Palladium did something like that for one of their sourcebooks. Essentially you have an intelligent supercomputer that woke up after the disaster and it sending robots everywhere. You get into the base by using its old partner (it cyborged a scond persone recently, and the old partner wants revenge) to find the back door.
Getting down to the main base, you see this giant room with robots all standing around, performing maintenance, patrolling, etc. The center is this giant organic brain with all sorts of cyberwear plugged into it. Th walls (assuming the PCs scan them) are heavily armored.
So the PCs manage to blow up the brain, but the sheer number of robots means they have to leave. For the next few days the robots are busy patrolling, looking for the intruders.
The catch - the brain has told nobody that it is really elsewhere in the facility, and is only the size of a shoebox. The supercomputer knows human psychology, where humans expect a giant threat to defeat, and provides it. The armored walls are to prevent damage to the rest of the base, not protect the superbrain.
Todd Kes
--- On Sat, 6/16/12, DEREK STANLEY wrote:
Sadly at the rate we're going that computer would have been the size of a shoe box. Its much less impressive than a great cavernous hall filled with random flashing lights and the humm of electricity.
While I have yet to look it up someone told me that the phone in my hand has more processing power than all of NASA did when they put a man on the moon. If true I find that at once aweinspiring and terrifying.
Ah, Palladium. He used to try to sue us once every year or so. Once
because we used the word, "Recon." We told him to sue the Army while he
was at it.
That is a clever adventure concept, however.
Dave
> Palladium did something like that for one of their sourcebooks.
> Essentially you have an intelligent supercomputer that woke up after the
> disaster and it sending robots everywhere. You get into the base by using
> its old partner (it cyborged a scond persone recently, and the old partner
> wants revenge) to find the back door.
>
> Getting down to the main base, you see this giant room with robots all
> standing around, performing maintenance, patrolling, etc. The center is
> this giant organic brain with all sorts of cyberwear plugged into it. Th
> walls (assuming the PCs scan them) are heavily armored.
>
> So the PCs manage to blow up the brain, but the sheer number of robots
> means they have to leave. For the next few days the robots are busy
> patrolling, looking for the intruders.
>
> The catch - the brain has told nobody that it is really elsewhere in the
> facility, and is only the size of a shoebox. The supercomputer knows
> human psychology, where humans expect a giant threat to defeat, and
> provides it. The armored walls are to prevent damage to the rest of the
> base, not protect the superbrain.
>
> Todd Kes
> Ah, Palladium. He used to try to sue us once every year or so. Once
> because we used the word, "Recon." We told him to sue the Army while he
> was at it.
Now that adds some to the picture of that particular individual.
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Evyn
Even if the planetary mainframes were the size of s shoebox you'd still need 11,000 of them just to cover the Imperium. I think, in retrospect that the archive on Core would be the size of an Ikea warehouse. A very creepy, water dripping, fungi growing, humid alive with something crawling over your foot kind of place. Oddly the virus contained there in would be a lot like deep thought.
42.
Derek Stanley
Sent from my iPhone...
On 2012-06-16, at 18:38, Evyn MacDude <> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:12 PM, <> wrote:
> Ah, Palladium. He used to try to sue us once every year or so. Once
> because we used the word, "Recon." We told him to sue the Army while he
> was at it.
>
> Now that adds some to the picture of that particular individual.
> --
> Evyn
>
On the subject of 42, am I the only person who thinks, Arthur Dent, when they see pictures of the new young Bilbo?
Derek Stanley
Sent from my iPhone...
On 2012-06-16, at 20:55, DEREK STANLEY <> wrote:
> Even if the planetary mainframes were the size of s shoebox you'd still need 11,000 of them just to cover the Imperium. I think, in retrospect that the archive on Core would be the size of an Ikea warehouse. A very creepy, water dripping, fungi growing, humid alive with something crawling over your foot kind of place. Oddly the virus contained there in would be a lot like deep thought.
>
> 42.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPhone...
>
>
> Oddly the virus contained there in would be
> a lot like deep thought.
"Tricky."
That would be funny. Somebody was telling me about a Buckaroo Banzai-based
Trav campaign. There must have also been ones that borrowed from
Hitchhiker's, or Red Dwarf.
Dent Arthur Dent? As in the late Dent Arthur Dent?
I Googled it, but only found two pictures. Neither really "Dent"-ed me.
Maybe if he were wearing a bathrobe.
> On the subject of 42, am I the only person who thinks, Arthur Dent, when
> they see pictures of the new young Bilbo?
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPhone...
> Dent Arthur Dent? As in the late Dent Arthur Dent?
>
> I Googled it, but only found two pictures. Neither really "Dent"-ed me.
> Maybe if he were wearing a bathrobe.
>
> > On the subject of 42, am I the only person who thinks, Arthur Dent, when
> > they see pictures of the new young Bilbo?
> >
> > Derek Stanley
> > Sent from my iPhone...
>
>
It's been too long since I saw the series. But I'll bet if I had heard the
voice I'd recognize it.
> Its the same actor, Martin Freeman iirc.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPhone...
>
> On 2012-06-16, at 21:25, wrote:
>
>> Dent Arthur Dent? As in the late Dent Arthur Dent?
>>
And then the computer decides there is something fundamentally wrong with the Universe and sets about fixing it.
Antony
From: [] On Behalf Of DEREK STANLEY
Sent: Sunday, 17 June 2012 11:54 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Re: shoebox supercomputer
Even if the planetary mainframes were the size of s shoebox you'd still need 11,000 of them just to cover the Imperium. I think, in retrospect that the archive on Core would be the size of an Ikea warehouse. A very creepy, water dripping, fungi growing, humid alive with something crawling over your foot kind of place. Oddly the virus contained there in would be a lot like deep thought.
> **
>
>
> And then the computer decides there is something fundamentally wrong with
> the Universe and sets about fixing it.****
>
> ** **
>
> Antony
>
"I'm sorry, it's going to have to go ..."
:D
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