[M-C10] Our latest weapons really do suck!

[woofmcmoose]

Location: Workshop 01, MSS Titan, In orbit around Marden

Tags: Building (Spaceship Interior), Military, Land Vehicle

20 Septembrinali 3815

Moose: "So what have you brought me down here to see?"

Thorne: "Some very special designs of my own, that will help me, erm, I mean MANTIS, rule the galaxy."

Moose: "But this workshop is for the basic maintenance of basic maintenance and janitorial droids?”

Thorne: "Indeed it is. In fact we are currently working on obsolete JanDroid100^TM models."

Thorne: "Good work Simon!"

Moose: "I still don’t get it? Why old droids, and why is he spraying the droid white instead of black and lime?”

Thorne: "It’s Octan white of course. Did you not hear about Jurin II? Octan are susceptible to explosive devices hidden inside cleaning apparatus! And since these jumps though Kawashita dominated regions are taking us closer to Octan’s area of operations we need to be ready!"

Moose: "Erm…"

Thorne: "And here is the finished product, looks like the latest JanDroid300^TM, the vacuum even works. We send it into the local Octan resource extraction facility and then, BOOM!"

Moose: "Erm…isn’t the dynamite strapped to the back a bit of a giveaway?"

Thorne: "Chief Accountant Long wouldn’t approve funding for anything more sophisticated. She called the work ‘pointless’ but I’ll show her! Just wait ‘til she sees the JanDroid500 in action."

Moose: "But they don’t make a model 500?"

Thorne: "They will when they see my designs! Here, take a look at this holo-disc."

Moose: "What the…?"

Thorne: "I’ve doubled the size of the design to permit operations over more rugged terrain. On top are twin plasma cannons and it can carry equipment for our ground combat forces. To top it all off it can be controlled through the same neural interface as our aerospace combat drones."

Moose: "You want me, to ‘pilot’ this?"

Thorne: "Well, only if we don’t have time to train our drivers on the neural interface control system."

Moose: "…okay…but…erm…why does it still have the vacuum attachment?"

Thorne: "Ah…hmm…for clearing the battlefield of the remains of our enemies of course…?"

Yes I know I’ve built JanDroids before, but I had a lot of fun doing so and wanted to build more. After my microscale at Wk 14 I thought I’d try some upscaling of my designs too. I've also been out of the country and away from my bricks for most of the week!

Some additional details of the JanDroid500:

It is designed to provide support to infantry forces, packing its own weapons and carrying a spare MANTIS DeathRayBlaster^TM Rifle.

And of course it picks up more dirt than the leading brand armoured assault droids.

One final shot of the whole workshop scene, I was very pleased with how the floor came out:

And if you are wondering what happened with Moose and Thorne following last week’s interruption, or perhaps what the interruption turned out to be; well you’ll just have to wait until the relevant flashback…..(i.e. I meant to do a canteen build but still haven’t had the time.)

P.S. I’m sure the JanDroid500 counts as a land vehicle.

Edited September 20, 2015 by woofmcmoose

[SpacerSteve]

Your interiors are wonderful. Great use of the explorien monitor. Funny Vacuum tank. It looks like

MANTIS is now a competitor of the cat aliens in the exploding vacuum business.

Edited September 21, 2015 by SpacerSteve

[MysticModulus]

Really funny story and great interior!

[Kai NRG]

Great interior! The floor did indeed turn out very nicely, and the little droids look pretty cute too!

[rodiziorobs]

The interior works really well and I quite like the Jandroids.

[David FNJ]

Great interior details and droids! I really like how you lined up the tiles with the stripes.

[Andromedas Gates]

The judges awarded you 4 points.

[LittleJohn]

Excellent interior! The stripes of lime in the walls look great and I really like the floor too

[Umbra-Manis]

Great build!