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[Happerry]

Jorg 'Bass Line' Jorgenson
Deployment Zone: BitMines
Chip Folder,
- Stunbolt [1]
- Stunbolt [1]
- Stunbolt [1]
- Recovery 10 [1]
- MinionCall A [1]
- MinionCall A [1]
- BlueFiend.mon [4]
- DramaticSpotlight [ 0 ]
- InvokeSoundtrack [ 0 ]

See the Battle Report in the core thread.

Aria
Deployment Zone: [REDACTED] Penninsula
Chip Folder,
- Missile I [1]
- Missile I [1]
- Missile I [1]
- Missile I [1]
- Missile I [1]
- Missile I [1]
- Missile I [1]
- Missile I [1]
- MinionCall A [1]
- MinionCall A [1]
- DramaticSpotlight [ 0 ]
- InvokeSoundtrack [ 0 ]

Executing a long ranged insecure transfer jump, the first Sonata-ian forces materialize over the deceptively peaceful waves of the [REDACTED] Penninsula. Consisting mainly of Mobile Assault Stages at this point along with the normal crew-loads of Plain Jane.exe programs, the first assault wave goes in to establish a beachhead and a secure base for mustering further forces. Opposistion is encountered even before the first stage reaches the beach, as sharks with cyborg head lasers contribute anti-air fire from the waves below, robot seagulls drop explosive eggs on the Stages or swoop down while spinning into a stage destroying drill. One entire swath of Mobile Assault Stages are swallowed whole by a great white whale wearing an eyepatch before they can travel beyond their spawn point to the shallow waters, even.

Of course, the Stagehand forces don't just sit there and let themselves be picked off. Plain Jane.exe soldiers fire their arm mounted Mega-Pulsers at the robotic avians as they use their rapid fire functionality to emulate proper AA capacities, and the Assault Stages fire their missiles down at the sharks below, if to somewhat mixed effect. The Fisher-Jane.exe programs are more successful against the sharks with their rocket harpoon strikes, but their slow rate of fire and inability to fire through the floor of the Assault Stages without destroying their own rides limits the extent of the success. Aria's missile battlechips, on the other hand, have no such issues and due vastly more damage, allowing entire schools of the sharks to be scattered or destroyed per shot, and the sheer number of missile battle chips she carries allows their use to effectively screen the entire force, gathered as it is. For despite this resistance to the landing forces, under the advanced guidance of the Colette.ISQ Idoloids the invasion force reaches the beach as a mutually reinforcing air-convoy. Of invasion.

Strangely, the high resistance levels shown upon the Stagehand's initial entrance to this zone resistance falls away as the forces reach the beach. Soon after making landfall, the Janes are exploring the picturesque beach houses seen upon the shoreline and finding them apparently long abandoned. So too does the rest of the Peninsula seem as Stagehand forces spread across the sandy surface.

Despite her puzzlement at this fact, Aria's forces soon finish up making initial base facilities upon said sandy surface, allowing for consistent reinforcement and resupply efforts to be maintained. However, the data-crunchers set up in the bases (taking the form of expansive rings of standing stone, through which the virtual starlight is filtered through in search of datum of value) reveal the forces have barely scratched the surface of this zone...

Looking again upon the sea and the fierce resistance shown there, Aria has a thought. Where did all the seabirds go? The numbers they showed over the ocean were not small, but there's none here. No nests were found. And if they aren't here... they must be somewhere else. Somewhere like... underwater. Especially given the old rumors of under-water mad science bases.

(Before additional territory can be taken in this zone, some way of functioning under water must be found.)

+1 Control in the [REDACTED] Peninsula for the Stagehands.

[Failbird105]

Regular Designs:

Viri Design: Air Raid Siren.Exe
Another source of inspiration taken from the creatures of the Sea of Recycling. The Air Raid Siren is a cybernetic mermaid-type viri, its body fully metallic except for a bare midsection, and its face is an LCD screen with a pair of simple colored circles for eyes and a speaker upon the mouth-plate. Taking inspiration from the Dutchman it swims through the air or water with the help of two pairs of small jet turbines. In combat, they fight with two specific weapons.

The first is wave-like trios of Musical projectiles they can fire from their frontal speakers, which are unaffected by gravity, simply travelling straight forward until a collision. Of note, this weapon can be fired from multiple speakers at once, allowing for large clusters of attacks that are more difficult to avoid.

The second is a Music pulse attack, made by tweaking the Sakura's healing pulse to simply have a basic damage effect, and something manually triggered rather than automatic. Generated from a series of speakers on their torso, this attack deals low damage in a radius around them. The damage of this weapon is barely enough to be worth noting against anything greater than your average Minion, but the fact that it is a pulse wave rather than a projectile means it can hit everything in that radius at once. Essentially, this can be considered a self-defense weapon to protect against the enemy Wyrms mid-flight, but projectiles vulnerable to being shot-down can be readily dispersed by it as well.

They aren't perfect though of course. In terms of durability, they're more comparable to our normal Minions than our Defenders or even our Janes, and being a flying unit they are... not exactly the most effective in underground areas or other similar tight places.

Viri Design: Hunts-Jane.exe
An attempt at specializing an extra mobile viri. The Hunts-Jane units wield a compound bow with a string that appears made of energy. No arrows need to be nocked into this bow, instead when the string is pulled a deadly energy arrow manifests. This arrow reads the target of the Hunts-Jane and, when fired, tracks that target down. The bodies of these Janes meanwhile, are designed to be swift, nimble, and lithe. They are faster and more agile than other Janes, able to cross greater distances and rougher terrain with far more ease.

This does all come at a cost of course. For their bow the arrows have a limited range, only being able to lock on to targets out to medium range, and seeking out the nearest enemy in range to wherever the Hunts-Jane is looking if their intended target is too far away. Meanwhile their nimbler, faster bodies have a moderately reduced durability, closer to our Minions that to other Janes. The Hunts-Janes will be focused on avoiding getting hit in the first place over surviving the hits they take.

In terms of aesthetic, the design team has decided on a sort of futuristic hunter look. The bulky standard armor parts(aside from the helmet and chestpiece) are replaced with a tight full-body suit. And a large, scope-like eyepiece has been added to the right side of the helmets faceplate. This eyepiece is purely aesthetic of course, as is the Scarf wrapped around their necks and flowing over their shoulder, the trailing part of which possesses functional cloth physics but no collision so as to remove the possibility of any mishaps caused by the scarf getting caught on things.

Viri Design: Highway Jane.exe
A project to make a sort of 'elite soldier'. We do of course have Templars and Officers, which do kind of qualify, but they're both rather different things. The Highway Janes carry an elongated pulse gun, one that carries a sci-fi look but doesn't quite give away whether it is a shotgun or a rifle. This is because it is technically both.

Under normal circumstances the weapon is a shotgun, firing a fixed spread of five potent pulse shots in a five-point star pattern. However, the weapon can be 'charged'. Charging the weapon gradually tightens the spread further and further until, at max charge, they become a single shot firing perfectly straight for great distances. In this way, they are able to switch between rifle fire and shotgun fire.

The costs to this come in a decreased fire rate for the shotgun mode(and an even worse one for the rifle mode considering charge time) and that the rifle mode doesn't possess the full power of all five shots. Trading damage for far greater precision and distance.

In terms of aesthetic, the Highway Jane has a sort of cowboy(or possibly Bandit) style outfit. A vest, a long brown jacket open at the front, fingerless leather gloves over their gauntlet hands, simple blue pants, and cowboy boots. And to top it all off, atop their head rests a 10 gallon hat.

