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  1. DataPacRat

    Thank you very much :)

    Thank you very much :)
  2. DataPacRat

    Thank you kindly. :)

    Thank you kindly. :)
  3. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    I've made a resolution: If I don't manage to get myself to start writing for S.I. by Canada Day, then I'm going to write a fast-finish variation of my planned plotline, simply to stop the story from hanging over my head. However, having made that resolution, I've realized a few things, including...
  4. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    *Chapter Ten: Neo-lithic* "We're being set up," I stated, pacing back and forth in Munchkin. Brenda had glomped onto me as soon as I was back inside, having muttered something about 'just in case of laryngospasm', and now said, "How do you mean?" "We've seen that the claimed rule of humans...
  5. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    *Chapter Nine: Neo-logism* "It's thirty miles to the university, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pound of cheese, my suit doesn't understand my cultural references... and I'm wearing sunglasses. Hit it." -- "You know," I peered at the gently waving banner on the edges of the university's...
  6. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    *Chapter Eight: Neo-tribalism* "Welp," I said to Brenda, handing her a clipboard with my bundle of papers and pen tied on, "Here's my life in a nutshell. Everything I can remember that might have affected by brain's development. Plus some pages about my brain and body developing separately, and...
  7. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    *Chapter Seven: Neo-phile* "Bunny," asked Denise, carefully enunciating her words as she crouched down, "why are you a child?" From underneath one of Munchkin's sleds, in between the robotic legs, I called back, "It's a lot easier to get to the hard-to-reach parts when I'm smaller. You...
  8. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    *Chapter Six: Neo-realism* "... Zheeha," I finished up with Amy, "I went through a few more times, and Boomer said that when I was eighteen I was more, ah, mature than I have been all along. So I popped through a few more to see how far that went, then rolled myself back to sixteen. And after...
  9. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    You only say that because I try to set fire to something at least once a Book. ;)
  10. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    *Chapter Five: Neo-natal* I let out a long string of Lojban words, ignoring the discreet pinch Brenda gave me. Angel - or Dotty, or whatever she wanted to call herself - seemed to get the gist. "Well, how did you /think/ someone who gets nineteen-nineties cultural references survived this...
  11. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    *Chapter Four: Neo-teny* After a bit of design work on the robofac's computer, I used up the last of my digital cameras to make a small drone. Well, I thought of it more as a remote-control quadcopter. The trickiest part was coming up with a way for it to open doors; the solution the software...
  12. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    *Chapter Three: Neo-sporin* After Brenda finished turning herself into various sorts of ramps, finished rolling me into Munchkin, and squeezed in for a quick check on me, it was time to let the auto-doc do its thing. Unfortunately, as none of its probes could penetrate the metallic mesh, it...
  13. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    *Chapter Two: Neo-phyte* I came to facing the grey-bearded, white-eyed man again. The casts were gone without a trace of powder or yanked fur, but the dark metal traceries covered both arms - even further than before, now imprisoning both my hands in the flesh-piercing mesh. He just stared at...
  14. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    *Book Eight: Neo-* *Chapter One: Neo-cortical* Flashes from a dream: A song by Queen; a spinning top; the sound of a modem connecting; the feel of a dental plate; Mars, with a blue sky; a thirteen-hour clock; a chessboard, with just one piece, a king, on its side; a pair of woman's shoes, the...
  15. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)
    Threadmarks: 7.10

    *Chapter Ten: Mis-ericorde* I turned Alphie into a spider. Well, more into the castle's version of Clara. It was easy enough to make lots of little sensors, from simple ones that triggered when a door opened to full cameras; and not all that much harder to run the info from all of them into...
  16. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)
    Threadmarks: 7.9

    *Chapter Nine: Mis-chief* Can you still call a meeting a "meeting" if only one person shows up, and nobody actually meets with anyone else? I spread the word to everyone that I wanted to talk with them all in the morning, with the walkie-talkies and written notes and asking Blue Wolf to hunt...
  17. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    From in the story: "Metropolis being attacked by two flying machines. Descriptions match Warthog drones from pre-Singularity American military." From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II#Weapons : "The GAU-8 is optimized for a slant range of 4,000 feet (1,220 m)...
  18. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    At this tech-level, the minimum size round that can accept a Cannon-Launched Guided Projectile system is 20mm. I suspect that a significant amount of the design work involved coming up with clever ways for such a light projectile to be able to travel the listed distances without losing too...
  19. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    I ran some sanity checks by statting the thing out in GURPS' "Vehicles" system, which is generally good enough to come within 20% of real-world numbers, if not closer. Skipping most of the game-specific stats (Accuracy, Malfunction rate, etc), and running some completely superfluous calculations...
  20. DataPacRat

    S.I. (original/SI)

    I /could/ answer that; I'm currently writing up Book Eight, Chapter Ten. (Which is a bit more of a buffer than I'm used to, so I'll probably be posting new chapters twice a week for a little while.) But I think it's best to keep it as a surprise. ;)
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