Hephaestus Industrial Exosuit MK III mod kit

[Alberyk]

BYOND Key: Alberyk

Character name: Zairjah

Item name: Hephaestus Industrial Exosuit MK III customization kit

How will you use this to better interact with crew and/or stimulate RP?

Pretty much by applying the modkit to any ripley that Zairjah builds. It will give them a bit more of information and personality to the exosuits, and it will tell more about the roboticist behind it, probably sparking some interest, conversation or showing some of the lore behind it.

Why is your character carrying said item to work?

Zairjah was created by Hephaestus industries as a designed bespoke posibrain, working its first years in the robotics field of New Gibson. Even after being dismissed by Hephaestus, and being employed by NanoTrasen, Zairjah keeps strong links its origins. So, Zairjah would still wish to build the exosuit model it did help to create, which is the Hephaestus Industrial Exosuit MK III, designed to be a multipurpose industrial exosuit.

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Item function(s): It is a modification kit to refit and paint APLU Ripley exosuits. It changes the mech sprite, name and description.

Item description: “An ripley APLU model manufactured by Hephaestus industries, a common sight in New Gibson nowadays. It shines with chrome painting and a fancy reinforced glass cockpit.”

Item appearance:

 

 

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Additional comments:

Code and sprites for it are ready:

 

/obj/item/device/kit/paint/ripley/zairjah_kit
name = "Hephaestus Industrial Exosuit MK III customization kit"
new_name = "Hephaestus Industrial Exosuit MK III"
new_desc = " An ripley APLU model manufactured by Hephaestus industries, a common sight in New Gibson nowadays. It shines with chrome painting and a fancy reinforced glass cockpit. "	
new_icon = "ripley_zairjah"
allowed_types = list("ripley","firefighter")

 

A lot of thanks to Cakeisossim for the sprites.

[Dreamix]

So, you're telling me that this NanoTrasen employee is building Hephaestus-designed exosuits on this NanoTrasen owned space station, using these standard NanoTrasen owned exosuit fabricators that can probably only be used to fabricate exosuits of NanoTrasen's blueprints.

The incident reports will be funny. "This pink robot is making Hephaestus mechs! How? Our fabricators were supposed to make NT-stuff only!", "This pink robutt brought its own blueprints to work! And these blueprints are/were owned by this rival company of NT!" or "A saboteur! A traitor!".

Nice snowflake, mister A.

[Alberyk]

So, you're telling me that this NanoTrasen employee is building Hephaestus-designed exosuits on this NanoTrasen owned space station, using these standard NanoTrasen owned exosuit fabricators that can probably only be used to fabricate exosuits of NanoTrasen's blueprints.

The incident reports will be funny. "This pink robot is making Hephaestus mechs! How? Our fabricators were supposed to make NT-stuff only!", "This pink robutt brought its own blueprints to work! And these blueprints are/were owned by this rival company of NT!" or "A saboteur! A traitor!".

Nice snowflake, mister A.

 

Except by the fact that the robotic fabricators in game can print other designs besides the NanoTrasen one. Also, lore-wise, a lot of the tech used in the station, cloning and ipcs for example, are not of NanoTrasen origin, as people did play AI characters not designed by NanoTrasen. And as it is said in the application, Zairjah is not a Hephaestus employer anymore.

And I must recall you that the person that did sprite the mech, and I had a talk about the idea, is the one responsible by the lore of other companies besides NanoTrasen and probably their relation.

[DatBerry]

So, you're telling me that this NanoTrasen employee is building Hephaestus-designed exosuits on this NanoTrasen owned space station, using these standard NanoTrasen owned exosuit fabricators that can probably only be used to fabricate exosuits of NanoTrasen's blueprints.

The incident reports will be funny. "This pink robot is making Hephaestus mechs! How? Our fabricators were supposed to make NT-stuff only!", "This pink robutt brought its own blueprints to work! And these blueprints are/were owned by this rival company of NT!" or "A saboteur! A traitor!".

Nice snowflake, mister A.

 

You're telling me this bald human roboticist is making hephaestus prosthetic hands? HOW?

we already have mod kits for mechs but they're really really expensive from cargo, if you Add this, can you reduce the point cost of the cargo modkits? Right now they're at 200

[Dreamix]

THANKS BAYCODE. Well, that's dumb, plz remove.

