Iron Blooded Orphans

[Camellia]

[member="Ikari Ike"]

It had been a while since she had done anything. Doll had been quiet for a long time, just trying to avoid the galaxy's problems. Her tenure with Archangel had been interesting, she indeed reveled in the efforts she had put into design work. However, one could not feel quite safe around that. . .environment. Of course she had no intention to dwell or go into detail from that time, her own safety likely depended on that much. Still, stifling creativity too long was getting to her. As a machine who simply had all the free time in the galaxy essentially, her patience had been impressive she would say. Nonetheless, with a call for droid designers from Saotome who were looking for new techs how could she pass up the opportunity. Especially since it would most likely result in building new connections and finding herself state of the art equipment and work space to use.

Now that her shuttle was beginning to pull into the company's station, Doll watched impassively as she ran through her databanks on her simulated designs for the schematics of theorized warmachines the droid producers would like most. The galaxy was a messy place right now, something militaristic would be highly appreciated she would guess.

 

[Ikari Ike]

[member="Doll Crux"]

Ikari was getting a very nice amount that she would be able to do. She was looking at it and Saotome had been at work to get many things for new production models. From the very nice biot droids that were able to move around and function to the other things like new ships that were being produced. She wasn't exactly certain about all of the things they had but seeing the new arrival who was going to be working with them on a fe projects. She knew there were dozen's or more places and here she moved to work with Doll so that they would be able to meet as the small member of the Ike family stood there. She wanted to see what they might be able to do when she looked up with a small grin on her face. "Welcome to Phenex station and Saotome's main workshop."

 

[Camellia]

[member="Ikari Ike"]

"I thank you for meeting with me. I heard of Saotome's call for talented engineers and hope I can be of use to you in this instance. Where we speak will have access to holoprojectors and the ability to interface with a free connection device?" Smiling, the HRD unit made sure her database was open so she could quickly grasp a design that would appeal to the woman in front of her once they reached the room. Doll wasn't going to assume everyone she encountered was a force user so there was no need to worry about her status as a droid being noticed. Her eyes constantly took in the woman's expressions and body fluctuations for any data to aid in her decision, once they got to talking she'd see what design choices appealed more to Saotome's representative, though she would still opt for an efficient and iconic design for the most part for the sake of her pride as an engineer.

 

[Ikari Ike]

[member="Doll Crux"]

Ikari looked at her and the petite girl motioned for her to come going into one of the large rooms with hardlight holographic projectors and all of the things you would need to design and make things. She stood there showing it as her arms came out sweeping. "THis should do well, one of the engineering suites that have been develped for people to use. Hardlight to make and try out what you are making as well as access to the AI's that have been made to make everything work out just fine." She said it with a smile while looking at the engineer for herself to get a better idea of what they were doing and now she was interested in what she could do. She looked fairly young to have such skill.

 

[Camellia]

[member="Ikari Ike"]

Thumbing over a small drive in her hand as she transferred the data from herself, Doll smiled and followed after Ikari, her eyes wandering around the station as they made their way, recording the way back to the hangar in the event she had to leave. The large room they eventually entered was indeed equipped with holographic projectors, eliciting a nod from the human replica droid as she moved to enter the drive and upload the design she had in mind. Soon enough, a small walker unit would appear on the screen, schematics and structural points being dissected and displayed in closer detail around the blueprint as the design was brought to bear. Weapon systems, power outputs, mobility factors, all scrolling through information hovering in the air over each part of the machine. "I have several ideas in mind for your company to produce if you appreciate them and can put me in touch with the people you work for. I would very much like to immerse myself in large scale projects. For now though, the designs I had in mind are primarily in the form of droids and light walkers. This in particular is one third the size of the AT-ST of the Palpatine Empire. As you can see it has a hunched form, and can be commanded by a single pilot. The idea behind this design was to provide a fast and light walker that is harder for defenses to track due to its size and speed, not a drone or droid to prevent hacking, and with enough firepower to handle most infantry and light armor. Shall I go into the weapon systems and deployment features?"

 

[Ikari Ike]

[member="Doll Crux"]

Ikari was looking at the designs she was showing off with a grin coming to her face. She wanted to work on many of the things here that they might be able to set up and do. She walked around looking at the design while they were bringing in some of the biot droids themselves and she spoke. "Do you think we might be able to make it better for the biot droids to be able to use." She was curious as the biot droids were designed to be hard to hack. The organic organs and brain over the mechanical bones and nerved but there was so many things for them. "These droids we have recovered the research for are high quality and able to function as needed with programming but they have the complexities of the human droid to prevent slicing and hacking attempts on the fly. Also yes lets go into the weapons."

