{"id":222,"date":"2026-01-30T21:59:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/domundia.net\/?p=222"},"modified":"2026-02-01T00:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:11:59","slug":"kal-atek-mhad-designing-a-balanced-versatile-pocket-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/domundia.net\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"KAL-ATEK MHAD: Designing a balanced, versatile pocket robot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Multipurpose Half-Autonomous Drone is a versatile hybrid platform designed to be used in a very large range of situations.\nOriginally being created and produced by the Gonhbelsbarian company KAL-ATEK as a tool for maintenance work in tight spaces, it got eventually retro-engineered and modified to suit espionage or even terrorist actions. Despite it all, genuine drones being produced by KAL-ATEK are renowned as being of superior quality, and can still be modded by talented technicians to suit any needs, if they're able to pay the price to obtain one, or get it another way...<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 How to make an element such as this bot a useful and versatile asset for the characters and the story while giving it appropriate limitations to avoid being completely busted and creating storyline issues later on? At first it may look underwhelming, but its cannonical abilities range from ceiling-climbing to electronical jamming, so it’s still something to keep in mind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
The first thing that comes to me is that considering it’s an half-autonomous unit, it needs some kind of guidance from its operator: how far do its autonomous capabilities go? If the operator needs to be constantly supervising it, why even bother with the half-autonomous part and just call it a regular drone? If the drone can do everything by itself just thanks to a vague operator input at the start of the task, why even calling it a drone at all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As far as I’m concerned, the original idea was that the operator pilots the bot like any other drone, to guide it to its objective, and to engage tasks, but may operate without guidance once said task has been started (let’s say, the operator brings the drone to a console, plugs it, and then launches some kind of hack program that the drone can complete with no further input). Coupled with some limited range of operation (may it be because of the limits of the communications, or why not the not-so-good battery capacity), it would allow for some balance, considering the operator is at risk while controlling the bot, and as it can’t be launched from too far away, the operator is probably gonne be forced to be close to the heat zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Le Drone Polyvalent Semi-Autonome est une plateforme versatile con\u00e7ue pour \u00eatre utilisable dans une tr\u00e8s grande vari\u00e9t\u00e9 de situations.\nA l'origine cr\u00e9\u00e9e et produit par l'entreprise Gonhbelsbarienne KAL-ATEK en tant qu'outil de maintenance dans des espaces confin\u00e9es \u00e9troits, il a fini par \u00eatre r\u00e9tro-ing\u00e9nier\u00e9 et modifi\u00e9 pour \u00eatre employ\u00e9 dans des actions d'espionnage ou encore de terrorisme. En d\u00e9pit de tout \u00e7a, les drones sortant des usines KAL-ATEK sont r\u00e9put\u00e9s pour \u00eatre de qualit\u00e9 bien sup\u00e9rieure, et peuvent toujours \u00eatre modifi\u00e9s par des techniciens de talent pour s'adapter \u00e0 tout usage, s'il sont pr\u00eat \u00e0 payer le prix pour en acqu\u00e9rir un, ou \u00e0 trouver d'autres moyens de s'en procurer...\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 Comment rendre un \u00e9l\u00e9ment comme ce bot un \u00e9l\u00e9ment utile et versatile pour les personnages et l’histoire en lui donnant les limitations appropri\u00e9es afin d’\u00e9viter qu’il soit rendu compl\u00e8tement surpuissant sc\u00e9naristiquement et qu’il cr\u00e9e des probl\u00e8mes futurs dans la cr\u00e9ation du-dit sc\u00e9nario? M\u00eame si \u00e0 premi\u00e8re vu il parait peu impressionnant, les capacit\u00e9s qu’il est sens\u00e9 poss\u00e9der dans le canon vont de marcher au plafond \u00e0 brouiller des syst\u00e8mes \u00e9lectroniques, donc c’est quelque chose \u00e0 garder en t\u00eate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
La premi\u00e8re chose \u00e0 laquelle je pense et qu’\u00e9tant donn\u00e9 que c’est une unit\u00e9 semi-autonome, elle a besoin d’une forme de guidance de la part de son op\u00e9rateur: mais jusqu’o\u00f9 va on autonomie? Si l’op\u00e9rateur doit constamment la superviser, pourquoi s’encombrer avec le c\u00f4t\u00e9 autonome et ne pas juste en faire un drone? Et si elle peut tout faire d’elle-m\u00eame sans que l’op\u00e9rateur ne fasse rien d’autre que de lancer une vague commande, pourquoi alors l’appeller drone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aussi loin que je le planifiais, l’id\u00e9e originale \u00e9tait que l’op\u00e9rateur pilote le bot tel n’importe quel drone, afin de le guider \u00e0 son objectif, et de commencer \u00e0 le faire ex\u00e9cuter sa t\u00e2che, mais peut op\u00e9rer en autonomie une fois qu’il est engag\u00e9 dans ladite t\u00e2che (par exemple, l’op\u00e9rateur guide le drone jusqu’\u00e0 une console, le connecte, et lance ensuite un programme de hack que le drone peut compl\u00e9ter tout seul). Cela coupl\u00e9 avec une limitation de distance op\u00e9rationnelle \u00e0 l’op\u00e9rateur (que ce soit du \u00e0 une limitation technique du mode de communication ou pourquoi pas une limitation de la batterie du drone), permettrait d’avoir un syst\u00e8me balanc\u00e9, \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 qu’un op\u00e9rateur concentr\u00e9 sur le pilotage sera forc\u00e9ment en position de faiblesse, vu que la limitation de port\u00e9e de communication oblige le lancement \u00e0 se faire non loin de la zone de danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 How to make an element such as this bot a useful and versatile asset for the characters and the story while giving it appropriate limitations to avoid being completely busted and creating storyline issues later on? At first it may look underwhelming, but its cannonical abilities range from ceiling-climbing to electronical jamming, so it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18,19,22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sketchs","category-french","category-english","category-worldbuilding","category-lore"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/domundia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/domundia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/domundia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domundia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domundia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/domundia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/domundia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domundia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/domundia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domundia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/domundia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}