From:	Patrick Goodman remo@***.net
Subject:	Questions of great importance (Steve, Jon, RA:S people especially)
Date:	Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:27:12 -0500

> Pg 94 "Once Curent is applied, the response is almost immediate, with
> a delay of less than one hundredth of a second"

Muchas gracias for the page citation.

> The big problem is that at the bottom of the page "Any armor modified
> to include a Ruthenium polymer surface reduces its impact and balistic
> ratings in half (round down)"

I'm factoring in SOTA as making the fibers more durable, since I thought
that this particular ruling was majorly silly.

> In the shadow talk Hatchetman also warns that the "gel pack" that powers
> the suit is only good for about 30 minutes, though that is one I could
> see the military finding a way around.

SOTA again. It's been ten years since that came out; things change.

Of course, that sort of electrical field going on all the time around your
body will probably cause cancer. Everything else does.

> The other, BIG concern is that it wont shield you from Radar,
> Ultrasound, or Thermo... So your big concern would be Deus's drone toys.

True enough, though there's tech today to protect you from thermo, at least.
I didn't say the idea was perfect.

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