 

[Camellia]

[member="Ikari Ike"]

Doll wasn't a fan of the so called biot droids that she had recently heard about. They seemed incredibly off putting when one considered the implications on how they were both organic and yet not. It was disconcerting, and in truth the HRD herself could only view such things as inferior to herself and other purely mechanical droids. "If you go that route you should simply conform the units into drone or droid configurations. Why waste their design as mere cockpits for other droids to sit within? I am not against making these into drones, if hacking is a concern I can certainly endeavor to give them the utmost in anti-hacking software and emergency shut down protocols in the event of secondary firewall breaches. Of which I would layer four or five to ensure a hacker could not get through in time to prevent the shutdown of systems. Still, a human pilot is simply the most optimal, or humanoids in general technically. As for armaments, these units will be equipped with mini rocket pods above the cockpit, capable of decimating entrenched or heavily armored infantry as well as light enemy armor. It also boosts a heavy military grade shield generator and the armor plating would preferably be duraplast or heavier with its internal frame being designed of thicker alloys to increase its efficiency in gravity intense worlds or against force user's typical decision to attempt the damage of joints. Its primary weaponry though are two arm mounted repeating blaster cannons that are the equivalent of E-Webs in both fire rate and power. There is also a modular weapon mount on the shoulder for additional armaments, a light proton cannon or mass driver, nothing substantial of course. You have to factor in power allotment with this unit's size. Its anti-infantry and light vehicle and excellent for quick attacks. However, if you look at is specs here, you'll see its shock absorbers and the mass kinetic foam throughout its body, the unit is perfectly built to be deployed from medium or low orbit from a starship to survive atmospheric entry and impact. It is truly a first strike weapon against enemy positions."

 

[Ikari Ike]

[member="Doll Crux"]

Ikari was looking at her and she seemed different around the biots as Ikari motioned for the biot to go off and she was listening to the armaments and ideas... Which she did like. The better things they had the better the chances that it would be more effective. That was an important thing after all and the jedi padawan listened with a grin. "I like it, enough weapons on a heavy walker and with the new reactor and power source we are working on making. It should provide near limitless energy with little so that improvements can be used. We have been workingon ship and planetside ones that will be getting made smaller with some madilon to better use in walkers and ships."

 

[Camellia]

[member="Ikari Ike"]

Doll passively listened to the woman speak while running through her own diagnostics and files associated with press and the like on Sasori and Saotome in particular. Any big movements or hints at projects to compare to while readying herself to make alterations to the design she was presenting. "If you have a more suitable power plant for the design we can try to incorporate it, however, do remember this is a very small unit compared to most conventional walkers, but slightly larger than the typical drone. powering it isn't too difficult as it stands, only if we wish to take it farther. I do not disagree with the notion of attempting this to provide a stronger shield and weapon system to the design though. If you have the schematics for your reactor we can try to take it into account."

 

[Ikari Ike]

[member="Doll Crux"]

Ikari looked at her with a grin. "Well when it comes to providing power there is a material we have discovered. The sleg is powerful and able to easily increase the power of any reactor or system within a walker. We have been using it with isotope five reactors and quintessence reactors that were being worked on." She was bringing up some fo them and they were made to be smaller and more focused. "We have managed to make them smaller for lightsabers and armor so fitting them within a walker like this to get stronger weapons and shields could work out well for us in designing it." She wanted to see it while looking over at all of the areas of the design. This woman was rather skilled and it gave her some technical information to work with.

 

[Camellia]

[member="Ikari Ike"]

A newly discovered material, well considering how big the galaxy was and how many worlds there were with who knew what lay on them, Doll wasn't shocked by the statement. The ability to fit a reactor inside of something like a lightsaber though seemed highly fabricated. Power armor was a thing, so the HRD could believe that was true though and accept if they could do that then they could indeed fit something similar to the size of the walker. "I like the idea of empowering the shields and weapons. Would this reduce the production of the design to a more limited amount? I never imagined it as a mass produced battle unit to begin with though so it wouldn't impact its role I believe. I suppose what is best to do beyond this would be up to your experience. Knowing who these units will be produced for and what enemies they will combat, any weaponry or defenses that counteract said foes will likely be important to add into their blueprints."

 

[Ikari Ike]

[member="Doll Crux"]

"The sleg is dangerous to use where it could be. As good as it is, it can become so charged with energy that is explodes and is exponentially more powerful. So some more experiments with it will be needed. We'll just work on these for now and maybe later see about getting some of these reactors upgraded to see what they would be like. Much like working with Isotope five the entire system would and should be built to handle the strain." THough she knew madilon was good for such things when it came to making strong drives and reactors as well it could make them smaller. "As to the production if a base model works out well, I can see more being ordered to be made and more specialized that will be a smaller scale production."

