Liberty Prime is a giant badass robot, backing up the Brotherhood of Steel’s dealings.
Prime is basically the pinnacle of American Patriotism.
He was programmed to eradicate all communism from the Anchorage front line just before
the great war, and was supposed to be the weapon to flip the switch in the fight against
the Chinese invasion of Alaska.
Sadly he never made it out there, due to the lacking of combat subroutines in his code.
He appears in fallout 3 and 4, as a spearhead to the final stages of the Brotherhood of
Steel’s plan in each game respectfully.
AND he is an ass-kicking machine in all appearances.
But I’ve got an interesting question that I'm going to ask and hopefully answer…
Is it real?
Or more importantly, could we build our very own Liberty Prime right now, using already
crafted pieces of technology.
I’m sure with the right amount of funding, time and the best folk for the job, the human
race could probably craft Liberty Prime from scratch, exactly like he is in the game, within
the next 10 or so years.
But right now, we have bigger priorities.
However some awesome nerdy folks all around the world have made us proud, by proving that
there is still some hope for humanity and building some seriously cool stuff.
Before I get into that, let’s take a step back and take a long hard look at the big fella.
Quite a sight, isn’t he?
Well Mister Prime has a total of 5 million Hit points…
Yup!
You heard me correctly, 5 bloody million.
It’s gonna take a lot to take him down.
His armor must really be something else, but we’ve covered some armor already and it’s
not the armor that’s really going to be the unrealistic factor, it’s the scale of him.
And not only that, the functionality at said scale, it’s certainly difficult.
In 1979, a company known as Sunrise Anime -based in Tokyo- created a mega franchise
that I'm sure most of you are familiar with…
The Gundam Series.
It has been a global success, with numerous anime, Manga and merchandising spin-offs being
released worldwide.
Company ‘Gundam Front’ introduced the world to the real world Gundam project.
It was apparently a part of a national stunt to aid in gaining the bid to host the Olympics
earlier this year (in 2016).
Obviously this failed, but it’s certainly an interesting attraction, that has seen many
tourists gazing up at it.
After being introduced in 2009, it was shown off at numerous locations throughout Japan,
with some minor alterations as the years went on.
As of 2012 -to this date- the giant Gundam, or RX-78-2 Gundam Ver.GFT Statue, stands at
18 metres high in front of the Diver City Tokyo Plaza mall.
That’s all fine and dandy, but what can this bloke do?
Well, that we don’t exactly know.
And by that, I mean it could be a fully functional Gundam that was supposed to take the world
by storm by being activated on the world's stage, during the Olympics.
But since Tokyo never got the 2016 Olympics, all the world has witnessed is head movement,
steam coming out of it’s vents and lots of bloody lights.
I really doubt, they would have left it this long to show the world they mega advancements,
but if anyone is going to build a real world Gundam, it’s probably going to be Japan.
So, we’ve got the scale to a tee, as it stands at a pretty similar height to our buddy
Liberty Prime.
However, with our ignorance to it’s full potential, it’s not looking like it’ll
be our real world robot.
But I’m sure most of you would either find it pretty cool or just darn terrifying, if
you woke up to find out that Japan had actually developed a fully functional Gundam.
Maybe they’ll up their game, the next time they bid for a global event.
Knowing that the majority of our audience is American, you will probably be a little annoyed that I've been
something that is Japanese and not from -- America, FUCK YEAH!
Let's take a look at something that is almost as patriotic as Liberty Prime a little more battle-ready
then the Gundam statue.
TeamUSA of Megabots have developed a massive robot, that they have called the MK2.
Considering it was designed as a Giant version of something you would see out of the Robot
Wars television show, I think this is gonna be a close best for our liberty prime right now.
TeamUSA have recently been testing it out for weaknesses, because in its current state,
it is a manned robot ,meaning somebody will be inside of it, controlling how it fairs
in the fight.
The main reason for this, is because they have challenged a Japanese company, for a
battle with their robot.
Yup, Japan did it first.
I’m not going to deviate, but just remember the name KURATAs in the future.
Back on track.
The MK2 moves on treads, which solves one of the the biggest problems, I saw with most
other robots that I found, which really use regular wheels. And they probably wouldn’t
be able to move very easily on tough terrain or just uneven surfaces.
But the MK2 has endured some testing, that proves it has VERY good balance, taking many
G’s of energy within hits from a small wrecking ball with nothing but aesthetic damage.
Well, the driver would probably be pronounced dead aswell, but that can be worked around
with somewhat remote controls or when we get it, semi self-aware AI.
Uh...starting to get scary now.
The Mk2 is also at a similar height but maybe a little bit smaller, to what we see Liberty
Prime at, in the game.
So overall, if the gun arm, was turned into a semi-fast moving arm with a hand on the
end, able to grab his nukes.
I’m confident the MK2 could work in a similar manner to Prime after some minor upgrading.
So far we’ve had three robots, that in their own right, are pretty cool.
However none can easily produce quite the same result that Liberty Prime can
when he throws long and demolishes his foes with nuclear fire.
I’m talking about his throwing arm, that he uses to hurl nuclear projectiles at any threat.
For this, we can’t just have a silly slow robotic arm, like we’ve seen already.
For this, we need to have something fast, like REALLY fast.
In come the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.
They have developed a robotic arm that will be used as a safety measure in the future.
It’s main aim, is to have fast reflexes, and to halt as many fatalities as possible.
For example, it could push a human out of the way of a collision,
saving their life and probably destroying its own existence.
