Mobile Police Patlabor
This series has been deintegrated and is no longer appable. Reintegrating this series would require a new post-hoc application. The existing integration is kept here for any players who may wish to make such an application.
Mobile Police Patlabor is a mecha media franchise about a group of police known as SV2 (Special Vehicles Unit Division 2) who pilot machines known as 'Labors', a common-place type of giant robot used in all sorts of civilian life. It is being pitched to SRTMOO both for application and to spice up 'civilian mecha use' and provide more options for the unitlist! It also featured in SRW Operation Extend for the PSP.
Mobile Police Patlabor
As a long-running metaseries that ranges from long-term plots to fully episodic, Patlabor presents some challenges in 'what is integrated.'
SRTMOO uses a mixture of the manga, the seven-episode OVA, and the three follow up movies, with little discrete content used from the four-cour show. The manga is technically a different continuity from the movies (and the show another), but we're starting at the 'beginning' of the franchise, after Division 2 officially goes into action; this allows SRTMOO to use the best and tastiest parts of each element.
Integration - Setting
- The meat of Patlabor's action takes place in Nouvelle Tokyo. Section 2 enjoys a friendly* rivalry with Brave Series's Brave Police. In a practical sense, the Patlabor armored police divisions are part of the OCU Forces faction at game start.
- Shinohara Heavy Industries's star has steadily risen since the Britannian invasion of Japan, due to Isurugi going full collaborator.
- The existence of Patlabor requires some seedier/worse areas in Nouvelle Tokyo and this is totally fine.
- Despite nominally being Nouvelle Tokyo police forces, the Patlabor armored divisions get up to a lot of stuff outside their borders, because... they can and their boss wants to.
Integration - Specific Character/Faction Issues
- Kanuka Clancy is Neo-American, rather than Britannian. Introducing this flavor of political murkiness to the character wasn't really desired.
- Schaft, the antagonist weapons company, works with Amalgam. This gives Amalgam more of an in in the Nouvelle Tokyo part of the grid than it previously had and avoids joining Patlabor and J-Decker too closely at the hip.
- A variety of one-off science criminals: do exist! They can do their canon cool spots. It's cool.
- The genetically engineered monsters from the show can totally exist. Kaiju at every size!
Integration - Mecha
- Current-generation Labors are Manual-operated, non-MULS-P Size S units.
- Next-generation Labors are often Autobalanced-operated instead, and some have access to Unlimited-flagged attacks for cybernetic assistance. Many of them would likely have Simple OS due to the new flavor of helper AI that is often kind of annoyingly in your way.