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... good gods, could have have chosen a worse named company to manufacture highly intrusive scanners? That's like... I can't see how that's anything but a PR nightmare. One easily shifted syllable...

Anyway, less cancer-inducing voyeur machines in use is a good thing, I guess.

Harmony really is awesome. S'just expensive on most critters (Cat point, 6 generics) and fiddly to get what you want running (self flagellation with fire damage ). Wilders don't really have an excuse, though. They get the tree for free, heh, and likely don't have a high magic stat (making smacking yourself with a elm fire staff trivial.).

Arguably the best part about harmony speed, though, is that it stacks with other speed buffs... like say, Eden's Guile or the Shaloren racial >_>

Or did. Dunno if they fixed that.

Protip: Swim trunks.

Aannnddd then the Thing gets possessed by a daemon and the real fun begins!

I think the real question would be if the Thing would end up committed to one of the factions or end up as an avatar of Chaos Unbound. I'd personally figure on the latter, m'self, given enough time. Thing seems fun, but it also sounds like it wouldn't really have much in the way of defense against Chaos corruption, heh.

There's been at least a couple of pretty solid Halo/WH40k Xover fics, t'be honest. Spartans actually hold out alright in some ways versus some of 40k's tech, though there's ultimately nothing they can conceptually win against over a longer term... Spartans are basically just toned down Space Marines, with all that entails in WH40k verse. The AI coming along might make a bit of a difference, but... ehn. There's room for some interesting fiction for a displaced (or more likely, cyro-stored or somethin') Spartan in WH40k verse, but they'd definitely overall be an underdog.

On the same hand, though, a Spartan suit (especially if the AI came along) represents a good chunk of what amounts to Lostech (if somewhat unimpressive on a grander scale, with some exceptions [The AI and force field primarily, I think]), doubly so if the Spartan has a solid knowledge regarding construction and maintenance (Which... I don't know Halo fluff exactly well, but given their general profile I'd expect Spartans to be pretty capable on that front). Plus the Spartans would be pretty well inclined toward aiding the Imperium in general, so I wouldn't expect overt conflict. Ideological conflict, likely, but there's plenty of IoM's forces that are pretty flexible on that front.

That said, Orkz and 'nids would probably kick the everloving crap out of a Spartan in most cases. Either of 'ems a lot nastier than most of what Spartans deal with in general... barring maybe the Flood, but the Flood's kinda' special cased. Spartan'd probably be able to give a pretty good showing though, yeah. Maybe.

Which Tuesday? 

[W]hich Tuesday is unknown.

Re: Movement... they moved around quite a bit in the stream whatsits. Perhaps not the full range of possibilities, but definitely quite a lot of them.

It'll be released by Tuesday. Though which Tuesday is unknown.

Wait patiently. It's not even been a year, yet.

Shield spiking tends to be a very last-ditch thing, for me, at least until I get the cooldown reset for 'em (though I'm a bit more free with spiking once I have the rest, the reset's expensive, so...). Aura spiking you use when you're up against something that's actually dangerous, sometimes as an opening shot, sometimes not -- the passive damage is actually pretty high, so leaving it on for a bit before spiking can increase your overall damage versus an individual critter. Mostly you just bump things to death and build up your tank (i.e. shields). Even with the changes, kinetic and charged is generally the pair you care about. Aura wise, you'll eventually max all three (but probably not the forth talent) both for greater spiking and higher conduit damage. Augmentation's a big deal, max that ASAP. Makes it so slayers can comfortably go will/cun/con.

As for general stuff, you'll want mobility kit (rush/speed boots, tele rune, movement infusion, etc.) whenever possible and advanced mobility is where your first cat point is going to go (Second's either grip or finer energy manip). First three talents in that tree are solid, but you can probably avoid maxing the first and third tier -- you don't really need their maxed range, in most cases, but an extra point or two is generally a good thing. Antimagic's a pretty good idea, especially with the resulting fungus, but you can do without quite easily as well. I'd probably recommend heavy or massive armor, likely the latter until the end game (unless you've found good -fatigue kit you don't mind wearing).

Race wise... thalore, dwarf, or undead (Either -- ghouls are my preferred 'cause of the built-in stun immunity a ghoul slayer can get, plus g.leap is great and Quick as Thought and Beyond the Flesh help mitigate the ghoul global speed penalty). Maybe halfling or cornac. Yeek or shalore are good for focus!slayers and highers are alright doing whatever.

There's probably more I'm forgetting, but that's a start.