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[RFC] Jenga and Mini Madcat Corps wiki entry
[RFC] Jenga and Mini Madcat Corps wiki entry
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Two new texts which will move to the wiki soon...

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The Mini-Madcat

»My friends, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first ehh... bionic Mini-Madcat. Better than it was before. Better... stronger... faster... larger!«
-Catgirl Industries, Mid 2016

It all started with a gift of Sabre Fang to Catgirl Industries. When the Catgirls and Sabre Fang traded a series of working drones for a number of ZPE cores, Sabre Fang included a waved Madcat mech in his package.

It was a full articulated walking robot, armed with a series of colored lights on the shoulders and two ‘deadly’ water pistols in the arms. It had enough computer power to stay upright and move, but was otherwise remote controlled by wireless lan. A lot of catgirls liked the 60 cm high robot a lot. It was used in a number of jokes and games at the company in the following months.

When a group of ships attacked Jenga in 2016 to kidnap the catgirls and steal everything valuable on the station, the Mini Madcat had its field day. In a blue hair moment, one of the catgirls replaced his shoulder launchers with a series of waved paintball missiles. The Mini Madcat attacked the Boskonian troops inside the Hangar with a single volley of its missiles and colored the visors of a few of them green. While the rest of the boarding group quickly gunned the small mech down, a few Boskonians were unable to continue their mission without repairs of their visor.

After the fight was over, the catgirls discussed what to do with the pieces of their brave little friend. While a few of them suggested repairing it, most of them felt that it would spoil the ‘heroic sacrifice’. In the end they decided to build a new group of robots similar to the old one, which would ‘follow its role model’ and help defending the station against future attacks.

The Mini-Madcat Corps

Base Hull: Two legged walker built by Sabre Fang
Height: 3 m
Mass: 1.2 metric tons
Drive Type: ‘Myomer muscles’
Dark energy mass effect drive
Drive Rating: 54 km/h walking, 86.4 km/h running
540 km/h flying in atmosphere, 0.07c in space
Reactor: Whistler Philo MKIII mini-fusion reactor
Armament: 2 variable arm adapters
2 multi purpose shoulder boxes
Manufacturer: Cold Cat Spaceworks, Whistler Corporation, Catgirl Industries
Owner: Catgirl Industries
Registry Number: CI-MMC-001 to -006
Launched: Mid 2017
Primary Crew: 0 (remote controlled)
Operational Status: Active

The new generation of the Mini-Madcat was not designed as a toy. The Mini-Madcat Corps is a group of six remote controlled robots, each of them three meters tall. They are made of an endoskeleton of waved steal with a layer of laminated armor plates on top. Their arms and shoulder launchers are modular sets that can be easily replaced within moments.

Similar to the Mechs described in the Battletech novels and game material, the Mini Madcats are moved by a system of waved ‘myomer muscles’, similar to the body of a human. The muscles are a made of hundreds of fibres, each of them constructed from a specialized strain of memetic plastic. Staying as close as possible to the machines described in Battletech was supposed to help with the final waving steps during construction. The development of the myomer strain of memetic plastic was considered a mayor breakthrough for later applications.

Several components of the Mechs were bought from outside sources. The energy of the mechs is provided by a small Fusor bought from the Whistler Services, while a lot of chassis parts were made from Sabre Fang, who had already built the earlier toy.

The new mechs were upgraded a few times during construction, which delayed their completion until mid 2017. They finished models are built around two second generation mass effect drive, which projects a defensive forcefield around the mechs. The second core is used to extend the forcefield around the whole Mech, which is larger than the two meter diameter a single drone core would provide.

The main engine in the upper body allows the mechs to fly, but only after the mech cowers down and put his arms into a ‘standby position’. All weapon systems have to be locked down before engaging the flight mode. The bottom of the mechs feet are covered by the same sticky substance the catgirls used in the construction of their drones for the Panzerkunstlers for zero-g missions. Unfortunately the sticky effect is not strong enough to allow a mech of this size to walk on walls and ceilings in normal gravity.

The default modules of the arms of the Mini-Madcat corps are hands with integrated universal tool adapters, similar to the one of the Exocomps but larger. This allow them to use the Mechs in construction work while there is no danger on Jenga.

