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From: tjlanza@************.com (Timothy J. Lanza)
Subject: Customized Drone
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 17:20:38 -0400
At 04:46 PM 5/16/2003, Kato Combat Cabbie wrote:
> --- Lone Eagle <loneeagle@********.co.uk> wrote: > At
>01:45 PM 12/5/2003, you wrote:
> > >2) instead of the rigger being slumped in the front
> > seat, is there a sort
> > >of box that the rigger can be in, that could be
> > armoured, and protect the
> > >rigger from the outside world while rigging. (e.g.
> > gases bullets, stuff
> > >that's harmful!)
> >
> > It's called a Rigger cocoon, I don't recall seeing
> > rules for them anywhere
> > but they appeared in a piece of fiction (I can't
> > remember which book
> > but...) so I knocked up something of my own. Add
> > extra vehicle armour
> > (specific to the rigger and without adding too much
> > weight) use the
> > Enviroseal(TM) and life support customisations;
> > build it up from the ground.
>
>Another option to get yourself a rigger tank in the
>vehicle is to pick up a JIM suit. Rig it and put in
>an electronics port to jack in your deck and you have
>6 extra points of vehicle armour instantly which can
>also double as power armour (STR 7 to 10) if you need
>to get out and squash a few pesky samuri.

A JIM suit is designed to be used underwater. For the most part, it doesn't
even have legs. While you could say that it does, this isn't really what a
JIM suit is for.


--
Timothy J. Lanza
"When we can't dream any longer, we die." - Emma Goldman

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