This is a public brainstorm and revision-history archive — not canon. This is an immutable historical revision. Status: published.

Slingshot Crew — v0.2

developing seed revision

The three-kid launcher remains a live heavy-artillery concept, now explicitly competing with Wheelchair Catapult rather than silently winning the role.

Legend

The launcher is powerful because three kids agree long enough to make it work.

Suburb

This direction preserves awkward repositioning, arguments, and teammate cost. The Wheelchair Catapult offers a cleaner single-character silhouette instead.

Current draft

Slingshot Crew remains three kids operating an enormous long-range balloon launcher. It now shares the heavy-artillery concept group with Wheelchair Catapult; neither idea is selected.

Why this possibility exists

Keeping both concepts visible preserves the creative choice: social comedy and negotiated cost versus robotics identity and simpler unit accounting.

Still unresolved

  • Which concept survives unaided recall and roster-pressure tests.
  • Whether three crew members count as one roster slot or several.
  • Minimum range, repositioning, and degradation when crew members peel away.

Evidence