Viri Design: Hive.bat
The idea of a Viri that can create other lesser Viri is one that has been bounced around among Stagehand coders for quite some time. So, it felt only natural to actually attempt work on a prototype. The Hive.bat is a sort of angular pod, about as tall as a minion and a bit over half that in width, supported on six crab-like legs. In place of claws, it possesses a pair of Mega-Pulsers.

Its core functionality however, is that every few seconds it spawns what we call a "Hivedrone.exe" These drones are small, incredibly fragile Viri, they could be compared, in essence, to flying Pulse Pistols. Each Hive is capable of supporting a total of 20 of these Hivedrones, and while weak individually, we imagine their numbers will help make up for it.

Viri Design: Mother.brood
The idea of a Viri that can create other lesser Viri is one that has been bounced around among Stagehand coders for quite some time. So, it felt only natural to actually attempt work on a prototype. Mother.brood is a large, insectoid Viri, crawling on six legs, with a pair of simple Mega-Pulsers within its mouth. Within its abdomen, it is capable of slowly producing what we call Minion.brood.

Minion.brood is little different from the default Minion.exe program. Indeed, the only true difference is aesthetic. Possessing a slimier, more insectoid, and over-all grosser look than the default Minion.exe program. Mother.brood can produce these lesser viri once every 10 seconds, and is capable of maintaining about 6 of them at a time, ceasing to produce new Minions until one of the existing six have died.

This, in essence, means that the Mother.brood can act somewhat like an autonomous version of the basic summoning battle chips, bolstering our forces continuously for attack or defense, even if only by small amounts comparatively.

Bonus Designs

Viri Design: Bitbold.Mon
It didn't take long for us to single out the biggest problems we were going to have trying to go into the Bitmines. The first, of course, is that our primary method of transporting units simply doesn't work here. There's no room for our stages to fly. The second, is that we are fully restricted by the terrain around us while our enemy is not

Firmament Tunnelers allow them to carve new tunnels as needed rather than being restrained to the already existing paths. So, taking inspiration from them, we need something to allow us to do the same. It is quite the feat, then, that we were able to find such a thing. Through a series of small tunnels, we located a village of native Viri. Possibly from before the mass exploitation of this region began, these "kobold" type Viri dwelled in a single small village tucked away in an open, untouched cavern pocket. Small and (as our designers professed loudly almost immediately upon sight) adorable humanoids with an appearance somewhere between rat and reptile.

We have brought these Bitbolds to our cause, and equipped them for combat. They have been armored to match with our defenders durability, and equipped with a weapon. Specifically a large drill, which must be wielded with two hands. This drill serves two purposes. First is that it allows them to tunnel through the digital terrain. Secondly is that, in close ranges, it will utterly shred through enemies with its whirling drill-head doing constant damage.

Over all, these Bitbolds are rather lacking in exceptional weaknesses, but this is made up by the fact that they also do not have much in the way of strengths compared to our existing Templars aside from their ability to dig. In essence, this is us doing what we believe to be exercising caution with the scope of our work.

Idoloid MDL 03 - Zenobia.ISQ
Seeing the enemy Wako.mon in action has revealed to us a critical failing in our armory. All of our actual damage comes from things that we cannot rely on in all battlefields or at all times. Missiles? Limited both in number and by the Hackers current attention, not to mention awkward to use in tight or cluttered spaces. Stages? Big and aerial, impossible to use underground and hard to fit in tight spaces. ADIs? One of a kind. We need firepower that can be readily available within our forces. So we looked at the Wako, and took some inspiration.

Zenobia is our third and newest Idoloid model and presents something of a departure from the previous two. While no less capable an officer than the Sakura(and perhaps more capable of one considering she is not devoting her resources to any exotic healing effect) the Zenobia Idoloid is a heavily combat focused unit. With great physical strength beyond any unit we've fielded to date and durability exceeding a Defender or Templar, they are mighty warriors first and foremost.

Zenobia Idoloids appearance and capabilities would, at first glance, lead one to assume they are melee units. While certainly they can hold their own in a close up fight due to their excellent overall combat AI 'borrowed' from bosses of the notoriously difficult Black Spirits game franchise, they actually are at their best at a distance. Zenobias wield a proportionally massive bow for their large size, and equally enormous arrows. With their incredible strength they can draw and fire arrows with the force to leave holes in a Mobile Assault Stage. Of course, the scale of these weapons does make them hard to use in close combat, meaning that when foes close the gap in battle, they instead forgo their bows and wield one of their arrows as a spear.

Standing more than twice the height of a Jane and built like a brick house, Zenobia possesses an amazonian physique and an intimidating garb that blends more common "Crush my head between your thighs" "tribal" Amazoness depictions and more practical heavy armor, leading to a look both Wild and Disciplined in equal measure. A set of proceduraly generated scars mark their bodies and wild brown hair cascades over their back and shoulders, as their war-torn and fur-lined armor shines.

The main drawback of the Zenobia Idoloid is that, simply put, all that power and skill takes a lot of code, rendering them Complex out of necessity. While Sakuras could be fielded in enough numbers to form significant squads, We cannot field many more Zenobias than we could Colettes. In addition, their trend for seeking out 'Worthy Opponents' means they have a tendency to forgo orders to pick off more key units such as commanders or transports in favor of dueling with similarly powerful units to themselves or attempting to 'hunt' enemy ADIs as though they were great beasts.

Bonus Applicable Designs
Bitbold.Mon: (1) Failbird
Idoloid MDL 03 - Zenobia.ISQ: (1) Failbird

Not Bonus Applicable Designs
Air Raid Siren.Exe: ()
Hunts-Jane.exe: ()
Highway Jane.exe: ()
Hive.bat: ()
Mother.brood: ()

[m1895]

Bonus Applicable Designs
Bitbold.Mon: (2) Failbird, m1895
Idoloid MDL 03 - Zenobia.ISQ: (2) Failbird, m1895

Not Bonus Applicable Designs
Air Raid Siren.Exe: ()
Hunts-Jane.exe: ()
Highway Jane.exe: ()
Hive.bat: ()
Mother.brood: ()

[Failbird105]

Bonus Applicable Designs
Bitbold.Mon: (3) Failbird, m1895 , Doomblade
Idoloid MDL 03 - Zenobia.ISQ: (3) Failbird, m1895, Doomblade

Not Bonus Applicable Designs
Air Raid Siren.Exe: ()
Hunts-Jane.exe: ()
Highway Jane.exe: ()
Hive.bat: ()
Mother.brood: ()

A proxy vote was requested on Discord

[Happerry]

Turn 8 : Design Phase

Viri Design: Bitbold.Mon
It didn't take long for us to single out the biggest problems we were going to have trying to go into the Bitmines. The first, of course, is that our primary method of transporting units simply doesn't work here. There's no room for our stages to fly. The second, is that we are fully restricted by the terrain around us while our enemy is not

Firmament Tunnelers allow them to carve new tunnels as needed rather than being restrained to the already existing paths. So, taking inspiration from them, we need something to allow us to do the same. It is quite the feat, then, that we were able to find such a thing. Through a series of small tunnels, we located a village of native Viri. Possibly from before the mass exploitation of this region began, these "kobold" type Viri dwelled in a single small village tucked away in an open, untouched cavern pocket. Small and (as our designers professed loudly almost immediately upon sight) adorable humanoids with an appearance somewhere between rat and reptile.

