Tuesday, August 20, 2019

FWW: The Omega Project

"The project which would eventually create Liberty Prime was a massive undertaking between the US Army, General Atomics International, and RobCo Industries. However, it was fraught with delays and ultimately, it was the T-51b model of infantry power armor that liberated Alaska from the Chinese menace instead.

Unknown to either the Army or General Atomics, a large portion of the delay was caused by RobCo siphoning resources for their own in-house project; the Omega-series sentry bot. Superficial similarities to the much larger Liberty Prime speak to the common origins. The Omega prototype was designed to be armed with a similarly devastating array of weapons as the popular sentry bot, including a missile launcher and minigun, as well as the equivalent to the Army's assaultron eye laser. Utilizing the same 'freedom protocols' as Liberty Prime, RobCo looked forward to the vast profit margins they would reap in private and military contracts.

All initial testing of systems proved successful. Upon final activation, the targeting priorities of the Omega tagged all facilities personal as a Chinese invader, with tragic consequences. The program was terminated and the prototype was slated for storage until a forensic analysis could determine what went wrong, though the RobCo board suspected General Atomics sabotage.

And then the bombs fell...

200 years later and a certain underground organization has worked  to clear the virus which caused the malfunction, updating as the Chinese threat any non-Institute entities, and replacing the destroyed weaponry with plasma weaponry. To be safe, deployment is limited to command by Coursers or other high generation Synths, which Omega identifies as fellow patriotic robots..."

SOOOOOOO.... Based on an idea I saw, I picked up a cheap Reaper Bones iron golem, drilled the shoulder pieces out to attach some leftover BattleTech bits, got to practice with my airbrush on doing black base coats, assembled it, added a base & attempted a rust weathering, and then did some sweet crates with a terminal on top.

Stat wise, Omega is built via Automatron cards, without the penalties of mismatched parts (and is hefty in the points category). Movement is not terrain-limited and in most respects, Omega is a robotic Super Mutant Behemoth. It can be taken by an Institute force or robot force, if the leader has the card "robot controller."

This adds to my current Institute/Robot force of a Courser, two Protectrons, two Eyebots, and a Mr Handy/Gutsy. I still want to get a couple more Protectrons, an actual Sentry Bot (which I'll use as the Battered form, with Omega being "promoted" to a better/higher cost version), and some Assaultrons. Hoping for The Mechanist to be in the next wave though, so that they can take over the Robots after The Institute wave drops, as well as  Robobrains  since I want to make a custom FO76 Biv, the drunken speakeasy mastermind.





1 comment:

  1. And then The Mechanist WAS in the next wave, along with the Automatron card deck (I've updated the blog to reflect this) and now I have a Sentry Bot as well.

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