I've been following this thread for a while, and the prologue? LOVE IT TO PIECES.

I'm sure we can all write our own credit blurbs. (Mostly because I don't know what other people would write about me, aaha.)

AND DUDE I WANT TO WATCH THIS SHOW - I MEAN YOU'VE WRITTEN IT SO WELL I FEEL LIKE I'M WATCHING IT - AM I MAKING ANY SENSE ANY MORE? HOGARBLE.
I wish I had something to pass out, because Funk wins millions of said passout then.

Dannichu: I love Maya! The Frans are nice too (but I can't really see her wearing them. Maybe the second with modifications.)

Art section on webpage sounds like a good idea. AND WHAT A SEPERATE SECTION FOR ME ARE YOU KIDDING THIS IS AN OUTRAGE
Hm, because it's a comic series, do we bold or italicize "Go For It, Phoenix"?
Speaking of which, I has newsies. Funk suggested paying attention to the Judge, which reminded me that I wanted to focus on him. After some head-scratching about what to talk about, I found something.

Edgeworth's Noble Quest!!
I am aware this isn't one of my best. Can you even understand the joke it's supposed to be conveying?
I don't think Edgeworth likes being drawn by me. He never comes out right. Nargh.

Keep up the spectacularicious work, y'all. ~


(Listening to the Slylandro theme reminds me of this what wot!?)

YOU AND YOUR FUNNY DESERVE IT.


Awwww, poor tea-less Edgey. XD

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@Funk. TO PROPERLY EXPRESS MY LOVE THIS MUST ALL BE IN CAPITALS. THAT CHAPTER WAS AWESOME AND THE TRIO WAS SO CUTE IN THE BEGINNING AND *insert annoying fangirling*. Seriously, that really was an awesome beginning.

@Dannichu. I really like the way you colored Maya and the second Fran. I think that's because those colors are close to the colors I their original outfits.

@Urby...So does Edgeworth go into withdrawl or something if he doesn't get his tea? I thought that hat comic was really cute.

Dannizzo - Those look great! Mia, Maya, and particularly Penny all look ADORABLE.

I agree that Fran #1 looks a lot like Shego, which had me laughing for a few minutes >.> However, Fran #2 looks pretty good, though maybe the blue should be a bit paler to match her hair? Blue/Black/White is better... I have NO IDEA where I keep getting Green for her from. Seriously.

But really, those are all wonderful :D

Zizzo - That's really good. Yeah, the jacket looks something like that, I imagined. You should do more of those profiles, because you're good at them :)


Busterella - Whatever you want to is fine. :D You've already contributed a CRAZY ton to the GyakuMECH project, so... yeah. No, your stuff is awesome and love.


Think#### - Glad to hear you like it :D


Urby - YOU DESERVE A SPECIAL PLACE YES YOU ARE FUNNY

Hm. I'm not sure (re: "Go For It, Phoenix!"). I just bolded it there because it stands out. >.>

That one's great. EDGEWORTH NEEDS HIS TEA.

A climactic space battle between Godot and Edgeworth over TEA VS COFFEE


Empere - Really glad you liked it that much!

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So, any ideas on how we should format this to release to the general public? I'm thinking its own thread in Present Testimony... also goes up on FF.net, the LJ comm... and the OBJECTION! site as its series (which other people can contribute to as well COUGH COUGH YOU GUYS CAN WRITE IF YOU WANT >.>)

I just can't decide the format. What comes where. Just the intro and the prologue? Bios? Pictures?

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BUT THE ATTENTION WILL GO TO MY HEAD AND MAKE ME AN EVEN BIGGER MORON
"MORON" THERE BECAUSE I CAN'T REMEMBER THE WORD I WANTED TO USE

I shall go with italics because it adds a certain flair to my speech. What ho, jolly good, smackaroons!

Ah, someone already did a EdgeworthTea/GodotCoffee thing, but it never hurts to beat a joke to death!


Presentation opinionzzz:
FF.net, good idea. Of course, this will be the solid literature bit. This should be all you.
Objection! (The fanfic archive, right?) area will be a more 'free-for-all' place, where people can put up their drafts as well. I WISH I COULD WRITE GOODER BECAUSE THEN I WOULD
LJ comm: Hmm. Intro and link to site. Nothing too big if people don't want to look into it, but enough to catch attention.

Yeah. I'll post the individual chapters on the LJ Comm like I do with everything, of course.


So... Prologue then Intro?

Intro then Prologue?


Dramatis Personae?

Artwork?!

:(

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NAAARGH don't pull that face on me


Mn, like...well.
Certainly not a big dump, because even I'd get serious TLDR vibes from that if I didn't know exaclty how awesome this was.

