"I'm hopping to keep them both."  Garrat says glancing at his pad to see if gresh can come through before Hermes leaves port.  He switches back to his regular plans and sets it down.  If she looks she can see a mech like structure on display. "I don't know about Billy but Ajax is really committed to the future of mechs in this war.  Do you think there will be a place for him when he gets healed?"

   She  gives  her shoulders a sight shrug, she was eating the pizza, she  could tell  its been took long. Only drinking some coffee after the rescue, though she did try to  nibble a bit when Ajax   tried to take care of her... she sorta  smiled when she thought about that.

 ..he'll have to pass Med techs  checks... then? if there's a ride for him?.. why not?

The Admiral seems to be the only person outside of the mec-dec who thinks the riders are worth anything.

   Clara nodded  with a sad , faint smile....at the academy , we learned that the Army thinking about asking  to take over the mechs. With the rise of the Navy and  the MArines  coming in under thier wing, the  Army and the airforce are all but phased out... they still hold alot of  power and respect on EArth. but  once you get past MArs? The  Army  is  just there to 'settle in'.. guard colonies, and man some of the outposts... Mechs  are doing that as well. units of 3 have been sent to colonies to and armored patrols , so that  Tanks  are freed up  to fight in the Black....

 ..you can bet? if what happened on PG gets out? It won't  do the Mechs a favor.

In reply to clara (msg # 218):

    "I've been doing research, I can't find any up grades on mech design since Mars other than gearing up civilian models.  Can you talk to me about the history of mech development?"

In reply to Garrat Wolfrim (msg # 219):

https://uk.images.search.yahoo...its&fr=slv1-msgr

    she slows  down after the  first slice, nibbling on the second.Well... the Angels Came to earth with the  boarding type suits  we use now... but? to our knowledge, Angels  and demons   never had...'tanks". They relied on massive  amounts of  troops in armor to  fight big battles, or   small  armored troops  to  wage    hit and run attacks.. everything else  was done with aircraft..

 she giggles slightly,Earth Leaders... being Earth leaders  wanted to use  armor... the first step was a suit of powered armor.. it worked good enough, but  was slow and awkward, and   if the power Cells  died, or  were  damaged, you had  a pile of Metal with a trooper  trapped inside.

  So?  They worked on having    power  armor  that  could be escaped , if the  thing would be damaged... but..it needed to be bigger  for all  motors and such one needs, they came up with the cockpit  desiign and built the arms and legs  aroound it.. Then the  military  folks  slapped  all Kinds of  Armor on.. you can see the difference between Morgan's mech and  Ajax's Mech.. a bit more  armor on Ajax's Mech... according to   our instrutor  are MK II mech has the same amount of  armor   as  one of those  M3 , fast tanks, but? The Tanks have  less moving parts as  far as legs and arms  and swivel  hips... she  waves the floppy  half eaten slice,...you get the idea......anyway,,,they started to  work on a MArk III, they were  called the Black Knights..if I remember  my notes?..there  were 200 of them made....don't know  how many made it through the last Battle on Titan ? But it was  pretty nasty there... I think  Chief Morgan was there... his Unit was called in as reserves ... not many  Mech folks  talk about that battle.

 ..that was the Turning point? There was a Young   Major  somewhere who had  10 M3s amd 5 Panzers... fresh out of the  factory...didn't even have ESN paint Jobs... But  they let him go in, because we were Losing...  the M3s  hit  and ran the   edges, and  the Panzers were set up like  moblie artillery..., The Demons?  couldn't  keep up with the M3s.. they would send  Units  after the  them  But the   scout tanks  would  Just  turn and  run   firing thier    turret gun  , , The demons lost  an good half thier Mech  force  in one hour to the tanks,  The panzers shelled the  9 hells out of the   ground troops from a long way, away... then would move  and do it again.