We have brought these Bitbolds to our cause, and equipped them for combat. They have been armored to match with our defenders durability, and equipped with a weapon. Specifically a large drill, which must be wielded with two hands. This drill serves two purposes. First is that it allows them to tunnel through the digital terrain. Secondly is that, in close ranges, it will utterly shred through enemies with its whirling drill-head doing constant damage.

Over all, these Bitbolds are rather lacking in exceptional weaknesses, but this is made up by the fact that they also do not have much in the way of strengths compared to our existing Templars aside from their ability to dig. In essence, this is us doing what we believe to be exercising caution with the scope of our work.

2 + 2 - 0 = 4 : Below average (Normal)

Inspired mainly by parallel use instead of parallel function, the new Bitbold.Mon is, unlike the Firmament's Tunneler.exe MKII, not a three wheeled vehicle though it is equipped with a similar (looking) drill. Using this drill they are capable of tunneling through even hard to tunnel through substances, though speed at tunneling through bedrock code or other similar substances may suffer. Being adapted from monsters whom themselves were adapted to tunneling they also have sufficient integrated senses to allow the Bitbold.Mon programs to (mostly) accurately navigate underground, at least through short to mid-short ranged distances, without getting lost. However despite these successes certain design issues have arisen with the Bitbold's design goals. First off, while they have been given a certain level of light armor the necessity of carrying a two handed mining drill prevents them from carrying a tower shield, the item from which a large amount of the Defender's durability comes from. As such while they won't die instantly when exposed to combat, their defensive stat levels are much closer to that of the original Minion.exe program then they are to the Defender's good level of not-dying levels. Secondly, while their mining drill is a relatively potent melee weapon the combination of the Bitbold's small stature along with the mining drill's two handed nature has made it a somewhat unwieldy weapon when they attempt to use it on enemies. Combined with the Bitbold's relative lack of defensive power and it must be recommend that they stay out of direct combat. The other issue of note is that there can sometimes be a certain level of difficulty in properly planning dig patterns on the hacker's side of things, and it is suggested that a custom UI or specialized command form might be looked into to make coordination of larger scale or more complicated tunneling efforts a simpler affair.

Lastly, and less importantly, when not being supervised they have a tendency to dig into the surrounding landscape and construct a nest of twisting tunnels, all alike, sized appropriately for their own use but too small for use by most other programs in use by the Stagehands within which they while reside in. While not an enormous issue, this habit can complicate base and infrastructure construction.

Turn 8 : Design Phase

Idoloid MDL 03 - Zenobia.ISQ
Seeing the enemy Wako.mon in action has revealed to us a critical failing in our armory. All of our actual damage comes from things that we cannot rely on in all battlefields or at all times. Missiles? Limited both in number and by the Hackers current attention, not to mention awkward to use in tight or cluttered spaces. Stages? Big and aerial, impossible to use underground and hard to fit in tight spaces. ADIs? One of a kind. We need firepower that can be readily available within our forces. So we looked at the Wako, and took some inspiration.

Zenobia is our third and newest Idoloid model and presents something of a departure from the previous two. While no less capable an officer than the Sakura(and perhaps more capable of one considering she is not devoting her resources to any exotic healing effect) the Zenobia Idoloid is a heavily combat focused unit. With great physical strength beyond any unit we've fielded to date and durability exceeding a Defender or Templar, they are mighty warriors first and foremost.

Zenobia Idoloids appearance and capabilities would, at first glance, lead one to assume they are melee units. While certainly they can hold their own in a close up fight due to their excellent overall combat AI 'borrowed' from bosses of the notoriously difficult Black Spirits game franchise, they actually are at their best at a distance. Zenobias wield a proportionally massive bow for their large size, and equally enormous arrows. With their incredible strength they can draw and fire arrows with the force to leave holes in a Mobile Assault Stage. Of course, the scale of these weapons does make them hard to use in close combat, meaning that when foes close the gap in battle, they instead forgo their bows and wield one of their arrows as a spear.

Standing more than twice the height of a Jane and built like a brick house, Zenobia possesses an amazonian physique and an intimidating garb that blends more common "Crush my head between your thighs" "tribal" Amazoness depictions and more practical heavy armor, leading to a look both Wild and Disciplined in equal measure. A set of proceduraly generated scars mark their bodies and wild brown hair cascades over their back and shoulders, as their war-torn and fur-lined armor shines.

The main drawback of the Zenobia Idoloid is that, simply put, all that power and skill takes a lot of code, rendering them Complex out of necessity. While Sakuras could be fielded in enough numbers to form significant squads, We cannot field many more Zenobias than we could Colettes. In addition, their trend for seeking out 'Worthy Opponents' means they have a tendency to forgo orders to pick off more key units such as commanders or transports in favor of dueling with similarly powerful units to themselves or attempting to 'hunt' enemy ADIs as though they were great beasts.

4 + 3 - 1 = 6 : Above average (Hard)

Even with forsaking the advanced elemental conversion coding and the rudimentary integrated healing routines of the Sakura, it's a matter of relief for the coding team that they are allowed to use high-complexity level production and stabilization methods in the Zenobia Idoloid program. Most of the team's coding effort for this project goes to programming in the dense muscle coding that gives the Zenobia Idoloids their great physical strength, though this is by no means the only task they undertake. Other tasks they find themselves completing during this project is taking the combat AI for the (in)famous Black Spirits game and stripping out useful information from it to form a tactical library that the Zenobia model is equipped with, rendering it surprisingly lethal in melee combat, as well as programming in the grandbow and arrows that the Zenobia Idoloids use as weapons. It is noted that the sheer size of these weapons, and the fact that the Black Spirits game doesn't have to worry about the players weapons bouncing off the landscape, means that the Zenobia is a bit less useful then desired in tight quarters... or in battlefields that lack wide open areas for them to shoot people from afar, but that goes without saying for a ranged unit design. Or it should at least, but someone had to say it anyway.

While the Zenobia Idoloids still have all of the Sakura model's officer coding, the large personal combat tactics library tends to take up enough of their mental processing power, combined with their common position behind the front line of battle to properly use their bows, makes them only act as officers infrequently. This isn't helped by their tendency to target fixate on 'worthy targets', a tendency apparently caused by the integration of the Black Spirits data and encouraged by a few programmers who found it in theme. Still, they're lethal and powerful and functional, and able to shoot a flying stage from a fair distance away. That's probably good enough, at least in the coding team's opinion.

It is Turn 8, in the Revision Phase. During this phase you must vote on what revision to do to your current assets. During this Revision Phase you get two revisions, but one must be in theme for an area you fought in during the last combat phase.

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

Hackers
Jorg Jörgenson
A thoughtful and methodical hacker that prioritizes force preservation and defense area control, the Bass Line plays for long term advantages as he shapes the battlefield into one incremental advantage after another until it grants him victory. He prefers melee designs over long ranged combat, and his preference for force preservation biases him away from the more fragile viruses whatever their range. He also has a deft hand with territory effecting battlechips that allow him to get more out of them then others would, and substantial experience with using defensive and supportive function battlechips.

Aria
Aria is a relatively new hacker, but Aria's loyalty to Sonata's Stagehands is undoubted. They have a talent with long ranged bombardment by both battlechip and virus, as well as other brute force destruction applications, which is substantial enough to result in their appointment as one of Sonata's Stagehands' field commanders. This plays well with their similar, if lesser, talent with fixed defenses. They have been noticed to have problems with giving the enemy the initiative and not noticing when said foe is doing something sneaky. While less notable, their relative inexperience as a hacker can sometimes cause them trouble in contested data spheres verses a more experienced foe.

