RE: [HoE] Junkman Cometh

["Patrick Phalen" <pphalen@gti.net>]

>Commo and Sensor are horrendously confusing. I tried to design a
>scope for a
>rifle. Now, there's a Targetting power for this, but it says you
>have to use
>Sensor and Commo.  I figure I just want a simple, passive scope to
>increase range,
>nothing fancy. So I guess I need a Sensor otherwise the scope is
>blind, and then
>Sensor needs to display something, only now I've got to have the
>Commo power and
>display it on a little TV screen or something. By now I'm
>hopelessly confused and
>just give up. Why create a Targetting power when you need 3 or 4
>other powers to
>get it to do anything? And why is just a simple telescopic sight
>impossible to
>design?

Having not read the book yet, here's my input:
Why does it have to be a junker device?

One of things that it seems people are having trouble with is assuming that
ever Tech/mech/whatever gadget suddenly has to be a junker device.

Why couldn't you just find some glass and a metal tube and do the
machining/grinding/whatever to make a conventional rifle scope?


Patrick "I think" Phalen