Rumors say the catgirls have a cache of lethal and non-lethal weapon modules, which would be installed should anyone try to attack Jenga again.

Trivia:
  • So many of them! There are six (not four or five) Mini-Madcats, which train together every week. This spawned a lot of speculations by Battletech Fen.
  • Mine! Each of the mechs is piloted by a specific catgirl through a remote control rig. Normally they don’t like to share their mech.
  • Zero-g feet. The sticky feet allows the usage of the mechs in areas without gravity.
  • Not a proto mech! Even with only 3 meters high, it cannot do the speed of the Battletech protomechs.

Quirks:
  • Bionic mech! The intro of ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ must be played to start the systems of the Mini-Madcats.
  • No Combat Jumpjets. The weapons of the mechs cannot be fired while flying.
  • Oh no, stairs! Like their precursor, the Mini-Madcats cannot walk on stairs without falling down like stepping on a Banana peel.

Known arm and shoulder attachments:
  • Hands. There is a set of articulated hands for each of the mechs
  • Spotlight. A multispectral spotlight (IR, normal light, UV) can be mounted on the shoulders.
  • Waved bubble gum shotgun. mostly used for pinning or disarming people.
  • Paintball missile launcher. Scaled up version of the original Mini-Madcat weapon.
  • 12.7 mm coilgun. High velocity anti armor weapon, fires solid rounds with the shape of 12.7*99mm bullets.
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Jenga (Catgirl Industries Homebase)

» Let me get this right. You want us to help you building a base made of lot of giant LEGO parts? So that you can play around with them when you want to? Damn, that sounds stupid crazy... I like it. «
- Wire Geek, Mid 2015

» Why do I cannot land anymore in hangar C? I got my fight plan from you two days ago... oh... you took the hangar apart? Okay, will land in hangar D...”
- Unknown pilot approaching the Catgirl Industries base

» It has been said that many great discoveries do not started with an ‘Eureka’ but with ‘oh, that’s odd’. In Fenspace, both variants do often happen after some kind of explosion. «
- heard on an Interwave forum on Mars

Shipname: Catgirl Industries Homebase
Hull: Modular Battlesteel hull
Drive Rating: Max velocity 0.01c
Weapons: multiple point defense lasers and light coil gun turrets
1 heavy laser cannon (since late 2016)
Manufacturer: Catgirl Industries/Hephaestus
Owner: Catgirl Industries
Flag: Fenspace Convention
Registry: CI-002
Date Launched: mid 2015
Purpose: Living space, production and research
Auxiliary Vehicles: 6 waved cars (in late 2015)
Status: Active

The base

When the catgirls decided that wanted to build an orbital base instead of a ground one and had put up some basic plans, they noticed that they needed help. Cathy and Vivio flew over to Hephaestus and had a long talk with the dwarfs. After a lot of discussion about their crazy base design, modifying some of their plans because of suggestions by Hephaestus and handing over most of their money, Hephaestus Mining and Metalworking and Catgirl Industries began with the Jenga project.

The Catgirl Industries base Modules are made from 8 times 8 meters large squares of 10cm thick Battle Steel, which are connected so cubes or cuboids, most of them 16 or 24 meters long. The base plates have mounting points for an thinner inner wall 100cm away, which give the interior a minimum size of 6 times 6 meters.

There are three different kind of base plates created by Hephaestus, a bare wall plate, one with a large quadratic airlock and a third one with mountings for sensors and a popup laser defense turret. The airlock plate also contains interface sockets and pipes around the airlock to transfer energy and and other things between different Modules.

The subtypes of the bare wall plates are equipped with different kind of standardized equipment between the two walls. The first variants constructed had machines for energy production, life support and communication, but since end 2015 Catgirl Industries began to equip the Modules with some of reactionless engine Plates, which have been upgraded several times.

The plates are welded together by special equipment designed by Hephaestus and Catgirl Industries, which produce a continuous and solid outer wall, but they can be disassembled again later. Each assembled Module has one communication plate, which contains three Quantum Entanglement Modules to interconnect all existing Modules to a virtual hexagonal grid. Most Modules contain at least one energy generation and life support plate too.

