Re: [BNW] Delta Prime/Gadgeteers [MATT]

[Ivan Ironsword <nbouqu1@gl.umbc.edu>]

the way I read DP was that it takes one hour of maintance per device, so
convievably one gadgeteer could maintain 5 suits with 5 hours of work per day.
Furthermore, I suspect in practice Matt is going to have a referburshing squad
that circulates as well (when emergancies arise and suit fall into disrepair).

Nick

Theo McGuckin wrote:

> > 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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