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Yeah, it needs some work, what i was trying to say was that even though we don't have the tech do make a fusion reactor small enough now, we probably will eventually. The mech is just small enough to fit in most corridors in a spaceship, the major ones anyway.QuoteLocated in the backpack is the machine's power source, be it a bunch of batteries or a fusion reactor, If it is using a fusion reactor then the reactor will typically also be used for propulsion.
Are you saying that the power source can be swapped out between battery and fusion reactor mode? Also, what's the scale of this mech?
The guardsmen class mobile armor suit is part of a new generation of combat vehicle designs
It takes the basic form of an enlarged beta warrior that has been armored up and has a backpack.
The wearer is inside the torso and control of motor functions (moving limbs) are done via a psionic link between the machine and the wearer, with data from external sensors being either directly fed into the users brain or projected on a series of viewing screens and speakers. All other functions are done mechanically, or digitally, with the user pushing buttons and using controls to activate various systems.
Located in the backpack is the machine's power source, be it a bunch of batteries or a fusion reactor, If it is using a fusion reactor then the reactor will typically also be used for propulsion. for ground mobility it has a set of gauss enhanced grappling hook/anchor launchers for either scaling vertical structures, killing foes, or pulling the craft towards enemy ships, it also has a set of deploy-able wheels for long range travel
For mobility in space it has a set of thrusters for basic movement and boosting through the air in atmosphere. It is also capable of equipping an EVA pack/drone, this piece of equipment takes the form of a set of massive wings, it contains more thrusters, a queens will reactionless drive, a small cockpit for a single drone, and a set of weapons. The EVA suit is also capable of acting on it's own, as air support for the guardsmen. The EVA pack also enables atmospheric reentry, allowing the mech to rapidly land wherever needed.
The mech has a few inbuilt weapons in the form of antipersonel gun turrets and a small rocket pod, but it has hands capable of wielding weapons that are scaled up to it's size, These can be anything from particle cannons, to bog standard heavy weapons.
By design neither the mech or the EVA pack have ejector seats,
[We] will make the [Dead Ones] bleed.
[We] do not surrender [Our] Weapons
[We] fight to the last.
By using a set of four to five borehole drives, this device teleports Incredibly tiny pieces of matter (nano-meters ish) to the print site. The size of the chunks of matter is adjustable, and the type of material can also be switched by changing which storage they draw from. The materials are drawn from a series of solid blocks stored within the device, due to difficulties related to a wide variety of units this system cannot be used to extract matter so the materials have to be extracted and refined via conventional means. The system requires the thing being printed to stay absolutely still. Rather than printing large things several of these small printers work to make small components that are then taken from the small print bed and put together in a larger area, there they are either teleported to the build site where they are used to make larger constructions, anything from ships to buildings. due to issues with using a borehole drive in atmosphere the print beds are kept in vacuum. Overall these devices are power hogs and can take large amounts of exotic particles to complete larger projects or ones requiring greater precision.
Designs:
Queen’s Will: (5 Dice, +1 on Progress and Cost) (3) SC, Evictedsaint, DGR
Queen’s Glory: (5 Dice, +1 on Progress and Cost) (3) SC, Evictedsaint, DGR
Those in Service of the Queens
(5) Eternally Loyal: evictedSaint, BBBence1111, Shadowclaw777, Sarrak, DGR 11897
(1) Tarilsar: KhazintheDark
Faction Name
(1) Unified Colony: evictedSaint
(1) Silentium Flood: Shadowclaw777
(1) Endless Empire: Sarrak
(2) [Concordance]: KhazintheDark, DGR
(1) [Preeminence]: BBB
Homeword
(3) Regalis: evictedSaint, Sarrak, BBB
(1) Gravestart: Shadowclaw777
(1) Fir'Tal: KhazintheDark
