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+ | Powered weapons use driven moving components, with bodies able to change shape with mechanical joints. This sets them apart from conventional fighters, tanks and craft by allowing them to change their centre of balance, interact with their environment and reduce the number of elements (such as thrusters and weapons) used by allowing them to engage along multiple directions and vectors without redundancy. | ||
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+ | This reduction of components often means that powered weapons (such as mecha, frames, robots and power-armor) are often more compact than their conventional platform counterparts (such as fighters and tanks), faster and more maneuverable with a better operational envelope but they are more expensive to deploy, require a high level of skill to operate and have enormous maintenance requirements. As such, many are designed to self-heal over time, repairing their linkages, connections and simpler components while things like engines, armor, power-plants and sensors have to be repaired by hand. | ||
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+ | Generally, powered-weapons as such have their own core anatomy which they are issued as stock and often able to self-repair very slowly and supplemental elements which can be swapped out or customized by an end user though require maintenance from an experienced engineer or qualified user. | ||
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+ | The small size of powered weapons and high performance often makes them apex and decisive weapons popular among field commanders and their self-repair capacity allows them to wage extended conflicts behind enemy lines while salvaging enemy components. As such, personal units belonging to an individual are quite common, akin to medieval knights, pirates, bounty-hunters and privateers. | ||
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+ | ==== Categories ==== | ||
+ | * **Powered suit:** Sometimes nicknamed ' | ||
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+ | * **Contact Suit:** A sub-classification of powered-suit acting as a wearable cockpit, and pilot-suit sometimes known as a plugsuit allowing the pilot to plug into a unit. | ||
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+ | * **Power Maid:** Half power-armor, | ||
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+ | * **Power-Doll: | ||
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+ | * **Power Armor:** The baseline of powered-weapons, | ||
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+ | * **Power Frame:** - Straddling classifications between fighter and armor, powered frames are the largest general purpose humanoid robot that feature either enclosed cockpits or power-armor like wrap-arounds extending into large external limbs. They are generally more nimble than tanks and fighters and a better purpose vehicle with similar specialization though they are more expensive and require extensive training. | ||
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+ | * **Power Fighter:** - A highly mobile fighter craft, a power-fighter is often able to tilt its entire engines or aim its forward weapons akin to turrets. They commonly feature VTOL performance and are quite popular. | ||
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+ | ==== Power Suit ==== | ||
+ | Sometimes nicknamed ' | ||
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+ | === Contact Suit === | ||
+ | A cousin of the powered-suit, | ||
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+ | ==== Power Doll ==== | ||
+ | A stock powered-armor with software to act as an unmanned weapon, often placing parts and equipment inside the body where the pilot would go. Usually hollow. | ||
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+ | ==== Power Maid ==== | ||
+ | A classification of android which integrates the features of powered-armor, | ||
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+ | It is common for a powered-maid to contain little to zero organics. Their faces are usually covered by integrated helmets or in many models, they feature no face whatsoever. It is not unusual for the elements of a powered-maid to be a pick and mix of powered-armor, | ||
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+ | Often used as a derogatory term for a combat robot with a humanlike form, implying it is as designed for ' | ||
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+ | ==== Power Armor ==== | ||
+ | The base-tone of all powered-weapons, | ||
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+ | Unfortunately, | ||
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+ | ==== Power Plus ==== | ||
+ | Serving as an extension of powered-armor, | ||
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+ | Power Plus often act as packhorse drones, serving or accommodating a team of powered-armor to improve their ability. | ||
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+ | ==== Power Frame ==== | ||
+ | Often straggling the space between full blown mecha and power-armor, | ||
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+ | Their primary purpose is to be faster than fighters albeit less armored - and more heavy hitting than powered-armor, | ||
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+ | ==== Power Fighter ==== | ||
+ | A fighter combining the characteristics of a frame with a fighter-craft. While a powered-frame may act as a powered-fighter, | ||
- | what are frames? | ||
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