olympian Ægis is designed for fighting, but primarily as a proof-of-concept for Mr. Staten's advanced movement coordination and control AI. Seen from outside, it seems like a ball of metal plates moving around of their own accord. Its actual structure is a small, oblong body containing the pilot's seat and the engines, which is surrounded on all sides by a forest of limbs. It in fact has 25 mobile and fully articulated limbs, arranged in 5 rings around the core body. Each limb ends with a large metal plate shaped like an archaic shield, with clamps that allow them to lock together and act as armor or limbs, hence the name "Ægis". Future versions of the St8 are meant to incorporate an internal cabin with an HUD for a variety of detection equipment, but Ophelia sits on the front of the core and has to use sonolocation goggles or look past her shields to see what's outside. The true miracle of the Ægis lies in its control system: a simple set of two levers and pedals can, after computer interpretation, lead all of its limbs to work in tandem. The levers and pedals indicate general types of movements, and the mech itself decides how to accomplish them. Its AI incorporates optimization, choosing the best body shape to make a certain kind of motion, context-sensitivity, preemptively morphing to a configuration that it thinks Ophelia will need, and a cybernetic interface that is meant to eventually learn to read the pilots emotions and intentions. When Ophelia fights, she is mostly very worried about being seriously injured by another mech, and so the Ægis' default form has become a tight metal ball of overlapping plates, which springs onto or rolls over enemies.
Special Details: The whole mech is custom-built, so I described the more unique features above.
Mech Nickname: "Olympian Ægis 0"
Base Data: 10 feet in diameter in a resting position (height and width) / 3 tons
Mech Description: The Olympian Ægis is designed for fighting, but primarily as a proof-of-concept for Mr. Staten's advanced movement coordination and control AI. Seen from outside, it seems like a ball of metal plates moving around of their own accord. Its actual structure is a small, oblong body containing the pilot's seat and the engines, which is surrounded on all sides by a forest of limbs. It in fact has 25 mobile and fully articulated limbs, arranged in 5 rings around the core body. Each limb ends with a large metal plate shaped like an archaic shield, with clamps that allow them to lock together and act as armor or limbs, hence the name "Ægis". Future versions of the St8 are meant to incorporate an internal cabin with an HUD for a variety of detection equipment, but Ophelia sits on the front of the core and has to use sonolocation goggles or look past her shields to see what's outside. The true miracle of the Ægis lies in its control system: a simple set of two levers and pedals can, after computer interpretation, lead all of its limbs to work in tandem. The levers and pedals indicate general types of movements, and the mech itself decides how to accomplish them. Its AI incorporates optimization, choosing the best body shape to make a certain kind of motion, context-sensitivity, preemptively morphing to a configuration that it thinks Ophelia will need, and a cybernetic interface that is meant to eventually learn to read the pilots emotions and intentions. When Ophelia fights, she is mostly very worried about being seriously injured by another mech, and so the Ægis' default form has become a tight metal ball of overlapping plates, which springs onto or rolls over enemies.
Special Details: The whole mech is custom-built, so I described the more unique features above.
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