Viri
Minion.exe
These roughly humanoid programs are neither very sophisticated (intelligence and coding wise) or very strong, but they are mass producible and smart enough to obey orders without continual direct supervision. Which isn't always something you can take for granted with generic digital constructs, as a lot of them are dumber then rocks. They're not coded with anything more powerful then a basic energy pulse pistol, but they can still defeat the average civilian whom thinks too much of themselves. Just avoid putting them up against Data Police Agents. (Simple - Obsolete)

Plain Jane.exe
A Plain Jane is a roughly humanoid program based on, but improved from, the Minion.exe standardized cannon fodder in use by most serious internet factions in one format or another. Physically they are taller and more slender then the standardized minion body, as well as being vaguely feminine, with a face shrouding helmet and relatively generic armor units. However the most important differences inherent in the Plain Jane are in their foundational structure, which is pre-designed for versatility and integration efficiency with currently non-functional or non-developed upgrade projects and alternate equipment loadouts, allowing them to be more easily adapted into new variants. The improved foundations also increase their functionality over an upgraded Minion.exe's values, if not as much as a dedicated upgrade to those areas would result in. Like the basic Minion.exe, the standardized base template of the Plain Jane.exe is armed with a basic energy pulse pistol.

Due to later revision-tier efforts, the Plain Jane is now equipped with a 'Mega-Pulser' brand arm cannon, which possesses basic rapid fire functionality and a charged shot function that, while successfully charging to the first scale, requires a cooldown time after use before the weapon can function at even the base level again. As the Mega-Pulser no longer takes an abnormal amount of time to charge up, charged shots will now be used to a limited degree in general combat with a focus on using them against enemies too resistant to damage for normal fire to damage them. (Simple)

SwordyMinion.exe
The normal baseline minion, adapted to use a sword instead of a pistol. They're no smarter and only a little tougher then a normal minion, but the sword is a stronger weapon then the pistol so it's somewhat more deadly. As long as it can get into melee range that is, as it no longer has the pistol. It will try to stab any enemy projectiles that come to close to it, allowing greater survivability rates then would otherwise be expected as long as the projectiles being shot at it are the kind you can stab.
(Simple)

Defender.exe
An enlarged minion with a continually active siren mounted on its helm and bearing a giant tower shield with more flashing lights and what looks like an impressively large gun array integrated into said shield's surface, this virus is a natural first target for anyone attacking a group that it is in. Which is the point. Not actually armed any more well then a normal minion, but with noticeably integrated code-buffering and a shield formed from active denial firewall lattice coding, the Defender is well equipped to be a remarkably sturdy, for its rating, distraction. It's attention getting features have now been upgraded with an off switch, and Officers have some light scripting telling them when to turn said attention getting features on or off. For example, when sneaking, keep them off. This makes them much simpler to transport.

Due to later revision-tier efforts, the Defender.exe is now equipped with a 'Mega-Pulser' brand arm cannon, which possesses basic rapid fire functionality and a charged shot function that, while successfully charging to the first scale, requires a cooldown time after use before the weapon can function at even the base level again. However the Defender is not programmed to use the Charged Shots, and will only use them when commanded to by an officer-function unit.
(Simple)

Templar.exe
An alternate version of the Defender that's been given a sword instead of a charge pistol and upgraded with a moderate-low level skill library for sword and shield fighting. They still have the reinforced structure, shield, and siren of the Defender, and also like the Defender the Templar's siren can be turned on and off. Sadly, it does not have a flaming shield and sword.
(Simple)

Officer.exe
Based on the generally available in the Undernet Minion programs, Officer.exe constructs aren't much stronger then their lesser kin, still only coded with a basic energy pulse pistol, though officers also come with basic melee coding. But the big difference between and Officer and a Minion is that Officers are coded with noticeably more advanced bit-brains and have a basic tactical library integrated in their knowledge banks, allowing them to lead teams of Minions on operations without needing constant hand holding.

Since the start of the war, they've been revised with slightly enlarged tactical libraries and an improved ability to both identify enemy officers and commanders and figure out which officers on their own side are doing the best, and therefor should be listened to more. They have also been equipped with a 'Mega-Pulser' brand arm cannon, which possesses basic rapid fire functionality and a charged shot function that, while successfully charging to the first scale, takes longer then desired to charge and requires a cooldown time after use before the weapon can function at even the base level again. As well, their tactical libraries have been upgraded to allow them to command other units to use charged shots if the unit in question is not normally programmed to, which they can apply to themselves to get themselves to use charged shots. (Complicated)

Idoloid MDL 01 - Sakura.ISQ
A combination of crude and sophisticated coding, the Idoloid MDL 01 - Sakura.ISQ is attuned to the Music Element, and uses said element to both release regular (close ranged) bursts of healing for friendly units and as the energy type her attacks count as. They are armed with an immensely large syringe they use (crudely) as a spear and as a launching point for slightly weaker then normal pistol shot projectiles. They are also coded to act as officers, and are about equal to existing officers in command skill but make the decisions faster, giving them an advantage in tempo and reaction speed. Defensively they are neither tougher nor weaker then a normal officer, baring elemental interactions.

As Stagehand Hackers currently find their currently minimal healing ability more useful then their command ability, they have not yet made officers obsolete.
(Complicated)

Fisher-Jane.exe
A variant of the Plain Jane that uses harpoons sourced from the Dutchman.mon ADI, if at a lesser quality level. They use a ripped off and simplified copy of the Dutchman.mon's melee library for melee combat, and also include the ability to 'Rocket Throw' their harpoons as a ranged attack though this requires the time and energy expenditure of a normal stage one charged shot to be used. Or they can just throw their harpoons normally if for less effect. The necessity for integrated replication abilities of the harpoon and its relatively advanced coding render this version of the Jane complicated. (Complicated)

Bitbold.Mon
A program that has an avatar as a small humanoid with an appearance somewhere between rat and reptile. Bitbolds are lightly armored while being armed with a somewhat unwieldy two handed heavy mining drill, which while it can do a lot of damage on sustained contact with a foe is not something advised to be used in combat. They are generally capable miners over the short to medium short scale though they can be slowed by tough substances, and coordinating large or more complicated digging attempts is something of a hassle on their overseers part. They tend to attempt to hide when combat breaks out, and during their spare time will dig themselves a nest of twisting tunnels, sized for them but not other programs, to hide within. (Complicated - Often de facto higher due to their narrow applicable application)

Idoloid MDL 02 - Colette.ISQ
An advanced command-specialized Idoloid with the first glimmers of self-adaption included. While the Colette model depends more on a very large pre-constructed library of tactical and strategic 'lego pieces' with which to construct their plans, they do have a (very limited and slow) ability to construct their own 'lego pieces' to adapt to enemies, situations, and environments that they are currently unable to adapt. Despite that ability, said adaption is so slow that to get a viable set of plan components multiple major battles will probably be needed if programmer assistance is not forthcoming. Their non-command abilities are fairly limited, consisting of basic sword fighting skill for their equipped rapier and an instruction set for conducting an orchestra if such a task is ever needed. Beyond their superior ability to put together plans of varied scale, they also think faster then normal officers by re-using certain portions of superior Idoloid MDL 01 coding which allows them to come to command decisions faster then would otherwise be expected. (Complex)

