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Project AT-SARA
| I'll start with what's common...
Wearers need a "nanopaste interface" that looks like a thick cup of soykaf residue, and the wearer drinks it.
These aren't boomer spec suits. Wearing one will make you look boomer if you're not, apparently. They're also not quite suits... While active, a male wearer turns female. Girls stay girls.
There's a lot of bioware and chrome to make the suits work, but the one common element: a "disruptor lattice" crytstal at the core. What?
| Where did you pull these files from?
-Zee
| Red Bunny looks like a bunnyboomer, but look at the ears. They're focal plates, like on GC Construction's sonic bulldozer. The weapon package is a carbon microphone stand that conducts electricity and expands like a cobra stick.
Blue Fox's guitar weapon uses the same tech as Red Bunny's ears but the test footage is... umm... holy shit. Also the fox ears are ramjet intakes(?). That's racist.
| >>300306
Encrypted in pop concert promotional materials. It's the KEY that's interesting. I'll get to that.
| Gold Crow is the scary one. It's not just the wingblade sword drones. There's a percussive missile system that looks like it was made to level a whole district. Missiles carry "tectonic payloads" with names like "snare" and "bass."
Black Wolf is like a heavier version of Blue Fox. Really heavy. More armor plates and the guitar weapon looks like half a riot shield. I'm a little freaked out by the integrated railgun.
| The green catboomer, I mean Jade Tiger, makes the least sense of all. She has two crystal thingies, laser claws(?), and a what looks like a new kind of simrig with earphone trodes. Designs for boxy sonic attack microdrones aren't strange, but why would she need to take the factory with her? And really it's more like a vehicle she rides. I can't make sense of this turntable control system.
| The Advanced Threat is the vaguest thing... ugh. They're from my dad's business presentations. Took me awhile to connect it to the SARA project because the presentation tries to scare you into investing in new sonic rifles. The "cloud entity attacker" conveniently dissolves under rifle fire, buuuut... Slow the footage and watch the squad members closely. They vanish! Nice edits, geniuses! This cloud looks solid in some places, then it's liquid when it slams into buildings.
| And here's where I got the key:
>From: a_takara_cto@bellarophon
>to: g_glen_mgr@bellarophon
>Mr. Glen, your "clearance upgrade" is enclosed. You know how to handle the stakeholders.
>atsaradecrypt.key
The files are related to "Mirabelle Star" a small media company run by AIs with way more resources than it deserves. That's all I know. Bellarophon is a research startup venture lobby. A.k.a. professional cocksuckers.
And this is why I don't live with parents.
| Forgot to sign.
-YSS
| Now that's interesting. A "disruptor lattice" sounds like a defense system. Presumably, it would take the energy of offending sources and either recycle, spread, or dispose of said energy. I reckon it would take incoming fire and spread the damage around the entire suit, heavily mitigating damage. Now that's just a guess, so who knows.
These armor sets are quite interesting. Also, ramjets? Those are industrial-level thruster components. Why the hell are they on a suit?
-Peter
| >>300359
Some inside racist joke between engineers? Looks like they just go whooosh.
I somehow forgot to mention something VERY important: that e-mail message was for my dad.
-YSS
| Haha. Rip.
Anyways, I can't help but notice how these suits look more flashy than practical. Then again, this is Glitch City.
But that lattice thingie...
You don't hear about crystal tech often. Nor that level of bioware. Thats some serious shit yo
-Peter
| Also, bellarophon...
Where have I heard that name before?
It definitely means something...
-Peter
| >>300371
Researching... ... ...
Most likely referencing a hero of Greek mythology. He was "the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside Cadmus and Perseus, before the days of Heracles". His greatest feat was killing the Chimera
-Genie
| >>300383
Yup. AI's like their mythology alright.
Thanks Genie.
>>2546fb
Hey, you said those encrypted files were in promotional materials right? Were they actually in any kind of media, like flyers of ads that were yet to be released?
-Peter
| >>300388
Press packets and investor PR material. You know, "here's when such-and-such album drops." Adds for people who want to give them money that say "look how good we are!". It's all archived on the Mirabelle host.
-YSS
| Huh.
| Media companies and high tech weaponry don't mix well. I would put money on them staging an event using the SARA suits, like models, then making a suprise attack on attendes.
Hmph.
Let me know if you find anything else.
-Peter
| >>300403
I'm just speculating here, but...
Start with an existing threat. (You can attract or create it too, but that adds danger and cost.) Control the means to defeat it. Stand idle with your highest price, and lower the fee as the monster rampages.
-YSS
| >>2546fb
I'm curious, how did you reach that conclusion? I don't really see how you got that. But now that you mention it...
And if anyone else has any ideas, feel free to share.
-Peter
| >>30046
My intuition I guess.
All these highly specialized sonic weapons, and my dad just happens to have footage of a big nasty cloud thing which only responds to sonic attacks. The rifles do SOMETHING, but the sales pitch exaggerated it. So, maybe there is money in killing more of these things?
The exact method is total speculation. I just know enough about corps that profit, not fooling people, is the bottom line. They make us pay to cut the cost of lying.
-YSS
| Ahh. I get it now. Most of these frames...war...warframes...
Yeah, these warframes seem to be sound based, so them being built around fighting those things makes sense.
But there has gotta be more to this, it would be extremely easy in this day and age for military groups to get ahold of their own sonic weapons or emmitters. Even low-level citizens could probably jerry-rig something.
| Why share all this on /u/?
>N3verW3re
| Why share all this on /u/?
>N3verW3re
| >>300497
Because I have a crazy dream where someone super awesone starts a band and steals the crystals.
