Pak Protecters in GURPS

[jeff_wilson]

Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2

Yes. Even a baseline Pak Protector was so intelligent that he could, simply by examining the engine of Brennan's ship for an hour or two, reach the point where he could have duplicated it if he had had the necessary raw materials. That's _enormously_ greater than human intelligence.

Of course, that's not as impressive as the magic drive the original Pak used to come to the Solar System in the first place...

My reading was that Phsthpok arrived in a ramship which is still a fusion driven ship but with a ramscoop to gather fuel (now known to be feasible). The gravity polarizer is magical, but specifically only works down gravity wells rather than between systems.

I have to take issue with Rupert, the enlarged finger joints can improve dexterity as well as strength if the muscle attachment is reversed so that it is like the larger fine adjustment knob on an instrument. There can still be a tradeoff for speed, but we have to think of the setting's fiat that people become more graceful and visibly less clumsy after a century or two under boosterspice; Pak presumably are the end result of the process where they always move right the first time with the best possible precision.