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Published: 2009-04-19 04:45:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 15204; Favourites: 114; Downloads: 579
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A Swan maneuvers violently as it lays down a curtain of Chaffettes to confuse any Seekers or FMP recruiters that happen to be looking skyward.You'll note the lack of camouflage paint on the SWAN. Since they are pitted against an enemy that can see in infra-red, AMAZON has for the most part abandoned countershading.
Since FMP forces do use camouflage to beguile their normal sighted opponents, easily identifiable color schemes have become a ready means for AMAZON forces to identify friend or foe.
Ironically, despite this sight advantage, FMP Recruiters and Seekers continue to be distracted by Chaffettes. (AMAZON military planners are beginning to suspect the FMP "recruitment aids" don't share the robust programming of their robotic makers.)
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These are nice ideas.
These floatation devices would probably give a downed pilot a better chance against the dread Submersible Drones.
Hmmm, I came up with the submersibles so long ago. I really should come up with an AMAZON countermeasure.
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A sort of sailor suit with artificial gills that grants super-cavitation speeds underwater too? Oh and strategically placed life preserver air bladders.
As for downed pilots, perhaps on their flight suits in a couple pouches they keep a single Chaffette each, and the suit itself suppresses the life signs of a pilot, to ensure maximum evasion probability.
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Clever robots vs Clever AMAZON Warriors....who will win??? We may never know lol.
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Lol, We'll let them win some rounds 
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Wait, who's "we"? Are you in cahoots with Nomad?
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Alistaire: "Even though I had had a few skirmishes with the robots from FMP, I do have dealings with them since their tech aides in my job."
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And just what might that job be?
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Alistaire: "Bounty hunter/mercenary. Β And who are you little missy?"
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Uh... Nobody. I'm nobody. Nothing to see here, move along.
(Darn, all I brought with me was my shovel. I have a feeling that trying to bash this guy over the head with it would be a bad idea. I'm so stupid! 
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*Alistaire pokes you in the forehead* "Miss? Β Something bothering you?
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GAAAH! Β AAAH!Β Aaagh, uh, uh...Β Β N-No, nothing! Nothing! Nothing is bothering me! Uh...
...What kind of, uh... What kind of stuff did FMP give you? And wh-what do you use it for?
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"Binding related stuff my dear. Β I can show you personally what they are used for." Alistaire gave a sly smile.
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Uhhh, no thanks, n-no thanks. 
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Alistaire: "A bit hard to describe..." *takes a small ball from his pocket and holds it out to her* "Why not place this in your mouth and press the tiny button?"
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Uh... No thanks. I don't like putting things in my mouth if I don't know where they've been. 
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Alistaire: "Put it in my mouth? Β I'll pass on that too." *steps closer to you* "So why don't you tell me why a fine young lass such as yourself is doing here?" *puts the small sphere back in his pocket*
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Eh, I was, uh... Uhhhhhh... ...Browsing. Yeah, I was browsing. I wasn't expecting to run into anyone else, though...
(Crud, this guy totally wants to test some kind of bondage device on me. I just KNOW it! I'd better make a break for it while I still can.)
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(Want to take this to note?)
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Is the SWAN your own design or is it from somewhere? I don't know it.... but it looks cool
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Thanks.
It's my own design, [link] [link] [link] which is pretty much why it makes so little sense aerodynamically.
Many, who sound like they know what they're talking about, tell me that the engine is mounted to high on the fuselage; and the vertical tails are too widely spaced--and tilted at too shallow an angle, for this thing to actually get off the ground.
Not that I question their assessment, but I suppose I'm more interested in whether or not the thing looks neat.
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I'm one for plausibility and good design.
But that said, I'm also a sucker for beauty, so screw the stabilizer positioning and weight balance. Love the lines
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Chaffettes!
That's one of the funniest thing I've seen in aviation stuff!
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Interesting. Very interesting. Delightfully distracting, in fact.
If there is a pun here, I missed it. But, looking at previous encounter records, the odds of locating a pun somewhere are well over 80%.
Ahem! Well, though I love the image, the coloration really got me. blur effects are nice and all, but dozens of 'chaffettes' individually colored? Not to mention a truly gorgeous fuschia lining over a delightful inking job...
So, out of curiosity - what weapons does the SWAN have? Other than a delightfully distracting cannon of dolls, I fail to see armament.
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See that big opening under where the wing meets the fusalage? That's one of two symmetrical cannon--one firing 30mm armor piercing kinetic energy rounds, the other, more a transmitter than a true gun, fires Universal linguicode bursts of hyper-concentrated logic problems and word traps that fry any computer brain it hits.
The second cannon, called a Neurosys Gun, is AMAZON's chief weapon against the 'bots.
Imagine a robot being forced to contemplate every computer killing conundrum posed by James T Kirk during the initial run of Star Trek all in the space of half a second!
Occasionally, FMP tries to negotiate to get AMAZON to discontinue its use. (They never offer to surrender maids in exchange for this courtesy however.