 ..our instrutor  said, that ws the turning point  for humans, as well as Mechs... The demons...used   Gun cam Vids  to  start to make thier  own armor... Lizards  came next..they all have some kind of mechs..well...except the Bugs...don't think Bugs use armor of anytype?... but   mechs  were put on the back burners, those  stationed off world were kept there..  most were sent  back to earth to  fight  drug lords  and rebels... and that? is as they say? That... they still have   Mech Tech people being taught, I guess? until  the last one breaks  down?  then? I guess we'll all go to the motor  pool...
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In reply to Clara (msg # 221):

Garrat nods looking at his drawings, I think I can turn things around a little bit with lighter cervos, but I REALLY need access to some good sized databases and a lot of alien help.  On level ground tanks really are far mor affective but the problem isnt the increased number of working parts, just the oposite.  You hit a tank in the drive wheels the other wheels take over.  You hit a mech in the leg, and one servo goes down...well, your screwed."  He thinks about it a little more.   The sliding filliment could prove more than a help in transfering the tech base. "I think I can use my heavy gear design to create a hybrid between your power armor and mechs that can work in tight quarters.  With the exoskeletons we picked up on Bura, we already have the framework,  I just need to build the servos and adapt it all to your power supplies and armor type
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   [Ofcourse Joe was there ye unenlightened numbtee]
After making some coffee for the two Joe went back to playing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4cJ4wviwS8

Bo jogs up, his face flush. Joseph, mom want's to talk to your friend from the slavers.  She says meet them on the flight deck.  I have no idea what they are pulling but I hope to high hell they don't get me fired."

Hangar deck 5 #22>>> civ section coffee shop.

Marcus comes walking in, looking a bit confused. He was sure Slick was with him as he came here, but he somehow lost sight of him. Looking around for a familiar face he saw garrat and walked up to him.

"Hey Garrat, how is the coffee here?"

In reply to Marcus Riley (msg # 225):

Seeing he lost his shadow, he gets marcus's attention, as he heads toward Garrat. Must have lost you in the hustle bustle. Garret, Clara, may we join you?

"Yeah I guess, that elevator was darn crowded for sure. Lot of people around here. I do think my sense of direction is getting better really. Not that it was hard to find the coffee shop here... Nice place too." Marcus looks around as he waits for a reply from Garrat.

In reply to Marcus Riley (msg # 227):

Garrat looks at the huffing and puffing Bo, then at Slick "yeah sure.  I was just telling Clara I recently found what it takes to build the sliding filament servos we used to use in field prosthetics in Asgard. I'm waiting on the parts to activate my brain drain interface so I can print out the how-to guide from my survival manual."

In reply to Garrat Wolfrim (msg # 228):

 Grunting an affirmative, Slick shakes his head at garret with a smile.... Can't sit for an evening can you big guy?  Always working. Clara, don't let this giant work your brain all night. <purple> ::chuckles :: <purple> well? what have you to show her now for the mechs? Is it a good idea Clara? He does have many ideas, but like I was just telling marks here back in the mech shop, it's not the matter we don't have ideas, it's the fact that we don not have the supplies to move too far ahead in terms of tech advancements. We spend most of our efforts in just keeping them working. But, maybe you will be able to have your crew help us in those devours. he sits and takes a look at the vidboard Garrat has laying there, and studies them, asking Garrat what his ideas are and how he proposes to get the advancements in play. He orders a coffee and some food (if they have any here) for the table.

In reply to Slick Des Grieux (msg # 229):

    Garrat boots up a drawing of a series of wires intersplicing together.  "When current is run through wires they develop a magnetic field right?  We found out that looping wires through each other and doubling them back causes them to want to slide together when we run current through them because the magnetic field attraction.  This tendency toward seeking a greater contact surface allowed us to do the same amount of work as a human muscle of equal weight using common electrical wiring."

    Garrat cues up Angel research "The Angels, and maybe the Verians are light years ahead of you guys, and even Asgard in magnetic sciences including non-brittle shape-memory alloys and Ferromagnetic fiberplastics.  They have what it takes to greatly increase the ability of these simple wire bundled actuators." 

