Stalkerbe 4
A robotic soldier built by the ancients to kill people.
He is gigantic. His metal armour plates are rust with flecks of grey.
So he looks pretty old. I'd put him at about mid-200s-ish. Now, to drop him!
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Nothing happened. Looks like the metal plates are magma proof. Now to the control "volunteer", who is dropped an equivalent distance onto stone.
Stalkerbe 5
A robotic soldier build by the ancients to kill people.
He is gigantic. His metal armour plates are rust mixed with grey.
Now to drop him!
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His left hand is gone. His right hand is gone.
Seems like those are some pretty bad wounds. Now to repeat the experiment with females to avoid gender bias. Enter subjects 6 & 7!
Stalkerbe 6
A robotic soldier built by the ancients to kill people.
Her metal armour plates are rust.
Stalkerbe 7
A robotic soldier built by the ancients to kill people.
She is gigantic. Her metal armour plates are rust with flecks of grey.
Now, we drop them.
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Neither Stalkerbe was wounded! I drop another female onto stone, and the same happens. Another female, and still no injuries! I then drop two males (TS 10 and 11). 10 has no injuries but 11 lost his tail. Seems like female stalkerbe are more resistant to fall damage.
Let's do some large-scale testing. 10 females (test subjects 32 to 41) and 10 males (test subjects 42 to 51). Drop them
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And we get the following wounds (inc. past tests):
Females: 7 missing parts
Males: 13 missing parts
So females aren't invincible, as I first thought, but they are twice as resistant as males. Now for some combat tests! After sealing off an area to stop others from interfering, I pit 10 females (subjects 76-85) against 20 males (subjects 86-95).
The casualties:
Females: 5 deaths, 39 missing parts, 34 major wounds
Males: 10 deaths
It looks like the female stalkerbe are the most powerful. Next step: finding out why.
--Thomas
