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huey emmerich

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[After the disappearance of his infant son, Huey did the only thing he could to take his mind off of things; burying himself in his work. He's completely finished the scaled-down Chrysalis weapon for the Western Outpost, and is just waiting for a good day to take it out for a spin. In the mean time, he's got a couple of other filters to get out of the way first.]

[Filtered to Jack O'Neill]

Hey, I've got your AUG and M1911A1 Custom finished, and spare ammo enough for both to last you a while. Wanna meet down at the shooting range to test 'em?

[Filtered to Aradia]

Hey! I've got the Chrysalis, the flying model done. Just waiting for a good day to give it a test flight. Have you heard from Tavros lately? I haven't seen him around in a while.

[Filtered to Father Tres]

Hey, I've finally got your new muscle finished. It took a while to get the mixture right, but I've been testing the flexibility and durability, and it should be comparable to your old one. Just gotta install it, and you should be back to 100% operational capacity!

[Filtered away from the First-Gens, anyone who would aid or pass information to them, as well as anyone who might seek to use his technology for personal gain or for nefarious ends.]

Hey there! Huey here. Now, you know how Aradia's been working on the Western Outpost, so we've got uhh...a place to go to keep an eye on things in the world outside of the castle? Well, she commissioned me to build some robotic sentries to guard it. I decided on two bipedal robots, equipped with both AI, as well as a pilots seat for emergencies, and a flying robot that I'll be installing a control system for into the Outpost itself. I recently finished construction on the flying model, which I call Metal Gear CHRYSALIS, and I just wanted to let everyone know. It's purpose is for security and aerial reconnaissance only, so if you see it flying around, don't be alarmed. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.

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Metal Gear?

That's an odd name.

I kinda like it, myself. The term was coined by a friend of mine, Dr. Aleksander Leonovitch Granin. Basically, the Metal Gear robot represents the "missing link" between infantry and artillery, kinda like the missing link between apes and humans.

I wouldn't have guessed that.

How do you plan on protecting it from whoever took those... [give him a moment to remember the name] Iron..man suits?

Not many people would have. The Metal Gear project is pretty revolutionary for it's time. So much so that Aleksander was made a bit of a laughingstock for his ideas, which he bequeathed to me.

Well, I'm gonna write control override software, and incorporate it into each robot, so that in the case that someone tries to directly interface with it to try and take control of it, I'll be able to shut it down myself. The control console that's going into the Outpost'll have one too, which I'll teach people to operate, if they want. If worst comes to absolute worst, each robot I'm gonna build has one critical weakness that can be exploited in armed combat. In the case of the CHRYSALIS, it's got a radome dish under it's right wing, which can be targeted and destroyed, essentially rendering it blind. From there, you just have to destroy the AI unit in order to completely disable it.

Hey, doc. No offense, but do you really think a robot like that can stand up against one of my suits? Forget interfacing, if they can blow it out of the sky, it's not going to do much of a job protecting anything.

Well, the CHRYSALIS is equipped with multiple missile launchers, a railgun, and a vulcan cannon, so it's not exactly defenseless. It can also launch small aerial drones equipped with a machine gun and a capture cable. It's also pretty quick in the air, able to change direction and move a lot more quickly than anything else in the air. At least, as of my time, anyway.

Maybe we should give it a test run? How long would it take you to build a remotely piloted version of one of your suits?

About five minutes from never. I don't trust drones. Too easy to mess with.

I can give it a live test, though.

Fair enough. A lot of my designs were originally meant to have a human pilot, but the project I was working on was mostly meant to test the threat adaptation of the AI units I was working with.

Are you sure? I mean...I don't want to hurt you or anything. I know what your suit's capable of, but I don't know how it'll stack up against your suit. To be honest, I've never had CHRYSALIS go up against an aerial target before. Maybe this'll be a good experience for me, so I can see how my designs work under different circumstances?

Well, on the plus side, I heard the stolen suits only go up to my Mark V.

I've got my Mark VII. So if it can handle this, it should be able to handle them.

On the bad side, if it can't... Well, I'll just try not to rough it up too much.

If nothing else, if your Mark VII suit can outclass my CHRYSALIS, I'll at least have something to go on for modifications, what improvements I can make so that it'll be a better match for those potential targets.

