archhealer
SOC-12
The Phoenix Subsector of Solitude cluster is home to one of only a spare handful of megacorporations to spring up within solitude cluster on it's own, and be able to withstand the competition from the branch divisions of such giants as Naasirka and Ling Standard Products. The Phoenix Company is a private research company, focussed on advancing electronics and mechanical systems for commercial resale. Their most successful endeavors include Phoenix Transport & Utility, their ground vehicle manufacture company, and Phoenix Modular Robotics. Both companies provide service and products throughout the Phoenix and Genesis' Fall subsectors.
Modular Robotics has taken a slightly different approach to robot design; Although they do have a catalogue of standard designs available, their true strength lies in modular custom design program, utilizing a large catalogue of parts that can be affixed to one of several offered standard chassis configurations. Slightly more expensive than a standard design, these modular custom units are only given a 15% discount to their cost, due to the slighly higher expense of producing and stocking the full range of parts, but is still considerably less expensive than most custom robot designs.
The primary parts lists include an array of variously sized arms and tentacles, offering a wide range to fit any niche from heavy cargo handling and labor to fine electronic or medical work, and everything in between, as well as a half a dozen or so drive options, all of which propel the standard chassis (100vl) at a functional if somewhat unimpressive 10kph, as well as two categories of head units, comprising the majority of the sensor suites and computer interfacing hardware (Though not, usually, the computer itself), which consists of the Robotic Head category, using monocular video units that look, act, and are unmistakabely machine, and a higher quality line of Android Heads, which are somewhat more artistic in design, use a binocular holovideo system, and are available in a variety of humanesque configurations.
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Ok, so, I'm working now on the modular catalogue. I'm doing it primarily for my own purposes, so that when I'm building robots and the like, I don't neeed to go through the entire design sequence every time, I just have a few lists of standard "Plug in" parts, and save a lot of time. I've already done this with various other things, like electronics packages for vehicle lighting/comms/sensors, and similiar systems that tend to be repeated over lots of designs.
So far, I've come up with the arms, 'legs' or drive units, toolkits and similiar things, heads as described above. I'm debating whether I should include computer brains in this setup, as there's already a lot in both standard designs and in the new Robots supplement. The other reason I hesitate is that the robot brain is frequently customized for each design, and not often repeated (At least in my own designs) except for FCCs and the like.
Any input, ideas, suggestions, comments, critiques, pudding, sticks, or rubber balls would be most welcome.
P.S. If anybody wants to know where Solitude Cluster is, it's a one-sector disc-shaped starcluster slightly above (Roughly 9 parsecs) the main disc of the OTU, most of it over the Imperium but a small sliver reaching out over Solimani Space. So far, the only path to it is via three systems that are heavily fortified and guarded by the Imperial Navy, and the existance of the cluster is kept very hush-hush. Within the cluster itself, life is much the same as elsewhere in the imperium, although ruled by the Colonial Council, which answers (if it were ever asked to) to the Emperor, in theory. It is debateable if even the Emperor knows that the cluster is inhabited, or that a path to it exists. The secret is guarded fiercly by the navy and by the few megacorporations that funded the original expeditions to colonize this new territory so long ago...
Modular Robotics has taken a slightly different approach to robot design; Although they do have a catalogue of standard designs available, their true strength lies in modular custom design program, utilizing a large catalogue of parts that can be affixed to one of several offered standard chassis configurations. Slightly more expensive than a standard design, these modular custom units are only given a 15% discount to their cost, due to the slighly higher expense of producing and stocking the full range of parts, but is still considerably less expensive than most custom robot designs.
The primary parts lists include an array of variously sized arms and tentacles, offering a wide range to fit any niche from heavy cargo handling and labor to fine electronic or medical work, and everything in between, as well as a half a dozen or so drive options, all of which propel the standard chassis (100vl) at a functional if somewhat unimpressive 10kph, as well as two categories of head units, comprising the majority of the sensor suites and computer interfacing hardware (Though not, usually, the computer itself), which consists of the Robotic Head category, using monocular video units that look, act, and are unmistakabely machine, and a higher quality line of Android Heads, which are somewhat more artistic in design, use a binocular holovideo system, and are available in a variety of humanesque configurations.
*****
Ok, so, I'm working now on the modular catalogue. I'm doing it primarily for my own purposes, so that when I'm building robots and the like, I don't neeed to go through the entire design sequence every time, I just have a few lists of standard "Plug in" parts, and save a lot of time. I've already done this with various other things, like electronics packages for vehicle lighting/comms/sensors, and similiar systems that tend to be repeated over lots of designs.
So far, I've come up with the arms, 'legs' or drive units, toolkits and similiar things, heads as described above. I'm debating whether I should include computer brains in this setup, as there's already a lot in both standard designs and in the new Robots supplement. The other reason I hesitate is that the robot brain is frequently customized for each design, and not often repeated (At least in my own designs) except for FCCs and the like.
Any input, ideas, suggestions, comments, critiques, pudding, sticks, or rubber balls would be most welcome.
P.S. If anybody wants to know where Solitude Cluster is, it's a one-sector disc-shaped starcluster slightly above (Roughly 9 parsecs) the main disc of the OTU, most of it over the Imperium but a small sliver reaching out over Solimani Space. So far, the only path to it is via three systems that are heavily fortified and guarded by the Imperial Navy, and the existance of the cluster is kept very hush-hush. Within the cluster itself, life is much the same as elsewhere in the imperium, although ruled by the Colonial Council, which answers (if it were ever asked to) to the Emperor, in theory. It is debateable if even the Emperor knows that the cluster is inhabited, or that a path to it exists. The secret is guarded fiercly by the navy and by the few megacorporations that funded the original expeditions to colonize this new territory so long ago...
