[Shadowrun]The Great Drone Contest

[Serious Paul]

Okay here is what the dealio is, I am looking to see some innovative drone designs-Walkers, gas bags, you name it. I want it. What I would like is to start a little ocntest here, the reward is nebulous, since I don't have one yet, but here are the rules:


1. Drones have to be designed by the rules presented under SR3 rules-in otherwords we should be able to dissect it for points and nuyen and get a pretty consistent number.

2. Drones only-this does not preclude, however, drones from carrying people, just from being piloted (In my own mind) by the passengers it carries.

3. Any thing I miss?

Game on!

[Anguirel]

For anyone who has seen Red Planet (with Val Kilmer, j0!) this is a R3 work-up I did of AMEE a while back for DSF. Someone was looking for movie-inspired drones, so I figured I might as well. In theory, this is not quite game-spec, IIRC, since I allowed the Robot portion to control the UAV directly (which I'm not certain can be done) and I gave it a Cyber-Weapon Combat SkillSoft to simulate being trained in combat. I also considered adding other knowsofts and skill softs to effect the "wargames" programming AMEE had int he movie, but didn't get that far. If you drop the Ruggedness and the UAV -- and the dikote everywhere -- it's actually not all that expensive.

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Name            Body    Armor   Load    CF      Handling    Accel   Speed   Base Fuel   Economy     Sig     Auto-Nav    Pilot   Sensor  Sonar   Seating
AMEE            3       4+4     253     1.6     -2          -       46      40          2.00        9       -           1       1       -       -
AMEE RotoDrone  0       0       0       0       4           11.5    57.5    4           1.25        16      -           5       1       -       -

Anthroform, Medium - Markup  0.40
Ruggedness 2				+1.00


Mechanical Arms (2, STR 6)
	Dikoted Mono-Cyber-Spurs (STR+2)S x4  70000¥ 

Chassis							 400			
	Smart Materials				 100			
	Handling (1)				  25			
	CF (8)						   8			
	Structural Agility (3)		 900
	Drive-By-Wire (3)			2100
		*.1 to Load				   0
	Vehicle Armor (3)			 150 + 60 kg Load
	Personal Armor (4)			  20 + 16 kg Load
	Radar-Absorbant Mat. (3)	 450
	Drone Rack					  24 + 45 kg Load + .6 CF
	Dikote						   0 + 281500¥
Electric Fuel Cell				 375			
	Economy (60)				 300			
	Load (15)					  15			
	Speed (36)					  72
	Engine Enviro-Seal			  30
	SunCell						   5
Robot Pilot (5)					6250
	Improved NN Algs. (5)		3125
	Fuzzy Logic (5)				5000
	Multi-Object Manip. (10)   10000
	Robotic Reflexes (3)		 300
	Autosoft Interpretation		 250 + 1 CF
	Clearsight Autosoft (5)		   0 + 37500¥
	Rotorcraft Autosoft (5)		   0 + 11250¥
	Performance Profile (5)		   0 + 25000¥
	Sharpshooter (5)			   0 + 50000¥
	Datalink (5)				   0 + 37500¥
	Cyber-Weapon Combat (5)		   0 + 11250¥
	BattleTac IVIS Receiver		 250
	BattleTac FDDM				 350
Electronics
	ECM (1)						 100
	ECCM (1)					 100
	Ports						  10
	RCD (1)						   0 + 5000¥
	
SubTotal:					   30709 + 529000¥
	
Weaponry
	 Remote Micro-Turret (2)	 200 + 20 kg Load
	 Recoil Adjuster (4*2)		  80
	 OR
	 Remote Mini-Turret			 175 + 25 kg Load
	 Recoil Adjuster (6)		  60
	 + cost of guns
	 + cost of Cyber-Implant guns (if desired)


Remote RotoDrone (Mark-Up 	 0.25):
Ruggedness 2				+1.00

UAV, Micro Chassis				  90
	Smart Materials				 100
	Radar-Absorbant Mat. (3)	 450
Electric Fuel Cell				  40
	Speed (43)					  86
	Economy (80)				 400
	Acceleration (8)			 200
	SunCell						   5
	Engine Enviro-Seal			   0
Drone Pilot                 	
	Pilot Level 5				5000
	BattleTac IVIS Receiver		 250
	BattleTac FDDM				 350
Electronics                         	
	ECM (1)						 100
	ECCM (1)					 100
	
SubTotal:						7171

Total:							4299260¥ + 896375¥ + 529000¥ = 5,724,635¥

Next is a Robot Dog made for an Air Pirate (complete with Zepplinn and Pirate Family Edge) -- it was designed as a means of transport and a protector for him. As long as I'm pasting from his Toys file, I included one of his Small-walker stealth scouts. I use these or Micro-walkers with almost all of my Riggers now. Nearly invisible, and can get almost anwhere. Couple it with an Orientation System and map out anyplace you plan to hit. The IVIS in this case is because they're meant to work as a small group to efficiently map a region out.

At somepoint, assuming I ever get into using them again, I shoudl put together rules for climbing ability, since part of the point is that these (particularly the Micro-Versions) can climb in ways similar to insects. Straight up nearly sheer surfaces. The other varient I had for these was in Hive-Systems, having a Small Drone carry a RCD to slave to the main RCD and Drone Racks -- to carry the Micros. The Small infiltrates, then releases the Micro drones to swarm around. Essentially the Hive rules I was working on were an expansion on IVIS for controlling an entire set system of drones as a single unit -- giving simple orders for complex tasks.

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Name        Body    Armor   Load    CF      Handling    Accel   Speed   Base Fuel   Economy     Sig     Auto-Nav    Pilot   Sensor  Sonar   Seating
Robo-Dog    2       0       107     1       2/2         -       40      50          0.5         8       -           2(4)    1       -       0(1)

Robot Dog:

Medium Walker Mark-up:	0.25

Medium Walker Chassis			 240
	Handling (4)				 100
	CF (40)						  40
	Armor (5)					 250 + 100 kg Load
	RAM (1)						  50
	Amphibious 2				  80
	Fold-Out Saddle Seat		   0 + 3 CF (take weight of rider from load)

Battery Engine (EPC)			 300
	SunCell						   5
	Load (20)					  20
	Speed (30)					  60
	Engine Seal					  30
	Electronics Ports			  10

Robot Pilot
	Robotic Pilot (2)			 400
	INN Algs. (2)				 200
	Robotic Reflexes (3)		 300
	Autosoft System				 100 + 1 CF
	Sensors Level 4 Upgrade		  75 + 2 CF + 23 kg
	RCEM (6)					 300

Weapons
	Pop-up Remote Micro	(2)		 200 + 2 CF + 20 kg
	Gunnery Recoil (2x4)		  80
	Electroshock Antitheft		  20


Stealth Scout:

Small Walker Mark-up: 0.25

Small Walker Chassis			165
	Handling(4)					100
	CF(15)						 15
	RAM(1)						 50

Battery Engine					 80
	Load(2)						  2
	Speed(13)					 26

Pilot(3)						250
	Autosoft					150 + 1 CF
	BattleTac IVIS Receiver		250
	Sensors Upgrade(4)			 75 + 2 CF + 23 kg

Additions
	Ruthenium				   5000 nuyen
	Scanners (12)			  60000 nuyen
	Clearsight Autosoft(3)	  13500 nuyen

Edit: Forgot the Actual values for things for AMEE, which I still have. If I have time later, I'll see if I can clean up the presentation of that info...