Smaller versions of the Neurosys gun are carried by AMAZON ground troops in the field.[link]
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Logic bombs? 
The sentence below is true.
The sentence above is false.
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I am considering having the AMAZON's employ short burst, area effect weapons that irradiate the drone-killing SWITCH gun signals. Logic Bomb sounds like a perfect name.
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You can thank TV Tropes for that one.
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Ah, okay. Well, now I know. I assumed that AMAZON had -something- in the way of weaponry other than distractions. I especially love your version of electronic attacks.
I wonder how vulnerable the new, low-intelligence Seeker models are to the original logic problems that plagued Nomad? Individually, rather than shot hundreds at a time. xD
As for the other weapon, I find it quite fascinating. Ideas like this make me squeal at their cleverness.
The FMP negotiating? I understood that they were capable of Borg-like faustian bargains...
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The Seekers are less vulnerable to Neurosys attacks (Very perceptive. That's probably why I like conversing with you. 
FMP is constantly trying to strike a balance between making recruitment drones smart enough to be autonomous, yet not smart enough to be vulnerable to logic attacks. It's quite a delicate process.
Of course even a perfectly adjusted Seeker is vulnerable to 100 rounds of Depleted Kryptonite Flacettes per second. (What the Kinetic Energy Weapon fires.)
Or course KEW's can't be used when a drone's carrying a prisoner.
Syssies (AMAZON'z pajorative term for FMP's self proclaimed Synthetic Sentient Beings.) are all about the Faustian deal! 
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(And you respond to my comments with witticisms like these. That's why you're so addicting xD )
So, for reference, the intelligence levels go from 'nonsentient machine' to 'amalgamating tool' (an automated program with the ability to see and interpret data, like Google Adsense) to sapience to self-awareness to the obvious choice of making the galaxy's women maids? xD
Kew kew. Good to see AMAZON getting even treatment... they need -some- punishing and high-tech equipment, or the war seems to end pretty fast. Eh heh.
'Syssies'? Really? XD Regardless, I get the feeling that each world's temporary recruits (to AMAZON, not the FMP) might have doubts about why they fight... especially when their adversaries are giving out all this free ribbon!
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Yes AMAZON could use high tech weapons, like its trademark Carrier Aircraft*. [link]
Better know as Jumpships for their ability to jump instantaneously from a fixed altitude over a planet, to the same altitude over another planet, all without ever leaving and atmosphere. (The ship pretty much generates its own Stargate.
Carrier Aircraft are NOWHERE NEAR as big as Behemoths, the average only being 1,100 feet long displacing only 150,000 long tons when not antigravitating. However, since they agravitically float an average of 100 stories above the ground, they remain forever out of the reach of their orbital counterparts, making them the big kids in the atmospheric playground.
Festooned with missiles KEW batteries superheavy Neurosys turrets, and able to deploy squadrons of SWAN attack jets and Strike BUNI's, CA's can really spoil a perfectly good Recruitment Drive.
* Pictured is Braidy's flagship, the Alexandria. Named for the legendary warrior who cut the equally legendary Gordian Knot-- which supposedly could not he unraveled.
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I want to go to war with them, just to trick them into discharge lots of loads of chaffettes over my territory.
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With your eye for equipment, I may just be tempted to enlist you as a FMP ally.
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I just realized what your mechanical designs remind me of. There was an old comic by Ted Nomura called Tigers of Terra, which had some amazingly detailed mechanicals, mostly aircraft and spacecraft. And not only of existing, historical craft but a large number of near-future designs as well, all very well done.
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I loved that comic. I wonder whatever happened to it?
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I wish I knew. LIke similar comics -- like Albedo, which also had some excellent, hard-science mechanical designs, the author/artist just seemed to stop doing it one day and moved on.
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Ted has had to take a full time job in the air line industry, plus part time with the air force. he stated that it will be ten years before he can retire and possibly do comics at any level.
their have been some efforts to reprint the books over the yaers , but thier staus is unkown to me at this time.
timthecat out
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That just may be the nicest thing I've head all day.
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AAAAWWWWW YEEEAAAHHHHH, SHUN!
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Wow. As others have stated, your stuff is really taking a huge leap forward. This is just too damn cool, in all respects! I think my favorite part of the whole AMAZON vs. FMP thing is that it's a fabulous way to have fun with awesome military-themed design work without the lingering moral and emotional dilemmas that arise from any normal sort of warfare. I love it!
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Well that is definitely comforting to hear. I suppose all the hours at my drawing board and in front of my computer are beginning to bear fruit. In any case, it's nice to see that people are enjoying it.
Yea, I'm finding the whole "war without casualties" thing to be quite the hoot. All the miligeek spectacle and none of the carnage. Well, except for machine carnage that is.
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a customed V wing for missions for trap girls...
very interestin model
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Awesome design! And I like the fake dames decoy. Like flares against heat seekers.
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Sweetness. Love that craft. Really kewl and I bet it handles like a dream.
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