You have to wonder what Jim was thinking when he wrote those bits.
Will giving Bess a katana allow her to cut through the enemies' ships with glorious Space-nippon steel if our ship ever gets boarded?
Will giving Bess a katana allow her to cut through the enemies' guns if our ship ever gets boarded?
Starwars-style lightsabers do not exists in TiTS
and you can buy another type from Emmy that's closer to a Gundam-style beam saber.
Kara has a type of lightsaber in The Silence, and you can buy another type from Emmy that's closer to a Gundam-style beam saber.
This doesn't change the fact that Bess won't be cutting bullets in boarding scenes, of course.
Yeah but it is no "I can cut through anything as long as it helps the story"-sort of lightsaber. That is basically what star wars' lightsabers are.
Bess is a robot. All she has to do is watch holovids and she can mimic the behavior perfectly.
Give her some over-the-top action films and shounen anime and she'd be unstoppable. :smugdog:
Right. IF robots can learn Matrix-style and generally have enough capacity for that kind of stuff, why does the UGC need Horace Decker? Sunglasses? Or is it that robots can not grow sideburns? Almost every robot enemy we have encountered sucks at fighting. Even the ones built for exactly that purpose. If it is just a question of money and investment, :capitalism: and I would rather believe in the Force than capitalism.
If Bess does anything on your ship regarding combat/travel, it'll be scaring the boarding parties away with her abominable, ever-shifting visage.
AKA She's not gonna do shit.