But you’d rather a robot die in your place. It’s a little farfetched and still a work in progress,
but it could be the future of safety. The arm has 3-6 times faster reflexes than the average human,
depending on the circumstances, and has been trained up on catching items being thrown
in it’s general direction. So it can move pretty fast, meaning it can throw things fairly fast.
In it’s current state, it most likely wouldn’t be able to hold a nuke the size that Prime throws
however this is early days yet, the technology is there, all we need is some upscaling
and we can use this pacifist, life saving robot for some real good… Killing reds!
Hell yeah!
So this big fella -the MK2- is packing some pretty powerful paintball guns on him, that are the equivalent of a minigun.
They can be lethal in the right range, but Liberty Prime doesn’t have these sorts of weapons, does he?
He’s got his limbs for stomping and bitch slapping people with. But his main source of fire-power
comes from his eye.
Liberty Prime shoots “fricken lazers” outta his eyeballs.
Well, actually it’s not lasers at all.
It’s apparently the same as firing a tesla cannon, in the fallout universe.
But as Austin has proved on many occasions, the weaponry, especially the more sci-fi weaponry,
*makes no fucking sense*
The best we can do right now, unless some military agency has some cool robot visor
under wraps is this (X-men) Cyclops styled pair of laser goggles.
They’re not on the market, for obvious reasons, lasers are very dangerous that close to the eye.
But still they are darn cool.
Creator, AnselmofanZero, has a large variety of cool inventions he has amassed or created
himself, just out of his love for geek culture.
He has based these laser goggles on cyclops from the x-men series to a certain degree,
and guess what?
They work!
Moderately at least.
He could only go so far with the power of the laser, considering they could be used
whilst wearing them as glasses.
He has taken as many precautions as he could, when crafting them, to make sure he wouldn’t
damage his own eyes when using them.
Maybe somebody with a lot more funding could produce a laser beam to the extent of Cyclops,
or a tesla blast from Liberty Prime.
But I'm still doubtful it’ll be in the next couple of years.
Anyway, it won't instantly turn a raider into a pile of mush or goo, but it can burn very
slowly into things, and probably cause a fire to erupt if not used with caution.
One prominent thing the creator showcased, was the fact that the laser can pop balloons.
So imagine wearing these goggles, and all you would have to turn the laser on and look
at a balloon for a few seconds and it would pop.
Assuming it wouldn’t permanently damage any tissue, you could probably pull a really
dark prank and burn through one of your friends shirts.
Probably safe to just stick to whoopie cushions to be honest.
Don’t want to risk your own friends life.
So with a combination of things we sort of have a Liberty Prime.
just a very underpowered and, well, a Liberty Prime that needs a lot of upgrades to say the least.
But we're getting there.
As for the nukes, well, we all know that nuclear bombs are real and they have them in small sizes.
I mean the mini nuke was inspired by a real thing, the davy crockett
which is just a small nuke on a recoil-less gun so that's pretty real.
As for holding this fella up, we do always have the option of using the treads that the Megabot (built by TeamUSA) offer.
Although, some people pointed out a glaring flaw in use treads, in the comment section of the Bastion TECH! Video.
We open up one massive weakness. STAIRS!
Sure, treads allow for better traction on multiple different terrain. However, we may have some form of stairs to climb,
and also Liberty Prime himself had legs, probably for this exact purpose.
Hajime Sakamoto has developed a project to actually build a functional Gundam,
not just a giant statue with a functional head, an actual fully functional gundam.
He has actually publically stated his disapproval of the giant gundam statue.
Anyway, his vision is to create a 13 foot (3.9m) functional robot, and that isn’t even it’s final form!
After that, Sakamoto is going to polish it up and expand to a 59 foot(17.9m) sized robot.
It’s going to take a long ass time, for him to develop and perfect, but I take my hat off to him,
for taking on the challenge. So far, sketches of the first prototype have been drawn up,
alongside one of the later stages for the 13 foot robot.
What about physical gear?
Well, he has developed heavy-duty legs, that are built to support a heavy load,
that he expects to come from the torso and arms.
On their own, they can be manually driven and have somebody ride atop them.
But imagine when the final form is completed
Pretty awesome stuff, it’s essentially if Liberty Prime bargained his weaponry away for a large sum of cheeseburgers.
So, yup. He's gained some weight.
So we’ve got the legs, the arms, the torso and the weaponry sorted out… What about the brain behind this behemoth.
We could always have him remotely controlled, assuming we can circuit all of this gear together without fail.
But this would require some fella back at home base controlling him,
when we would want all of our attack available when we’re storming the institute.
I know it’s scary territory, but we’re going to have to venture into artificial intelligence.
Spooky stuff. We’re not talking, fully self-aware AI.
Because, that’s still not completely plausible. I’m talking about the sort of AI,
that has certain programs that it sticks to, and does exactly like it should. Kind of like if you trained a dog,
that had bloody massive weapons at its disposal, really well.
There is a beta stage AI that is still being worked upon, that can input commands from voice recognition software.
Though basic, it is still a giant leap. It has even been used alongside a vocal imiter to produce basic conversation,
answering questions it picks up, in a rudimentary way.
So not only can we get Prime to demolish our enemies, we can get him to spurt out anti-communism propaganda…
AND even have him sparking up basic conversations with the lads on the frontlines.
Not that it would benefit us much, when we just need him to through a few nukes their way.
So that was my video on some tech behind Liberty Prime in the real world.
Yet again we are still behind the video game features.
but not anywhere near as much as we think.
Give it a decade and we will all have Liberty Primes to do our bidding.
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