04-13-2018, 09:23 PM | #1 |
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Reign of Steel question...
I was reading a Pyramid article about the RoS setting set 20 years later, as the Zoneminds start expanding into space, and it mentioned an 'SAU-5', the shipbrain AU.
Which made me realize I missed something somewhere. The SAU-1 is the robofac supervisor, the SAU-2 is the Centurion, but what are the SAU-3 and SAU-4? I missed an SAU or two somewhere.
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04-13-2018, 09:38 PM | #2 |
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Re: Reign of Steel question...
Actually, there doesn't seem to be an "SAU-01" model. The Overseer is SAU-02, and the Centurion is SAU-03 (Reign of Steel, p. 74). So there's only one "gap" to fill there. Personally, I'd guess the SAU-04 is a naval/underwater model. That seems like the obvious niche, especially since the SAU-05 is apparently the space model.
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04-14-2018, 08:08 AM | #3 |
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Re: Reign of Steel question...
The SAI-01 is the Zonemind AI. Mind levels change within a single letter sequence - see for example VNU-01, VNU-02, VAU-03.
But I agree that I haven't seen an Sxx-04 design published anywhere.
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04-14-2018, 10:38 PM | #4 | |
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Re: Reign of Steel question...
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Maybe it was just a misprint/error?
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04-16-2018, 05:41 PM | #6 |
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Re: Reign of Steel question...
SAU-4 was the semi-truck model. Discontinued and all but one scrapped.
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04-17-2018, 04:49 PM | #7 |
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Re: Reign of Steel question...
Interesting. Got a citation?
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04-17-2018, 06:35 PM | #8 |
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Re: Reign of Steel question...
I am pretty sure it was a Transformer joke (Optimus Prime).
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04-17-2018, 07:19 PM | #9 |
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Re: Reign of Steel question...
No, it was a joke about Lucifer, the human-friendly Zonemind housed in two semi-trucks.
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