Cheryl-44

Nevermind, she's not an ai from the start. She's also never been with the Federation now, being a freelance "space cop".

So a few things
-I removed her ability to upload her brain to the drone. Since she has a partially human brain, it just didn't make sense to me.
-She's more of a general bounty hunter cop on her planet rather than corporate security
-I really need help coming up with a name for her planet.

Do you mind a suggestion? Because if not, I put forth "Argos".

I think that works.

Awesomeness.

I'm considering having the tech being chozo reverse engineered in origin. Like this neutral world happened upon chozo tech and studied it on their own without Federation interference. But I also like the idea of having humans just come up with stuff on their own so I'm stuck.

I might make Locke have a bigger ship, just because I figure she'd need more room to have replacement bodies and other such things on-board. It'd be about Millennium Falcon sized for scale, and be crewed by an AI system, with her usually taking direct control of it by linking herself in when she's flying it. I always liked ships that it felt like the character could actually live on.

Yeah I added the ship, any suggestion for names for the ship? I also changed the fighter-tank to a fighter-motorcycle, thinking that'd be more reasonably able to be stored in the ship. And more plausibly stealthy.

Molgeus.

What does that word mean? Just sorta feel like I should know before I use it for a ship name.

Nothing. Just sounded cool. Went through about ten phases before reaching what I felt sounded best. Didn't realize it needed to mean something.

It didn't it's just kinda nice to know if it does, I think I'll use it for now unless I somehow think of a name later. I'm horrible with names in general honestly.

Got it.

Also age-boosted her, because I felt like "10 by the time of fusion" was a bit young, even if she has an adult cyberbody. Just sorta felt weird to me especially if I was going to have her be a cop and if I was gonna have her be attracted to people in stories and in general it was one of my "Pink can't math" things.

Also forgot to mention I added a new item for her, inspired by the wormhole fultons in MGSV Phantom Pain. She's able to teleport subdued bounties straight to her ship's brig using a device she places on them.

Thinking of bringing back the idea that Locke cut ties with the Federation after Fusion to help Samus, which got her to be considered a criminal by them as well, with her only real safehouse(which she'd let Samus use) being on Argos due to the neutrality rules.


I also gotta come up with better reasons for everyone to actually follow them. Maybe Argos exports a very powerful form of medical technology(inspired by a similar thing the Selkath have in Knights of the Old Republic) alongside cybernetic tech that's vital for both sides. So if one side pisses them off it basically puts them at a massive disadvantage in the wars.

So, similar to Espera's "You fuck with me, I pull the rug out from under you by withholding the powerful [X] that I provide"?

Yeah pretty much. Due to it being a Federation contract, they're not allowed to go after her or Samus on that world because it's considered a hostile act on the part of the Federation.


Of course, other people have issues with Space Pirates as well so Locke would still end up taking on missions to fight them, and she'd only really fight Feds in self defense.

Alright. Sounds interesting.

Of course that'd be if Samus would even trust Locke, I dunno if she would. And she'd probably be annoyed with the teasing and "accidental" touching.

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That was a joke. I'm not serious.

I'm pretty sure Samus would break her arm off if she tried.

Probably.
Technically, I was joking too.

At the most Locke would probably heavily imply interest(she's basically a fangirl of her which is why she even helped her in the first place) but otherwise it probably wouldn't go anywhere