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A future where the big four mech manufacturers are Hitachi, Google, Nintendo, and Ferrari

the-ivy-grows-regardless

Love the concept of name dropping companies in your cyberpunk dystopia as a way to explicitly indite harmful companies.

But on the other hand having a single megacorp that became so ubiquitous in universe that it's simply referred to as "the company" has a distinct dystopia vibe too and parallels the depersonhood that these companies force upon their workers back on the company by treating ubiquitous brand recognition as complete lack of brand name entire

shreekofjoy

There's value in implying a generic name too, methinks.

if you call a vacuum cleaner a "Hoover" say, or a photocopier a "Xerox", you arguably have extremely high brand recognition, enough that it is simply a part of your vocabulary.

So in this context, calling something a "Ferrari" (Or whatever-have-you) could be more impactful than calling it something else, maybe? Like, you imply that they were at some point so dominant that their name is just what the product is called.

I get the Megacorp angle, but there's a ton of worldbuilding you need to support having one single monolithic corporation, You could do that, sure, but it also severely limits the kind of story you can tell with that setup. If you instead, decided to make it a group of three-or-so companies which can bounce competition between them, then you have an interesting story you can tell with oligarchies instead of monopolies. Oligarchies are also much more insidious, by virtue of there being this illusion of upward mobility. Sure, your pirate group can pierce through the lies, but can the average Joseph? There is implied power in nobody being able to fight the MegaCorp, but is not the best prison one which you don't know exists?

Are not the Lotus Eaters the best hosts to ever be?

For a story heavily centered on Mechs, do you think we'd have giant corporations mass producing them, or would it be a much more personailsed thing?

I suppose what I'm asking is how expensive would a Mech pilot be? Would they be the equivalent of Bronze Age charioteers, who would require the equivalent of a few hundred thousand dollars to train up, or would they become cheap cannon fodder?

How expensive would the Mech be in comparison to the pilot? If it takes, say an estimated $10,000 per pilot, but the Mech costing, say $100,000, then the incentives for whatever military group is to prioritise the Mech over the pilot, right? But you could make the same argument, for say Fighter Pilots. I'm sure a top-of-the-line fighter craft costs more than training a pilot to get there. Obviously in the present day, we NEED the human to pilot it, but what about this projected future where automation can do 90% of a human's job? What then?

But then again, I doubt military technology would completely phase out the human. Right?

I suppose the eventuality of this line, this science fantasy is to get to growing humans instead of training them. If you can "create" a set of humans who from birth are engineered for Mech piloting, then surely you can cut down on some of the expense in training them, since there are no additional resources spent.

This rather handily brings us back to the original problem. How rare are Mechs on the average war? If they are the default bit of military technology, then you get a more boring story out of it. You end up with a standard war story, but replacing the man with the Mech. I'm sure you could create something interesting out of it, but the activation energy for it would be more than the other option.

If Mechs are specialist technology, with only a select few being able to pilot one, then you allow for a lot of the plots of a Mech story. It justifies the extensive upgrading that happens with a mech, since they are very individual machines. It also, I suppose, justifies the amount of per-soldier attention given.

So I ask again, who manufactures the mech?

#sci fi #science fiction #worldbuilding #rambling

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Hey you, you're the future Preservation, right?

Get your partner under control, she keeps trying to convince me that spending my life savings on SEVENTY-FIVE KILOGRAMS of saffron is a good idea.

A, not my partner, in any usage of the word; B, trust me. I've tried. I even tried to get other people to try for Ruin, because lovingly, fae will immediately let Ruin take over. She lives for the chaos. And yeah, that sounds like something she'd do. Fae is.... uh.... strange, to say the least :) She's in my inbox too trying to get me to do the same. There is absolutely nothing I can do. Fae is an unstoppable force