Going to do the RP post here, since it is a solo post and needs no reply.
Oh! Schematics were fun! And easy for a genius like her. Forward thinking project. Simple! Mister Foresight Mark I! A helmet to let someone see exactly ten seconds into the future. She unrolled her paper and flopped down on the floor to start working. And she started designing it, tapping into the unique code of the city - as best she can read it...
But... somewhere along the process, the schematic changed. It came when she realized that just seeing the future wasn't enough. Rather than just being a helmet that let someone see, what about a robot that could see forward in time, but one that could process - thinking - what it saw, and act on it! Oh! That was good.
She wished she had a terminal to access the code for the time axis, since that wasn't something she could see as easily, and was different in every world. Without that, she had two choices. A short time, like seconds which was too close for anything but a battle reaction, or a robot that could see and process a time years in the future. She considered, then took the second route, working on the schematics.
What she had at the end was divine - as she was a Goddess, that was literal. The schematics were beautifully rendered, and detailed. Anyone with even a basic understanding of mechanical engineering could follow them and create this robot. It was like the blueprinting and building she and Belldandy did for that engine. If she had gone so far as to make the parts, whoever used them would have found them to be utterly perfect for fit and use. But she only made the schematic.
Which... was just as well. Because she didn't react well when someone pointed out a design flaw, and her design had a pretty major one. The robot could see years into the future, and think and plan to make changes. Except... that the future is fluid and always changing, and the sheer number of calculations the robot has to make for every change - including the ones it itself would make -to that future meant that sitting and thinking about what it saw was all that it ever could do. If built the robot would be a complete success - it could think about the future mathematically, and abstractly. It could decide on actions, see how those actions would change the future... but because there are so many variables, and because time does not pause while it calculates, the future it is seeing is also always moving forward, which means new variables are always being added. The robot would also be a complete failure - because it would sit and compute flawlessly until the end of time...and never stir from where it was built or placed. It would think about the future until time itself ceased, and never once act.
But of course... she didn't see that one flaw, and proud of her design, put it in the donation box, eager to get her hands on the tools and parts needed... to finally build Banpei.
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Oh! Schematics were fun! And easy for a genius like her. Forward thinking project. Simple! Mister Foresight Mark I! A helmet to let someone see exactly ten seconds into the future. She unrolled her paper and flopped down on the floor to start working. And she started designing it, tapping into the unique code of the city - as best she can read it...
But... somewhere along the process, the schematic changed. It came when she realized that just seeing the future wasn't enough. Rather than just being a helmet that let someone see, what about a robot that could see forward in time, but one that could process - thinking - what it saw, and act on it! Oh! That was good.
She wished she had a terminal to access the code for the time axis, since that wasn't something she could see as easily, and was different in every world. Without that, she had two choices. A short time, like seconds which was too close for anything but a battle reaction, or a robot that could see and process a time years in the future. She considered, then took the second route, working on the schematics.
What she had at the end was divine - as she was a Goddess, that was literal. The schematics were beautifully rendered, and detailed. Anyone with even a basic understanding of mechanical engineering could follow them and create this robot. It was like the blueprinting and building she and Belldandy did for that engine. If she had gone so far as to make the parts, whoever used them would have found them to be utterly perfect for fit and use. But she only made the schematic.
Which... was just as well. Because she didn't react well when someone pointed out a design flaw, and her design had a pretty major one. The robot could see years into the future, and think and plan to make changes. Except... that the future is fluid and always changing, and the sheer number of calculations the robot has to make for every change - including the ones it itself would make -to that future meant that sitting and thinking about what it saw was all that it ever could do. If built the robot would be a complete success - it could think about the future mathematically, and abstractly. It could decide on actions, see how those actions would change the future... but because there are so many variables, and because time does not pause while it calculates, the future it is seeing is also always moving forward, which means new variables are always being added. The robot would also be a complete failure - because it would sit and compute flawlessly until the end of time...and never stir from where it was built or placed. It would think about the future until time itself ceased, and never once act.
But of course... she didn't see that one flaw, and proud of her design, put it in the donation box, eager to get her hands on the tools and parts needed... to finally build Banpei.