Lesser Lasard.Mon
The Lesser Lasard.Mon is a cyborg theropod with joint locking legs and a counterweight tail to provide a stable firing position for the heavy repeating charge gun that makes up the Lasard's upper jaw. This cannon fires shots somewhat stronger then a potential charged shot from the charge pistols basic minions use, and can also charge up itself to fire a very powerful splash damage shot of ball lightning through use of the Thunder Element, though this drains the Lasard's power such that it needs a few minutes to recharge. The Lasard can also unleash a melee ranged lightning shockwave, though this is far weaker and still drains the Lasard, but its only other decent melee option is hitting things with its tail. The Lasard 'sees' with two strips of electrically sensitive materials mounted on its flanks, and can therefor blind itself when it uses its shockwave. Despite the Lasard's use of electricity, the unit as a whole is not elementally attuned. (Complex)

Mobile Assault Stage v2
A large flying stage with two of the speaker arrays replaced with missile launchers and handrails around the edges to keep passengers from falling off. It's piloted by a minion who's been fused directly with the singer's podium, but still controls the stage with hand controls. Like the missile battlechip, if the Stage's missiles are deflected they'll often lock onto a friendly unit, usually the stage that fired them. The Mobile Assault Stage is capable of carrying a little over twenty minions at a time, or thirty if you pack them on really tightly, enough to interfere with their ability to do anything until they get off the stage. (Complex)

Mobile Assault Stage - Sensory & Manipulation Model - Passion
A redesign of the Mobile Assault Stage that replaces the majority of the deck space with sensory equipment to allow for sniper ranged sensor scans, removes the missile launchers, and replaces the pilot with a Passion model Idoloid which has exceedingly enlarged hands and a somewhat enlarged upper abdomen to go with its overall size increase, and replaces said pilot's long ranged communication gear with dedicated sensor control coding. While this leaves the 'Passion' Model of the Mobile Assault Stage completely useless in direct combat it can now provide valuable informational support and still has the 'floor space' to carry around seven minions on what open floor space it retains. Given the lack of long ranged com gear, normally there's an Officer.exe permanently stationed on the S&M Model to allow for relaying the sensor intake to the command network.
(Complex -> Effectively Exceedingly Complex)

Idoloid MDL 03 - Zenobia.ISQ
A large amazon themed Idoloid armed with an equally large bow and a set of spear sized arrows. They are capable ranged fighters, able to fire their heavy arrows with good accuracy at long ranged if with somewhat slow firing speed, and are also able to use their arrows as spears in melee combat though they are hampered in doing such by tight quarters. They are just as good officers as the Sakura.ISQ (as of turn , but between their normal positioning as ranged support units and their tendency to target fixate on 'worthy foes' they do not commonly act as officers. They also have quite impressive physical strength and a complex personal tactical combat library created by ripping boss data from the infamous Black Spirits game franchise. (Complex)

Marksman.exe
A buggy mess of a minion variant with a non-functional charged shot sniper rifle with no normal shot mode and who's charged shot only works one in three times, is intensely fragile, and has a non-working advanced ballistic calculator and target value calculator. All this would be bad enough even if the virus didn't only shoot at targets they're directly ordered to shoot without having the Officers programmed to order them to shoot. (Exceedingly Complex)

Autonomous Digital Intelligence
BlueFiend.mon
An upside down floating pyramid surrounded by an oozelike substance that is manipulated into varied body parts and coverings, born of an experiment into self adapting programs. BlueFiend uses this material as armor, tools, and weapons alike, as well as a large degree of personal strength. It tends to prefer melee combat, but is not limited to it, and prefers to communicate in sign language and/or charades. Interestingly, BlueFiend has once or twice shown the ability to entirely liquefy itself, but the rarity of when and hesitance with which it employs this ability suggests some sort of major limiting factor to it. (Memory 4)

Dutchman.mon
A great flying white whale with a pair of naval artillery cannons, a whip tail with a heavy anchor on the end, and a bloody obvious blue glow and smokestack. The Dutchman.mon, despite the use of man in the name, also comes with a female avatar/twin formed from one of Sonata's lost shards of data with noticeable, if less then BlueFiend.mon's, physical prowess and skill with her equipped polearm. The shard-avatar also has a level of command and tactical/strategic skill as scavenged from an Idoloid MDL 02 - Colette.ISQ, allowing her to serve as a command unit if needed. (Memory 4)

Battle Chips
Recovery 10
This tactical battle chip is designed to mend damaged and corrupted code, healing the individual it is applied to by a minor amount. (Simple, Memory 1)

Atk+10
This tactical battle chip pre-allocates resources to empower the next program used, improving the targets ability to deal damage for a short while. (Simple, Memory 1)

MinionCall A
This strategic battle chip creates temporary replicas of the commonly known ‘Minion.exe’ program, causing a short term burst of reinforcements in the targeted zone. (Simple, Memory 1)

Stunbolt
A tactical battle chip that releases a bolt of electricity into the target, which then paralyzes the target until the excess electricity dissipates. This chip is elementally attuned to the element of Thunder. (Simple, Memory 1)

Missile I
The Missile I is a strategic battlechip that effectively fires a decently powerful cruise missile at a chosen target. The missile plays an annoying MeTube speech the entire flight and will not explode before it hits something that's not the ground or a wall, resulting in it almost always hitting the target when it doesn't loose control over itself by bouncing off the ground nosecone over tail, which tends to make it go flying off into the void. Has an annoying issue where, if deflected, it will often lock onto a friendly target instead of going back after the original target. (Complicated, Memory 1)

DramaticSpotlight
This chip combines an environmental influence effect with a protective barrier, it... well, look, it lets you summon a dramatic spotlight to spotlight your avatar or an ADI and includes enough defensive shielding to let you do a (short) dramatic speech or pithy comment without anyone being able to do anything about it. The defenses fail if you move or attack however, and only last a short moment, but it's quite good for making a memorable introduction. (Simple, Memory 0)

InvokeSoundtrack
A battlechip that invokes a soundtrack, using advanced environmental sensors to analyze the zone that the Hacker or the Hacker's Proxies are in and play appropriate music for where they are and what the current events are. Some would swear it has a better detection rate for hidden surprises then anything else in Sonata's Arsenal, but it also has a deeply encoded priority for dramatic timing, and therefor the dramatic chords only begin to play when the surprise is about to be sprung on you anyway. (Simple, Memory 0)

[Failbird105]

Viri Revision: Bitbold Foremen
The Bitbolds aren't truly fit to fight. This is fine frankly, we do not need them to engage in battle when they can simply act on their more supportive role as diggers. The problem lies in the fact that there are issues in that area as well. Not only are tunnels much harder to plan out than simple land or air paths, but the Bitbolds have a tendency to get distracted and occupy themselves when not being busied. Fortunately however, we've found a way to minimize the first issue, and quite possibly make use of the second.

You see, while parsing through the code of these wild viri, we found (currently) unused code for a sort of "alpha" variant. This variant, which we've titled the Foreman, doesn't have much going for it compared to normal Bitbolds, other than naturally drawing the base variants deference. That's where we come in. We have essentially spliced the tactical and command libraries of our Officers into these Bitbold Foremen, making a sort of natural leader for our digging crews.

The Foremen have all the natural tunneling and underground pathing skills of the Bitbolds, but with the intelligence and tactical skill to be able to manage pathing tunnels safely and quickly to a destination on their own with only some metaphorical 'checkpoints' needing to be provided by the Hacker for the Foreman to guide their path to. And along with they've been given a fairly simple instruction to just guide their fellow Bitbolds to make their den tunnels moderately larger. While the Zenobias and Lasards could never hope to fit through these new tunnels, our Janes can use them as secret paths across a base with only moderate awkwardness, and they are even more navigable for the remaining Minion variants.

It should be noted, however, that the Foremen are rather rare. Rarer than the Bitbolds themselves to be specific. Though while some extra complexity was needed to fit in the recycled coding, most of this rarity comes from necessity. Too many Foremen compared to the amount of regular Bitbolds leads to confusion and arguments between crews.