* Intro (Or that...thing that explains the setting)
* Prologue
* Everything else

Member response may or may not effect presentation, if people wants more then throw it at 'em.

Fair enough.

You know, I think I'll just do Intro/Prologue with a bit of character art thrown in. And then link to the site, where hopefully we'll have more character profiles eventually.

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This is what I'll be posting:

"It started as a cracked-out, one-line joke in a discussion about the Phoenix Wright/Gyakuten Saiban/Ace Attorney cast in various other mediums: 'What if it were Phoenix Wright... IN SPACE?!'

Then? It sort of... took off. What if it were Phoenix Wright in space? More specifically, in a sci-fi giant robot "anime"? The wheels were turning, and people started to actually get interested. And contribute their own ideas, plotlines, and even some artwork. What had begun as a little crack project was now becoming a fully-realized Alternate Universe storyline.

So, we come to this.

A GIGANTIC THANK YOU to everyone who's worked on the project thus far, contributed even the smallest of ideas. ESPECIALLY: Kwoiffei, the Website Monkey; The Greg, Master Mecha Man; Urby, crack-adorable-artist extraordinare; Konran, who got the entire art-ball rolling; Busterella, Officially Awesome Character Designer; Gerkuman, who's always been willing to posit an idea; Zizzo, Awesomely New Character Art Person; Dannichu, Coloring Fiend; Empere, Astro-Science Nerd... and of course Musouka and Raelle, my partners in crime, without whom this would never have happened (and who have put up with my questions and ideas ENDLESSLY, far more than they should, and who I will always be indebted to).

I hope I didn't forget anyone there.

Anyway... on with the show!




So, I’m betting that, because you’re here, you know Phoenix Wright. Ace Attorney. Gyakuten Saiban. However you choose to call it, you’re all familiar with some spiky-haired, finger-pointing, cross-examination ACTION. Probably, you’re pretty fond of it. You like the over-the-top-yet-surprisingly-developed characters, the twisting plotlines, and the thrill of finally cornering in on the truth and putting an end to the villain’s nefarious plot.

All of that? Is awesome. Totally nifty and super cool and wonderful. Hot courtroom action, baby!

…but is that all? What if you took the characters we’ve come to know and love, and the overall themes and storylines that we’ve Investigated, Pressed, and Presented our way through… and put them into a completely different genre? How would it work? Would it still be awesome? What the hell would be going on?

Apparently…? There were those of us crazy enough to try. For your entertainment: Phoenix Wright in a way you’ve probably never thought of him before…









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October 14th, 4001, 9:56 P.M.
Calypso, third moon of Odyssey
A small field about a mile outside of one of the minor cities



Three children lay on their backs in the middle of a small pasture looking up at the nighttime sky.

High above them, the heavens stretched out to infinity, with countless stars dotting the firmament among other specks of light that might have been planets, far-off galaxies, nebulae, or any of the other natural phenomena in the universe. It was a perfectly clear night with not a cloud in sight, and since the only visible part of the bright blue disk that was the planet Odyssey was a small sliver of light near the horizon, there was nothing in the skies to interfere with viewing the spectacle above.

These three boys, not yet even ten years old, weren’t quite paying attention to the vast natural universe before their eyes. Some of the specks of light in the night sky were, in fact, very much manmade. These little pinpoints were moving against the endless backdrop beyond—weaving, diving and corkscrewing through the air, and a sharp-eyed observer might notice even tinier streaks of light appearing between them. Ever so often, one of the luminous specks would flare up into a larger burst of reddish light, and then disappear entirely.

To three children lying on their backs in the middle of a small pasture looking up at the nighttime sky, it was a silent, beautiful light show that might as well have been put on just for them on that quiet October night.

However, reality seldom follows fantasy.

“You don’t think the Feds saw us sneaking out, do you?” asked one of the boys in a hesitant, anxious tone, not taking his gaze off the dancing lights high overhead. “I mean… it’s after curfew. We gotta be careful about these things.”

Another of the trio—the tallest of the three, skinny, awkward and lanky with the seeds of what would eventually become puberty—gave a snorting laugh. “C’mon Nick, it doesn’t matter. They’re so stupid they’d never find us out here, anyway!”

The shortest of the three boys spoke in a quiet, thoughtful voice. “I think they’ve got bigger things to worry about than us tonight.” To punctuate his thoughts, a pair of sparks in the sky flared up and died out silently.

The trio of friends was silent for another brief eternity as the wind hissed across the field. With a shiver, the tallest of them complained, “I’m cold.”

