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As a fighter, Jet is something of a Flying Glass Brick. She can hit hard, and seems impervious... right up until she takes a hit that damn near kills her. Individually, she's probably one of Fenspace strongest fighters, capable of taking just about anyone in a straight hand to hand fight. The flip side of this is.... the most dangerous opponent for her is ten ordinary troopers with automatic weapons, and a good supply of ammunition. And it's easier to get 10 more mooks, than it is to get another Jet.
 
As a fighter, Jet is something of a Flying Glass Brick. She can hit hard, and seems impervious... right up until she takes a hit that damn near kills her. Individually, she's probably one of Fenspace strongest fighters, capable of taking just about anyone in a straight hand to hand fight. The flip side of this is.... the most dangerous opponent for her is ten ordinary troopers with automatic weapons, and a good supply of ammunition. And it's easier to get 10 more mooks, than it is to get another Jet.
  
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Jet's list of abilities just sort of grew to match what was needed for a 'spacecraft person', and what made sense from her history, which came about because it seemed exactly what someone like her would do. When I wrote out the full list... it was rather startling. It's based on stuff an iPhone has, stuff a space-flying hardsuit would probably have, and stuff Jet would need.
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Jet prefers people to use Male pronouns, but doesn't mind people doing otherwise, and doesn't argue the point. I don't in order to differentiate between pre and post-mod Jet, or to make it obvious when someone's actually done research on Jet. (Like Benjamin Rhodes in the Kentucky Cat story)
  
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Jet has the same ability to understand a new concept, multitask, develop solutions to a problem, come up with a new idea or, grow blue hair, or have a moment of brilliance as any ordinary denizen of Fenspace. Jet's intelligence is in no way superior or remarkable.
 
  
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Jet prefers people to use Male pronouns, but doesn't mind people doing otherwise. I don't in order to differentiate between pre and post-mod Jet, or to make it obvious when someone's actually done research on Jet. (Like Benjamin Rhodes in the Kentucky Cat story)
 
  
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If anyone wants to write for Jet, just keep these in mind...  
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If anyone wants to write for Jet, you're welcome to.
  
 
What Jet can do (2014-2019):
 
What Jet can do (2014-2019):
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** Jet can still get mentally tired after about 24 hours without sleep, or through intensive work... but can stay awake and functional for as long as her batteries last.
 
** Jet can still get mentally tired after about 24 hours without sleep, or through intensive work... but can stay awake and functional for as long as her batteries last.
 
** Can upend an average one-ton family car, and roll it over.
 
** Can upend an average one-ton family car, and roll it over.
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** Can deadlift about 500kg above her head, provided it or the ground can hold up.  
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** Can lift over 500kg above her head, provided it or the ground can hold up.  
 
** Has an onboard Radar with an effective range of about 100kM in atmosphere, and 'far enough to avoid things' in Space.
 
** Has an onboard Radar with an effective range of about 100kM in atmosphere, and 'far enough to avoid things' in Space.
 
** Has an FM radio receiver and transmitter.
 
** Has an FM radio receiver and transmitter.
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** Barring accident/violence, with proper maintenance and care Jet will live for ‘a long time’
 
** Barring accident/violence, with proper maintenance and care Jet will live for ‘a long time’
 
** Jet has Priss' distinctive slightly husky and hoarse voice, and can sing well enough to place in the Karaoke competition at Alphacon.  
 
** Jet has Priss' distinctive slightly husky and hoarse voice, and can sing well enough to place in the Karaoke competition at Alphacon.  
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** Jet and Ford have a number of ways of 'entertaining' each other. Jet's favourite involves turtle wax and a rotary polisher.
  
  
 
** It took Jet a six months design and build the Mark-2 hardsuit in her spare time.
 
** It took Jet a six months design and build the Mark-2 hardsuit in her spare time.
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** It took Jet six months to build the JF-21 series prototype working flat out.
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** It took Jet six months to build the JF-21 series prototype.
 
