TW Battery and Vehicle conversions

[Talon Starblade]

Ok folks. 4 years ago, I actually started a similar conversation, but that was just trying to get clarifications on the TW construction rules. This time around, I'm trying to find out what some of us have done to match up the batteries and especially the vehicle conversions (and maybe the generators that DON'T need a ley line to run). Now, I know we can't actually print specifics, but within the confines of what we can print, does anyone have any ideas?

Or is someone looking to do an official "system conversion" from RMB to RUE on the original TW gear... Maybe to a full rewrite of EVERY one that's currently in the books? Just an idea.

[drewkitty ~..~]

TW vehicle conversion want list:
~power syphon (drawing PPE from the environment.)
~back up mundane motor Or a dual fuel (PPE & <mundane fuel>) motor
~large PPE battery

[Talon Starblade]

Honestly, the only way I can think of to handle an ambient energy feed, is to somehow manage a spell chain the spell life source in it and somehow manage it to grab a poit or two of PPE over a large area, instead of sucking out life energy.

A mundane secondary motor really isn’t all that much of a problem, especially if you ‘re working with a hybrid engine. One design that was floating around was to literally work with an electric vehicle that had a small auxiliary generator to recharge the power cells on the drive. Just one of many designs (rig the generator, not the drive engine)

A large ppe batter really isn’t that hard… Us a spell chain consisting of Energy sphere (primary) and Talisman (secondary) and you should be good… of course it’ll be pretty expensive especially needing a high level Techno-Wizard to really store more than 3 to 5 hundred points. At a flat DL of 5, if you’ve got creds to burn, you can amp up the carat count and bring the ppe cost down. Still, one way or another, it’s gonna be downright expensive. Just doing test numbers, at nearly 10x the minimum carats, it’s still over a thousand ppe just to make. So if you’ve got bank and access to the gems, then you can make it happen.