Colossus By Design: Security Technology

[Working Title]: The Machine Age
[Authors]: B. "The Dark Knight" Wayne
[Subjects]: Security Drone; Edison-Tesla Pylon; Synthetic Muscular-Substitute

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[Subject]: Security Drone


[Footnotes]:

Well, uhhh...... this is my first book, I guess. I'm no Dr. Reed or Dr. Maximoff, but I AM a prominent member of the executive board Goliath Super-National Bank AND I oversaw the development of some of the most crucial and important technology around at S-Death Materials. Let's get this show on the road!!

Is that how you're supposed to do it? Uh, never mind.

The M2162 Security Drone. A truly remarkable piece of modern engineering. Granted, drones were already becoming a big thing as of the early 21st century, BUT they've never been quite so advanced as they are now!

The Security Drone is a rather simple creation when it really comes down to it. I'll never understand why people think I plagiarized the design aesthetics. Something about how my particular design looks ripped off of something called..... "Terminator", or some stupid name like that. Bullshit, is what it is, I worked hard making that horseshoe-crab body with little fins coming off the sides and top!

Well, maybe the single red camera mounted in the front isn't too attractive. Gives off the appearance of some machine apocalypse perimeter sweeping unit. That's exactly what it is though! Minus the whole.... machine apocalypse part and whatnot. Still, these little guys are quite effective at scanning areas up to a hundred meters in diameter in a complete circle before moving. The Global Union of Divisions has really taken a liking to using them to patrol New York City's ruins. No idea why they'd patrol there, though.

These little guys float via the latest in RE-Pulsar engine and thruster technology, so no need to worry about them running out of juice and abruptly falling out of the sky. The best part, though, is that each drone is equipped with a hard-light barrier that protects it from kinetic damage. A sort of translucent blue bubble made up of a bunch of small hexagons formed from light given solid form.

That bubble barrier can protect from the likes of any sufficiently high-velocity projectile, be it plasma, bullets, or the neighbor's cat that was punted off of it. The only way you're getting through that thing is with a missile, or by climbing onto the damn thing. But who'd do that? They're only 5 feet long, 2 feet tall, and 3 feet wide. Only a small teenager could fit on it.

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[Subject]: Edison-Tesla Pylon


[Footnotes]:

Now we move on to yet ANOTHER creation of mine, the Edison-Tesla Pylon! These bad boys stand about 300 meters high and clock in at 50 meters in width, serving as security towers, communications towers, AND P.E.M.F. deterrents, all in one! A personal favorite of mine.

Even better, when an enclosed perimeter is formed by these towers, they project a grid wall between them made of orange hard-light, in the exact same fashion as my company's security drone. Except much bigger. And orange. And it's not a bubble, but a wall...... Whatever.

Oh yes, the P.E.M.F. deterrent! So, the G.U.D.'s been opting to capture any P.E.M.F.s that happen to come out of the woodwork, and we have a little agreement. I provide them security, my company gets to make use of the raw natural resources provided by the animals. As an added bonus, the pylons can send out an RE-Pulsar discharge, giving the P.E.M.F.s they have cooped up in those gigantic safaris a nasty little shock, sorta like when you get a shock from touching a metal door knob.

Wait, you wanted to know why I named them "Edison-Tesla"? Well, alright, then.

I'm a big fan of Edison's work, but also Tesla's. People in the past used to just name electrical devices after either one or the other. So, I decided to go against the norm and use both. The scientific community still hasn't fully forgiven me for that.

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[Subject]: Synthetic Muscular-Substitute


[Footnotes]:

I like to think of myself as a relatively progressive guy. Some of my best friends are Synthetics. However, there's a reason it's been such a long and hard journey to--

DAMMIT! I promised myself I wouldn't imply anything, but what do I do? I FUCKING IMPLY SOMETHING PENIS-BASED!

Ah, screw it, I'll just finish making some notes for my N-Book.

Where was I? Oh yes, Synthetics. The manipulation of Chi into Ki has been a big struggle for many years with regards to our mechanical equals. It was relatively easy to achieve with Humans, since our biological make-up just seemed to lend itself with relative ease to manipulating the energy of the universe. Even the original Warmongers used Humans as a basis for catalyzing their KI reactors.

After the breakthrough with Orichalcum, however, Ki manipulation with Synthetics was suddenly possible. Of course, it wouldn't come that easily. First of all, we needed a steady source of Ichor from an evolved P.E.M.F., a special protein catalyst found in their blood, and their blood only. In recent years, this became easy enough.

Then there's the issue of changing how we designed Synthetics in the first place. Their artificial intelligence matrices needed to be reworked, so as to accommodate the implementation of Orichalcum into their manufacturing. Even then, however, this process didn't yield enough control over their own Chi to convert into Ki.

That's where my company comes in, once again. By threading Orichalcum into a low-density plastic at the molecular level, we could strengthen it without it losing its elasticity, whilst also infusing it with enough Chi-manipulating potential to put Synthetics' usage of Ki on-par with humans.

Funny enough, by increasing the ratio of Orichalcum, we ended up with the Scale Mesh used in the armour systems of the G.U.D.'s Civil and Elite Defense Forces, as well as some of our sister companies and subsidiaries for private security.