What would the uniform of your average mech pilot look like, assuming mech cockpits are extremely cramped and warm?
>I was advised to ask this here by /tg/
>>12429086
Skimpy and sexy as hell, according to Battletech: A Time of War's artistic representation of a female mechwarrior.
>>12429123
To be fair that goes for the male mechwarriors too.
>>12429134
you mean to say BT has beefcake too?
>>12429106
>>12429123
>>12429134
yusssssss
>>12429144
Wait until you see the Ghost Bears.
>>12429148
weren't they in Chappie?
>piloting this ugly piece of shit
>>12429086
You'd be looking for the Shirow style suit then
Cockpit don't get much more cramped than "hugs your curves"
>>12429265
Fluffy hair is an optional but recommended part of the uniform
>>12429170
ain't even mad
>>12429295
What do you mean? Floofy hair is a near-mandatory part of it!
>>12429086
Something like a spacesuit with tubes to pump cool air.
>>12429265
I always feel like those things would tug up the vagina uncomfortably. >>12429295 looks a bit comfier.
>>12430378
It's because she is actively pulling it up.
But the great thing about high-cut is that it does look super-tight.
>>12429086
Battletech has pilots practically in the nude (a few stories). Just a neurohelmet, cooling vest, boots, and underwear. Gloves and extra attire optional.
Though some of the richer pilots or organizations have actual form-fitted cooling wear (full or partial, depending on preference or faction pilot dress code).
>>12430416
>no mecha pilots who fly their machines in a fundoshi
Why live?
>>12430461
>Benkei's balls.jpg
To be fair though, he was also wearing a yukata.
>>12430416
The problem with most coolant suits is that not only are they expensive as fuck and just as difficult to find, the coolant that's pumped around is still as toxic as they are in the vests. If any of it gets into the bloodstream then the mechwarrior involved is gonna need medical attention asap.
Of course, the Clan coolant vests don't have these problems.
>>12430424
That's an ASF pilot suit.
>>12429655
Cool air from where?
>>12430424
I doubt pilots would be allowed to have hair like that.
>>12429086
Let's start with some basic concerns.
1st, what is the control interface? The mecha pilot may have to wear some kind of plug suit that reads the impulses through the body and translates them into commands for the mech. If some kind of suit is mandatory, then it would probably be almost like a space suit with built in cooling measures, even if it has to tether to the mech in some way. If we are dealing with something like an iron man powered armor, since we are dealing with a small, enclosed environment, the colling system would be built directly into the mech, or skipped all together.
If a control suit is not required, some kind of pilots' fire suit would still be recommended, and in any kind of regulated fighting force would be a mandatory uniform.
If the mech offers the pilot a cockpit, even a small one, it can easily have an air conditioning system in place, and would want a self contained environment in case of chemical weapons.
Final answer, depending on the mech and the control system anything from what a modern tank operator wears up to a full environmental suit.
>>12429086
Like this
>>12432660
Is this Kagura from Azumanga? Because damn.
And in general, in hot environments you probably want a full body climate-controlled suit of some kind. Baring skin is all well and good, but high heat in the cockpit means all the metal objects are heated as well and that's going to cause burns, which is a big problem in a cramped cockpit with lots of hot metal objects to bump into.
>>12429086
Like this.
>>12430416
>>12430424
based mechwarrior
>>12430461
My husbandu. :3
>>12430416
>some of the richer pilots or organizations
Jesus fuck who bats an eye at "cooled pilot suit so you're not miserable" prices when piloting a hundred ton death machine whose ammo load costs could buy several city blocks?
>>12431950
>toxic chemicals
Did every planet run out of clean water suddenly?
>>12432952
Jesus fuck who bats an eye at "cooled pilot suit so you're not miserable" prices when piloting a hundred ton death machine whose ammo load costs could buy several city blocks?
probably the bigger factions, I don't think itd bode well from a PR standpoint to have your mechwarriors disembarking and looking like LORD HUMANGOUS
>>12432952
>"cooled pilot suit so you're not miserable"
>not miserable
If they weren't always miserable they might start getting ideas about NOT being locked in constant war involving hundred ton death machines.
Can't have that, son. A lot of money gets invested to grow those fuckers in vats, too much to risk them getting all comfortable at any rate.
>>12431963
I realized just now I had posted the wrong image before bed.
I meant to post this one.
Though I could have sworn I also had a one-piece cooling suit image from Mechwarrior. I do recall they do exist, but were only really available to the wealthy or well-organized pilots/organizations.
>>12432952
There's no actual military that would be caught dead without cooling vests.
Even in the middle of the second succession war, when everyone was getting their factories nuked and they were losing the ability to make freezers and warships, the only time an actual military unit would not have vests is when they didn't get resupplied.
