Robotic Prison Guards (Or How To Oppress Your Players For Fun)
- Thread starter Terry Mixon
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boggo2300
Cosmic Mongoose
so Christopher Stasheff would have us believe!!Paradise on Earth, baby
But yeah, even with exile colonies there's wide variation.
Australia very quickly became a proper colony with a focus on free settlement *supplemented* by the labour of serving convicts. A very critical point was that most were on seven year terms and earning a ticket of leave for good behaviour to move to probabtionary release was usual.
A setup where the cons are just dumped on a planet and left to fend for themselves is a whole other matter.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Applied correction.
Fluffy Bunny Feet
Cosmic Mongoose
But don't you then still need a Cholly, "native" barbarians, a telepath, a masochistic General Governor and a super powered Psion time traveller to make sure it works out? Pretty unlikely combo.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
You don't need a time traveller, with a psychohistorian, nor a telepath, with body language skill.
boggo2300
Cosmic Mongoose
you don't know my players... SHUDDER
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
Bender, is that you?Now, a more interesting scenario would involve those bad, wicked robots that need correction...
Do us some con-bots, Terry
boggo2300
Cosmic Mongoose
I suspect he was thinking more along the lines of the ABC Warriors, I know that's where my mind immediately went
https://britishcomics.fandom.com/wiki/ABC_Warriors
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
Updated to make them scarier. Now size 6 so they are twice the size of the prisoners to help intimidate them. Renamed Spiderbot Prison Guard as it has eight legs and is made to scurry across the ceiling (raised for the purpose) to stay out of reach of the prisoners while still being able to strike. Four legs are heavily beefed up for combat while four are made to hold it in place with gecko grippers. It's legs are its weapons if needed.
Now size 6 so they are twice the size of the prisoners to help intimidate them. Renamed Spiderbot Prison Guard as it has eight legs and is made to scurry across the ceiling (raised for the purpose) to stay out of reach of the prisoners while still being able to strike. Four legs are heavily beefed up for combat while four are made to hold it in place with gecko grippers. It's legs are its weapons if needed.Personally, in addition to the club, I'd also include an integral stunner (at the least) as a heavier response option. If it's integral to the bot, it's not going to be readily usable by the inmates (they'd have to at least disable a bot to get the stunner first, and if the stunner is powered off of the bot's internal power, it's not going to be particularly portable in a working state). Heavier weapons... eh, that starts getting iffy.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
I'd be more worried about the ones you can't see, like spider bots that principally keep an eye on you, and have a poison bite if you misbehave.
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
Amended to add ranged stunners.
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
Keep the programming, just add some directives. Name it Bunter.Now I want one as a valet. Simple update to its programming.
What could possibly go wrong?
Fluffy Bunny Feet
Cosmic Mongoose
Bender as your valet? Nothing could go wrong.Now I want one as a valet. Simple update to its programming.
What could possibly go wrong?
Note to self don't go anywhere rinku might have his valet.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Blackadder.
That's why I specified "integral" for the stunner. (Perhaps taser... shockstick, maybe?) Have the weapon built in, and running off of the bot's power supply, so that if you remove the weapon, you have to jury-rig a replacement power supply. Sure, a MacGyver-type could do it, but most people aren't going to find it easy.And make it an electric style stunner so that it can be used against rogue bots.
Or turned against the guards. Oh noes! No one saw that one coming in the first act!
