16.03.2007 ~ Sentry Gun
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132Ripley jumps as an ALARM suddenly blares through the
complex.
HICKS(voice over)They're in the approach corridor.RIPLEY(into mike)On my way.Ripley jumps up, unslinging a FLAMETHROWER from her
shoulder in one motion, and sprints for Operations with
Vasquez. The sound of SENTRY GUNS opening up in
staccato bursts echoes from close by.
INT. OPERATIONS
133Ripley runs to the tactical console where Hicks is
mesmerized by the images from the surveillance cameras.
The flashes of the sentry guns flare out the sensitive
video, but impressions of figures moving in the smoky
corridor are occasionally visible. The robot sentries
hammer away, driving streamers of tracer fire into
the swirling mist.
HICKSTwenty meters and closing.Fifteen. C and D guns downabout fifty percent.The digital readout whirl through descending numbers.
An inhuman SHRILL SCREECHING is audible between bursts
of fire.
RIPLEYNow many?HICKSCan't tell. Lots. D gun'sdown to twenty. Ten. It's out.Then the firing from the remaining guns stop abruptly.
The video image is a swirling wall of smoke. Small fires
burn, dim glows in the mist. There are black and
twisted shapes, and pieces of twisted shapes, scattered
at the edge of visibility. However, nothing emerges
from the wall of smoke. The motion sensor TONE shuts off.
RIPLEYThey retreated. The guns stoppedthem.Picture the scene: a country divided by ideology (and an imaginary line), a locally manufactured rip-off of the SAW and the company that made my last TV. Throw in some great sci-fi (the scene from Aliens listed above for example), some sweaty armpits and a reason to point an automatic weapon at a vague compass point and you have...
the SGR-A1
Yep, rather than constantly having to pay for new boots for those sooo last season 'human' soldiers to patrol the disputed border (walking the line so to speak!) with their Northern cousins, the South Korean army have opted to cough up between $80,000 and $100,000 (each) for a bunch of SGR-1s to do job in their place.
Each unit is equipped with a battery of cameras that can detect and track a (presumably human) target at 2km during the day and up to 500 metres in starlight. Once a directionally defined 'baddie' is acquired and tracked the unit politely offers it's human supervisor the option to "park their target's dead bitch ass in the sand". Should the answer be "Sure, go ahead" the unit is equipped with a 700 rounds a minute FN minimi knock-off, the Daewoo K3 squad automatic weapon to complete the task.
Yep, at almost a hundred grand a piece, each of these stationary units can turn, see and shoot if someone tells them to. And they say innovation is dead!
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