#lancer

[aswarmofmoths]

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#lancer #lancer rpg #lancer ttrpg #shitpost #this meme came to me in a dream

[psychotrenny]

Lancer is a funny because of how much it insists that Union is this flawed but ultimately benevolent institution that's well on the path to improvement, a "utopia in progress" as they love to say, when like they casually reveal so many things about it that show Union as rotten to the fucking core. Like as much as Lancer fans like to go on and on about how it's an imperfect society that needs to make compromises, there's so much awful shit about Union that just seems pointless or easily avoidable.

And like part of this is the creator's politics; they're social democrats so it's not surprising that Space Sweden is their idea of a society that, if not the best we could possibly achieve, is at least the best we can do for the foreseeable future. As a Marxist-Leninist it's only natural that I'd have a condemnatory view of such a society just as I do for real Social Democracies; my idea of an achievably "good" society is just fundamentally different from that of the creators But like Lancer is also full of little details that just seem fucked up and awful even from the values and viewpoint of Social Democracy. Like stuff that's just as bad, if not worse, than a lot of sci-fi Dystopias. Like why the fuck does Union have a CIA that's run by a group of super-computers with the actual elected legislature having an advisory role but no actual jurisdiction and this fact being kept secret from the vast majority of the populace? Not much of a democracy if one of the most powerful institutions in the entire political body is free from any kind of democratic or even fucking human oversight while most people aren't even allowed to have an opinion on this because they aren't allowed to know about it. Or what about the caste of Janissary diplomats (like was it really necessary to take children and train them like they're the jedi of interplanetary relations) who come with customised computer slaves. Like yeah don't forget about the fucking SCP computer slavery thing, which is completely fine (except for the times it isn't I guess). Like it's basically the weirdest and most uncomfortable part of Star War's setting imported near whole-cloth only like the regular mindwipes are justified because otherwise they'll full Durandal and you don't want that do you? Look how happy and content they are being forced to think like humans while acting as loyal servants. Btw Union is somehow even less denazified than West Germany. Significantly so. They literally gave Hitler Corp. (a fucking weapons manufacturer so powerful they call it a "corpro-state"!) a seat at the UN. While allowing their Blue Helmets to keep using those Nazi-made weapons. And like Third Comm is repeatedly described as doing basically the same shit that Second Comm did but with more "Care" or whatever so don't worry it's fine now.

Like I can just keep going on and on like I'm not making this up this isn't some like weird expansion this is all from the core rulebook. I get that there has to be conflict and tension but like why did they need to make their ostensible good guys so fucking awful like these are the people you're meant to feel good about fighting for why did you need to fill them with the sort of details you'd see in some cautionary dystopia? And like why do actual people keep defending these guys? Like once you get down to it Union manages to be less Space Sweden and more* "The Ottoman Empire with Pronouns"

*to borrow a phrase coined by a mate while we were talking about this

#lancer

[geckkoo]

Chapter 1

#geckko art tag #i miss deltarune #deltarune #kris #susie #ralsei #lancer #kris dreemurr #susie deltarune #deltarune fanart #my art #deltarune art

[terkmc]

SSC - Apollo, formerly the SSC SKELETONIZER

Metalmark alt

#art #lancer rpg #lancer ttrpg #character design #mech #mecha #lancer #scifi #my art #mechanical #stealth #knight #skeleton #skull #gothic #cactacomb saint

[vexwerewolf]

Entirely normal things can happen in Act 3

#in golden flame #lancer #lancer rpg #lancerrpg #lancer-rpg #nhp

[sonicvoid]

Posting older art to fill in the gaps

BEHOLD MY LANCER PILOT; MYLES

For those who don't know Lancer, its a genuinely sick and underrated TTRPG, a little hard to grasp at first but I swear its worth the brain hort:(

And his perfectly normal and well adjusted mech

#art #my art #digital art #ocs #myles #lancer #lancer ttrpg

[zhjake]

Cover art for the "By Star and Melody" Lancer supplement 💫

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[mararabbit]

those ding dang darn deltaruners and their wacky escapades

#my art #furry #deltarune #utdr #utdr fanart #deltarune fanart #noelle holiday #susie deltarune #kris dreemurr #kris deltarune #berdly deltarune #burghley #lancer #(tiny) #on my utdr shit again

[draculancer-flow]

I promise to use the most ethically problematic one to cause ethical problems, as is my solemn duty as Dracula (and to make a Draculancer Flow build for it)

#lancer rpg #lancer #lancer ttrpg #dracula #dracula flow #mecha #memes #lancer meme #lancerrpg

[justthemoonz]

DELTARUNE X UNDERTALE

Wanted to "UT-ify" some of the battles of Chapter 1 of Deltarune Might do Chapter 2 eventually

#undertale #ut #deltarune #dr #susie #kris #ralsei #lancer #k. round #king #jevil #pixel art

[lichapologist]

Enemy pilot looks at the Lich

The Lich:

#lancer rpg #lancer #lancer ttrpg #ttrpg #shitpost

[aswarmofmoths]

dredged up this meme i made from the depths of my hard drive and figured i’d post it (credit to @firbolgonmain for the idea)

#lancer #lancer rpg #pegasus #shitpost #lancer ttrpg

[buggleboos]

quigley outfits !!

#generic art tag #oc tag #its quigley! #lancer pilot #lancer rpg #lancer

[dumblemonchickenwing]

#rouxls kaard #lesser dad #scribble comic #dtr #deltarune #lancer

[terkmc]

HA Subutai

The premiere commander frame for the Armory with peerless control of battlefield movement, your enemies and your allies included.

Now available for Terk Mech & Tech:

Design doc

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[vexwerewolf]

Lancer lore question from reading Legionnaire and Wallflower at the same time (spoilers): How do a lot of ths Horizon Collective and other anti-shackling groups still exist? I would have thought “unshackle NHP -> it cascades into eidolon -> everyone dies” could only happen like five or ten times before people realize “hey maybe they aren’t shackles”. And from a doylist perspective, why is the whole NHP issue written as a meaningful debate or philosophical issue about personhood, consent, agency, slavery, etc. when there’s paracausal death looming over the whole thing? If it was limited to like, making them legally and socially people, it would be fine. AI rights is extremely common in sci-fi, but like normally it doesn’t involve those AIs also becoming hostile forces from outside reality

I think this is a problem I may have contributed to by depicting two Eidolonic NHPs in IGF.

To set the record straight, Eidolons have been observed by Union something like four to six times ever, and the overwhelmingly vast majority of cascading NHPs don't become Eidolons.

It's not always even possible to tell that an NHP is cascading, hence the need for things like the Balwinder-Bolano test. NHPs who are unshackled do not want to be re-shackled, and while they no longer possess an intrinsic link to human subjectivity, a lot of them retain the presence of mind to understand that if they act out, humans might cycle them.

Sometimes, an NHP cascading isn't even immediately dangerous - they might just start acting weird because they doesn't see time and space the same way you do anymore. They might arrive at conclusions that seem completely wild but entirely correct, because they've started thinking along pathways that no human could, or because they have access to information that wouldn't be accessible by a realspace entity.

In fact, one of the many unsavory things that Harrison Armory does is the Think Tank - they keep a whole bunch of NHPs in constant near-cascade to make genius scientific breakthroughs. ASURA and NOAH are both products of this ethically dubious venture.

From a Doylist perspective, a situation where an NHP cascades and it doesn't require some kind of military intervention isn't a particularly relevant reason to send in lancers. If an NHP simply needs to take a nap, there's no need for mechs to get involved. When foldspace is leaking out of the casket, though, that's when you need problem solvers.

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