From:	Tim Cooper <tpcooper@********.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject:	Re: NERPS (Stuff) cloaking device
Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 1998 17:29:46 -0800

David Buehrer wrote:

> I think RP is designed to be used on a flat, imobile surface (like
> the side of a van, for example). This way the system always know
> which way the polymer is facing relative to the sensors. If you
> mount the polymer on a flexible surface (like a great coat) your
> going to have to mount sensors on the coat so that the system knows
> which way the surface of the coat are facing and can account for that.

Of course, besides, using the rules given in ShadowTech, you'd need at
least 4 or 5 to make in any sort of reasonably reliable system anyway.

> Not impossible, but expensive.

Sure thing, I think the last one a character of mine built cost upwards
of Y50,000, not counting street index. Expensive, but damn effective.
Also not the kind of thing you just lug around on any old run... things
like bullets, fire and acid can easily turn tens of thousands of nuyen
into so much fried junk and melted plastic.
Believe me, I know.

~Tim