There are, however, poor mercs and shitty planetary militias all over the place with their centuries-old warhammers and Archers, or salvaged bugmechs.
They are the ones who don't have coolant vests.
>>12433299
Also:
From the old House Davion sourcebook (which is available for download through Sarna):
>Keeping the ‘Mech pilot cool enough is the basic function of the MechWarrior’s uniform. In a constant search to help its warriors be more comfortable in the hell of a ‘Mech in combat, the AFFS introduced the Cooling Undershirt about ten years ago. Developed by the scientists of Team Banzai and the NAIS, this short-sleeved red undershirt is basically a miniature version of the MechWarrior’s cooling vest. Each strand of the undershirt is actually an extremely small but tough tube that carries water or similar fluid around the wearer’s torso. Though it cannot cool as much as a regular cooling vest, the cumulative effect of the shirt and the vest allows the ‘Mech pilot to withstand even the hottest cockpit in relative comfort.
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>Because the bulky cooling vest covers the shoulders, the epaulettes denoting the wearer’s rank are worn over the upper arm instead.
>>12429106
A description from the old House Liao sourcebook (also available through Sarna):
>The typical battledress worn by Capellan MechWarriors is not unlike those used in other Houses in the Inner Sphere. The hot environment of a ‘Mech’s interior during combat has prompted MechWarriors to adopt an armless body shell composed of three separate pieces, covering shoulders, torso, and waist. Hand and leg protectors protect against constant chafing and irritation while moving within a ‘Mech cockpit. In some small Capellan BattleMechs, MechWarriors forego wearing the center torso shell in favor of layers of silk or cotton to provide additional freedom of movement.
>Biosensors are worn along the warrior’s arms and legs, providing constant information to the ‘Mech’s environmental control computers. As Capellan technology lags behind that of other Houses, it has produced a larger then average-sized neurohelmet. An emergency air sup-ply/filtration system is built into the helmet to provide 30 minutes of oxygen if the ‘Mech’s circulation system shuts down. A personal med-pack is situated on the wearer’s left shoulder, containing an assortment of stimulants and pain depressants administered by disposable, compressed air-hypos.
>>12433299
>>12433305
HEY! HEY! HEY!
WELCOME TO THIS CRAZY TIME
>>12430416
So in the battletech universe they've never invented air conditioners? Sad.
>>12433871
it gets HOT
![Lcvg[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/RDLC8pb.jpg "Lcvg[1].jpg")
if cockpits of mecha were hot. pilots would wear a cooling suit under their pilot suit. using chilled water hoses to circulate water through the suit and through a radiator.
See this NASA cooling suit. Which is worn by astronauts when in their space suits and EVA.
>>12434025
I eagerly await the day when this is normal fashion.
Clothes that keep you cool and refreshed even when it's 98' and muggy out would be great, even if they are wrinkled white onesies.
>>12434078
some day, some day
>>12433871
iirc it's not that they don't exist, it's just that installing a central AC unit means one less gizmo slot to kill the other guys with
>>12434148
Nah. It's just that they can't handle the weapons and myomers just dumping heat into the robot.
Actually, most battlemech cockpits are pretty decent. They got toilets, storage, the chairs can fold out into beds, all sorts of stuff. At least, on the big mechs.
Even Decision at Thunder Rift mentions A/C. Or maybe it was another book in the series, I can't remember.
>>12433871
>>12434196
What the second guy said. Locomotion is not a real problem when it comes to heat, but firing off dozens of rockets and hundreds of bullets tends to put a lot of pressure on any cooling system, much more than a lousy A/C unit could manage.
>>12434220
>>12434196
ah, okay
yeah, my Battletech knowledge is just what I've osmosed from here and back in the day at the game store I played mtg at.
>>12432835
I prefer the improved version of that.
>>12434232
Tumbling down, tumbling down......
>>12434232
>MFW Clanners glass my planet
>>12430378
Ask any woman who was in the swimsuit age in the 80's, and they'll probably tell you they don't miss wearing those bloody things.
Ask a lot of males though, and they'll miss looking at women wearing them.
>>12433460
KIMI WA TOUGH BOY TOUGH BOY TOUGH BOY TOUGH BOY
Criminally underrated song.
>>12433871
Actually it's there, but the climate control systems under typical battlemech deployment conditions is only capable of keeping the cockpit about as habitable as a sauna.
Battlemechs by design produce a fuckton of heat, there's just not enough space to make things more habitable.
But it gets better, in more frigid environs it can get real fucking cold in there. Thankfully heating is rather trivial by comparison.
>>12429086
I liked how 08th MS team everyone basically stripped down to bear minimum since it was so damn hot.