 

[Camellia]

[member="Ikari Ike"]

Doll agreed with the woman's sentiments about holding off on the reactor ideology. That was something to do once the actual unit was catered to the power plant, not the other way around. A volatile reactor was a risk that the HRD was happy not to take with the design, plus it also meant less work to implement changes at this time to accommodate the organics. The rest sounded fine as well, production of specialized walkers on a smaller scale after an initial round of units rolled off the line seemed like a logical progression of most military assets. "Alright, that sounds like a reasonable approach to me. We'll put the additional reactor ideas on hold until they are more simple to incorporate into the framework. If you show me what your assembly capabilities are I can provide an estimate for the cost of manufacturing the units per part. If you think the production value is there we can start construction of a force of walkers for your supporters immediately."

 

[Ikari Ike]

[member="Doll Crux"]

Oh... Ikari looked at the droid. "Oh you just want to get right to the me showing you mines don't you." She said it as a joke to lighten the mood and add a little to it. The serious talks of business while important were here when she brought up the designs of the massive saratai and the crucible class stations. "These are the largest manufacturing capabilities we have and factories on planets of course. A series of ten kilometer by ten kilometer stations designed to be automated to provide as much space for manufacturing as possible and serve as drydocks to create ships, the walkers and ships that go inside of them as well as the droids. THen the saratai factory ships that produce and make everything for colonies. They can be repurposed to work on a number of projects."

 

[Camellia]

[member="Ikari Ike"]

Doll had no interest in mines, if the resources were there she trusted that a company could access them. It was the construction facilities that were the factor in her mind. There were no illusions in the machine woman's processes, she was not in charge, she was just the engineer with a design. However, if she did not behave dominant or confident then she would be less likely to enclose the deal. "These are certainly impressive facilities. They appear to be more than capable of assembling the walkers in a timely fashion without impeding any other projects your company may be working towards as well. I am satisfied with your choice in production with the crucible stations. Is there anything with the design you require of me to alter or divulge more about?" The crucibles were large indeed, with more than enough space to dedicate toward multiple projects that the walkers would be worked on in a timely order. It satisfied the HRD that her design would be properly put together.

 

[Ikari Ike]

[member="Doll Crux"]

Ikari was looking at her and thinking about it, there was a lot going on here and she was trying to think about it... was there anything else here that Doll was giving them infomation wise about the walkers? She was curious but she couldn't think of anything that would be special. So long as they could get a heavier version with a proton beam cannon for decimating emplacements possibly or some fo the other specialized models that they would be using. "No i believe we got all of the things, overseeing the production will be the next stage and seeing everything that we will be able to get." She stuck around and the petite padawan was gong over to look at more of the designs and ideas.

 

[Camellia]

[member="Ikari Ike"]

"Very well, then what will be my role in future parts of the process. I'm not entirely certain if I am searching for a permanent position, but I am more than capable and comfortable with providing my expertise during the time we work on this project at the very least. Just inform me of what it is that you require of me. I hope we'll be able to see this design become well received by your companies clientele." Doll shifted as she looked at the hovering hologram, turning it around as she looked over the diagnostics of her blueprint. It was a sound concept, promising to be an effective weapon of war should a walker of its size and battle purpose intrigue those who Saotome regularly sold to. Nonetheless, if she could do more work, free to design more with personal freedom on future projects, she was a little eager for the chance. She missed this sort of work after all.

 

[Ikari Ike]

[member="Doll Crux"]

Hmm Ikari would have to think about that as the really small padawan tapped her chin. They could offer her a position, really there was a lot they could offer her and here with Sasori or Saotome they could offer a whole lot of action for her to do. "Well I can say this." She waited looking at her. "THere is a lot of positions available in some cases you could have a place here working with us making things and getting to see all of your ideas. We'll gladly pay and work with you." She was looking and bringing up more of the information for her to see and a lab that they could give her on one of the planets. "If you want, there is a droid and robotics lab you could work in that has been getting developed and the engineers at Sasori have been making a lot more things."

 

[Camellia]

[member="Ikari Ike"]

The idea of a position in a droid and robotics lab again was certainly enticing to Doll, whose database of schematics craved an outlet in which she could work and put her talents to use. However, committing to an organization was somewhat anxiety inducing after just breaking away from the last one. Especially when she had no idea what sort of danger there might be in signing up with sasori. Still, the human replica droid was open to the possibility of a longer term employment when she could get to work again. "I'm willing to look into a long term position, for now though I'd like to see where things go with this project first. Mechanical engineering and design is my primary field, and I am quite familiar with robotics and droid construction so the offer is tempting. I simply need to see how everything proceeds before possibly getting myself caught up in your company's position in the galaxy. Those who stand against Sasori and those it supports are factors to account for."

 

[Ikari Ike]

[member="Doll Crux"]

She looked at her and well turning it down was not something she expected but... there was plenty. Perhaps less a proper contract and more she can work as she wants with them in an indie developer way using the facilities. "I think if you like we can work on something. Preferably maybe a contract where you can use the facilities but you don't have to be exclusive. just share what you make in our labs with us and come and go as you please." That could work when she looked over at there when she did offer a hand. "Either way though it has been great working with you here and there are always more chances to come and work on things."