“We told you not to wear shorts, Larry,” retorted the one who’d spoken first. “You knew it was gonna be cold tonight. You’re so dumb sometimes.”

“Hey! Why, you—!!” The tallest boy began to stand up, anger in his voice, ignoring the fact that the other boy had been perfectly correct in his assessment (he was prone to doing such things).

“Quiet, you guys,” the third child’s thoughtful voice sounded annoyed—but also a bit worried despite his earlier statement, because there was a pair of headlights a ways down the nearby road that was quickly approaching. All three of the friends immediately fell silent, flattening themselves on the ground amongst the tall strands of grass as the headlights grew closer. Eventually, they revealed themselves as belonging to a large, box-shaped transport of some sort that passed by the trio with a loud vibrating hum, hovering about two feet above the ground and then fading away into the distance, wherever it was up to.

Once they were sure it was far out of earshot, the first boy sat up, looking at where the twin red taillights were fading into the distance and running a hand through his spiky black hair. “Where do you think the lunchbox is going?” he asked, using the familiar term for one of the Federation troop carriers (which did, in fact, resemble a lunchbox with windows and an attached pilots’ cabin rather remarkably).

“I don’t know, but it doesn’t matter. They’re losing the fight up there,” the short boy said confidently, pointing straight up at the dancing lights above.

“You sound… pretty sure,” answered the spiky-haired youth. “Your dad’s up there, right? You think he’s okay?”

Both of his friends answered simultaneously, though the thoughtful-voiced child’s indignant “Of course!” was drowned out by his taller, skinny friend leaping to his feet, and proclaiming, “You bet, Nick! Ol’ Man Edgey’s givin’ it to the Feds right now! He’s all ‘WHOOSH,’ and then he sees them and he’s all ‘BWEE! BWEE! BUDDA-BWEEE!’ and then? They just go ‘BA-BOOM!!’ and then he finds a new enemy and is all ‘BRAKKABRAKKABRAKKA,’ and…” both of the other two grabbed him, one on each pant leg, and hauled him down to the grass with an audible “Oof!”

Though it was dark, you could hear the glare in the short boy’s voice. “Don’t call my dad that, Larry. And yes, he’s absolutely fine. He’s the best Captain in the entire fleet! Nobody can touch him! He’s unbeatable!”

“Okay,” shrugged the spiky-headed boy. “As long as you’re sure.”

They were silent for another long series of heartbeats, watching the beautiful and deadly ballet above. “So, do you want to be a pilot like your dad?”

“Yeah,” the pride in the young boy’s voice was audible. “He says I’ll be a great pilot some day. He already says I’m one of the best navigators he’s ever seen—he asked me to plot him a route the other day!” The short child’s voice was practically glowing. “I’m gonna be a great pilot like him some day. Then? It’ll be me up there making the Federation wish they’d never come here. What about you, Nick?”

“…well, I really want to be a magistrate,” responded his friend with a shrug. “I think that… justice is important. But I guess being a pilot would be pretty cool. We could go into the academy together, right?”

“I guess so, yes,” answered the others. “And you, Larry? Do you want to be a pilot?”

The third ran a hand through his unruly blond hair as he shook his head. “Naaaah,” he said with a dismissive wave. “Too much work. I think I want to be a chef. Or a painter, maybe. Yeah, I could be a painter. Girls like painters, right?”

They fell silent once more as the battle overhead raged on.

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Fifteen Years Later
Federation skiff UFS Boulet
In orbit around Muspel

“Flight Officer Sahwit, report,” commanded Winston Payne, Second Lieutenant in the Saiban Federation, from the bridge of his small spacecraft. He eagerly leaned against the commander’s console, looking down at the gold Lieutenant’s insignia on his chest. It was a bit dull, he thought. He’d have to polish it before he got his undoubtedly well-deserved promotion, of course.

Though the Boulet was a small craft, it did have a small flight group of four well-maintained Perseus-series mechs, all of which were currently making their very slow way through the treacherous asteroid belt that surrounded the immense gas giant Muspel. The unfathomably huge scarlet bulk of Muspel dominated the scenery on the forward viewscreen, with only a little bit of black space visible at the top corners of the display.

The voice of Flight Officer Sahwit came back a bit tinny through the speakers in this older-model ship. “Nothing yet, Lieutenant. Other than that brief emission of Garyuu Waves earlier, there’s been no sign of them.” There was a pause, and Sahwit’s voice seemed a bit uncertain. “Are you… sure they’re here, sir? Muspel’s atmosphere is weird, the waves could have come from the planet itself…”

Payne adjusted the officer’s cap that fortunately covered his balding head completely. “I’m positive, Officer,” he said, his high-pitched voice terse. Really, he’d have to discipline Sahwit for such a blatant lack of common sense. After all, Garyuu Waves were only emitted from operational Jump Drives—everybody knew that! That one of his subordinates would be attributing such a hard scientific fact to the hocus-pocus and superstition that surrounded Muspel? It was almost offensive.