>>12434801
an humid
>>12429086
I generally hate fanservice pilot suits and don't know anything about BT but holy shit there's something about that art style that makes me want to cum inside that girl
>>12434864
It's nose bridge hatching.
>>12434864
That's not a BT pilot anyway.
>>12434907
I can support this comment. Also, the thickness of the lines is pretty fucking nice.
>>12429086
nice filename.
does someone have the comic with the actual oyoroi piot.?
>>12434907
This. It's practically cheating.
>>12434907
Yeah it's basically instaboner
>>12436936
I think she's also just at the sweet spot of curvy and confident along with everything else that's been said
>>12429086
What is that qt from anyway?
>>12436988
you could google image search it you know
>>12434232
What does Anno have to do with the Word of Blake.
Is he a secret Manei Domini or something?
Funny you came here, I wrote a few time to justify Stripperiffic skintight suit as acceptable female spacesuit
> Copypaste :
Getting to space is challenging because every gram count, living-space is also likely to be scarce for this reason as pressurized space is costly. Furthermore in absence of gravity to hold things down, you and object are going to float, the more complicated and loose a clothe is, the more likely you are to get caught in things.
All those statement comfort that the BEST space clothes will be tight and form-fitting clothes.
Pocket are needed, but SPACE-pocket are going to be different, preferring strapped object rather than free-floating object in clothes, an adaptable harness can be used for this.
On the question of PILOT suit, G-Force dampening system are needed, I infer that this is likely through the use of smart tightening material.
Also, if the suit isn't vacuum-rated, such skintight are best to get fast into another one that is.
As an addendum, don't be fooled by their appearance, high-heels of the space future can be robotic spring to move efficiently in zero-gravity environment.
And all the above would obviously be double-compatible with gravity environment.
So I declare this skintight catsuit practical, along with high-cut competition swimsuit and bikini.Of course everything, yes everything, I said do apply to men as well, no sexism here.
Another copypasta to follow >>12437241
Our best reflexions on the perfect pilot suit design for future women mech pilot have lead us to the following requirements :
- skintight suit to not get caught on thing in low-gravity room and lessen weight in the costly space environment.
- made of smart-material that act like invisible hand to lessen G-force
- applied like paint to fit anybody best
- encompass busts entirely in a semi-rigid fashion as to provide best force dampening
Further research are ongoing on...
- half-transparent material to see potential injury faster
- a suit dissolving liquid to access zone of injury as fast as possible
One of our specialist is also working on anti-poison lipstick
A secret procedure is worked on to move the g-force protection to the cockpit itself, such asstraps fully restricting the female pilot movements in any way and a neuronal-control helmet.
...this allowed for more variation to be considered :
- high-cut swimsuit, most efficient in case of crash at sea-level altitude and to facilitate cleaning.
- bikini as to reduce overall production cost in our post-nudity-taboo society.
- A sealed-box with a full parka suit in case it get cold.
- in 0-G station, a sort of futuristic spring-like high-heels would be useful.
Lastly it have been suggested that gold embroidery would give more dignity to the army.
So, if there's any draw-anon here, schematics are requested -including wide range of model physiology- to fulfill this important mission.
More suggestions for improvement are welcome, in particular for waterless sea-level region.
cockpit of the far future will surely (yes) be water cooled, so you might as well suit up for it
>>12437241
>>12437247
>diaper attachment still not mentioned
>>12437130
It all returns to nothinH
It just keeps tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down
/m/ know all about practical pilot suit
>>12437274
Every time I see this screenshot posted, I have to ask, why the fuck is her crotch bulge so huge. Is she a futa?
>>12437291
No she's just wearing a high-cut leotard you fucking idiot.
Got to have skin showing, as much as possible.
>>12437247
>>12437241
an addendum to your essay on skin tightspace suits
one pro for the skin tight option currently under research is that the physical compression of the space suit can make up for the internal air pressure that current space suits use which hampers mobility
>>12437274
>>12437328
delicious high-cut
I watched Rinne no Lagrange for its plot.
It's pretty cool you know.
>>12437254
Never thought of suspending the pilot in fluid, though you'd have to have like whirlpool/hot-tub jets for circulating fluid, since convention currents don't work in microgravity
Also I've heard water is actually pretty reasonable radiation shielding, especially if you need to bring water along anyway.
I do have to wonder what about impacts and jarring would do to the pilot in that situation, on the one hand, water is more viscous than air which would probably dampen the pilot from being shaken about the cabin, on the flip side, water is incompressible so shock forces to the walls of the cabin would be transmitted to the pilot quite readily
very interesting
>>12437390
and one more thing to add to that, if I recall correctly, water is actually rather good at slowing down projectiles, so whether it be a penetrating round, or cabin wall spalling, cabin fluid might make a reasonable barrier
though on the subject of laser/particle weaponry, attacking the side of the cabin wall would have some interesting properties.
