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 ====== Powered Weapons ======
-A fairly general term, powered-weapons are characterized by moving parts not common to platform convention (arms on a tank, legs on a fighter) or mechanical support of a wearer or pilot, akin to a muscle-suit or robot.
+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.
+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.
+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.
+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.
+==== Categories ====
+  * **Powered suit:** Sometimes nicknamed 'leather jackets', they are bodysuits around an inch thick, often doubling as space-suits, strength enhancement and body-armor.
+  * **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.
+    * [[/guide/mecha_and_power_armors/L7 | CS Arbiter MK VII]] - A contact suit used to drive the MS Adjudicator VII.
+  * **Power Maid:** Half power-armor, half cyborg with a synthetic brain and glass skin and often an entirely artificial intelligence or a construct based on a real person.
+  * **Power-Doll:** A stock power-armor with software to act as an unmanned weapon. Hollow. Older models are often suicide bombers or re purposed as missiles.
+  * **Power Armor:** The baseline of powered-weapons, power-armor are a hard suit of parts wrapped around a wearer with field generators, strength enhancement and some sort of reactor - featuring the mobility of a helicopter gunship and the strike potential of a tank - though exponentially more expensive and in inexperienced hands, less effective.
+    * [[/guide/mecha_and_power_armors/L7 | PA Adjudicator VII]] - A Lorath powered armor used by Inquisitors and Knights.
+  * **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.
+  * **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 ====