03-14-2021, 07:46 PM | #11 |
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Re: (IW) Conveyor Suits
I am now imagining some rogue faction that uses Jump-capable suits of power armor (probably adapted from the tech of some high-TL parallel). Could make for an interesting encounter.
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03-14-2021, 09:37 PM | #12 |
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Re: (IW) Conveyor Suits
Actually, half the transferred mass is conveyor (see I29). Therefore to move a person and a little gear you need a 200 lb conveyor.
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03-15-2021, 03:21 AM | #13 | ||||
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Re: (IW) Conveyor Suits
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I think there is wiggle room within cannon on P.84 IW it lists Petroleum as being moved by Sub-Quanta Tankers, that suggests even at sub-quantan level Infinity has the capability of moving more than 300 tons per jump. Also Project ZK-GO from Worlds of Horror suggests alternative conveyor capacity - herding large quantities of fish (and sea water), could as simple as swallowing up several hundred tons and jumping or something larger. With the possibility that cannon has now progressed to mid 2030s it does make me wonder how higher TL power sources etc might have now been incorporated.
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03-15-2021, 06:05 AM | #14 |
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Re: (IW) Conveyor Suits
The pulsed power system is, by VE2 standard, extremely heavy for the charge it carries. When fooling round with some back-of-the-envelope numbers I bumped up the energy requirement a great deal to get the required mass up to the numbers in Campaigns and Infinite Worlds.
That aside, TL9 powercells in VE2 hold 50% more charge per unit weight than TL8 systems, which helps a bit. 4e power systems are different, but we have no real idea what the step from TL8 to TL9 brings us (where's VDS when we need it?). If this was Spaceships I'd assume a ~1.5 multiple per tech level (i.e. that it follows the range/speed table like just about everything else) and call it a day.
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03-15-2021, 11:59 AM | #15 | |
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We know that Homeline has TL10 technologies in some areas so 40 to 44lbs for a suit isn’t out of the question and much more portable.
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03-16-2021, 06:59 AM | #16 | |
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Re: (IW) Conveyor Suits
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Steel (a.k.a. GURPS Reign of Steel) might have such power suits, intended for human slaves to use in work. Zone Washington likely has a bunch of them. Or Combine, where the focus is on robotic armored vehicles. (is Combine, with that corporate state and the Paneuropean Federation, supposed to be the IW version of a world-setting, like Steel is? Maybe OGRE or Car Wars?) |
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03-16-2021, 07:06 AM | #17 |
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Re: (IW) Conveyor Suits
It's Ogre, where about 50 years after the current date in IW the North American Combine (a pseudo-communist state formed out of all of North America from Panama to Cape Columbia) and Paneuropean Federation (a feudal capitalist state of Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok, but no Britain) start warring each other with their ridiculously oversized tanks.
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