A confident, smug smirk found its way onto Payne’s aging face. They were ambushed above Hobbes, barely managed to escape with their lives… and according to accounts of the fight, their Jump system was damaged. There are only a few planets within reach that they could make it to without detection, and of those, the Muspel Belt is the only place with enough uninhabited cover available to perform Jump repairs! It was so obvious. Clearly, his talents were being quite wasted on such an aging, broken-down ship with such a small mecha force. But this would all change shortly… oh yes, it would change!

Confident in his absolutely brilliant deductions, Payne shook his head, that smug smirk growing wider. “Officer, the Kurain is hiding in the Muspel Belt. They’re damaged, and only have two or three mechs ready for combat. As Muspel is part of our patrol jurisdiction, and we are loyal sons of the Federation, it is our duty to hunt those vagabonds down and bring them to justice!”

And what sweet revenge it will be… added Payne silently. True, the ARS Kurain had certainly been an ever-growing thorn in the High Admiral’s side, and eliminating Captain Mia Fey and her henchmen would certainly bring him (and his subordinates, he supposed) huge amounts of glory and honor. But after the humiliating defeat he’d suffered at the hands of Captain Fey five years ago that had led to demotion and disgrace… oh, this was certainly personal.

Her ship had been badly damaged in the ambush at Hobbes, she only had two or so combat-ready mecha, and his four pilots were well-trained and in undamaged, perfectly-maintained machines. Payne’s grip on the railing of the commander’s chair tightened in anticipation. When the High Admiral heard about his single-handed defeat of Fey and the Kurain? Oh, he’d be rewarded. Given his own, bigger ship. Promoted to Commander! Or Major! Or—dare he imagine it?!—even Colonel. He could imagine the award ceremony already…

“Sir? We’re picking up something.”

“Keep going, Flight Officer! We’ve got them now!” His voice was shrill with excitement and the thrill of his certain glory-to-come. Your notorious luck shan’t save you today… Captain Mia Fey.

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“It’s gone,” said Flight Officer Sahwit, frustration in his voice as he checked the instruments lining the small, cramped cockpit of his Perseus-class mech. “02, did you pick up that blip on the sensors just now?”

His wingman had, but there was doubt in his voice as he spoke. “Yes sir, but… there’s lots of metal in these asteroids. You don’t think it was just a sensor ghost?”

Making sure that the transmission was private and just between the two of them, Sahwit shook his head, sighing. “Might be. But the Lieutenant certainly doesn’t think so right now. He’s obsessed.” The Flight Officer shifted in his chair, letting go of one of his controls for a second to tap in commands to their two AI-piloted companions. “Spread out, 02. There could be dozens of enemies hiding in this damn asteroid field.” Or, more likely, no enemies at all. The Lieutenant’s crazy.

There it was again—! The strange blip on his sensors… but as soon as it had appeared, it was gone. It had been behind him, and Sahwit spun his mech around to check visually. There wasn’t anything there but hunks of floating rock and the giant red orb that was the treacherous atmosphere of Muspel. Sahwit sighed to himself. They were imagining things. The Lieutenant’s paranoia was beginning to get to them all. He really should put in a transfer request.

All of a sudden, 03 and 04—the two AI suits—exploded in twin gouts of flame, and Sahwit briefly saw a crimson stream that looked like a jet of plasma. They were here after all! “02, evasive—!” he shouted out loud, as the mystery blip on the sensors returned… and in his viewscreen as well. It was quick; it was much quicker than any mech he knew, and for a brief instant it crossed Sahwit’s mind that it looked almost… avian. Like some sort of mythological red bird. “What is that thing?!”

Then, there was another flash of crimson plasma, and not much crossed his mind at all anymore.

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On the bridge of the Boulet, Second Lieutenant Payne stood, a blank stare on his face as he stared at the four lights that represented his ship’s mech forces. All four of the lights were red. All four of his mecha were gone. He’d been right about the Kurain… but… he’d been wrong about so much more. Payne could see his promotion fading away, replaced with even more humiliation and disgrace.

He quickly input the commands to Jump back to sector HQ in case the mystery pilot was coming after him, next—and wondered how he could possibly spin this on the report to not go down as his fault…


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The four Federation mecha had been reduced to so much space debris, rubble to join the asteroids in their eternal orbit around the gas giant Muspel. There was a twinge of guilt as there always was, but if he hadn’t taken them out, many, many more lives would have been forfeit. Outside of the asteroid field, the parent craft gave a little flicker of motion and then vanished into Jumpspace.

