Just a few quick notes.
Armorer Skill
Well, I would say that an NCO with Battle Dress-2 should be able to fit
and adjust armor to a person. After all, normal military training would
require that a person be able to strip, clean, maintain, etc etc their
suit at Battle Dress-1. Battle Dress-2 should allow you to follow cookbook
instructions on how to adjust the suit. Battle Dress-3 should allow you
to be an expert at customization. Thus I would oppose introducing an
Armorer skill. (For heaven's sake it's tough enough to get battle dress
skill in the first place! Why make maintainance even HARDER on the players?)
Aslan Battle Dress
Nick pointed out that Battle Dress is a male only skill for Aslan.
True, but what about Combat Armor? I would imagine it would be a similar
situation to what we have for arming troops today: The enlisted carry
rifles, while the officer carries a pistol. Thus, in Aslan battle dress
forces, the males wear battle dress, while the females would wear combat
armor.
If so, then there would have to be male and female models of combat armor.
Probably, they would be distinctive designs, so that a male would know who
it was honorable to shoot.
Human battle dress
I guess, that if you look at imperial battle dress, then concievably all
(physical) customization would require would be remove some of the internal
padding in some places and put more padding in others. After all, Imperials
have quite a few minor human races to deal with, so finding a 'neutral'
fitting that can be modified would be desirable for battle dress designers.
Minor human races seem to vary a great deal, thus I can imagine you'd have
do make the suit fairly modular so that you can adjust it to fit.
Solomani suits are probably going to be similar.
The Zhodani, on the other hand have fewer minor races to deal with. Their
suits are probably going to be more geared toward the Zho normal. Also,
their chest unit seems to be a lot more articulated than that of the
Imperial suit. This suggests a rather tight fit. Thus I think there is
going to Have to be different types for male and female.
Fitting into alien vacc suits
There is a bit in the back of Adv 12, secret of the ancients on humans trying
to fit into an ancient droyne vac suit. (shimmer suit?) Difficult! wrong
number fingers! Wrong shape feet! The legs go the wrong way for humans.
Same goes for Aslan suits (but if you roll boxcars? Who knows?)
Cargo lifter capacity:
1 metric ton. (slightly better than the standard lifter and half the cost.)
The Lifters I made and the standard ones are exactly the same size (400 liters)
But they are just pallets. You can put as big a pile on it as you want, as
long as it weighs less than 1 ton.
(BTW, Ameer, my name has 2 g's in it. Come on! You see it on your breakfast
table every morning!:-)
Scott Kellogg
THEY'RE GRRRREAT!!!!:-)