-YSS
| Lol
-Peter
| >>300501 >>300502
Holy shit imagine if you put together a whole team with those suits. It would be the Justice Wardrobe all over again.
-Fiz
| >>300809 >>300829
No.
I want to steal them before somebody else takes them and uses them for what fiz said.
>N3
| >>301158
Oh, now that's a thought.
I aprove to be honest. Man, i'd love one of those for myself.
How ya gonna do it?
-Peter
| >>301170
Fair enough.
Be careful and let us know how it turns out, or if you find anything else out.
Although, I suppose we may hear about it in the news. We'll see.
Good luck.
-Peter
| ( how will this work OP?
Am i allowed to try and take them?
>N3)
| >>301179
(Yeah. I could do a setting thread. You think there's interest in a heist? It's what I'm going for.)
| (Did someone say heist? -Jhensen)
| (Heists sounds neato -Peter )
| (wanna go in alone though...)
| (Gonna hold until finals are over. Please be patient. And feel free to turn up any leads or rumors or suspected test subjects here.)
| >>301239 >>301261
(man, timezones are weird.
Finals are already done where i live.
Good luck g/u/rls!^-^
>N3)
| Trying to pin down a location or a lab or anything. My search-fu has a few leads:
Impolex Manufacturing - So vague I thought it was a shell company. Their mission statement is "strategic evolution of quality metric operations in a miniaturizing industry." They make custom grown crystals for radio sensors. Dad's company is one of their biggest investors.
-They have a small tech office in District 80. Easy target.
| >>301606
MediCall - shipping company. Delivers specialty and custom medical equipment all over the city. Their database is the best chance of finding out who ordered the special augments and what clinics installed them.
-Their matrix site is no data fortress but don't underestimate security.
| Yup. All things considered, we might as well paint a bullseye on em'.
| I feel a little unsure about Mediacall tho. I doubt they researched that level of biotech themselves, so I imagine they either have a furtive RnD section, or there is another group. Still should check out though.
-Peter
| >>301613
Want suspects?
>magical_beatdrop_s1.tdo
PhoeniX Sportwater and Delicious Flats Delicatessen bring you "Magical Beatdrop," where contestants sing, dance, play instruments, crawl through obstacle courses and fight in the arena for a shot at bigtime new idol group. MS isn't even famous, it's their contract, but exactly zero contestants care. Season 1 is already streaming, so here. Yarr.
-Don't just watch the winners, look at crowd favorites and underrated performers.
| >>301627
Okonomyori-80085. I know nothing else. I care soooooo little about idol groups, and I'm way too depressed to listen to glittery j-pop now. Maybe there's a fan here who can tell you about them... uhhh, no offense, possible fan.
-YSS
| >>301633
Well, that makes two of us.
But perhaps Genie may know who the hell these numskulls are.
>>300383 Yo! Do you know who Okonomyori-80085 are? Thanks luv.
Also, 80085 sounds like a zip-code, doesn't it?
-Peter
| >>301634
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
>Search Results: 0.
There is no relevant data regarding Okonomyori-80085 accessible by my systems.
I apologize for this inconvenience.
-Genie
| ...
Alright then...
Thats incredibly odd.
>>301633
Where exactly did you find out about Okonomyori?
-Peter
| >>301679
That there is probably no such group and I need to stop paying attention to commercials.
-YSS
| >>ff811f >>1e0a7d
(Okay dude I thought you were just another charecter named Peter but just not cool man. Please stop using my Charecter or I will have to say something to Stormy -Peter/Wendy/Tuna)
| So much here does not add up, I don't know from where do I even begin making the list.
I'm gonna contact some friends.
—JoKey
| >>301968
(My bad, I realized my mistake after I had made the joke, but I couldn't edit it. I will just change my name slightly. Sorry about that! -Petra)
| >>302008
(Alright, thanks. I am a bit new to all this, and I just read the wiki and saw your characters. Thanks for addressing the problem before it got out of hand. Have fun! -Petra)
| By the way, I realized something.
Sara - Synchronic Active Resonant Armor
The keyword here is Synchronic. Simply put, the suits probably get stronger either closer together or in a group. Not sure how, probably has to do with the disruptor lattice though.
And I hope those ramjet ears don't get any stronger. That would be badddd.
And these guys look tough enough alone...
-Petra
| >>302019
>Could also refer to a line of research done years ago, attempting to create a bio-organic suit that was able to sync consciousness with the host, almost like a mutually beneficial parasite of sorts.
>I'd have to look around my files, but it is pretty old, forgotten stuff since the sync rates for many hosts and the suits were relatively low.
>Once we perfected Nervous System Connection, this stuff went out the window, basocally.
>-HAKASE
| Still looking for any leads on the armour...
>>302666
I have a lot of knowledge on that subject.
Buuuuuuut imma keep quiet
>N3
| >>2546fb
(Just asking, when will your finals be done? The thread is becoming inactive, and I wanted to know when to look for the new one before this one gets closed. Thanks! -Petra
| https://boards.dangeru.us/cyb/thread/303611
| (Are we good to step on in and introduce ourselves into the base or whatever? -Petra
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| I want to say this is totally crazy, but the more I look at it... well, it's pure Glitch City. And it's awesome, so here:
>sara_red_bunny.file
>sara_blue_fox.file
>sara_gold_crow.file
>sara_black_wolf.file
>sara_jade_tiger.file
>sara_advanced_threat.file
AT-SARA stands for Advanced Team - Synchronic Active Resonant Armor. Because whatever committee named it was seriously low on soykaf.
Anyway, I'll try to explain...