What exactly is a "remote"?

lyonheart wrote:Hi PeterZ,

Those were 'combat remotes'; made by OWL and evidently much larger that could manipulate weapons far more powerful than the gunpowder rifles, that probably used counter-gravity as they 'glided' rather than walked, while using the various stealth devices to look like men.

TBird50 wrote:Also, I know that at least some if not all the remotes can be or are "stealthed". Do you think that stealth works as a blanket so that things the remotes carry are also stealthed? I guess what I'm thinking about is that broadsides, those crush gauges, etc all are at a scale that can be seen by humans (obviously), so the transport of those items seems to be a risk, especially right during the transfer of the broadsides to the doors (or whatever). If they could be stealthed too until released by the remote, that would sure make things easier.

JeffEngel wrote:

C. O. Thompson wrote:This raises a few questions as relates to use of these units...
Do you think that these larger (combat) remotes are the same thing as the servitors that were mentioned as being used in the War of the Fallen?

They're at least the same general sort of things as the combat servitors used then. How close, there's no way to tell. It wouldn't be a surprise if the Chihirites were using some TF standard ground combat remotes of the very same model stashed in the Cave; it wouldn't be a surprise if there were a large number of models with no overlap happening to occur that way; it wouldn't be a surprise if the Chihirites had to re-invent combat remotes based on civilian models just because all the (few) proper ones were in Fallen hands. We just don't know.

How much of a priority do you think should be given to resupply of the raw materials that OWL needs to build these and (for example another PICA)?

Compared to what? If it's that versus manufacturing to neutralize or figure out the OBS, I'd peg the OBS as more important to handle than anything they are likely to be able to handle on the ground (specifically, the Temple itself). For anything not the Temple or the OBS, I doubt the ground combat remotes are going to be both very useful and entirely necessary.

I think that some of these remotes were/are used to paste the broadsides up all over the place

Some of some remotes, at least. If the combat models were used for that, they'd be far more numerous and stealthy than I would have assumed. (Well, unless maybe, of say 1000 broadsheets put up, 2 of them sucked up a few otherwise spare combat remotes.)

Expert snuggler wrote:I'd advise Merlin to build the tools to build the tools to build an anti-OBS weapon. If there is heavy low-tech work needed as part of it, Howsmynn would be happy to contribute.

Expert snuggler wrote:Designing an attack plan to take out the OBS, even including designing the weapon systems required, is exactly what OWL was made for. It says something about TF AIs that OWL hasn't gone crazy from being relegated to forgery, propaganda, and lingerie manufacturing. He would welcome the project.