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Sept 25, 2024 10:33:50 GMT -5
Post by Avery Ashford on Sept 25, 2024 10:33:50 GMT -5
"You're welcome." It seemed she was good with children that were not her own but that was another story for another time. "I am going to draw up some pencil plans for the things that you are speaking about, it's a shabby start but I mean one day it could be an actuality, right?" Sophie Chang
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Sept 25, 2024 14:32:45 GMT -5
Post by Sophie Chang on Sept 25, 2024 14:32:45 GMT -5
Sophie nodded hearing this and once Avery had a paper and pencil she started to describe the concept. “This is one way of doing it and you’d need something resembling a tank body and a rotating turret on top for starters. Balance could be an issue which means at least six legs for it, possibly eight to spread the weight”. So they’d have a giant spider with a hell of a sting to give out. More legs meant more mobility and even losing a few shouldn’t cripple it. “So this should be quite a low profile. Tanks usually have an engine in the rear compartment but you need one for the flight operation as well. I can see this having low altitude flight as standard. A jet engine at the rear but below where the turret would be should work. A three person crew should be enough but they might get by with two”. Avery Ashford
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Sept 28, 2024 9:37:53 GMT -5
Post by Avery Ashford on Sept 28, 2024 9:37:53 GMT -5
"It should be easy enough to keep it low profile. For a good bit of what we do it will always need to be low profile even the good projects that we find ourselves working on though that is not always the case." She had not always been so realistic about it but it was different now. "I think I would feel more at ease with three people, an extra person in case needed for emergencies." Sophie Chang
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Sept 28, 2024 10:01:37 GMT -5
Post by Sophie Chang on Sept 28, 2024 10:01:37 GMT -5
Sophie didn’t even know much of what else went on here. She knew of what she was involved in and that was enough for her. “Three people would work better and if built this will be pretty revolutionary. Even if it dosen’t fly it moving on legs would give a lot more stability and mobility. It’s also lower to the ground than a regular tank but you’d still need existing tanks to help build an army” she replied. Sophie did know the world not just hated her kind. They also distrusted this nation. Sure they weren’t a democracy but a lot of other countries weren’t either. They had freedom when a lot of nations didn’t as well. She hoped things would be better by the time she was an adult but even she had to fight for a nations right to exist. Avery Ashford
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Sept 29, 2024 13:59:23 GMT -5
Post by Avery Ashford on Sept 29, 2024 13:59:23 GMT -5
"All in all the kind of world I would ideally want to live in would trust Ashford as a whole. Ever since being hitched to Quence's politics it's not hard to see why some would not trust us but that is also on him. I am doing what I can to help the overall picture but as stated this, this is what I am going to do." It did help that she could split too because she knew if she did not have her ability then she would be plain like everyone else and maybe that was her cause for once. To not care what the world said or did when it came to oddities but do what she could to help. Sophie Chang
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Sept 30, 2024 10:26:54 GMT -5
Post by Sophie Chang on Sept 30, 2024 10:26:54 GMT -5
Sophie did listen to what politicians said; unlike her mother she wasn't cynical about it but one did the best they could. Which included politicians. So she believed what Avery said; she was in a position to influence future policy not just here but in the US if things went well. Sophie might well get more militant over time given her mother was back in her life but future plans might even involve what they were sketching out right now. "That goes for whoever wins the election but goes double for people like us. We can't count on normals to set the path oddity kind has to walk. That is something we have to do ourselves" she replied. She also jotted a note on the drawing to look into making the legs more articulate so they could raise and lower the overall height more easily. So a true believer like Sophie who had not only came from a criminal background but also knew she was improving things and doing good would also help set that path. Avery Ashford
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Oct 1, 2024 6:31:47 GMT -5
Post by Avery Ashford on Oct 1, 2024 6:31:47 GMT -5
"I agree," she said. It was also true that she did want to show a lot of what the facility did to other people but it was also something that they would have to understand. "Thinking too much about it makes me sick but it's a part of this year sadly." She paused looking things over again. "I might see who else is interested I send out surveys all the time so no one would think any different about it." Sophie Chang
