Some of our well-known and respected citizens.
Grady and Hardscape
Two ant sisters who are architects. Best known for developing the Skydam, an elaborate hydroelectric grid built into the rainwater drainage system throughout the city state. Not only does it route the rainwater into the aquifer (thereby stabilizing the bedrock upon which the city is built), but it also generates up to 22% of the city’s power needs annually. Thanks for your help, ladies!
Hardscape is the blue one, Grady is the black one. They’re clone sets, save the recolors. @Eilrach gave me the idea of using the Nuhvok shield as a head, glad he mentioned it. It was a fun little build.
Burdock the Bat
Here’s the original design by @Monopoly, as dictated by me in questionaire format via the Bat Creation Service:
And I took a stab at realizing him in MoC form:
Burdock is a tinkerer. He was injured as a young boy in the war, but in his time in the infirmary, he discovered a fascination with prosthetics and, eventually, robotics. Most of his mechanical components are his own design at this point. He is a fairly well-recognized inventor, having worked on the Emotionoid Program: he is credited with condensing the artificial digestive, circulatory and nervous systems into a single streamlined mechanism, as well as developing pseudo-organic bioluminescent technology for their high-speed fiberoptic nervous system.
The torso was a ton of fun to mess with, and although I believe there’s room for advancement, I’m pretty proud of it. The rubber band counter-tension arrangement allows for waist articulation and flexibility, while maintaining his perfect posture.
Close up of his ball peen hammer:
Still trying to find some Ken doll jeans for him, hence the bare legs. Surprisingly difficult to do.
And I’m gonna include Victor the Skeleton too.
Unremarkable build, I know, but there’s a reason. I had an idea for a carnivorous plant MoC, one that was vampiric and sucked out the nutrition from a victim. I built this guy as the withered corpse, just a display of the plant’s function. But guess what? I never built the plant, and the victim has been floating around my living room ever since. I named him Victor and gave him citizenship in Rat Nation. That’s right Zorks folks: Skeletons are canonically present in Rat Nation.
Group Shot!
Pistol, Grady, Burdock, Victor, Dynamite, Hardscape, and LODOM the Emotionoid. Big happy family.
I’m gonna take a page from @Senit’s book and post any additional characters from this whole thing in this topic. Unflooded boards are less prone to structural damage.
