[HoE] Cyborg/Junker Question

[Abdullah Oblongota <toadpooka@usa.net>]

<<Hmmm, that raises another question we have come up occasionally. Wouldn't 
  the "Miniaturize" trick not be usable here? Just as making bullets or a car 
  smaller would tend to defeat the purpose of them, wouldn't making a 
  junker-type cyber arm smaller/miniaturized to a very great degree make it 
  unusable as well?

  Or is the point that you can miniaturize something that would require Frame 
  Size X+2 (don't have a Junker SB in front of me, but X = the size of an arm) 
  so that everything fits in Frame Size X?>>

Yes, that was what I was getting at.

<<  But if you can do that, why can't you do that with a bullet or car (i.e., 
  build a Car requiring 9 Frame size, but miniaturize it down to a 
  motorcycle-sized Size 7)>>

The main reason for not being able to mini the bullets is that their size
directly impacts the damage.  As for vehicles, I'd handle it by counting the
total slots that can possibly be shrunk, doing miniaturize from that total, then
counting in the unminiaturized number of slots for controls and passenger space.

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