** It took Jet and Ford three months to build the Highway Star.  
 
** It took Jet and Ford three months to build the Highway Star.  
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** Jet quirks badly when using handwavium, tending towards something based off of Bubblegum Crisis, or similar 80's -style tech.
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** This is one of the reasons Jet won't attempt to wake an AI. She's afraid she may get a God-Delusioned Largo, or an unstable Boomer-type.
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** Jet can get good results specifically replicating items of Bubblegum Crisis technology.
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** Jet tends towards building things which are robust, have an excess of power at the expense of efficiency, and are a touch inelegant and simplistic.
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What Jet can't/doesn't do:
 
What Jet can't/doesn't do:
 
** Jet doesn't go to the bathroom.
 
** Jet doesn't go to the bathroom.
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** Is sexless  
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** Is technically sexless.
 
** Has a severely limited sense of touch over her entire body. Jet can just about tell she’s being touched, and can feel extremes of heat and cold.
 
** Has a severely limited sense of touch over her entire body. Jet can just about tell she’s being touched, and can feel extremes of heat and cold.
 
** Jet’s metal parts retain temperatures. It takes time to heat up and cool down...
 
** Jet’s metal parts retain temperatures. It takes time to heat up and cool down...
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** Jet’s feet are quite small, compared to her weight. She can get stuck in the mud.
 
** Jet’s feet are quite small, compared to her weight. She can get stuck in the mud.
 
** Jet can get irradiated if caught outside of ship in a solar storm.
 
** Jet can get irradiated if caught outside of ship in a solar storm.
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There're a bunch of others... like what/who actually triggers Jet's occasional sparks of creativity, and what's happened inside the armour.  Jet's a weird piece of kit inside...
 
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Jet's mental hardware. Best described in a story dreg.
 
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You might know that I’m a full cyber conversion, though a little more complicated than most. My hardware is based on a heavily-waved Apple A5 processor, a dual core ARM-system, with operating software still based on iOS’ Darwin Kernel, rather than the more common Android systems. One important feature about iOS is that it is mostly single-tasking, with a few exceptions. It can only run one program at a time. Those programs however, can be quite complex. iOS also has a facility whereby important programs can continue running in the background. One thing iOS does effectively, is isolate the user from the guts of the computer, abstracting everything to a simple, idiot-proof interface. It only brings the important things to the attention of the user.
 
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Normally my conscious mind operates solely on wetware, which isn’t too different from baseline human. I have much the same ability to multitask or work through a solution to a problem as the next person. My hardware doesn’t allow my rational mind to think faster. I score close to baseline human on most standardised tests.
 
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But, my hardware gives me two crucial benefits. I can offload a lot of unconscious or repeated work to my hardware. My favourite is while playing Scrabble; rather than iterating through every combination of letters in my mind and relying on my own vocabulary, I just run Grep over a standard installed dictionary, then pick the one that gives me the highest score. Another example would be playing chess... I use a chess engine running on my hardware. Cheaters always prosper.
 
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My hardware also controls my muscle memory, my learned skills, some of which can be extremely complex. Take the human example of walking. You don’t think about each exact motion of your legs and feet as you walk, do you? You’re more concerned about where you go. It’s the same with driving, or any other such skill. Flying for me is extremely complex... it involves radar monitoring, navigation, control of myself aerodynamically in an atmosphere and managing my thrusters and inertia in zero-g... among maybe a hundred other things. I don’t have to think about how I want to fly somewhere, I just have to want to do it, and my hardware takes care of the rest. It lightens the workload and allows me to focus on things which really matter. My Panzer Kunst skills are also hardware based. Thanks to my training, my combat skills have become as natural for me as normal breathing.
 
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The Third benefit of this setup is reaction time, something important tearing through road traffic at 420kph on a Highway Star replica, or in combat when I’m dodging gunfire. I don’t have to think through my actions, I can focus on maintaining situational awareness, command and control, monitor mission objectives, or wonder what I’m going to do for dinner when I get home. Unless there’s something I absolutely need to pay attention to, it’s abstracted away as much as possible, GCD parellelising most things across both ARM cores.
 