Do whatever you wish to do, then. I'm not the one to approve apps.

[LordFowl]

It should be noted that NanoTrasen's primary focus is not in exosuits and cybernetics - that's why we use generic-brand exosuits, and that's why we can print other company's or unbranded cyberlimbs. That's why the robotics lab isn't a full-on factory. NanoTrasen has other interests to attend to.

[Rusty Shackleford]

It should be noted that NanoTrasen's primary focus is not in exosuits and cybernetics - that's why we use generic-brand exosuits, and that's why we can print other company's or unbranded cyberlimbs. That's why the robotics lab isn't a full-on factory. NanoTrasen has other interests to attend to.

 

You seem to lack a basic understanding of how corporations work. Of course they're only going to want their own brand of anything anywhere present on their facilities, particularly if they are galaxy spanning corporations with the governments of entire planets in their pockets.

[LordFowl]

It should be noted that NanoTrasen's primary focus is not in exosuits and cybernetics - that's why we use generic-brand exosuits, and that's why we can print other company's or unbranded cyberlimbs. That's why the robotics lab isn't a full-on factory. NanoTrasen has other interests to attend to.

 

You seem to lack a basic understanding of how corporations work. Of course they're only going to want their own brand of anything anywhere present on their facilities, particularly if they are galaxy spanning corporations with the governments of entire planets in their pockets.

 

Regardless of whatever you may believe to be a 'basic understanding of corporations' I should find it rather difficult for NanoTrasen to exclusively field their own brand of exosuit or cyberlimb when they do not have one. Nowhere in the game does there exist a NanoTrasen brand robotic. All exosuits are generic and unbranded, lacking in any distiguishing pattern. All cyberlimbs are either unbranded or specifically the brand of another corporation. Hell, the vast majority of our cyborgs and AIs are products of other corporations or independent projects. How could you say one thing - no matter how logical it may appear to you - while every bit of evidence in the code and in the game empirically stacks against your claim? Provide me a single instance of a concrete NanoTrasen robotic brand, and I shall be impressed, but I would still not concede that NanoTrasen would forbid the presence of other brands, because it has already been proven that they currently do not. The intent of the NanoTrasen robotics lab is thus clearly not for innovation - it lacks the equipment or pedigree for that. It is not for production - it can barely field a single cyborg on a good day, much less an exosuit. Its purpose is clearly one of pure maintainence, and not to develop a NanoTrasen brand.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Regardless of whatever you may believe to be a 'basic understanding of corporations' I should find it rather difficult for NanoTrasen to exclusively field their own brand of exosuit or cyberlimb when they do not have one. Nowhere in the game does there exist a NanoTrasen brand robotic. All exosuits are generic and unbranded, lacking in any distiguishing pattern. All cyberlimbs are either unbranded or specifically the brand of another corporation. Hell, the vast majority of our cyborgs and AIs are products of other corporations or independent projects. How could you say one thing - no matter how logical it may appear to you - while every bit of evidence in the code and in the game empirically stacks against your claim? Provide me a single instance of a concrete NanoTrasen robotic brand, and I shall be impressed, but I would still not concede that NanoTrasen would forbid the presence of other brands, because it has already been proven that they currently do not. The intent of the NanoTrasen robotics lab is thus clearly not for innovation - it lacks the equipment or pedigree for that. It is not for production - it can barely field a single cyborg on a good day, much less an exosuit. Its purpose is clearly one of pure maintainence, and not to develop a NanoTrasen brand.

 

The reason everything isn't labelled by brand in the code is because it's normally unnecessary information that doesn't actually serve too much of a practical purpose. But it's Nanotrasen stuff. Nanotrasen dabbles in everything, and they have tons of subsidiaries for the things they don't directly dabble in. Everything on the station should be branded by Nanotrasen by default, regardless of the peculiarities of the code. The reason the station can't field exosuits and cyborgs is because it's not a manufacturing facility, and it doesn't possess the required equipment to send the stuff off the assembly line.

[TishinaStalker]

Application accepted.

[Alberyk]

Item done and added to the the pull request.

[Alberyk]

Item done and added to the code, you should be able to spawn with it now.