Fighting the urge to run a hand through his spiky hair (which was quite impossible due to his flightsuit’s helmet, anyway), Lieutenant Phoenix Wright of the Fusegi Alliance keyed his communications unit. “All four enemy craft have been eliminated,” he began in as formal a tone as he could manage, “and their control ship has retreated.”

“I can quite see that from here, Wright,” came the warm voice of his commander through the speakers of his cockpit. “Good work. You keep flying better and better.”

From Captain Mia Fey, that was high praise indeed, and Phoenix would have been lying to himself if he tried to pretend it didn’t sort of give him a warm, fuzzy feeling inside to hear it. “Thanks, Captain. Permission to land?”

“Permission granted. Come back in and get something warm to eat. It’s cold out there.”

Phoenix Wright nodded an affirmative, grasped the controls of his mech, and made his way back to the relative safety and comfort of the ARS Kurain.





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Character Concept Artwork

From Busterella:

Lieutenant Colonel Franziska von Karma (longer hair) in Saiban Federation Flight Suit –
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/ ... itFran.jpg

(Color by Dannichu)
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u176 ... ure024.jpg

Phoenix Wright in Fusegi Alliance Flight Suit –
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/ ... ixsuit.jpg

Larry Butz in Flight Suit –
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/ ... rySuit.jpg

Maya Fey in Flight Suit –
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/ ... itmaya.jpg

(Color by Dannichu)
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u176 ... ure026.jpg

Mareka Amasugi in Flight Suit –
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/ ... itMare.jpg

Penny Nichols in Global Mercenaries Flight Suit –
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/ ... tPenny.jpg

(Color by Dannichu)
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u176 ... ure021.jpg


From Zizzo:

Phoenix Wright in Flight Suit (color by Dannichu) –
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u176 ... ure016.jpg

Mia Fey in Flight Suit –
http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... uitle1.jpg

(Color by Dannichu)
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u176 ... ure025.jpg


From Kumu:

Colonel Miles Edgeworth in Saiban Federation Military Uniform - http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t317 ... ics164.jpg



You can find the original Court Records topic here: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1005 (Gyakuten MECHA starts about halfway down Page 1), but be warned... there are some spoilers for all three games about, and of course spoilers for the Gyakuten MECHA story.

The website? http://www.kwoiffei.com/Gyakuten-MECHA.htm (MUCH THANKS to the wonderful Kwoiffei for running it!)

Hope you Enjoyed!

So? How's that?

I think we need an official GyakuMECH logo. >.> maybe that can come later.

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Last edited by CantFaketheFunk on Tue May 01, 2007 6:33 am, edited 1 time in total.

Shounds laik a plan, shir.


I can try and make a logo if you tell me what you want on it. Remember that I'm also a pixelworker (lawd, when was my last sticker?)


Edat:

Oh lawd. Best title I've gotten aver. (not to be confused with 'evar')

Well, Kwoiffei took a jab at it way earlier in the thread. And I liked it, but I'd like it to look a bit more "futuristic/mechanical," especially with an emphasis on the MECHA.

And then a Huma head/sticker or summat.

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I like, quadruple post lol.

(Listen to http://media.putfile.com/Halo-3---01-Fi ... ght-iTunes for max effect)

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1503
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3516577/1/
http://community.livejournal.com/gyakut ... 98220.html


IT HAS BEGUN!

(No short hair Von Karma / Godot on the first post since those are a bit spoilery :P Well... maybe.)

(And "Go For It, Phoenix!" deserves its own post :P)

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TRIPLE POST:

The wonderful ZGMFX10Amod00 on GameFAQs...

Has a very blurry, rudimentary (yet awesome) sketch of the upper half of Huma, sans plasma wings!

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4554/image007iv5.jpg


EDIT!

Full body, clearer picture! It's just a rough draft but damned if it isn't one hell of a rough draft. He also has ideas for "bird mode," so he says :D

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/4209/img0124bq9.jpg


EDIT2:

Kwoiffei, next time you get around to it, things I'd like to have on the site...

A "Story" section, where this can go up.

An "Art" section, (with its own little section for 'Go For It, Phoenix!')

Maybe the preliminary Credits page if you want to write blurbs for the primary contributors. If not, that's fine, though :D

And change the 4017 to 4016.

So yeah. Hope that's not too much trouble!



Planets!

(THERE IS THE SUN. IT HAS A NAME)

Closet to the sun... well, it's practically unliveable, though maybe there are some underground domed installations or something. Perhaps called ... hell, I dunno, 'Hephaestus' or something? IT IS VERY HOT.