   A diagram showing the effects of energy and projectile weapons on the actuator.  The projectiles are slowed as the wires give and split creating less impact damage while the energy beam cuts through the first few fibers it encounters but the heat is quickly diffused into the broken wires like a heat sink greatly reducing the penetration.  "My research shows that direct hits will only take out a few fibers at a time because they give, and part, allowing the remaining fibers to compensate. We can even split the load between multiple fiber bundles on different parts of the structure, so it works almost identical to the human muscular system."

   The diagrams show different levels of power provided by battery systems, for regular movement then a flash capacitor causing a jolt in the movement.  "We decrease the complexity, increase the redundancy and we have a durable machine that can change it's performance with how the wire charges are fired just like slow and fast twitch muscle systems."


   "In short, jumping, breaking a fall if landing on feet, running, slow but powerful movement, no longer require different actuators, only different modes of the same actuators."  The diagrams show each movement and how they are controlled with voltage, ampage and changing the number of active wires in the bundle. "While building the actual "Muscles" should be fairly simple, for maximum efficiency, the cost is in design, not production and most of the research can be done through computer simulation.  Getting the right code writer and time on a good engineering main frame is the problem, however I'll wager most of the research has already been done by our advanced allies."
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   Joseph raises an eye at the Huffing Porcine then gets on the com, "Darla, I know you haven't had time to settle in, but that nice Pig lady on the dock is up on the flight deck and would like to see you."
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In reply to Garrat Wolfrim (msg # 230):

  Listening to Garrat, and looking at the drawings, he kinda started to stare blankly.... uhh... are you sure you're just a warrior? that sounds a lot like scientist stuff to me. I'm just a tech, man, a remove/replace/repair kinda guy, not design/perfect/MAKE kinda guy. laughing outright he continues. I don't think I've ever heard of anything like that Garrat, have you Clara? But! if this were to work, this could be what you've been looking for in the monster you have ing the hold. Orrrrrrr.......in that power suit of yours. hmmmmm...... still looking at it, he looks at Clara with a questioning attitude. maybe send some of the computer test results from the simulations to R&D folks? oh wait, you said you need a programmer to build the simulations tho right? well then, whole new ball game.

In reply to Slick Des Grieux (msg # 232):

"It's a lot simpler to build the prototype.  Find the most magnetic wire we've got, build the filament servo to the right length by looping the wires through eachother, Seal it up in a latex bag of lube, calibrate it through trial and error.   In the end, we give the computer the specs, drop another spool of membrane and wire in the production machine, it spits out our servo, and we plug it into our machine."

  Garrat switches to another picture showing a gun similar to the one he fell through the wormhole with.  "Then I can build an ESN suit about the size of me where a regular human can handle a standard Asgard fully auto monster killer.  The next time I want the drakes running from us."
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Ordering a coffee Marcus just listens as Garrat and Slick talk. Every now and then he looks like wanting to say something, but does not...

In reply to Marcus Riley (msg # 234):

Garrat turns to him "Yes?"

  Clara looks at the screens, she's knew, and very worried  about  Ajax, But she  smiled and looked around at the people at the table,..you guys are great, you really are..but... its just not right to mess with the new girl with this stuff... I almost thought you were serous?

 she shakes her  weary head,..I have been in R&D since  i threw  by Cap in the air....on earth for 2 years... on Olympus   for  3.. and the last 5 years on PG? Without approval?  this would take  more Creds the most of the lower  Dec spend  on shore leave...much less trying to get it to work.... you would be better servered making  a toy sized one, and see where you can go from there?

  She smiles  kindly at them,its  nice of you , to include me in the  prank though.

  The woman wiped her  hands  in a dish towel, placing it on the counter,..pig gril..got it...On my way....   her hand  went to her sidearm, she seemed a bit more comfortable, walking around with it.