Viri Revision: War God's Outrage
While the Zenobia model of Idoloid functions amazingly both at a distance and in a melee, they suffer in tight spaces such as the tunnels where we need them most. While their arrows are large enough to function as spears, spears are not particularly effective without the room to use them properly. As such when left to fight in such a tight space or backed into a corner, they can discard their spears and bows and return to a more primal form of combat.

With newly added claw-blades upon their gauntlets, the Zenobia idoloids will fight viciously, more like beast than warrior. This reckless fighting style is terrifying and can carve swathes through an enemy line, but leaves the Zenobia and surrounding allied units at great risk as well. Codes for things such as self-preservation and separating non-Zenobia allies from enemies disabled as a sort of blood-rage takes hold. They assail their foes with crushing grabs, rending swipes, and destructive kicks, a few have even been witnessed biting into the Minions left arrayed against them in the test runs. Still, while a drastic solution, and perhaps even one that introduces its own problems, it is sure to be a sight to behold.

[dgr11897]

Bitbold Foremen:(1) DGR
War God's Outrage: (1) DGR

[m1895]

Bitbold Foremen:(2) DGR, m1895
War God's Outrage: (2) DGR, m1895

[Failbird105]

Bitbold Foremen:(3) DGR, m1895, Failbird
War God's Outrage: (3) DGR, m1895, Failbird

[Happerry]

Turn 8 : Revision Phase

Viri Revision: Bitbold Foremen
The Bitbolds aren't truly fit to fight. This is fine frankly, we do not need them to engage in battle when they can simply act on their more supportive role as diggers. The problem lies in the fact that there are issues in that area as well. Not only are tunnels much harder to plan out than simple land or air paths, but the Bitbolds have a tendency to get distracted and occupy themselves when not being busied. Fortunately however, we've found a way to minimize the first issue, and quite possibly make use of the second.

You see, while parsing through the code of these wild viri, we found (currently) unused code for a sort of "alpha" variant. This variant, which we've titled the Foreman, doesn't have much going for it compared to normal Bitbolds, other than naturally drawing the base variants deference. That's where we come in. We have essentially spliced the tactical and command libraries of our Officers into these Bitbold Foremen, making a sort of natural leader for our digging crews.

The Foremen have all the natural tunneling and underground pathing skills of the Bitbolds, but with the intelligence and tactical skill to be able to manage pathing tunnels safely and quickly to a destination on their own with only some metaphorical 'checkpoints' needing to be provided by the Hacker for the Foreman to guide their path to. And along with they've been given a fairly simple instruction to just guide their fellow Bitbolds to make their den tunnels moderately larger. While the Zenobias and Lasards could never hope to fit through these new tunnels, our Janes can use them as secret paths across a base with only moderate awkwardness, and they are even more navigable for the remaining Minion variants.

It should be noted, however, that the Foremen are rather rare. Rarer than the Bitbolds themselves to be specific. Though while some extra complexity was needed to fit in the recycled coding, most of this rarity comes from necessity. Too many Foremen compared to the amount of regular Bitbolds leads to confusion and arguments between crews.

4 + 3 - 0 = 7 : Superior craftsmanship (Normal)

Larger, smarter, and more capable then their lesser kin, the new Bitbold Foremen have been given specialized officer based coding to allow for coordination of excessively large Bitbold tunneling teams, allowing for quite large scale tunneling efforts to be carried out at a surprisingly high speed due to the large amount of well managed workers. They also make sure that the 'natural' tunnels that the Bitbolds tunnel out large enough to fit normal sized units, though this does of course mean that normal sized enemy units can now enter the tunnels without issue as well. They have also resolved (most) of the issue in the difficulty the hackers have in actually planning out how tunnels are to be tunneled, in that their specialized brains are smart enough to make mostly sensible choices when told 'tunnel between these two points' or 'make a dig in redoubt here' instead of some of the more... unfortunate choices seen in simulations. Of course a specialized user interface for easy tunnel planning would still be beneficial, but the Bitbold Foremen will make tunneling a more viable option in combat.

As a specialized sub-variant of the normal Bitbolds, Bitbold Foremen are considered one complexity level above the normal Bitbolds.

Viri Revision: War God's Outrage
While the Zenobia model of Idoloid functions amazingly both at a distance and in a melee, they suffer in tight spaces such as the tunnels where we need them most. While their arrows are large enough to function as spears, spears are not particularly effective without the room to use them properly. As such when left to fight in such a tight space or backed into a corner, they can discard their spears and bows and return to a more primal form of combat.

With newly added claw-blades upon their gauntlets, the Zenobia idoloids will fight viciously, more like beast than warrior. This reckless fighting style is terrifying and can carve swathes through an enemy line, but leaves the Zenobia and surrounding allied units at great risk as well. Codes for things such as self-preservation and separating non-Zenobia allies from enemies disabled as a sort of blood-rage takes hold. They assail their foes with crushing grabs, rending swipes, and destructive kicks, a few have even been witnessed biting into the Minions left arrayed against them in the test runs. Still, while a drastic solution, and perhaps even one that introduces its own problems, it is sure to be a sight to behold.

4 + 1 - 0 = 4 : Average (Normal)

The 'War God's Outrage' revision task force has two main goals. The first is an upgrade slash expansion of the Zenobia's personal combat library to include hand to hand melee combat. The second is the addition of weapon grade 'claw-blades' to their gauntlets for use in said melee combat. The first goal is more difficult then the second, which is quickly resolved by re-purposing code used for the SwordyMinion's... well, swords. Expanding the already fairly high volume melee combat library with additional combat routines fit for the new weapon is more difficult, and the resulting melee combat cycles are not as high quality as the spear based routines stolen from an infamously hard melee combat video game. Nor is any true 'berserker rage' coding achieved in the revision effort, with any apparent 'feral fury' moments merely resulting from vastly decreased prioritization of a Zenobia's personal survival when things come down to close range melee combat. However despite the non-outstanding level of results, the revision project has still succeeded in giving the Zenobia an acceptable point blank backup engagement option.

It is now the Deployment Phase of Turn 8. During this phase you must decide which of your hackers will be leading your attacks (you currently have two attacks), and decide what they will use their memory space to bring with them in terms of chips and champions (You currently have 12 memory).

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

Hackers
Jorg Jörgenson
A thoughtful and methodical hacker that prioritizes force preservation and defense area control, the Bass Line plays for long term advantages as he shapes the battlefield into one incremental advantage after another until it grants him victory. He prefers melee designs over long ranged combat, and his preference for force preservation biases him away from the more fragile viruses whatever their range. He also has a deft hand with territory effecting battlechips that allow him to get more out of them then others would, and substantial experience with using defensive and supportive function battlechips.

Aria
Aria is a relatively new hacker, but Aria's loyalty to Sonata's Stagehands is undoubted. They have a talent with long ranged bombardment by both battlechip and virus, as well as other brute force destruction applications, which is substantial enough to result in their appointment as one of Sonata's Stagehands' field commanders. This plays well with their similar, if lesser, talent with fixed defenses. They have been noticed to have problems with giving the enemy the initiative and not noticing when said foe is doing something sneaky. While less notable, their relative inexperience as a hacker can sometimes cause them trouble in contested data spheres verses a more experienced foe.