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Oct 1, 2024 7:35:29 GMT -5
Post by Sophie Chang on Oct 1, 2024 7:35:29 GMT -5
Avery agreed with her. There was plenty the normals weren't ready to see or know about but surely there had to be something the world could see. "Once the election is out of the way you'll have more time whatever the result is. If elected you'll really have a chance to change things in the US while still influencing events here" she suggested. Then Avery said something else. "Surveys really get a lot done round here" she added knowing that was how you worked out what level of usage something could get. Also the amount of help you might get. Still with her mind on the engineering problem in front of her she looked at one of her own fingers and how that was jointed and used her hand on the desk to simulate what the actual mechanics would be like. The world might take more notice of a flying iron suit or a walking giant spider than a doll that looked like an oddity after all. Avery Ashford
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Oct 3, 2024 6:23:39 GMT -5
Post by Avery Ashford on Oct 3, 2024 6:23:39 GMT -5
"It's the easiest way without having to pull the residents around and in as groups. I have given thought to that but then I did not want them to feel as if they were sheep and could not or did not have a choice so the survey seems to be the easiest way well if they are being honest that is." Sophie Chang
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Oct 3, 2024 7:50:02 GMT -5
Post by Sophie Chang on Oct 3, 2024 7:50:02 GMT -5
"My aunt filled in the last census entry while we both lived in California; being honest helps make planning future things easier. So I suppose an honest survey is the same" Sophie suggested. The surveys were a census in function she supposed and the database filled in the rest of the blanks. So seeing how the wheels of government turned was interesting; even one like Ashford Islands but whatever the system in place you depended on accurate information. She then curiously asked "do the surveys tend to get to residential areas of the slums?" There was plenty of neighbourhoods like that and not just in the West Slums; also some in the North and South. She'd explored into the East slums and there only seemed to be gang territory there. Avery Ashford
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Oct 4, 2024 9:46:20 GMT -5
Post by Avery Ashford on Oct 4, 2024 9:46:20 GMT -5
"Not really but I guess if I did need to take their thoughts into consideration I could include them. The few times that i have been in the slums it is not bad it is just not an area that we as a company have gotten around to quite developing yet and that is good and bad at the same time." Sophie Chang
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Oct 4, 2024 15:53:14 GMT -5
Post by Sophie Chang on Oct 4, 2024 15:53:14 GMT -5
“Where I grew up in LA wasn’t much different from the west slums. A major US city still hadn’t redeveloped that area when I left to come here. These things take time and you also need a plan to do so” Sophie replied. “My mom said there’s strong willed people living there. They can do a lot of the improvements themselves and there is a will to do so” she added. Even when she’d tangled with gangs she knew herself they were trying to improve their lot in life as well. Avery Ashford
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Oct 5, 2024 8:31:22 GMT -5
Post by Avery Ashford on Oct 5, 2024 8:31:22 GMT -5
"I will see about sending one of my newest hires out there and getting the surveys done and then back. I really do not want them to feel excluded," she said as she thought about the changes that could come if they were not. Sophie Chang
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Oct 5, 2024 12:23:36 GMT -5
Post by Sophie Chang on Oct 5, 2024 12:23:36 GMT -5
A new person would have a job they might feel nervous doing. So Sophie could offer a suggestion as if you didn’t include slum residents they’d come up with their own ideas that may not gel with central planning. “What if I went along with the person assigned to the job? Then I could at least show around and keep them safe as while the most likely thing they could find is a robbery or a night worker that could be the worst thing”. She or her mother would be less intrusive than sending a couple of black uniformed people in any case. Avery Ashford
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Oct 6, 2024 6:45:41 GMT -5
Post by Avery Ashford on Oct 6, 2024 6:45:41 GMT -5
"Hm, I mean that could work but I have reservations about sending a young person but you probably know the area better so who would you prefer to go with. We have Flora, Maria who while she does not work for me does owe me a favor and Artemis those are the ones I am thinking about asking." Sophie Chang
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