  Mandy was a little quiet around Darla, As they seemed to be polar opposites.

"Nah, its nothing really," Marcus replied as he tried to gather his thoughts. "It seems you thought this through thoroughly, and I admit it sounds excellent, cabling that functions as muscles. It just reminded me of a rumour I once overheard at the academy. But its probably nothing..."

Marcus thought back to that day at the academy. The day he had lost three friends.

"I had been slaving all day to get my training Mech to function properly again after I busted both left knee actuators, when a couple of officers had wandered into the hangar. They had not seen me then, but i'm sure that what I overheard is or was highly classified..."

He sipped his coffee, looking at nothing in particular. Then, as if invigorated, he sat upright and leaned closer to Garrat and Slick.

"One of them was ahigh ranking academy officer. The other one I have no idea where he was from. Black uniform, long black leather coat. Scrawny guy too... Eagle eyes and a hawk nose... Well, anyway... I heard them talking about me... About how I managed to use civilian tech to upgrade my trainer, but in a way that wasn't up to military specs... Obviously I made myself as invisible as possible. Anyways, I heard the guy in black say that command could care less about me upgrading my Mech because as soon as they got what he called the new 'Neuronet' working all our old Mecha would become obsolete... Yep, I'm sure he called it a neuronet... What you just described somehow reminded me of that. Why, I dont know. And well, I guess it was all total BS anyways, as about 4 weeks later we heard that high command had decided Mecha would no longer be usefull to the space fleet anyway..."

Marcus sat back and drank the last of his coffee. He turned over to Clara. "I think they are serious really. And i agree with them too... Mecha are the way to go, i'm sure of it. There will be a time we take the fight to the demons themselves... And i rather sit in a Mech than get torn apart in a combat uniform..."

Then back to Garrat, "Anyways, thats what you had me thinking about. Dont ask me what the hell they meant by it, I never did find out. I figured i'd better not mess with that officer in black."

In reply to coffee time (msg # 236):

"No prank, I will be starting with a toy sized one.  It's all right here."  He taps something under his braid and there's a "Tink Tink" "but you got to realize, this isn't a new technology for me. It's how we built field prosthetics.

   "The Asgard army was...is spread thin because many of the inhabitable worlds we could fight on were destroyed so we would have to hunker down for months waiting for help.  If you lost an arm, you were useless so we found a way to make easy prosthetics by tying mechanical arms powered by the primitive form of these servos into neural interfaces."  He taps the jacks in his arm.
   "Four legged mechs with turret cannons for peaking over hills, antimatter reactors, energy shields, we had it and more.  Though we lost some of it.  Those arc guns of yours?  We called them plasma cannons and had a charged shot mode where we bent the charge around a decaying proton nucleus so it exploded outward when it hit something or reached a certain range.  Been using them since I was at the academy centuries ago."

   "I'm not from around here girly, you don't believe me?"  He pulled out a survival knife and scraped a sliver of metal off the outside of one of his jacks. "Go get that analyzed.  I've had that jack since I was old enough to go into heavy gear combat."

   Garrat leans back "It would take money to start from scratch but those guns you were developing and the sliders or poppers or whatever, those didn't happen over night or on pennies.  The angels have all kinds of tech coming out of their ears and no Idea how to apply it.  Tech that could make these things easy.  By your own admition they had no concept of armored assault at all and were just throwing bodies at the demons till we came along, yet they have medical scanners and translation chips..."  He holds up his wrist "That I can't even dream about.  The Occui are doing fine with it.  Heck they still remember my language, but they are two small to carry specialized gear so they don't build it.  Yet they use power suits successfully."

   To Marcus, "When I crashed here, i lost an arm that had jacks  tied directly into my nerves.  I hope they had the sense to apply the technology.  You can sense that sort of thing by monitoring a persons EMF  but it's less expensive to just jack your pilots up.  He raises his hair to reveal a device fastened straight onto his skull.
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