
WARNING!
The following is very long! :)
Greg
Marshall's (E)
Xcellent
Technologies. This is what I plan to create when I grow up, and I've been planning it for years on end. It is a worldwide "Willy Wonka-like" machine industry which is meant to create anything that science fiction uses, and sell it for money. The following are some proposed products:
- "Kariachi" (Karoke + Mariachi) a 5-inch tall Mariachi android that plays music on its guitar from any MP3 player, much like Iz or iDog.
- "Vidbot": A robot with an LCD monitor for a head that can transmit a person's face and their body movements electronically to another area via sitting a leather seat, a video camera, and Virtual Reality gloves. Pedals control the legs.
- "Poke-bots" Inspired by the Pokemon series, many types of robots are used to do tasks around the factory, but some can be for sale, such as the "Yanma" dragonfly creature used as a flying spy surveillance robot.
Some of the things made in this industry are made only for myself. Two are listed below:

1. A.R.A.G.O.G. 5000 (
Arachnid
Robotic
Apparatus (Automaton?) and
Gregory's most
Optimum
Guardian) A sentient--but not evil--4-legged mechanical spider that is designed to protect me from any lethal threat. He is basically a walking incinerator, because the huge head that dangles from the bottom of his chassis with two big eye panels contains a Hydrogen-powered furnace that destroys any of my enemies, but only on my command.

1a. Note: This is only in my imagination so far. He is very affectionate to any visitor to his lair, though any that dares to enter is still petrified at the enormous sight of this robot. This spider was actually inspired from the 1997 PC game OBSIDIAN, in a dream realm where the thing didn't speak, was the center of a machine universe, and destroyed who created it, much like what many A.I. computers tried or managed to do. Unlike the dream version, A.R.A.G.O.G is not powered by oil, but instead Hydrogen fuel cells and a power generator inside his lair.
1b. Extension: this robot has a real lair and a DECOY one. The decoy is a maintenance station for diagnostics, repairs, that sort of thing. The REAL lair is a concrete pod 3 miles underground. A.R.A.G.O.G. enters and exits that place via a huge glass lift in the center of his concrete podium inside the maintenance station. There, a web of metal and rock allows him to see everything

around the pod. Special personnel in maintainer suits watch over the robot to make sure he isn't doing things out of the ordinary, but if he is, someone picks up their red phone and calls the military. Of course, there is an armory as well. Outside the pod is a complex of offices that those people reside in to perform operations on the robot, to check his A.I. CPU and what not.
2. The Golden Condor Mark II is an 'ornithopter' (flapping wing) plane built like a bird which is

inspired by the defunct "Mysterious cities of Gold" anime series where a plane like this is contained in a stone hangar, but functions differently than my plans: It is powered by only the sun, the tiny cockpit is in the neck activated by one of the character's special medallions, and has nothing to propell it, though possibly an anti-gravity mechanisim.
2a. My design for the interior is different, and is inspired also from the OBSIDIAN game. Power comes from the Sun as well as a group of frieght drone "Pokebots" that spin a zoetrope movie device-it's weird I know, but I found that through mechanical systems, it can drive the flapping apparatus on the back wall of the engine room. The rest is a roomy cockpit with a sliding chair; computer on the flight deck that assists the pilot in choosing destinations, setting a secure pre-flight check, and provides descriptions of each destinations; the copilot is a C-3PO-like robot 'elf' named "Bizmuth" who is programmed to navigate the Condor on its safest route.
2b. Note: This is imaginary for the time being. Bizmuth himself has the ability to teleport over short ranges, his head is a powerful spotlight, and ears can work as radio antennae. He talks in a happy-go-lucky British accent and has taken a fondness for me.
I have the entire layout of this whole facility, offices, personnel, and all planned in my head.
The factory Personnel work in speciallized Hazardous-material jumpsuits with gas masks, each color-coded to match the tasks of who wear them. The front chestplate can be customized to fit a person's personality etc. They all are inspired from what avatars can wear in the game "URU Complete chronicles". Maintainers' Environment Verification suits. The color variations and purposes are listed below.
- Red-Maintenance
- Orange-Control systems
- Yellow-Materials Handling
- Green-Waste Disposal
- Blue-Security (Yellow 'SECURITY' sign is on chestplate)
- Violet-Frieght/Delivery
- Dark Red and Black- A.R.A.G.O.G. Security/Watch
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