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Explanoite In reply to FanArt3d [2016-08-12 18:04:02 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. It was very much a pain finding (or creating) different poses for everyone, but in some cases it worked out. Some, like Tok's, had to be heavily modified (I used a pose of someone who was sitting on a ledge, not a chair), whereas Lockheed I used the pose pretty much as-is and it ended up becoming part of his personality.

One of the things that I'm not sure how well I did is conveying the fact that CorpSec, as a whole, has become horribly undisciplined and rather corrupt, and that the members assigned to Infinity are an exception to that rule. It's information that is mentioned in the fluff of previous images (Gideon's Bio, and the CorpSec Patrol, I believe), but I was hoping to tell Mission Below so that all the relevant info would be presented even if nobody had seen/read anything prior to it. That's why at the very end of the story portion Gideon mentions the disparity between

Corporate Security was never about creating an army - it was about a government sponsored method of giving corporations access to military grade weapons because the cyberpunk equivalent of Apple and Microsoft keep hiring Russian mercenaries with tanks to blow up eachothers warehouses. In the very beginning, the plans they had worked well enough to ensure that the people carrying Stinger missiles were a small group of individuals with military training who were there to support the existing security forces.

With the passage of time however, quantity has trumped quality, and you have tens of thousands of people who have basically been given a month of training by military veterans, handed an assault rifle, and told "anyone that threatens Microsoft is a threat to national security and count as unlawful enemy combatants. We will pay you 8 dollars an hour to protect them." They show up to work the first day and are told by the company, "We'll give you a Volkswagon Beetle for your company car if you fire warning shots at those teenagers who keep slashing our trucks' tires on drunken dares - or a Ferrari if you kill them and claim it was to protect the drivers," and it goes downhill from there. All training and discipline is handled by people that the corporations can legally bribe via loopholes like that. Corruption and discipline rarely go hand in hand, especially when oversight is non-existent for as long as the corporation is happy with the results, and the government is more concerned with armed rebellion than internal corruption.

Infinity's CorpSec troopers are outrageously better trained and more disciplined compared to practically any other CorpSec group, and it is because Gideon is one of few people who aims for proper military discipline even as he works for someone who makes a habit of bribing him and his subordinates. One person can only do so much, and their resentment for Gideon acting like a drill sergeant is tempered by the fact that their survival rate has gone up exponentially, as well as the fact that most Enforcers handle discipline by executing the troublemakers. The fact that Gideon has only killed 2 of his men and doesn't do things like order female subordinates to sleep with him is why Trace said he's a puppy in comparison to the average CorpSec officer. In the story portion, the Infinity CorpSec members were shocked that Gideon fired his weapon at all, because it was uncharacteristic of him. The average CorpSec Member, had they witnessed that situation, would be shocked that Gideon fired a warning shot instead of simply killing Rhiannon.

I am being very careful to NOT write CyberMisfit as political commentary, but nevertheless CorpSec is a fantastic example of gun control gone wrong, and what happens when you have power without oversight.

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FanArt3d In reply to Explanoite [2016-08-16 10:12:00 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.  Posing is definitely the most time consuming part of 3d art, but it is also the most important.  You might check to see if Ironman13 has made any of her signature partial pose packs for genesis.   I sure she has by now.  They are individual poses for arms, abdomen, hip, legs, head, and feet.  They can be mixed and matched to make tons of poses.  Most of her genesis stuff is on Daz3d.com but there might be some on renderosity.com.  Most of her stuff is also geared towards Pin-ups, but even still the partial poses are very useful for regular posing.  Unfortunately at the end of the day I usually find myself making my own.

I think you did a great job conveying the difference in discipline levels and the decline of CorpSec's discipline as a whole save for Infinity.

I really like the backstory.    

That's probably a good idea since there is a lot more fiction in politics than there is in CyberMisfit.  Very true. 

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Explanoite In reply to FanArt3d [2016-08-22 20:17:12 +0000 UTC]

Now that classes have started up again, I have much less time to attend to spend going through my DeviantArt notifications, so I'm just going to say thank you for the advice and that I'll look into Ironman13's work!

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FanArt3d In reply to Explanoite [2016-08-24 22:46:00 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome and good luck with your classes.

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