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The other option is to set the hardware and wetware to run in raw mode. Most Kunstler can do this, but none do. In theory, using the GCD API lets me switch between this easier than most but I don’t do this unless I absolutely have to. It’s an awesome tool to have in the box, but it’s a dangerous one. All that dopamine has it’s own problems and withdrawal when switching back to my usual abstract mode isn’t the biggest one. Nine times out of ten, it’s just not worth doing. Too much risk for too little reward.
 
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The point is, normally my hardware abstracts and filters the information, allowing me to decide what to do, without having the worry about how to do it. It’s a good system. It helps prevent helmet fires, and allows the wetware to play to it’s strengths, while the computer systems play to theirs. I use the chess engine, rather than think each move through. I take a right turn rather than lower my right arm, lean into the turn with my ailerons, adjust the throttle on my engines to keep my speed up and arch my back at a precise value to pull me around the turn.
 
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And some humour
 
And some humour
  

Revision as of 02:09, 8 July 2011

Jet as a character was never intended to be a fighter... but a person who was, quite literally, their own spacecraft. The original concept was the idea of being able to look upon the raw naked universe, unfiltered by a glass cocoon or video feed. Which is rather awesome. Couple that with a commentary on how biomods depend on the bemodded. It's just sort of how Jet worked out when writing her.

As a fighter, Jet is something of a Flying Glass Brick. She can hit hard, and seems impervious... right up until she takes a hit that damn near kills her. Individually, she's probably one of Fenspace strongest fighters, capable of taking just about anyone in a straight hand to hand fight. The flip side of this is.... the most dangerous opponent for her is ten ordinary troopers with automatic weapons, and a good supply of ammunition. And it's easier to get 10 more mooks, than it is to get another Jet.

Jet prefers people to use Male pronouns, but doesn't mind people doing otherwise, and doesn't argue the point. I don't in order to differentiate between pre and post-mod Jet, or to make it obvious when someone's actually done research on Jet. (Like Benjamin Rhodes in the Kentucky Cat story)



If anyone wants to write for Jet, you're welcome to.

What Jet can do (2014-2019):

    • In atmosphere, at Earth sea level, Jet can fly at 1400kph, for a duration limited only by her own comfort. Atmospheric heating starts to get hot.
    • Jet's minimum stall speed is about 200kph.
    • Jet has a glide ratio of about 2:1 (Half that of a Space Shuttle) Jet's wings really just stabilise her flight.
    • In Space, Jet can reach a speed of .175c, and hold it for about 4 days before her organic parts lose life support. In theory, Jet could just about make Pandora.
    • Can hover upright.... though it takes a great deal of care on her part.
    • Jet is vacuum tolerant... though direct exposure of her face to hard vacuum can get uncomfortable. It won’t kill her. She wears a pressure helmet for her own comfort only.
    • Jet can still get mentally tired after about 24 hours without sleep, or through intensive work... but can stay awake and functional for as long as her batteries last.
    • Can upend an average one-ton family car, and roll it over.
    • Can lift over 500kg above her head, provided it or the ground can hold up.
    • Has an onboard Radar with an effective range of about 100kM in atmosphere, and 'far enough to avoid things' in Space.
    • Has an FM radio receiver and transmitter.
    • Has a cellular phone connection, capable of making and receiving calls, and maintaining an interwave/3G connection/Fenspace compatible comm's
    • Has a GPS receiver.
    • Has a pair of USB 2.0 sockets, one in each ear.
    • Han receive AI databursts. They also give her stunning headaches.
    • Has onboard navigation software, for stellar navigation, which requires updating.
    • She sometimes roasts marshmellows using her engines.
    • Has about 64Gb worth of onboard storage, for videos, music or the like.
    • Can listen to or watch these, if not doing anything else.
    • Can fly with about 20 kilogrammes of load... provided it doesn't shift around, is properly balanced, and doesn't interfere with her.
    • Can install iPhone Apps and utilise them.
    • Can interface with smart-gun systems if it's designed right.
    • Can take and read notes on her iPhone. Requires some concentration on her part (As if she was making the notes manually)
    • Can access files stored on the iPhone.... but these also take time to comprehend and understand.
    • Can send email/text messages.
    • Can design and build 'stuff' reasonably competently.
    • Has enough of a homeostasis effect to counter aging, and the effects of vacuum.
    • Barring accident/violence, with proper maintenance and care Jet will live for ‘a long time’
    • Jet has Priss' distinctive slightly husky and hoarse voice, and can sing well enough to place in the Karaoke competition at Alphacon.
    • Jet and Ford have a number of ways of 'entertaining' each other. Jet's favourite involves turtle wax and a rotary polisher.


