Since you can't move, the very next thing you do is begin searching for weapons, anything you can activate without physically moving. Nothing is listed among the systems you currently have access to, so you start by asking the Primary Control System, then begin searching through Secondary Storage.
While you quickly sift through information on different types of weapon systems, everything from melee weapons, to handheld, to back mounted types, you still haven't found any specifics about the weapons you are outfitted with, when the Primary Control System gets back to you.
Frame Settings Access Granted.
The response also includes everything you need to access and work with a new connection you didn't have before, called Frame Settings. With it, an entirely new interface opens up for you.
Frame
Internal Systems
External Systems
The information breaks down into many different parts. With the robot on top of you having sliced most of the way through your cockpit armor now, you don't have the time to properly page through and cross-reference everything. So for now, you just scan for anything labeled as a weapon.
You only find one, a small phaser. It's built into your right forearm. Without any way to move your arm, you can't actually make use of the weapon.
The next closest thing to your search uncovers are two small size weapon holsters, mounted externally, on the hip of either leg. But, those holsters are for storing handheld weapons.
You don't have the time to figure out why there's no information available on whether those holsters actually hold weapons or not, but it doesn't matter, since you can't move anyway.
Immediately falling back to another proposed plan, you check for thrusters. If you launch your entire body, the weight alone will crush the smaller attacker. Those, you do find, and in good numbers.
You have six in total. Two each in your back and the back of your legs, with enough range of motion for forward and upward thrust. The final two are in your ankles, to fire when jumping, or provide small bursts to aid lateral movements.
These will do the job.
When you set about activating the thrusters, you see that each set has a connected fuel storage tank to power it. Since the fuel stores are all empty, you try using the one fuel store that isn't: the reactor's.
Error! No fuel transfer feed!
You have no time to figure out what that error actually means. The robot is in the process of prying open your cockpit and shoving its bladed arm partially inside. The curved blade waves around, nearly skimming the human, who has been frantically flipping switches and mashing buttons for the last few seconds. Oddly similar to the way you've been tearing through your available systems, one plan ruled out after another.
Now, you come to the most brief of standstills. Each and every option proposed by your subsystems has been tried, yet you have not found a solution. Besides simply keeping yourself powered, it seems as if every single one of your systems is currently inoperable – either without the resources it needs, or simply non-responsive to your demands.
You do not know why. The only thing that is apparently operational is the Pilot Assist AI, currently turning over faster and faster as the human flails, trying as hard as possible to make sense of the human's intent.
Currently, the most it has deciphered in its basic calibration attempts is that the human is 'male' and 'sixteen.' Of course, neither of those pieces of information are useful to you.
Overall, it doesn't hold much interest to you. An incidental human doesn't offer any potential solutions to your problem here.
-Until it does.
All of a sudden, the human grabs hold of the main control handles inside the cockpit, and your body reacts. Motors spin up all over, jerking and grinding into motion.
With it, your power reserves plummet in a way you haven't seen before. The enormous spike drops your battery power by three percent in a half second, and that's after sucking up the full ongoing output of your generator.
At forty six percent capacity, you can barely keep this up for another six seconds. But that hardly matters, because everything else is suddenly falling apart even faster.
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With the spike in power use, your Heat levels soar. Warnings pop up one after another in rapid succession warning of every single system you have access to, suddenly burning up all at once. Loud groaning echoes out from all over your body, Structural and Internal Integrity levels crashing too.
You fly back to check over what could be the cause. Why would your body sustain so much damage from simply trying to move? You immediately spot this one. From your earlier research, you find chi.
As the first of the three supersubstances, chi is described as a thick red liquid, similar to oil, or blood. It features a wholly unique trait, such that if a piece of metal is submerged in it, the chi will absorb into the metal, giving it a special property. When subjected to extremely high amounts of sustained, localized pressure, the durability and electrical resistance will change – durability increasing, electrical resistance decreasing.
Since that is apparently determined by the point of the structure under greatest pressure per its area, anything that spreads the load over a larger base reduces the effectiveness of the chi.
