Posted January 10, 20169 yr Location: E02 (M.A.N.T.I.S. command ship, Jurin II orbit). Our forces are successfully driving Octan from the planet, but the moon is too heavily fortified. It’s going to take forever to get rid of them. Time is money, Steve. You need to find a way. Quickly. Y’know… I think with some small adjustments my new M.A.N.T.I.S.TM Doom Ray© could probably destroy a small moon… Absolutely not. That would be a PR nightmare. There’s no way we could get away with blowing up a moon full of Octan personnel, tempting though it is. What if it was an ‘accident’? We’d need someone incredibly gullible to pull that off. Hmmm… I had a meeting with HR earlier. There’s a certain pilot. We were going to have him ‘reassigned’ to Project Lambda, but I think he might be perfect for this… Later, on Jurin II: Ok, since your piloting license have been stripped due to "resounding incompetence", you've been assigned to a simple driving mission. Sigh, ok.. What should I do? Just drive this truck down from here, the main base on Jurin II, to the outpost in sector 4. What? This thing? What is it, a laser cement mixer? No, it's a M.A.N.T.I.S.TM Doom Ray© truck. It's a super powerful weapon, that's why it's needed in the outpost. Still looks like a cement mixer to me. Well, since you're surely not firing it, it may well be. Now move on! Yes sir! What is this button over here? Don't touch any button! I bet it will start mixing cement! Click! No! You armed the Doom Ray©! Ok ok, I'm closing it.. maybe it's this other button? Aaaahhh! Stop pushing buttons! In orbit: I’m just saying, when I was CEO, I didn’t flounce around wearing a cape and ribbons. You were only CEO because of a software bug! I don’t see how that’s relevant… Er, Sal? Yes? I assume you somehow fixed it so the Doom Ray© could only target the moon? Um… yeah… totally… why? Because it looks a lot like it’s pointed at us… ... ... ... Looks like M.A.N.T.I.S. just lost a command ship. --- NOTE: The scenes on board the ship reuse a previous build and shouldn't be judged. Thanks for reading! This is based on msx80's hilarious build: Death ray truck. C&C welcome! Edited January 10, 20169 yr by Big Sal
January 10, 20169 yr I love the updated death ray truck. I always liked that build and it is nice to see a new Mantis-ified version of it!
January 10, 20169 yr I love that (ignoring the MANTIS command ship scenes) it's a shot for shot remake, right down to the placement of the flowers and bush on the base. Great build, especially as it pointed me at a great original from before I ventured into the Andromeda Galaxy.
January 11, 20169 yr Oh, this is so good! When I saw the picture from orbit with the beem lighting up and the moon in the other window I was just “all according to plan, but wait. It was Sal's plan. It's not going to hit the moon, it's probably going for... Yes it did” Really fun and a great redesign of the original!
January 11, 20169 yr I’m just saying, when I was CEO, I didn’t flounce around wearing a cape and ribbons. You were only CEO because of a software bug! Just like how we all bicker in the MANTIS HQ Classified Data. This build we so much fun to read. I liked the original and you did it justice. There is a lot of great detail on it.
January 11, 20169 yr Hilarious build and story Big Sal! A great remake of the truck, though it looked better in Octan colors. Definitely a big terrain improvement however!
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