Re: [BNW] Delta Prime/Gadgeteers

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

> In the Delta Prime book, there are descriptions of the Armegeddon
> Corps.  I don't have the book here in front of me, but it says
> something about an Armegeddon team consists of five suits of armor
> also a gadgeteer and a pilot for each suit.  It seems the wording is a
> little tricky.  Obviously there needs to be a pilot for each suit, but
> my question is:  Is there one gadgeteer per suit also?  If so, it
> seems that there would need to be an awful lot of gadgeteers in DP's
> employ.  And if not, does that mean that one gadgeteer is maintaining
> five Armegeddon suits?

This seems to be a big "hole" in the BNW/DP logic. Yes it would mean each
squad has 5 gadgeteers to maintain 5 armegeddon suits. Granted you don't
need that many (if the suit is destroyed the gadgeteer just spends 8 hours
refurbishing the one in storage and he's back in business). But still if
you multiply at least one squad per major city/region x the number of
cities/regions that's a lot of gadgeteers.

My theory (or what I've decided for my world) is that DP has actually got
an Alpha Gadgeteer working for them. He was incarcerated during the
disappearance and is now carefully watched during his work in exchange for
a monitored normal life.
Given that he's an alpha he would only have to maintain any given suit
say... once a month? A year? So he could "make the rounds" of the US, or
the suits could be shipped to him, fairly easily.

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