>>5899027(2/3 actually, I underestimated the number of characters.)
"Let me show you the thing I've been making for years now, I-I present to you!" She points to a strange spider looking robot while smiling like a kid. "Uhm! Okay! So, it's a self-defense robot...combat...thing! It's programmed so that if something happens to me, like my heart stops beating or speak a certain codeword. It will umh, it will run to my location and kill everything around me, you're also included in this now. Now you may think, 'but Etsy, the spider legs are too big, won't that make the movement awkward?'."
This was literally the last question on your mind.
"But no! Cause you see, the joints can actually move up and down the legs, so it is incredibly flexible while still applying terrific pressure! It also has guns of different kind just in case-"
You ask her what would happen if her murderer fled the scene and an innocent civilian came in to check her body.
"O-oh, uhm, I guess they'd...get torn to shreds...and gassed...and a few other things."
Jesus Christ.
"Uhm, anyway! The main issue with it is that all the parts to make it are pretty expensive, and it can't operate for long because of the massive energy cost. It's not even complete, it's more of a functional prototype in its current form."
You fear to imagine what the fully realized version of this is capable of.
She's disappointed that you aren't half as excited about this as she is, but a thumbs up followed by a quick kiss is enough to make her happy again. You thank your lucky stars that she's easy to please, because she's not the kind of person you want to make mad.
Anyway, it seems that more funds is one way to deal with your enemies, and you both decide to gather whatever projects she has that could be worth selling. This is harder than it sounds, as it seems nearly everything she makes is illegal to some extent.
You do eventually manage to find something that isn't a literal war crime and is documented well enough that people can consider it actually worth buying.
You think of whom to contact for the design. Even though Etsy officially never worked for anyone, the fact that her mailbox has multiple job offers from big megacorp proves people are still aware of her tech genius status.
Etsy insists she doesn't want to take orders from anyone, but a lot of those corporations can offer pretty hefty benefits just for an exclusivity deal. In other words, if she promises to only sell her designs to this corporation, we might get not only a good source of money, but also benefit from the infrastructure of this particular corp.
