From:	"Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject:	Re: Rigger tank?
Date:	Sat, 9 May 1998 18:48:39 -0300

Wafflemeisters escreveu:
>
> > Re: Rigger tank? [was Re : Ridreless blitzen] (Barbie , Thu 16:04)
>
> > A Rigger tank was indroduced in the novel, the one with Alamis, Nightspawn
> > IIRC
> > Its a tube like thing in which the rigger lays down, sudpended by gel packs
> > and so
> > to cut of all outside sensory input, the rigger can only sense and comunicate
> > over his rig. I use this a long time in my game.
> > Rigger tank: cost 30000 ¥
> > CF 15
> > boni +1d6 ini, every action takes half time, complex->simple
> > simple->1/2 simple
> > Avail Military
>
> That sounds a little.... extreme, for what amounts to an armored
> sensory isolation booth. Rigging your drones from a dark, quite room on
> a comfy bed would grant a (smaller) bonus, by that logic.
> A samuria walking through the middle of a gunfight doesn't have
> anything distracting him from THAT, but he doesn't get any faster....
>
> -Mongoose

I think the rigger tank would be more like a totally enclosed space
filled
with fluid (most probally LCL or those oxygenated fluorcarbons from
Shadowtech), wich
lessens G-forces from acceleration on aircraft and various impacts on
any vehicle.
I consider a rigger to be in total sensorial deprivation from his
body anyway,
the body is put to "sleep" while he rigs. The tank would prevent the
rigger from
being physically damaged from G-force and collisions (more than a crash
cage), and
perhaps some IV tubes could provide nutrition for long drives. The
rigger wouldn't
fall asleep while driving because he already is technically aspleep.

Ubiratan