From:	roun <roun@***.NET>
Subject:	Acers
Date:	Mon, 25 May 1998 12:07:51 PDT

Acers came out in Shadowland #1. the article is by andrew ragland.
actually, half the articles in it are by andrew ragland, with some by steve
kenson.

anyways the acer requires an ACR or armor control rig, which has to be
installed at level 3 for 5.0 points of essence at half the cost of a VCR
level 3. it is able to be run at level 1, 2, or 3. costs about 120,000 b4
you add weapons. that's for the suit, the controllers, motors, mods like
cameras, l-l, t-g, enviroseal, onboard comp to keep it from falling down.
so you sit in this suit and it adds the ACR rating to your quickness and
reaction, adds 2 dice to combat pool, 1 to initiative, and adds 1 to all
#TNs for Physical activities, except for weapons that are built-in to the
suit. it also has a strength of 12 and armor of 7/5 cuz it's based off of
a heavy security armor, right, just heavy security armor. hmmmmmm.
this was made with SR1 rules and so is basically a thin air creation with
no basis or balance.
the total price listed for it in the mag is 456,620 nuyen. kinda steep for
something so specialized.
IMO, this could have been done better, way better. something based along
these lines could be made with R2 rules maybe. but this is not a remote
set of armor, you wear this thing. i dunno, not too good in my opinion.
i think i can email some more info on it to interested parties but i did
not want to just reprint the whole article here, cuz ya never know whos
watching.

if you are interested, email me PRIVATELY at the addy below.

roun aka dave
roun@***.net