Seeking power armor in rifts for repair and salvage work.
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wolfoflight
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Seeking power armor in rifts for repair and salvage work.
Hello I was wondering if there was any other salvage and repair power armors aside from the greasemonkey? I am trying to find a cheaper suit though.
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Re: Seeking power armor in rifts for repair and salvage work
wolfoflight wrote:Hello I was wondering if there was any other salvage and repair power armors aside from the greasemonkey? I am trying to find a cheaper suit though.
Yes, TW's and Psytechs. But they usually charge more for them.
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Re: Seeking power armor in rifts for repair and salvage work
pblackcrow wrote:wolfoflight wrote:Hello I was wondering if there was any other salvage and repair power armors aside from the greasemonkey? I am trying to find a cheaper suit though.
Yes, TW's and Psytechs. But they usually charge more for them.
Not the question. Its about power armor that does the same job as the greasemonkey.
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Re: Seeking power armor in rifts for repair and salvage work
Getting a sense of deja-vu as I feel like I might have answered this, but the NGR Flanker seems well-suited to the task, and is very cheap power armor for the protection and capabilities it provides.
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Re: Seeking power armor in rifts for repair and salvage work
There is a note, I believe in the mining borg OCC write up, that the various tools can also be used as power armor systems. And then the Rusty Modular Power Armor from Rifts: Australia is designed to be modular and explicitly has stuff like winches, and other modules available....
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Re: Seeking power armor in rifts for repair and salvage work
Tor wrote:Getting a sense of deja-vu as I feel like I might have answered this, but the NGR Flanker seems well-suited to the task, and is very cheap power armor for the protection and capabilities it provides.
WB5 for the XM-170 mentions the X-60 Flanker PA being part of the complement for just such a purpose.
wolfoflight wrote:Hello I was wondering if there was any other salvage and repair power armors aside from the greasemonkey? I am trying to find a cheaper suit though.
Not being familiar with the Northern Gun Books I can not offer many suggestions. Naruni (Wave2) likely has something similar in concept IIRC, but Naruni is probably more expensive. Japan and Underseas also have salvage PA in mind, but availability and how they compare to the g-monkey I do not know. WB5 does have the repair/mechanics pod (pg119) for a cool 500k, but probably isn't as versatile as the PA. You could also just go with a suit of Powered Armor (maybe beefed up/customized), which is a different category that straddles the line between Power Armor and Body Armor.
What you could do is get a cheaper suit and modify it for the role you are looking at. Or with GM's approval build a Full Conversion Borg to do just what you want, but treat it as a suit of power armor (could also adapt the Robot Construction Rules in SB1 since they don't cover this aspect, or use the rules in HU which do cover piloted and convert the stats for an MDC universe). It Might not come out cheaper though unless the GM applies a cost modifier since the costs are for 'borg parts as PA parts might be cheaper (but per the 'bot RCC in SB1 the 'bot equivalents are more expensive than Bionics).
I would also add that sometimes the cost is high for a reason.