Then we have the Life Belt.

Coyote (formerly Texos, and named after the Native American mythologyical animal) - JUST inside the Life Belt, is an arid, hot planet, though it doesn't have the thick atmosphere Venus does so it's livable if harsh and uncomfortable. Very dry with lots of deserts, and machines are needed to suck moisture out of the atmosphere for fresh drinking water. (Texos can be a city/region on Coyote, where the Marshalls are from)

Elysium - The next planet in the Life Belt, is quite lush but on the hotter/tropical side of things, particularly at the equator. Beautiful, but warm and humid in most places.

Demeter - The next planet, is also very fertile and probably the most "earth-like" of all the planets here, with a lot of natural, rolling grasslands and plains that have very rich, fertile soil for growing crops. Temperatures range from cool to hot depending on season.

Odyssey - The next planet in the Life Belt... on the cooler side but not like an ice planet or anything. Mainly water with a few island continents in the mix. Has several large moons, almost planets in their own right, that... are also settled.

(Perhaps another planet here at the fringe of the Life Belt?)

Muspel - the first of the system's great Gas Giants, and the bigger of the two, with a strange atmosphere that possesses almost supernatural qualities.

Yggdrasill - the second of the two great Gas Giants, smaller than Muspel, with a large asteroid belt/ring circling it. Lots of moons, though as it's all out of the life belt they're not really settled.

(NEed a name for a cold place. I was thinking Freya, maybe, to continue with the Norse theme?) - Though it possesses a breathable atmosphere and plenty of water, (THIS PLANET) is way too far away from the system's sun to support life, and almost all the water is frozen--and its mountainous regions? Nothing lives there... at all.


Yeah. Any ideas? Comments?

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*pops head in*

I've done a little work on the website... okay, it was a complete change of main page. >_> "How very underhanded of you, Kwoiffei--" Shut up! I can still revert if nessecary; I just felt that the site needed a change, given that the intro's being used everywhere.

Actually, come to think of it... at the rate I'm going, I might be able to get most of the site done by the end of the week. Blasted time zones, interfering with my plans!

Quick edit before bed:
I've uploaded the "about" page... and it has the full intro again. I could have written my own description of GyakuMECH, but it's almost bedtime and I'm tired. *Whump! Zzzzz...*

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You're an aussie, though. And I'm in China. We're in similar time zones. WE SHOULD TEAM UP :P

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Just a quickie post, Do most AI's have feelings or is it just CHINAMI? I need to know because I have a really good idea for a (possibly 'official') fanfic. I know you said that I should wait for the arc to finish, but it's a story that is self contained.

'Thinker'
Characters: Larry, THINKER
Plot: Larry has just defeated a small group of Federation cargo ships in a small incursion, and is now traveling home. But since the Journey is long, he decides to have a debate chat with his AI, THINKER. But to his great suprise, THINKER has calculated that his existance is meaningless and that it has no reason to be. Can Larry persuade the AI that it has a purpose and a place in this world?

What do you think?

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Well, it depends on the AI. CHINAMI is far more "human" than most AIs due to the fact that in her haste (and desire to 'survive') she bypassed all the safety restrictions, effectively copying her consciousness (but destroying her real brain/mind... though she had only minutes to live anyway, so she wasn't concerned). Mostly, it's just a bit memories and personality. Though it depends on AI to AI. THINKER is a philosophical AI because his human self was quite a philosopher...

So it could work, I think :D

All but the Larry deciding to have a debate with THINKER :P I don't think he'd EVER want to willingly engage the AI in anything remotely resembling a debate, unless it started like "Hey, do you like redheads or blondes better?"

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Then, we can have it so THINKER doesn't answer when he asks a normal 'Larry Question'. Then he turns on the visual mode to check and see's Thinker's a bit... down. Or Larry think's he's down anyway. And when he asks whats up, thats when he finds out that THINKER thinks he has no reason to exist.

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Works for me! Just... hold off a little bit before writing it so I can introduce the main setting and characters first, okay? :P

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Of course :) I could start to write it after the Kurain is destroyed, or when we first see the Badger/Global ^_^ Would that be enough time for you?

Also, I still have to ink that CHINAMI picture...

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Global introduction would probably be good, because then we'd have intro'd the Turnabout et al. And I'd like to see it first (nothing against you, I want to personally go over ALL the other fiction written for GyakuMECH just to ensure it's all perfectly in continuity) ... that okay? :D

Otherwise, it sounds pretty good!

