Damocles 2017

[Ieqo]

Before you go wild giving Damocles new toys to play with, just remember that canonically he wasn't finished yet. He was hooked up to NORAD and SAC traffic nets in "listen-only" mode. The war occurred before testing was complete, so he hadn't yet been as fully plugged-in as his designers intended (it also explains why there were a bunch of civilians in the complex when he had his little..."episode"). So if you stick to that limitation there's no reason to worry about him going "Skynet" on you, and you have a good justification for keeping his arsenal small.

Things like this are one of the reasons I tend to stick with the "retro" EotW scenario: it allows me to spend more time on the "forward story" rather than trying to update backstory.

[stormlion1]

Another possibility to use is Damocles was finished, run in the 80's and the early 90's and then shut down and placed on inactive mode with a skeleton caretaker crew. When the nukes finally went off he was reactivated accidently and was left as he was as a shut down operation trying to fully activate itself. Just replace the civvies with military caretakers or even civilian caretakers.

[swaghauler]

If you have ever had the chance to watch "Preppers" on the NatGeo channel, you could see a converted missile silo. This guy is selling "condos" in the underground silo he is rebuilding as a form of Doomsday Arc. This could be a good "blueprint" for an underground facility.

[stormlion1]

If I ever win the lottery I want to own a converted Silo. I would never leave! And any visitors would be issued Vault Suits when they came in.

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by Ieqo

Before you go wild giving Damocles new toys to play with, just remember that canonically he wasn't finished yet. He was hooked up to NORAD and SAC traffic nets in "listen-only" mode. The war occurred before testing was complete, so he hadn't yet been as fully plugged-in as his designers intended (it also explains why there were a bunch of civilians in the complex when he had his little..."episode"). So if you stick to that limitation there's no reason to worry about him going "Skynet" on you, and you have a good justification for keeping his arsenal small.

The point of the Mission is to "Reset" Damocles out of that operational wargaming mode. Then Damocles can run with full capabilities, not the scenario driven limitations or responses. Most of this talk governs the "After the Module" scenarios.

Damocles without the limits imposed by the wargame mode it has been locked into for 150 years.

Originally Posted by Ieqo

Things like this are one of the reasons I tend to stick with the "retro" EotW scenario: it allows me to spend more time on the "forward story" rather than trying to update backstory.

This isn't incompatible with the discussion so far.

Would you care to add your "forward story" to the discussion so far?

[ArmySGT.]

I like these as replacement for the small two legged roving scout robots.

Robot Dog, the smaller version of Boston Dynamics "Big Dog" all terrain support robot.

Robot Dog

[.45cultist]

A simple fire suppression system would make a nasty obstacle if used on a level.

[stormlion1]

Never thought about a fire suppression system. Imagine if it could seal the doors like there airlocks and then just inject halon in. Simple doors you can breach, but if there reinforced. And popping a whole in the wall may not just work.