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Approved Submission [Lazarus Consortium]/[LSDF]: Tool/Hand Intelligent Natural Grasping Manipulator (THING)

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Yeah, you definitely won't be able to handball something like this. I had trouble grasping it myself. Perhaps we should sit down and get a better grip, and touch base with Osaka.

(I regret nothing)
You are both horrible and glorious, and you know it.
 
You make my head hurt so much, Leigh. You really do.

Can we get some basics here? How big is this thing? How much does it weigh? How long can it be powered? What damages it? How tough is it at all? Why should I approve a floating hand that can take the form of any of a half-dozen armor-grade weapons?
 
1. About the size of a bowling ball, intended to act as a frame grade weapon but unable to meet its own energy needs. The numbers probably need softening a bit.
2. About the same as a couch.
3. Not long; it is an excellent weapon but its magazine is tiny: It has no powerplant of its own, only a capacitor and energy transfer and as such has next to no independence of any kind for more than a few seconds, or in direct support of a larger platform as mounted or remote equipment for it. Its meant either to be used for interior security as a drone inside a starship or rigged to a powered frame. It isn't really meant to act with much in the way of independence: It can move for a long time but it runs out of ammunition super super fast.
4. Quite weak, actually. Concentrated fire from a minigun would cripple it within a few seconds of sustained shot. To be tough, it would need some sort of armored glove which in turn would remove its ability to transform, acting only really as a basic hand. To this end, I like this idea of "taking the gloves off" when whatever's mounting it "means business".

5. You couldn't deploy this independently. It would run out of ammunition very quickly and be too vulnerable. Think of it as how a pawn works in respect to more important chess pieces: its function is as a support weapon.
 
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