Viri
Minion.exe
These roughly humanoid programs are neither very sophisticated (intelligence and coding wise) or very strong, but they are mass producible and smart enough to obey orders without continual direct supervision. Which isn't always something you can take for granted with generic digital constructs, as a lot of them are dumber then rocks. They're not coded with anything more powerful then a basic energy pulse pistol, but they can still defeat the average civilian whom thinks too much of themselves. Just avoid putting them up against Data Police Agents. (Simple - Obsolete)

Plain Jane.exe
A Plain Jane is a roughly humanoid program based on, but improved from, the Minion.exe standardized cannon fodder in use by most serious internet factions in one format or another. Physically they are taller and more slender then the standardized minion body, as well as being vaguely feminine, with a face shrouding helmet and relatively generic armor units. However the most important differences inherent in the Plain Jane are in their foundational structure, which is pre-designed for versatility and integration efficiency with currently non-functional or non-developed upgrade projects and alternate equipment loadouts, allowing them to be more easily adapted into new variants. The improved foundations also increase their functionality over an upgraded Minion.exe's values, if not as much as a dedicated upgrade to those areas would result in. Like the basic Minion.exe, the standardized base template of the Plain Jane.exe is armed with a basic energy pulse pistol.

Due to later revision-tier efforts, the Plain Jane is now equipped with a 'Mega-Pulser' brand arm cannon, which possesses basic rapid fire functionality and a charged shot function that, while successfully charging to the first scale, requires a cooldown time after use before the weapon can function at even the base level again. As the Mega-Pulser no longer takes an abnormal amount of time to charge up, charged shots will now be used to a limited degree in general combat with a focus on using them against enemies too resistant to damage for normal fire to damage them. (Simple)

SwordyMinion.exe
The normal baseline minion, adapted to use a sword instead of a pistol. They're no smarter and only a little tougher then a normal minion, but the sword is a stronger weapon then the pistol so it's somewhat more deadly. As long as it can get into melee range that is, as it no longer has the pistol. It will try to stab any enemy projectiles that come to close to it, allowing greater survivability rates then would otherwise be expected as long as the projectiles being shot at it are the kind you can stab.
(Simple)

Defender.exe
An enlarged minion with a continually active siren mounted on its helm and bearing a giant tower shield with more flashing lights and what looks like an impressively large gun array integrated into said shield's surface, this virus is a natural first target for anyone attacking a group that it is in. Which is the point. Not actually armed any more well then a normal minion, but with noticeably integrated code-buffering and a shield formed from active denial firewall lattice coding, the Defender is well equipped to be a remarkably sturdy, for its rating, distraction. It's attention getting features have now been upgraded with an off switch, and Officers have some light scripting telling them when to turn said attention getting features on or off. For example, when sneaking, keep them off. This makes them much simpler to transport.

Due to later revision-tier efforts, the Defender.exe is now equipped with a 'Mega-Pulser' brand arm cannon, which possesses basic rapid fire functionality and a charged shot function that, while successfully charging to the first scale, requires a cooldown time after use before the weapon can function at even the base level again. However the Defender is not programmed to use the Charged Shots, and will only use them when commanded to by an officer-function unit.
(Simple)

Templar.exe
An alternate version of the Defender that's been given a sword instead of a charge pistol and upgraded with a moderate-low level skill library for sword and shield fighting. They still have the reinforced structure, shield, and siren of the Defender, and also like the Defender the Templar's siren can be turned on and off. Sadly, it does not have a flaming shield and sword.
(Simple)

Officer.exe
Based on the generally available in the Undernet Minion programs, Officer.exe constructs aren't much stronger then their lesser kin, still only coded with a basic energy pulse pistol, though officers also come with basic melee coding. But the big difference between and Officer and a Minion is that Officers are coded with noticeably more advanced bit-brains and have a basic tactical library integrated in their knowledge banks, allowing them to lead teams of Minions on operations without needing constant hand holding.

Since the start of the war, they've been revised with slightly enlarged tactical libraries and an improved ability to both identify enemy officers and commanders and figure out which officers on their own side are doing the best, and therefor should be listened to more. They have also been equipped with a 'Mega-Pulser' brand arm cannon, which possesses basic rapid fire functionality and a charged shot function that, while successfully charging to the first scale, takes longer then desired to charge and requires a cooldown time after use before the weapon can function at even the base level again. As well, their tactical libraries have been upgraded to allow them to command other units to use charged shots if the unit in question is not normally programmed to, which they can apply to themselves to get themselves to use charged shots. (Complicated)

Idoloid MDL 01 - Sakura.ISQ
A combination of crude and sophisticated coding, the Idoloid MDL 01 - Sakura.ISQ is attuned to the Music Element, and uses said element to both release regular (close ranged) bursts of healing for friendly units and as the energy type her attacks count as. They are armed with an immensely large syringe they use (crudely) as a spear and as a launching point for slightly weaker then normal pistol shot projectiles. They are also coded to act as officers, and are about equal to existing officers in command skill but make the decisions faster, giving them an advantage in tempo and reaction speed. Defensively they are neither tougher nor weaker then a normal officer, baring elemental interactions.

As Stagehand Hackers currently find their currently minimal healing ability more useful then their command ability, they have not yet made officers obsolete.
(Complicated)

Fisher-Jane.exe
A variant of the Plain Jane that uses harpoons sourced from the Dutchman.mon ADI, if at a lesser quality level. They use a ripped off and simplified copy of the Dutchman.mon's melee library for melee combat, and also include the ability to 'Rocket Throw' their harpoons as a ranged attack though this requires the time and energy expenditure of a normal stage one charged shot to be used. Or they can just throw their harpoons normally if for less effect. The necessity for integrated replication abilities of the harpoon and its relatively advanced coding render this version of the Jane complicated. (Complicated)

Bitbold.Mon
A program that has an avatar as a small humanoid with an appearance somewhere between rat and reptile. Bitbolds are lightly armored while being armed with a somewhat unwieldy two handed heavy mining drill, which while it can do a lot of damage on sustained contact with a foe is not something advised to be used in combat. They are generally capable miners over the short to medium short scale though they can be slowed by tough substances, and coordinating large or more complicated digging attempts is something of a hassle on their overseers part. They tend to attempt to hide when combat breaks out, and during their spare time will dig themselves a nest of twisting tunnels, sized for them but not other programs, to hide within.

Now come with Bitbold Foremen as a sub-variant. Foremen are specialized officer Bitbolds who are dedicated to commanding and managing teams of Bitbolds, as well as functioning as interfaces between them and any commanding hackers. They ensure that the warrens dug are large enough for normal units and translate the desires of the hackers into usable outputs. As a sub-variant, Foremen are deployed at a single greater level of complexity then normal Bitbolds. (Complicated - Often de facto higher due to their narrow applicable application)

Idoloid MDL 02 - Colette.ISQ
An advanced command-specialized Idoloid with the first glimmers of self-adaption included. While the Colette model depends more on a very large pre-constructed library of tactical and strategic 'lego pieces' with which to construct their plans, they do have a (very limited and slow) ability to construct their own 'lego pieces' to adapt to enemies, situations, and environments that they are currently unable to adapt. Despite that ability, said adaption is so slow that to get a viable set of plan components multiple major battles will probably be needed if programmer assistance is not forthcoming. Their non-command abilities are fairly limited, consisting of basic sword fighting skill for their equipped rapier and an instruction set for conducting an orchestra if such a task is ever needed. Beyond their superior ability to put together plans of varied scale, they also think faster then normal officers by re-using certain portions of superior Idoloid MDL 01 coding which allows them to come to command decisions faster then would otherwise be expected. (Complex)