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It all feels so official now
WE SHALL TAKE THE PW FANDOM BY STORM

Um, loving the Huma design, but since the wings aren't shown, I was wondering if they'd be as shown in the Huma logo, or be kind of more like bird's wings? Artistic interest, you see

I would do fanfiction (Or should that be fan-fanfiction?), but I would probably want to wait until the first arc is nearly or completely finished. I wouldn't want to write something and not be able to post it because ZOMG spoiler, and also I'd prefer to have more of a feel of how MECHAverse characters interact, you know? Like, in Lawyerverse, Phoenix and Miles are at a kind of tentavive friendship but still at odds stage, while MECHAverse Phoenix and Miles are a whole other ball game.

Maybe I should stick to trying to do comics. This whole MECHA thing is making me want to improve as quickly as possible at drawing, so I can actually do the verse justice!

~Zizzo

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They're... well, I imagine them as sort of like Tyrael's wings in Diablo 2 if you've ever played that :P

If not, like http://youtube.com/watch?v=VQyta80a5wc except only six or so and scarlet.

Or bird wings. It's a rough concept design. :P

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Oooh~ So, like, six wings of some sort of energy that can all move independently and interact (Read: Slice 'n' dice) with other objects? Similar to Brynhildr's whip, I assume?

~Zizzo

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Well, the whip obeys whip-like laws of physics. These are plasma wings, so they're... like... wierd and stuff. Clearly impossible to control, of course, BUT THIS IS FICTION :P

But yes, mostly.

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Maybe that's why Phoenix is such a prodigy? He can control all six whip!wings individually, while normal pilots can only have them act as one body or only through limited AI controls? It'd also have to be a pretty unique or newly realeased weapon/upgrade, too. Otherwise the whole impressiveness of the Huma would be dulled

Just, um, throwing out ideas. Feel free to ignore.

~Zizzo

P.S Kwoffei's site doesn't seem to be loading for me. My guess is it's being updated by Kwoffei or my computer's just acting up. Is it the same for you?

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That's certainly part of his "holy crap amazing pilot" prowess :P And as far as I know, the Huma is the only one with them >.> IT IS SPESHUL ROBOT

Yeah, it's not loading for me either but I've still got to Anonymouse it...

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Um, uh, I'd just like to say that I've been following this project for a while now, and my only response is ZOMGSOCOOLWOW.

Also, I'd like to help out any way I can. I sketched out a rough design for the Huma earlier, and I can scan it when I get home if you guys want.

I'd love to see what you've got. Multiple rough concepts equals one badass finished product!

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God, I hate time zones... >.> I miss so much when I'm not here...



Yay! Glad you liked them... I tried so hard to think of a good colour scheme for Fran and ended up failing. I finished two, nearly finished another three and experimented with loads... I don't have a green that works with Fran... I'm so used to making her black and white with light blue or goldish yellow details.
If I can find the time I'll redo her again.
Heh, Dannizzo. Sounds like a pairing. *cough* >.>

Did I mention that I absolutely love this project? I'm not so great at drawing (at all) and my imagination is nowhere near as great as you guys', so I feel this is the only real contribution I can make.

Those credits really made me laugh. :D

The story's still awesome. Because I just read it again at a time when it wasn't about two AM and it's even better than I remember.

I did color in Zizzo's picture of Nick, but I accidentally TURNED HIM INTO MATT ENGARDE. I don't know why, but argh. I fel really bad because he was SUPPOSED to be blue and ended up red and I didn't know how to do his eyes so I kinda didn't, so now he looks like something evil. Argh.

Here it is.
Um, actually, about what I said earlier... I do have another pic-thing that isn't just someone else's picture in color. It sucks, but I just love this version of the Judge...

Things you're not supposed to notice about this picture:

The fact I cannot draw legs/feet
The crappy lined paper it's drawn on.
The fact the judge is about 3 feet tall (I don't know why, I just always imagine the Judge to me a complete midget >.>)
Edgeworth. And the fact he looks like a woman.
The total lack of any kind of detail on Larry's suit
The giant plot holes and total not-fitting-in-with-anything of the overall picture. Especially the prosecution on the defense's ship. <.<

Part one.
Part two.

I don't know what I was on, either.

URBY MAKES A VEEERRRY SNEEEEKY POST AT SCHOOOOOOL

Ah, time zones! One of the reasons sometimes I want to stay in Europe. And then I get a reason for Pacific time and then I say "Oh, California ~"

Response to this project is facinating! It's exponentially encouraging! ~


QUIT SPOILING ME, RIGHT NOW MISTER

I'm getting a Tallgeese vibe from that draft of the Huma. That and waves of awesome, for serial!

I can't watch any Youtube or listen to any music on these school comps, so I'll see what it's all about at home. Nargh.

