changes to canon plot setup
Feb. 19th, 2015 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
a_monetized_mindFirst, some clarification: the version of nanobot technology used in Jen's canon has two advantages over that in Willis's and one huge disadvantage. It allows for thought-based control of the robots (small and large), and wireless remote control as well. The wireless remote control in particular is dangerous, as it lets units be hit with nanobot-loaded projectiles that will keep eating away at their armor until removed. The disadvantage is that none of the Jen canon units can convert matter directly to energy, or vice versa. They can only shift matter to other forms of matter. This does include the transmutation of lighter elements to heavier ones, and the transmutation of one isotope to another, but it requires greater time and energy the further the change goes.
So Jen can take some amount of hydrogen and end up with not quite so much carbon, or she can take some a mount of Hydrogen-1 and shift it to not quite so much Hydrogen-2 and a bunch of protons. She could also take a LOT of hydrogen and shift it all the way down to uranium, but that would take such a long time as to be infeasible in combat-in general the heavy fissible elements are not something she can make in meaningful amounts fast. She could not conjure enough to make a nuclear weapon inside a mission. Jen and her enemies also cannot create reaction warheads, conjure matter from energy, or turn any random block of matter into a megaton-scale explosion via conversion to energy. This inability to convert energy back and forth means that nanobots as displayed in her side of things are weak to energy weapons and high temperatures.
-The source of jen's mcguffin is changed; it is now stolen from VIPER by assorted UG team spies. It contains all the info on nanobot construction that the criminal organization has been able to gather, along with results from their experiments in brain hacking (regularly successful, but makes the subjects kinda dumb) and body modification (you can become a catgirl!). VIPER has mostly thought of this stuff as a tool to their end of GLOBAL DOMINATION, but the impact it could have on economics and healthcare overall is enormous. Given 5-10 years and the documents jammed in Jen's head, and a lot of changes are gonna happen in the world.
Mission 1: Jenny Mnemonic
Jennifer completes a kind of sketchy data delivery to a dockside area at night. Cethlenn arrives shortly after Jen does, hidden inside a storage truck, and workers start hurriedly offloading it and preparing to get it on a boat. That's when Apogee 13 shows up along with a Julia Cantor and some Viper Commandos. They start killing everyone, though the ninja hangs back as much as is cool and mysterious. Jen takes shelter in Cethlenn, it activates and sets her as its core, and the battle escalates to giant robots.
Unity Group guys have been standing by since well before this began, as Jen's client is actually the UG! (or some other appropriate multinational police organization). When things start getting mecha, they're called in to figure out what's going on and stop any aggressors. They may or may not be briefed on the original purpose of the mission (help secure goods stolen from some terrorists), but things are pretty FUBAR by the time they get involved. Julia and all the viper commandos can be killed here, though Apogee 13's more reserved tactics and ridiculous hax skills mean she takes very little damage and is able to retreat just fine. Julia uses one of the Viper Commando Formor units here, and appears as an easily-defeated boss grunt until the mission "It Ends(?)", where she's the main threat.
Going forward the missions unfurl in much the same way, though instead of Evil Jen, Apogee 13 takes the place of Jen's rival. She is a cold, rarely emotional person, and may be prone to kung-fu philosophy like a Kenshin character ("what is the truth that lies at the point of a sword" or something like that). She's a zen sort of person, someone who is always calm and controlled, and generally wins fights by just being stealthier, faster, stronger, and more skilled than her opponents-a contrast with Jen's habit of tricking, lying, and generally cheating. If there's time or a place for it, some delving into her backstory can be done; Apogee 13 is the surviving product of an attempt to create people who can think extremely fast. She killed her creators, became a ninja in some highly improbable manner, and eventually got recruited by Viper Commander.
Instead of being Aegis Security-produced units, the Cethlenn and Formor are VIPER originals. Cethlenn was even going to be Julia's boss unit, but then it got stolen.
So Jen can take some amount of hydrogen and end up with not quite so much carbon, or she can take some a mount of Hydrogen-1 and shift it to not quite so much Hydrogen-2 and a bunch of protons. She could also take a LOT of hydrogen and shift it all the way down to uranium, but that would take such a long time as to be infeasible in combat-in general the heavy fissible elements are not something she can make in meaningful amounts fast. She could not conjure enough to make a nuclear weapon inside a mission. Jen and her enemies also cannot create reaction warheads, conjure matter from energy, or turn any random block of matter into a megaton-scale explosion via conversion to energy. This inability to convert energy back and forth means that nanobots as displayed in her side of things are weak to energy weapons and high temperatures.
-The source of jen's mcguffin is changed; it is now stolen from VIPER by assorted UG team spies. It contains all the info on nanobot construction that the criminal organization has been able to gather, along with results from their experiments in brain hacking (regularly successful, but makes the subjects kinda dumb) and body modification (you can become a catgirl!). VIPER has mostly thought of this stuff as a tool to their end of GLOBAL DOMINATION, but the impact it could have on economics and healthcare overall is enormous. Given 5-10 years and the documents jammed in Jen's head, and a lot of changes are gonna happen in the world.
Mission 1: Jenny Mnemonic
Jennifer completes a kind of sketchy data delivery to a dockside area at night. Cethlenn arrives shortly after Jen does, hidden inside a storage truck, and workers start hurriedly offloading it and preparing to get it on a boat. That's when Apogee 13 shows up along with a Julia Cantor and some Viper Commandos. They start killing everyone, though the ninja hangs back as much as is cool and mysterious. Jen takes shelter in Cethlenn, it activates and sets her as its core, and the battle escalates to giant robots.
Unity Group guys have been standing by since well before this began, as Jen's client is actually the UG! (or some other appropriate multinational police organization). When things start getting mecha, they're called in to figure out what's going on and stop any aggressors. They may or may not be briefed on the original purpose of the mission (help secure goods stolen from some terrorists), but things are pretty FUBAR by the time they get involved. Julia and all the viper commandos can be killed here, though Apogee 13's more reserved tactics and ridiculous hax skills mean she takes very little damage and is able to retreat just fine. Julia uses one of the Viper Commando Formor units here, and appears as an easily-defeated boss grunt until the mission "It Ends(?)", where she's the main threat.
Going forward the missions unfurl in much the same way, though instead of Evil Jen, Apogee 13 takes the place of Jen's rival. She is a cold, rarely emotional person, and may be prone to kung-fu philosophy like a Kenshin character ("what is the truth that lies at the point of a sword" or something like that). She's a zen sort of person, someone who is always calm and controlled, and generally wins fights by just being stealthier, faster, stronger, and more skilled than her opponents-a contrast with Jen's habit of tricking, lying, and generally cheating. If there's time or a place for it, some delving into her backstory can be done; Apogee 13 is the surviving product of an attempt to create people who can think extremely fast. She killed her creators, became a ninja in some highly improbable manner, and eventually got recruited by Viper Commander.
Instead of being Aegis Security-produced units, the Cethlenn and Formor are VIPER originals. Cethlenn was even going to be Julia's boss unit, but then it got stolen.