Since those weapons function by ablating or melting, a liquid filled cabin could reduce the effectiveness of such attacks through the mechanism of having the fluid carry away the heat.
Its important to note in this instance, that it may be entirely possible to boil the pilot alive from either a powerful enough attack or a sustained barrage.
>>12437403
>slowing down projectiles
Uh, yeah. Like bullets. Fired out of a handgun.
It's not going to do much against a bullet the size of a small car (if Victory Gundam was any indication)
>>12434864
She wouldn't let a virgin like you near her, anyway.
>>12437274
> high cut bloomers
> in a civilization as advanced as GB earth
> practical
>>12437628
Of course, what else ?
>>12434864
Would you still want to cum inside her knowing this is her mecha? Possibly the single ugliest mech ever created?
>>12438564
ehm wait... is this some kind of female Dreadnought?
>>12438661
Depends what you mean by Dreadnought.
As much as I like the various stripper pilot suits found in mecha, the justification of "it gets hot inside the robot" doesn't make a whole ton of sense. If the interior of the robot is getting hot from operation, that would probably mean that any metal surface inside the cockpit would be getting dangerously hot. In a situation where getting knocked around in the cockpit could lead to scalding or burns, some kind of full body self-insulated suit would make more sense.They can still totally be skintight though.
>>12437628
>implying the aesthetic sense of an advanced civilization wouldn't be superior to our own
>>12438564
I'm cumming inside her, not her mecha.
Besides, after that I'll teach her to pilot my cock with her pussy.
>>12438564
That hunk of metal's sexier than its pilot, you pleb.
>>12429086
Why does this look so similar to the terrible suits from CA?
>>12438726
Getting very uncomfortably hot doesn't necessarily mean getting scalding hot though.
I knew tank gunners who would basically sit in the turret with their nomex coveralls unzipped and around their ankles in Iraq, leaving them in underwear and a t-shirt.
It's mainly when you add direct sunlight that surfaces get painfully hot to the touch.
>>12432952
>Did every planet run put of screen water suddenly?
Clean water is lostech.
>>12430461
>I recognize that bulge.
>>12434078
I think people 20 years ago would have been just as skeptical about yoga pants being socially acceptable.
>>12429295
We were just having a power armor thread about this, but I just noticed it seems like her feet and lower legs are in the "ball" parts of that suit which serve as its knees. That's actually an interesting design choice, IMO--I hadn't given it much thought before but now I see it.
>>12434220
>but firing off dozens of rockets and hundreds of bullets tends to put a lot of pressure on any cooling system
Pff, missiles and projectiles are nothing, it's those fucking energy weapons that fry your mech.
>>12442881
I predict we will all be running around naked by 2060s.
>>12442957
or we will just keep having 1970s revivals every year forever like in the past 20 years.
>>12442960
Let me dream.
>>12442957
But what would they sell at the Gap? Hats?
>>12442998
Probably liquid fashion except cheap, outdated and at a heavy discount.
>>12442957
That'd be nice, if people became neither old nor ugly.
Also being naked in the north is not so fun
I do find it interesting that despite being able to both by more clothes and mass produce fairly complex article of clothing, we're wearing less and typically simpler clothes for our day to day activities
>>12443007
In the space future we can surely make eternal youth possible.
at that point, give enough time to humanity and our culture might actually develop a taboo fetish for wearing too much clothes ! Maybe delinquent punk of the future would wear clothes similar to what was worn in the years 1700 (king Louis XIV and co)
>>12442668
>looks like a deformed hunchback
>guns inside hands
>sexy
>>12443580
>our culture might actually develop a taboo fetish for wearing too much clothes
>>12444282
Fuck you, anon, this is a blue board.
Enjoy your ban.
>>12442630
Not caring about what mecha your imaginary slut drives is the worst thing I have ever heard.
>>12443580
I want plug-in 'microsofts' and animal grafts like in Neuromancer.
>>12444282
Be assured that some lonely girl in pilot-swimsuit in the far future will find this picture arousing and ask for more hats
>>12444309
Drat, your reference is lost on me I haven't read Neuromancer yet.
>>12444301
Fuck, you this a conversation.
>>12443580
Someday I will actually google-search where those picts are from
>>12432952
The ones without vests are basically doing the first half of TTGL, where they have stolen or salvaged mechs and are jury-rigging what they can. So they just stick fans in any gaps in the armor, and don't wear much. Even with coolant vests though, your balls probably get damn sweaty in those things.
