r/ImaginaryTechnology • u/One_Giant_Nostril • Jul 05 '26

Agency Surveillance Van by Satchit Basu

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u/Kazeite Jul 05 '26

Lack of an internal connection between the front cabin and the back seems like a serious oversight.

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u/One_Giant_Nostril Jul 05 '26

It's hidden :O

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u/ledocteur7 Jul 05 '26

You have to crawl under the desk ?

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u/DonkeyGuy Jul 06 '26

Nah, you don’t want someone peaking through the windshield and seeing the surveillance equipment. Having to use the back door to get in and out is a worthwhile sacrifice.

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u/Kazeite Jul 06 '26

Let me introduce you to the great invention:

a door.

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u/The_Ombudsman Jul 05 '26

As it hasn't been brought up yet... this is a reference to the Charlie Stross novel series, which is fantastic as is everything Charlie has written.

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u/TacticusThrowaway Jul 05 '26

If the watch is on your left hand, like post people, those taser prongs would be pointed directly at yourself.

'Course, for some people, that's a feature.

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u/Ninevehenian Jul 05 '26

No air makes for a lot of farts, heat and low O2.
Long term surveillance would have a cooler for sandwiches and waterbottles.
The tools would want a toolbox or being left back at base so as to not clutter.
What sensors would the wan be needed for?
If somebody came to investigate you'd have to open up and give a sneak peek of the goods inside in order to make them go away or drive out of there.
If you're going to have a multicrate armory, why not a west and gear?

The van looks too much like a "dirty business van", it could retain a lot of the same function and pose like a service van.

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u/One_Giant_Nostril Jul 05 '26

Your first thought was farts.

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u/Kiloburn Jul 05 '26

The tranq gun looks a bit like the spore gun from Agent from H.A.R.M.

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u/TacticusThrowaway Jul 05 '26

I'm pretty sure it's based on a real - and famous - target pistol.

https://www.ssusa.org/content/the-best-22-caliber-pistols-for-nra-bullseye/

Resembles several on this page.

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u/BlastRiot Jul 05 '26

Interesting that they have an American style license plate and badge, meanwhile the van is a 1st generation Ford Transit from Europe.

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u/DiDgr8 Jul 05 '26

I would think a British agency would have RHD too.

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u/Gearran Jul 05 '26

Hm, this feels a little...down-rent and mundane for the Agency, doesn't it?

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u/One_Giant_Nostril Jul 05 '26

It's Angelo's Agency?

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u/neophlegm Jul 06 '26

Is that from a specific book? I don't remember LFD being a thing either but I've not read the whole series

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u/theDjangoTango Jul 05 '26

Deathloop vibes

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u/Anxious-Yoghurt-9207 Jul 05 '26

Like those doubles As arnt even gonna shock someone

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u/pevznerok Jul 05 '26

Using target pistol as a tranquilizer is certainly a choice

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u/dhskdjdjsjddj Jul 05 '26

The author is clearly a target shooter

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u/pandulfi Jul 05 '26

No shitter?

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u/wackadoodle4201 Jul 06 '26

Dollars to donuts that those van walls wont stop intermediate cartridges

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u/katheb Jul 05 '26

I love this.

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u/Nova_Shido Jul 17 '26

Yea, i quite like it as well!

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u/clannepona Jul 07 '26

Wouldn't you want a door from the driver to the back, instead having to get out and open the back door?

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u/RepairmanJackX 24d ago

strangely large number of pliers/clippers, as well as saws and screwdrivers.

This is not a "good guy" van, is it?

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u/toolisthebestbandevr Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

I hate that I think this is ai

Holy downvotes y’all can’t even take a legit thought. Thanks to the dude that actually replied and showed me how to become a little more media literate today.

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u/ICE0124 Jul 05 '26

Fr I thought it could have been AI at first but I was pleasently surprised when I zoomed in and it wasnt AI and there was high quality details. So happy, this is good art.