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Zhurong
May 20, 2021 6:43:01 GMT -5
Post by anjian on May 20, 2021 6:43:01 GMT -5
Although the new Chinese Martian rover is finally named Zhurong, this name, for the Chinese God of Fire, sounds ideal for War Robots, either as an uber robot or uber weapon. Its mythological, it sounds exotic and its got two syllables. In the epic Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and in the game Dynasty Warriors, the name Zhurong was taken up by a warrior queen who claimed she was descended from the God of Fire.   |
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Zhurong
May 21, 2021 14:26:06 GMT -5
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Post by onasander on May 21, 2021 14:26:06 GMT -5
I’d rather a single stick legged pogo-stick mech named after “Yu the Great”. I’ve done heavy research on him in the past, think he would be a great bot for a future Dam/Flood map (the mountain fortress with the bridge everyone keeps referring to as a dam is no dam). Very few mythological figures hop around.
If anyone wants current info on the bot I follow Anton Petrov, he is a European astronomer and physicist working in South Korea, has a good video put on what is known currently so far about the Chinese Landing on Mars.
This being said I’d rather see maps on other places like the moon Titan or a Space Ring in orbit on Mars, or a map of inside a massive space ship over Jupiter, with one team boarding through a hole and another defending a large cargo bay, and many other concepts than playing over and over same maps- I know the temptation would be to put such a bot on Mars but Mars is a pretty boring flat desert. Admittedly from the little bit of the lore for this game I’ve seen it has a lot of factions but.... it is still flat desert. We already have a desert map. We need way more maps. And the mechs don’t need to be so elementally outlandish when real world concepts like firing behind you, laying mines or physical combat (other than mostly harmless shoving) need done first.
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Zhurong
Jun 1, 2021 22:48:51 GMT -5
Post by anjian on Jun 1, 2021 22:48:51 GMT -5
From what I have been reading, the Tianwen-1 mission sent an astounding payload of 5,000kg, combining orbiter, lander and rover in one go. Usually with other cases, the missions are separate. You have a separate mission for the orbiter, a separate mission for the lander and a separate mission for the rover. NASA's missions are about 1000kg in payload since the rover began. The other thing is that with rover missions you already have surveyed the planet previously and when you send up the rover you already know where you want it to land. In this case, they have yet to determine the final landing spot until they have collected the data from the orbiter to determine where they want to land.
I also notice something about the name in its original Chinese characters.
祝融
One of the characters is made up of from another character, 鬲, which looks like a tripod with something on top of it. Almost like a stylized representation of the lander and the rover.
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