Don't worry about it too much. The AI pod aside, CHRYSALIS is pretty tough. All of my robots are built to withstand a nuclear blast, as they were meant to provide backup for the mobile nuclear launch platform I was co-developing before I came here.

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NUCLEAR BLASTS, YOU SAY? ]

....Huh.

I'll keep that in mind.

Yeah. It's not something I like to talk about much. The PEACE WALKER Project was supposed to be my proudest achievement, creating an unbeatable nuclear deterrent, with the PUPA, CHRYSALIS, and COCOON all backing it up, but control of the project was taken away from me. That's why I'm building so many redundancies into the robots I'm building now.

Did you...uhh...maybe want some technical readouts or schematics for what I'm building? I mean...I've shown them to some people, but you'd probably understand them better than most.

"Better than most?" I think you mean "better than anyone." But sure, I'll take a look.

Heh, yeah...you're probably right. Anyway...

[He plops down the technical schematics for Chrysalis, ZEKE, and REX into the journal for Tony's perusal.]

I figured Chrysalis would be mostly used for recon work, keep an eye on the Outpost from the sky, while ZEKE and REX keep watch from the ground, using both their size and armaments for intimidation. ZEKE's hip-mounted rocket boosters make it a lot quicker on land than it looks like it should be, which gives it an edge in a fight on the ground, and allows it to jump a pretty good distance, to get a better attack postion. It's also got a lot of exchangeable parts, so I can swap out different heads for different attack styles. REX on the other hand is all armor plating and brute force, meant to hunker down and withstand a lot of punishment before it retaliates.

[ And after he's looked at them for a second- ]

They seem a bit flashy, don't you think?

[ Pot? Kettle. ]

Heh, maybe a little, but that's kinda the point. I'm a pretty firm believer in deterrence theory, creating a weapon for intimidation, but not using it unless for retaliation. By making them big and scary and armed to the teeth like they are, they make anyone who'd think of attacking the Outpost or the Castle think twice. They're still a threat, obviously, but as much symbolic as functional.

[And he laughs.]

Besides, aren't you the one who dropped out of the sky in red and gold armor, blasting Black Sabbath for anyone with ears?

Okay. One, it was AC/DC. And two... I don't have a two. Touché.

Sorry, I got them mixed up. Before I came here, I'd spent the last few years working in Costa Rica, so I'm not as current on my pop culture as I wish I was.

Anyway, I think a certain amount of "flashy" can be a good thing, when it comes to certain types of weapons. I mean yeah, a quiet, stealthy weapon is good when your goal is to dispatch and enemy and be done with it, but if you're trying to prevent a conflict from occurring via intimidation, then the flashier the better, right?

Acknowledged. How long will it take to install?

I'm not exactly sure. I've never actually performed a procedure like this before. I mean...I'll have to open up your entire shoulder and pectoral area, since part of your pectoral muscle was perforated by that arrow. At a guess...it shouldn't take me longer than an hour to remove the old muscle and install the new, but then you need to lie still for another hour or so, so the adhesive I'll be using to fix it in place has time to set up. See, I'm not just replacing the muscle with this procedure, but the "tendons" and connecting tissue too.

Understood. What is an appropriate time for you, Dr. Emmerich?

Well, I've got a few errands to run today. Gotta have Colonel O'Neill test the weapons I made for him, and Aradia's asked for a demonstration of the aerial recon vehicle I've made for the Western Outpost, so maybe later on this evening?

Acknowledged. Later this evening is acceptable.

tavros got sent away a while ago :(
im not sure exactly when
but yeah id like to see that if its ready today
i have to head out tomorrow

Really? That's too bad. I liked Tavros, he was a good kid.

Oh sure, I think we could arrange something. I've asked the ghosts to widen the window in my room, so I can remote pilot Chrysalis out onto the grounds. I've mentioned that I've been working on it under a filter to everyone trustworthy, so hopefully we won't have too many people thinking that those Iron Man suits the natives have aren't attacking. I actually talked to Tony Stark, and he's agreed to run a few drills with Chrysalis, to see if it's up to snuff.

oh alright thatll be a good test
i got in a fight with him the other day and his suit has some decent firepower
anyway i can come up to your room where is it

Yeah, I happened to catch him when he came in on one of my Cypher aerial drones.

Oh, I'm up in 1509, in Pietas Tower. We can go up to the roof, and I can pilot Chrysalis out of my room from there, just so we can get a good look at it in flight.

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