Most of the interior of the Modules is either vacuum resistant or can be locked down airtight, to allow an easier reconfiguration of the Modules itself.

The Little Big Bang Labs (LBBL)

The Little Big Bang Labs (LBBL) were founded in late 2015 on Jenga, when an accident in one of the labs resulted in the creation of the first batch of Eezo. Catgirl Industries quickly recognized that they need a place for ‘physics experiments’, which resulted in a new Jenga Module for the Little Big Bang Labs.

While the labs were successful in reproducing the creation of Eezo, the space needed for the experiments quickly outgrew the Module. In late 2016, shortly after the battle of Jenga, Catgirl Industries built a new complex of Modules which house the labs today.

The new labs are built around a large cube of 24 meters edge length, which has six standard Jenga Modules of 24 meters length attached to it. Each of the attached Modules houses a waved particle accelerator that can fire a beam right into the central experimentation area. Each opposing pair of accelerators are mounted slightly aligned of axis, so that their beams do not hit the machine on the other side.

In the following years Catgirl Industries began to add other Modules for smaller experiments to the Labs complex.

When the labs are not busy in creating more Eezo, they are running all kinds of physics experimentation, most of them with some handwavium involved. The whole experimentation area is heavily armored and shielded to prevent that accidents and explosions damage other parts of the station.

Trivia:
  • The showers with integrated fur dryers were considered a mayor obstacle in designing the living space at Jenga.
  • Some external airlocks have external ‘universal docking adapters’, most of them bought at Stellvia.
  • Spacecrafts less than five meter high and width can land inside some special airlocks/docking bays.
  • Many catgirls had very bad experiences with Boskones in their lives, which made them to equip their stations with a bit more ‘defensive’ weapons than necessary.
  • The Modules of the Little Big Bang Labs have no artificial gravity and no windows.
  • The six particle accelerators in the Little Big Bang Labs have a fixed focus point ~20 meters in front of the accelerators end. Because of this they are not useful as weapons

Quirks:
  • Everyone plays with LEGO! The base does not accept to stay within the same configuration for more than a month. While moving the Modules into a new configuration might help once, ever two or three months new plates must be added to the base or a few existing Modules have to be taken apart. Otherwise the energy production and engine efficiency begins to drop.
  • I thought it was this way! The base does not like too many signs pointing the way to different parts of the station. Paper signs, black boards and even personal printouts get often lost, misprinted or outdated quicker than the base changes. The inhabitants seem to know their way around the station by memory, but it can confuse visitors as hell.
  • BOOM. Small explosions are quite common in the Little Big Bang Labs.
  • Commence primary ignition! Every major experiment in the Little Big Bang Labs has to be started with the operator quoting Tarkin and pressing a large red button.

Unique modules and sections:
  • You have mail. One 16 meter long Module contains a dual link Interwave transmitter that with a pair of dedicated reactors in a second internal 10cm Battle Steel shell.
  • Oh, shiny! One of the base Modules was equipped with a capital ship laser cannon in late 2016. The 24 meter long Module houses the necessary cooling systems, an lensing system bought from the Weberites to aim the laser cannon and the necessary reactors to power to laser.
  • Little Big Bang Labs. A larger complex of Modules that houses a number of particle accelerators for Eezo creation and physics experiments.
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HRogge Wrote:Jenga (Catgirl Industries Homebase)

» They take it apart and put it together again on a near-constant basis. Face it – Jenga is the Solar System's biggest cat toy. «
- Noah Scott, December 3, 2015
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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"Well, at least it will not fall apart when you pull out one part."

- Naedial Warringer, 2015
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*GRIN*

consider them added when I put it into the wiki in a few days Smile thank you for your comments
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#6
Added Mini Madcat and Jenga to the wiki.

I also updated the Catgirl Industries page.
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» .... GINA! When we retire we're getting one of these! «

- Benjamin Rhodes, upon seeing Jenga 'shuffle' for the first time.
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blackaeronaut Wrote:» .... GINA! When we retire we're getting one of these! «
- Benjamin Rhodes, upon seeing Jenga 'shuffle' for the first time.
Consider it added to the wiki. Smile
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