    • It took Jet a six months design and build the Mark-2 hardsuit in her spare time.
    • It took Jet six months to build the JF-21 series prototype.
    • It took Jet and Ford three months to build the Highway Star.
    • Jet quirks badly when using handwavium, tending towards something based off of Bubblegum Crisis, or similar 80's -style tech.
    • This is one of the reasons Jet won't attempt to wake an AI. She's afraid she may get a God-Delusioned Largo, or an unstable Boomer-type.
    • Jet can get good results specifically replicating items of Bubblegum Crisis technology.
    • Jet tends towards building things which are robust, have an excess of power at the expense of efficiency, and are a touch inelegant and simplistic.


What Jet can't/doesn't do:

    • Jet doesn't go to the bathroom.
    • Is technically sexless.
    • Has a severely limited sense of touch over her entire body. Jet can just about tell she’s being touched, and can feel extremes of heat and cold.
    • Jet’s metal parts retain temperatures. It takes time to heat up and cool down...
    • Does not seem to get drunk.
    • Cannot store her memories digitally, or copy her personality. Jet does not have perfect recall
    • Must maintain careful control of her strength, or she'll either injure someone, or damage something. If Jet's distracted or frustrated, accidents can happen.
    • Requires regular maintenance. Weekly, Monthly and Yearly schedules, along with running-time based for her engines. Most tech's familiar with her can do it. Jet prefers Ford Sierra to do most of her maintenance, but some requires more skill.
    • If injured/damaged, serious damage can only be repaired by someone intimately familiar with Jet, or the particular component. A snapped wing or a broken antenna can be handled by many, including Ford Sierra and Daisuke Edo. Replacing an engine, or deep internal work, requires far more skill and at least few day's work.
    • Does not float, and cannot operate her engines underwater. Jet will die if she falls into deep water. Shallow water is a long and muddy walk, provided she doesn’t get stuck.
    • Can be seriously injured by electricity, and electromagnetic effects.
    • Turbine Engines can be damaged by fine-grained sand/Foreign Objects.
    • Jet is still very mortal, and mostly organic inside. A hit that penetrates her armour is crippling. A lucky hit from even a pistol can kill her easily.
    • If Jet's computer electronics fail or are disabled, Jet will die after about five agonising minutes.
    • Jet's *self* exists only in her organic brain. There's a reason she wears a helmet
    • Jet will still be injured in a high-speed crash. She can go crunch quite happily.
    • Jet contaminates sensitive handwavium tasters, or handwavium-free environments. Not enough to be dangerous, just to be 'detectable'.
    • Her neck is unarmoured, and so is her head if she is not wearing a helmet.
    • Jet can’t use capacitive touchscreens
    • Her fingers are steel coated and a little broad. It's hard for her to do intricate work like electronics, or kit-building.
    • Jet’s feet are quite small, compared to her weight. She can get stuck in the mud.
    • Jet can get irradiated if caught outside of ship in a solar storm.

And some humour

Two gunshots rang inside the workshop, followed moments later by a strangely satisfied groan, and the whirr of an electric polisher winding down.

Ford Sierra stood in overalls with the polisher still spinning in her hands, a perplexed and surprised look on her face. Jet lay on the workbench, panting, chest half-coated in hazy turtle wax. The other half was buffed to a deep shine.

“You didn’t...” Sierra mumbled.

Jet smiled back at her almost shamefully, “Well...that’s a first”

A small whisp of blue oilsmoke rose guiltily up from one of her engines.

Sierra barked a laugh, “At least we can have fun like a normal couple for once...”

She grinned. The electric polisher began to wail once more.

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