From that understanding, you determine that the problem is your Chi Function, still listed at 0%. Most of your parts should be saturated with chi, so without it providing any of its benefits, most of your body cannot support its own weight while moving, and your electrical systems will almost immediately catch fire from the amount of power running through them.
And the cause of your Chi Function dropping as it has? It must be how you are lying on your back. That provides such a large base of support compared to your legs, your weight is is far too widely distributed.
Since momentary spikes in pressure haven't had a meaningful impact, you know you need to maintain pressure in one place somehow, at least for long enough the increase your Chi Function again...
Unfortunately, the human in your cockpit is the only one in control right now, and they aren't paying attention to the screaming red warnings throughout the cockpit about heat, fire, structural damage, or anything else. They're simply jerking your right arm up in an attempt to swat away the attacking robot, much as you tried to do before.
The one good thing that happens, is the Pilot Assist AI gets a good enough handle on the human's actions, that it starts to predict what they're doing, and smooths out your body's movements.
Apparently, while the Primary Control System has no ability to directly move your body, the Pilot Assist AI can.
By minimizing unnecessary movements and optimizing the motion the human is trying to make, the load on your power systems drops off greatly, giving you the crucial extra moments you are going to need before you either run out of power, or catch on fire.
The robot tears off the cockpit's hatch and throws it away, then strikes down at the human inside. The human makes it just in time, crashing your hand into the robot in a hasty swipe. It drives the robot's strike off target, missing the human-
When the blade shreds through the sides of the cockpit, entire sections of your consciousness flicker in and out of function, and the next thing you know, you've completely lost access to Secondary Storage.
You don't know if the physical wiring to the system has been severed, or if the actual storage itself was destroyed, but that is not good. But there's no time to dwell on it.
Unaware of your own issues, the human is awkwardly smacking the robot around. Without the front panel of monitors, ripped out with the hatch, there's a sizable blind spot, where the center of your view is focused. Even partly blind, they manage to knock the robot off, and a kick sends it rolling away.
The human gets an arm under you, attempting to get your body to sit up, for a better view of the enemy. More structural warnings fire off from the immediate damage to the shoulder and arm from it supporting the weight, motors screaming under too much load.
Despite that, the sustained pressure begins to lift your Chi Function, a little at a time.
Sitting up, the robot comes into your line of sight once more. It's partway across an open, concrete floor. The area is wide open – it is littered with various objects and plantlife peaking through cracks in the floor, but it is all so minuscule in comparison to your own size, it is easy to ignore.
The robot is awkwardly stumbling its way upright when you see it – a sight that makes you realize something. This is precisely in-line with an earlier plan of yours. If you could activate a weapon system and open up space between you, it would give you an advantage.
Now, you find yourself in almost exactly that position. Immediately activating the small phaser in your right forearm, you start pushing power through, getting it ready to fire. Since your left arm is holding you up, it is completely free to fire.
But the human doesn't know you have the weapon...
Just as the robot starts to bound across the room toward you once more, you open up your Output options.
Monitors
Audio
Apparently, you can display information on the monitors, or simply pump sound out into the cockpit. But is that your best choice here? You could activate the weapon's firing mechanism, without involving the human. But aiming would be far harder, you'd have to trigger it at just the right moment, when the human unknowingly has a shot lined up.
Not to mention, what havoc will it wreak on your electrical systems? Even if it's a small one, a phaser is a high draw energy based weapon. Can you afford to fire it?
On the other hand, you've already sustained significant damage, your system integrity is dwindling rapidly across the board. You've completely lost access to your Secondary Storage from that internal hit as well. Drawing out the battle risks sustaining even more damage. Can you afford not to fire?
You pause for just a moment to decide on a course of action.
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[ ] Attempt to fire your phaser when the human has a shot lined up
[ ] Try to get the human to fire the phaser
-How?
[ ] Don't fire the phaser, try something else instead
-What?
[ ] Leave the battle to the human
[ ] Use your Output to convey other information to the human
-What?
[ ] Check on system damage more thoroughly
[ ] Do something with your other available systems
-What?
[ ] Write-in