ALSO: I'm swamped, so I decided that I won't design the sticker, I'll just be making it in sprite form.
Unless I get struck by lightning and get sudden inspiration. And then I can just get working. Right of the now, I have run out of creative sticker juice.
If y'all have any suggestions, for anything sticker related (need stuff for the other mechs/Brynhildr mk 2?), remember, our lines are open 24/7...

Your sprites are awesome, Urby. And your other stuff, but I hugely admire your sprite-sticker-thingies because I have no digital arting ability whatsoever.

I'm lucky that school computers don't filter here, most forums are totally blocked. Filters are made of evil, I tell you. Not just YouTube, but FF.net, my emails... anything vaguely good is just gone.

Glad I can be of help!

Front: Rough sketch
Back: Rough sketch

In case you're wondering about the three things on the head, I read that the head is mostly used for sensory. Since I generally add them whenever I end up doodling phoenixes, I figured they could maybe be used for some sensory-type stuff.

Hee~ It's so cool having another person joining in on the fun!

I like how you had the wings stem from the circle on the Huma's back and have the wings themselves folded under eachother. It makes the Huma look more...not copact, exactly, but kind of mechanical-fold-y. If you get me

And, ugh, the computers my class use blockthis thread completely. I can get onto Court-Records.Net, I can get onto the forums and I can get onto the Defendant's Lobby juuuust fine. But GyakuMECHA awesome? Nope

~Zizzo

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On subject of Huma wings: I always thought of them as very set, not very floppy blade-things. Of course, they're flexable, but not like oooohalmosttentacles.
I'd always imagine Phoenix doing sort of like martial arts almost-dancing, and maybe grab someone's face and crush it while cutting up some other loser.

In oudar newsies, loves:

OH NO LOOK OUT IT'S A RAY GUN
THE RAYS ARE COMING OUT OF THE GUN
YOU SHOULD MOVE TO AVOID THE RAYS
IF THE RAYS HIT YOU YOU WILL BE SHOT BY THE RAYS
THE RAYS ARE FAST SO YOU SHOULD BE FAST TOO
WILL YOU WIN AGAINST THE FAST RAYS FROM THE RAY GUN?

I could never imagine Gunther far away from Franziska. And then I thought - "Isn't he a defense attourney? Shouldn't he be with the Fusegi?" and then I remembered someone else who's on the wrong side was doing the same thing!
And Maggey has a ray gun OH NO

Favor time (because Urby is lazy and she should be studying):
Could someone go and find all of the Go For It, Phoenix! comics I've done and give them to me in order/decide which of my doodles count as GFIP? I need to loop them and give each of them titles. Merci en avance ~

...making giant robot jokes makes me hungry!? Narg, I want bacon for no explicable reason!

Urby: All but the most recent ones!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/ ... hicken.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/ ... duudle.png

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/53519317/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/ ... onding.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/ ... txshoe.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/ ... lsfast.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/ ... oughee.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/ ... nction.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/ ... t/SHOE.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/ ... dwater.png

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/54079854/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/ ... ilylol.png


Dannichu - That's adorable. And you raise a very, very good question. Where DOES it all come from? >.> Also, I don't think Phoenix looks evil at all :P


Urby #2 - <333 Yes! It is encouraging!

Fenris -- Not bad at all! I like how you did the wings!

Zizzo - Have you tried anonymouse.org? Maybe that'd work?


And the concept for the Huma wings is... flexible, of course :P

Also, that's great. MAGGEY HAS A RAY GUN RAWR

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Ou wow, I've made quite the lots. Aha...I didn't realize that.

They must be christened at once!


Of course, if you deuds think you've got better names, throw 'em at me! My duty is to bring the lol to the people. (Two of them are actually song names! Oh, ho, try to identify them!)

Okay, productive time: Was thinking about the design for the Assassin. Okay, it transforms. I said something draconic/fishlike, and mystical/creepy would be good. (There's something I have in mind but I can't find it at the moment.)
Funk said its weapons would be these detatchable drill-knives that can be charged. He explained it a lot better than I can, nargh it's late and I keep thinking about fruit tarts
Just throwing it out there in case you peeps want to think about it. (I want Matt to be cool...aha i am not obsessed)

Space Orphan Odoroki keeps popping up in my head...

You're the artist, you can add the titles yourself :P And that was just everything you've done.

Ideas: the Judge! Larry! Mia! Gumshoe and Maggey! Gant and Lana and Jake!

And yes, we need to flesh out Assassin. One of its weapons... sort of drill/funnel things, one on each arm. charge the enemy, stick in, give a charge, enemy goes BOOM.

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