Lesser Lasard.Mon
The Lesser Lasard.Mon is a cyborg theropod with joint locking legs and a counterweight tail to provide a stable firing position for the heavy repeating charge gun that makes up the Lasard's upper jaw. This cannon fires shots somewhat stronger then a potential charged shot from the charge pistols basic minions use, and can also charge up itself to fire a very powerful splash damage shot of ball lightning through use of the Thunder Element, though this drains the Lasard's power such that it needs a few minutes to recharge. The Lasard can also unleash a melee ranged lightning shockwave, though this is far weaker and still drains the Lasard, but its only other decent melee option is hitting things with its tail. The Lasard 'sees' with two strips of electrically sensitive materials mounted on its flanks, and can therefor blind itself when it uses its shockwave. Despite the Lasard's use of electricity, the unit as a whole is not elementally attuned. (Complex)

Mobile Assault Stage v2
A large flying stage with two of the speaker arrays replaced with missile launchers and handrails around the edges to keep passengers from falling off. It's piloted by a minion who's been fused directly with the singer's podium, but still controls the stage with hand controls. Like the missile battlechip, if the Stage's missiles are deflected they'll often lock onto a friendly unit, usually the stage that fired them. The Mobile Assault Stage is capable of carrying a little over twenty minions at a time, or thirty if you pack them on really tightly, enough to interfere with their ability to do anything until they get off the stage. (Complex)

Mobile Assault Stage - Sensory & Manipulation Model - Passion
A redesign of the Mobile Assault Stage that replaces the majority of the deck space with sensory equipment to allow for sniper ranged sensor scans, removes the missile launchers, and replaces the pilot with a Passion model Idoloid which has exceedingly enlarged hands and a somewhat enlarged upper abdomen to go with its overall size increase, and replaces said pilot's long ranged communication gear with dedicated sensor control coding. While this leaves the 'Passion' Model of the Mobile Assault Stage completely useless in direct combat it can now provide valuable informational support and still has the 'floor space' to carry around seven minions on what open floor space it retains. Given the lack of long ranged com gear, normally there's an Officer.exe permanently stationed on the S&M Model to allow for relaying the sensor intake to the command network.
(Complex -> Effectively Exceedingly Complex)

Idoloid MDL 03 - Zenobia.ISQ
A large amazon themed Idoloid armed with an equally large bow and a set of spear sized arrows. They are capable ranged fighters, able to fire their heavy arrows with good accuracy at long ranged if with somewhat slow firing speed, and are also able to use their arrows as spears in melee combat though they are hampered in doing such by tight quarters. They are just as good officers as the Sakura.ISQ (as of turn , but between their normal positioning as ranged support units and their tendency to target fixate on 'worthy foes' they do not commonly act as officers. They also have quite impressive physical strength and a complex personal tactical combat library created by ripping boss data from the infamous Black Spirits game franchise.

A later revision effort has upgraded them with passable melee combat skills for use in close confined quarters without enough room for their spears focused on using blade-claws mounted on their arms, but these combat skills are less high quality then the melee routines called upon in spearfighting and also include high aggression with minimal focus on self preservation. (Complex)

Marksman.exe
A buggy mess of a minion variant with a non-functional charged shot sniper rifle with no normal shot mode and who's charged shot only works one in three times, is intensely fragile, and has a non-working advanced ballistic calculator and target value calculator. All this would be bad enough even if the virus didn't only shoot at targets they're directly ordered to shoot without having the Officers programmed to order them to shoot. (Exceedingly Complex)

Autonomous Digital Intelligence
BlueFiend.mon
An upside down floating pyramid surrounded by an oozelike substance that is manipulated into varied body parts and coverings, born of an experiment into self adapting programs. BlueFiend uses this material as armor, tools, and weapons alike, as well as a large degree of personal strength. It tends to prefer melee combat, but is not limited to it, and prefers to communicate in sign language and/or charades. Interestingly, BlueFiend has once or twice shown the ability to entirely liquefy itself, but the rarity of when and hesitance with which it employs this ability suggests some sort of major limiting factor to it. (Memory 4)

Dutchman.mon
A great flying white whale with a pair of naval artillery cannons, a whip tail with a heavy anchor on the end, and a bloody obvious blue glow and smokestack. The Dutchman.mon, despite the use of man in the name, also comes with a female avatar/twin formed from one of Sonata's lost shards of data with noticeable, if less then BlueFiend.mon's, physical prowess and skill with her equipped polearm. The shard-avatar also has a level of command and tactical/strategic skill as scavenged from an Idoloid MDL 02 - Colette.ISQ, allowing her to serve as a command unit if needed. (Memory 4)

Battle Chips
Recovery 10
This tactical battle chip is designed to mend damaged and corrupted code, healing the individual it is applied to by a minor amount. (Simple, Memory 1)

Atk+10
This tactical battle chip pre-allocates resources to empower the next program used, improving the targets ability to deal damage for a short while. (Simple, Memory 1)

MinionCall A
This strategic battle chip creates temporary replicas of the commonly known ‘Minion.exe’ program, causing a short term burst of reinforcements in the targeted zone. (Simple, Memory 1)

Stunbolt
A tactical battle chip that releases a bolt of electricity into the target, which then paralyzes the target until the excess electricity dissipates. This chip is elementally attuned to the element of Thunder. (Simple, Memory 1)

Missile I
The Missile I is a strategic battlechip that effectively fires a decently powerful cruise missile at a chosen target. The missile plays an annoying MeTube speech the entire flight and will not explode before it hits something that's not the ground or a wall, resulting in it almost always hitting the target when it doesn't loose control over itself by bouncing off the ground nosecone over tail, which tends to make it go flying off into the void. Has an annoying issue where, if deflected, it will often lock onto a friendly target instead of going back after the original target. (Complicated, Memory 1)

DramaticSpotlight
This chip combines an environmental influence effect with a protective barrier, it... well, look, it lets you summon a dramatic spotlight to spotlight your avatar or an ADI and includes enough defensive shielding to let you do a (short) dramatic speech or pithy comment without anyone being able to do anything about it. The defenses fail if you move or attack however, and only last a short moment, but it's quite good for making a memorable introduction. (Simple, Memory 0)

InvokeSoundtrack
A battlechip that invokes a soundtrack, using advanced environmental sensors to analyze the zone that the Hacker or the Hacker's Proxies are in and play appropriate music for where they are and what the current events are. Some would swear it has a better detection rate for hidden surprises then anything else in Sonata's Arsenal, but it also has a deeply encoded priority for dramatic timing, and therefor the dramatic chords only begin to play when the surprise is about to be sprung on you anyway. (Simple, Memory 0)

[Failbird105]

Deployment Plan: Forge Ahead and Push Back

Jorg 'Bass Line' Jorgenson
Deployment Zone: BitMines
Chip Folder,
- Stunbolt [1]
- Stunbolt [1]
- Stunbolt [1]
- Recovery 10 [1]
- MinionCall A [1]
- MinionCall A [1]
- BlueFiend.mon [4]
- DramaticSpotlight [ 0 ]
- InvokeSoundtrack [ 0 ]

Aria
Deployment Zone: Viral Jungle
Chip Folder,
- Missile I [1]
- Missile I [1]
- Missile I [1]
- Missile I [1]
- Dutchman.mon [4]
- MinionCall A [1]
- MinionCall A [1]
- DramaticSpotlight [ 0 ]
- InvokeSoundtrack [ 0 ]

Forge Ahead and Push Back (1): Failbird

[Doomblade187]

Forge Ahead and Push Back: (2) Doomblade, Failbird

[m1895]

Forge Ahead and Push Back: (3) Doomblade, Failbird, m1895