[K5pbem] Odd Question

[Michael Surbrook]

On Jan 17, 2006, at 7:04 PM, Dulio Giovanni wrote:

>
> Well seing as my character is a regular adrenaline junkie, I kinda  
> though it would be logical for him to be using new experimental  
> armors (ones with activation rolls and side effects) from corporate  
> sponsors, sort of like the X-Plane pilots of today. He's still a  
> merc with a death wish its just that he's a well connected merc.  
> I'm not sure though how to define his armor as your definition of  
> nanites is extremely different from what I am used to, to my  
> knowledge nanites it  seems to be biological in purpose, I was  
> envisioning something like a basic frame composed of billions of  
> small machines that reconfigured themsevles anytime it changed form  
> like in Max Steel.

Let's start at the top:

If someone is going to get experimental combat-capable hardsuits, it  
is not going to be a freelance merc. It is going to be various  
corporate operatives who will take it out on field tests. (X-Plane  
pilots usually work for the company making the X-Plane.)

A well-connected merc is fine, but a merc with a deathwish makes me  
ask -- will he die? Or will manage to survive everything?

The technology you are describing doesn't exist in the game. Nanites  
do exist, but so far I have limited them to organic nano-factories,  
used to grow replicated lifeforms and process massive amounts of  
organic waste and other matter. Certainly a suit of armor made from  
reconfigurable nanites is far beyond the general tech levels I  
foresee for Kazei 5 circa 2039. (Granted, I'm not great a "predicting  
future tech" but that I know is beyond the setting I envision.)

BTW -- Who's Max Steel?

A few more questions:

How is this character going to interact with anyone else? Or is he?

Or, to be more specific, what are you looking to do in the game?

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