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Rescue Synthmorph Ideas

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geckopirateship geckopirateship's picture
Rescue Synthmorph Ideas
Hi! I'm new to the forums and wanted to share a couple of ideas my friend and I had while working on a campaign we're going to run. She came up with the idea of a morph with an internal cargo/passenger space and I came up with the idea of a search-and-rescue synthmorph. I don't have a name or stats yet, but the basic details are that it's a large, heavy synth designed to go into hazardous environments and recover wounded and stranded people. It has a round, reinforced, stabilized, and environmentally sealed passenger compartment equipped with medical equipment, and two sets of arms: a large pair for moving rubble and a smaller pair for delicate manipulation. I imagine it would see a lot of use with bodyguards, mercenaries, and gatecrashers, as well. She actually ended up not going with that idea, and instead worked on a smaller but still large synth capable of using a synthetic mask, with a smaller internal compartment designed more for smuggling (it has a suite of sensor-blocking measures built in). I just wanted to share both ideas and see if anyone had feedback.
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ORCACommander ORCACommander's picture
i would imagine a SAR morph
i would imagine a SAR morph coming in 2 primary variants: EVA model for going after dutchmen in the night and your planetside SAR. AVA one would be much larger heavy on fuel and probably just have minimal internal life support. Planet side would have to be highly durable considering the attrition rate of biomorphs currently suffer in SAR efforts. a good starting point would probably be the industrial case.
Bursting Eagern... Bursting Eagerness Soul's picture
Daitya or Synthtaur?
For the in-hab SAR stuff, a modified Daitya or Synthtaur would probably have most of what you want. All you would need to add would be the passenger space and life support (and more arms for the Daitya).
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Bursting Eagern... Bursting Eagerness Soul's picture
Daitya or Synthtaur?
For the in-hab SAR stuff, a modified Daitya or Synthtaur would probably have most of what you want. All you would need to add would be the passenger space and life support (and more arms for the Daitya). EDIT: Sorry for the accidental double. How do I get rid of it?
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UnitOmega UnitOmega's picture
I'd actually model more on
I'd actually model more on the Arachnikoma, since that's already a high mobility/utility platform with a single person cargo bay. There's also a bot (I think it's the rescue bot?) in Gatecrashing which has similar function to what you're describing, but it obviously isn't a morph, and its probably slightly larger. I'd skim those two before getting down to hard stats. I'd say you can easily stack both EVA and ground SAR into one model, just give it thrust vectoring. For a dedicated variant, I think a CSAR version for active combat zones it probably more likely, with higher AV, maybe higher DUR and a weapon mount.
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ORCACommander ORCACommander's picture
I dunno inhab a daitya would
I dunno inhab a daitya would be rather to large outside the docking and cargo zones unless the palce was built like Nanotrassen Space Station 13.... Omega are you referring to the that recovers and plugs in stacks?
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ORCACommander wrote:I dunno
ORCACommander wrote:
I dunno inhab a daitya would be rather to large outside the docking and cargo zones unless the palce was built like Nanotrassen Space Station 13.... Omega are you referring to the that recovers and plugs in stacks?
No, not the Spare morph, but the Retriever on p. 162 of [i]Gatecrashing[/i]. It's a walker about the size of a car, which has specialized excavation, medical, fire-fighting and self-defense equipment. It's purpose is to perform Search and Rescue beyond Pandora Gates. It basically has the laundry list of features you might want from such a function (and then some), but as a bot it obviously lacks the support to field a full Ego, and also can't do EVA or Micrograv, since it's only a walker. As for the other question, well, that depends on where you are. the Large size factor is very abstract (deliberately so, I assume), but if you wish to have the internal storage compartment for people, you'll have to be large. A morph cannot be simultaneously person-sized and also hold a person completely sealed inside of it, unless it's some kind of hollow exoskeleton (which I'm pretty sure couldn't walk around so well on its own). An Arachnoid on it's own isn't Large, adding the person-compartment to make it the Arachnikoma makes it large. Mechanically speaking, the Arachnikoma, Daitya and a Bruiser biomorph are all the same size. It's up to the GM to decide if you're too large to get around normal spaces of the hab, but unless EVERY space is exactly sized for one human at a time, even in Clusters or Beehives you should be able to get around normally in most public spaces. If you're doing SAR, you probably don't care about taking up both lanes of traffic. As for the other idea of the OP, there's no need for a specialist smuggling morph, just take the Hidden Compartment and the Synthetic Mask, and any other stealth mods you need.
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ThatWhichNeverWas ThatWhichNeverWas's picture
Hmm, what would be the stats for an Exo-suit Morph?
I could see a search and rescue Exoskeleton, somewhere between a vacsuit and a civilian variant of the Battlesuit. A certain scene from Iron Man 3 comes to mind. That said, you have to ask what exactly a SaR morph/bot/suit would actually have to do. You don't need to get whole people out, just their stacks if morph-death is considered acceptable or their heads if not. A smaller version of the morph/bot from the OP should suffice, especially if it has some way of preserving the head/s it collects in it's compartment.
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