1629/Parts

Parts
Date of Scene:	21 February 2015
Location:	Neo Arcadia-00001
Synopsis:	Parts and schematics delivery to Taro.
Cast of Characters:	276, 399

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Kari Wolf (276) has posed:
    Surprisingly, it is Kari that arrives at Taro's lab, pulling a small red wheeled wagon behind her. The wagon has a brown box on it, taped very carefully. It is unlabeled, but Kari probably knows what's in it. Assuming she paid attention to Zarenna when her Master was explaining everything...

Taro (399) has posed:
    It was not quite who Taro was expecting when the elevator doors opened, but he seems pleased to see Kari nonetheless. Smiling has never come naturally, but there's that tiny lift around the corners of his lips coupled with the crinkling at the corners of his eyes that might suggest such. "Ah. Good evening, Kari." He unfolds his hands to gesture at the wagon she's been wheeling. "Would you like me to take that?"

Kari Wolf (276) has posed:
    Kari uhs as she tugs the thing in. "Yes, Mr. Daisho! It's for you anyway. Master sent a bunch of spare parts and stuff she made when she was working out how to upgrade me. She thinks they might be useful for the little reploid project you and her have been working on."
    The package is not particularly heavy, otherwise Kari would have had trouble moving the Radio Flyer wagon around, but it is very very bulky for a shinki to handle.

Taro (399) has posed:
    "Ah, I see." Taro crouches down once Kari wheels the wagon into what counts as the lobby, in part to inspect the box (not that there's anything written on it, alas), and in part to offer her a shoulder to ride on. He's grown used to Fuki using him as a battery-saving transport, apparently...
    Once he has box in hand (and possibly shinki on shoulder), he walks in the direction of one of the holotables. "If you would rather call me Taro, I don't mind." The box will be set not on the holotable itself but on a narrow side table. "Did she include a parts list, or will I get the pleasure of figuring them out for myself?"

Kari Wolf (276) has posed:
    Kari hops up onto Taro's shoulder and produces an SD card from a storage compartment somewhere on her armor. "Yep! And notes! And blueprints!" She passes the card to Taro for him to do things with.
    "So like, are you and Master building new shinki?" She asks, being more than a little curious about the project, and watching Taro set things up on the holo table.

Taro (399) has posed:
    SD card...here so very quaint, but in other places state of the art. Such is the way of the multiverse. Luckily, he has an adaptor.
    As he sets up the card reader and adaptor and the table, Taro replies, "Something like that. Zarenna is exploring new ideas for shinki designs. My curiosity was piqued, and so I offered my robotics expertise to the project. You and your sister units are remarkably well designed, but there are some things that the engineers that created you did not know at the time that we do here."
    After a nother moment or two of fiddling, everything is set up properly, and the holotable flickers to life. Assuming that is a simple list, it will scroll across the table's surface, automatically rotating and adjusting to display as much as possible.

Kari Wolf (276) has posed:
    The tech might be old, but it is certainly reliable. Heck, shinki have storage compartments in their chest for microSD cards. The SD card contains a manifest, to which is linked schematics and notes regarding a given part's design and tolerances. There's even 3d printing schema for the more basic structural parts. The schematics also include the final design for Kari's upgrade. The parts manifest largely includes modified mass transmission units, servo prototypes, and various re-designs of the base shinki framework.
    Kari blinks, confused a bit. "Didn't know things like what?" She asks Taro, watching him bring things up on the holotable. She points. "Hey, that's my Dire Wolf gauntlet! Neat!"

Taro (399) has posed:
    "How to build a more efficient battery, for one. How to spin high quality myomer fiber, for another." Taro's attention turns to the list first, then to the schematics. The latter he copies into one of his personal directories with the flick of fingers across the table's surface. "It was kind of her to share these. I'll send a thank you note to take back with you." A pause as he shifts topics somewhat. "How are you liking your new armor, incidentally?"

Kari Wolf (276) has posed:
    Kari oooohs and watches the things fly by before asking. "What's myomer?"
    She grins. "It's really cool! It has a really big gun and grenades and lasers and blades! I got to use it to help Team Aqua herd some pokemon around! But I'm not allowed to fight other shinki with it since Master says it might really break them for good."

Taro (399) has posed:
    "It's..." Taro is mindful of his audience, and so he keeps the explanation in layman's terms. "...what we use in reploid and android design, and in many robotic designs. It works much like organic muscle tissue, really, though lighter and stronger." A wave of his hand calls up a rather generic reploid schematic - one that looks like it's used in a textbook - that shows the fiber attachments in an arm. "As I explained to your master, it's very useful, though only down to a certain size. This is why you rarely if ever see a reploid smaller than a human child."

Kari Wolf (276) has posed:
    Kari thinks for a moment. "But shinki are way smaller than a kid. What're you going to do to make the myomers work better?" She asks sheepishly.
    Then she adds, with that short attention span of hers, "If you make a bigger shinki, you could make a _dragon_ one, and then she could swoop in and scare the daylights out of Raptias, Arnvals, and Strarfs!" Aerial shinki, in other words.

Taro (399) has posed:
    "That we have yet to determine. I've been experimenting to see whether it can be spun more finely without losing its most important qualities." He gives a small and shallow shrug, so as to not accidently disloge Kari. "Whether it will work, I cannot say, but nothing is a total failure if something is learned from it."
    He gets a bit of an odd expression on his face as Kari enthusiastically shares her idea of a dragon model. "Mm. Perhaps..." A gentle nudge back on topic. "I think, though, that these 'cousin' designs to yours will need to be larger than you and Fuki and the others. There are only so many tricks we can use to bring this to such a small scale. A flying model is certainly possible, of course."

Kari Wolf (276) has posed:
    Kari taps her chin, golden eyes peering at Taro. "How much bigger?"

Taro (399) has posed:
    "Perhaps twice your size About thirty centimeters is the height goal I've set, at least. Still taller than any shinki model I've read about, but still smaller than nearly any reploid design I've seen or created." Though there's no smile on Taro's face, you can almost hear it in his voice. "An interesting challenge, don't you think?"