that is _LIGHT_ battle armor? O.O

Heavy battle armor is more along the lines of Starship Troopers (the book, not the movie). It has fewer exposed joints, thicker armor, jump jets, and heavier weapons. Also, "battle armor" is a category. There are lighter forms of armor, but they don't have the preface "battle".

How often do they have to trim

Mrish soldiers who are going to wear this stuff have to trim down until their hair resembles a shortfurred car's. You can see from my previous mrish pic that their fur is much longer than that. Some have tails so furry they resemble a skunk's! It would need to be trimmed about once a month. Mrish have a bunch of "simple" genetic alterations they can get, and soldiers often opt for one where they can just "tell" their fur to stop growing. That way they can let it grow when they are on furlough or garrison duty, or keep it short when they are on combat tours.

also are the shield generators all those oval shaped areas or just the one you picked out?

The green ovals with black crosses are all shield generators. They are spaced around the armor to provide a more conformal shield. A single generator could only produce a globular shield, which makes for a very large target area.

the only problem, if a problem at all, it that the smartgun if firing BB's

ok fine a .35 gram BB flying at 20,000 meters\second WILL kill (more like go right through you)


ANY way, I like it

awsome stuff man x3

at 20,000 MPS, your lead ball effectively becomes a plasma, not a projectile, as friction melts it into a gas. on the other hand, the corona when you fire it is probably very pretty, as the air in the barrel will have compressed to the point of igniting any volitiles that can be compressed out of the air by the time the projo reaches the muzzle. 20,000 meters per second is more than half of orbital re-entry velocity, and that melts things with much higher melting points than lead. The Navy recently managed 5,600 MPH out of a railgun, and the ceramic and plastic projectile, which, if I remember correctly, weighed seven pounds, can be seen to burn and ablate in the air.

Interesting. I was wondering what the physics were at such spells. Might have to slow down the shot and use larger projectiles, then. The only problem with that is he's not be able to carry as much ammo, but there's no reason I couldn't make it a 12.7mm, 1500 M/S, bullet shaped, "rifled" (spun by gravity) shot.

OMG! Don't bring rifling into it. Hypervelocity projectiles just don't spin stabilize well! At a mere 2,200 feet per second, cast lead projectiles tend to fly apart if you try and spin them. The hypervelocity armor-piercing stuff they use today is all fin stabilized and smoothbore, and this also makes the rounds penetrate better, as their own spin, combined with a target's armor sloping can actually lead to a failure of the nose of the penetrator to 'bite;, and it is deflected.

Of course, if you've got that kind of gravitic control and energy sources, why throw such a large projectile? Throw, oh, hydrogen nuclei at relativistic speeds :)

You raised an important issue the first time. I didn't take the atmosphere into account. A plasma beam, which is probably what you mean by hydrogen nuclei, isn't going to work well in an atmosphere either. Either weapon would be great in a vaccuum, though.

I've revised my opinion on the functionality of this weapon. They have the tech to make a grav accelerator weapon, so what to do with it? If you go for intensely rapid fire you end up using a ton of ammo, which requires a ton of space even though you don't need to carry powder. You can have it fire different calibers as needed, though. I see this guy as carrying more of a sniper rifle, now. A near-hypervelocity .50 caliber slug is nasty. Presumably there are other, more numerous mrish armed with lasers or other rapid fire weapons. In fact, I'm coloring one now. 83

How about a grav weapon that's a natural extension of claws? A setup that allows you to grab an enemy and pull it in several directions at once or just bat it around? :)

I did some math at class today. Maybe giving up on the grav driver rifle was a mistake. Lead balls as ammo won't work, but let's say it fires 6mm, 2cm long bullet/needle rounds. They are pointy to reduce friction and are made of, say, Osmium. (Very high melting point. Important!) They are spun at a reasonable rate as they are accelerated -- nothing crazy, but enough for ballistic accuracy.

A 6mm, 2cm long osmium projectile weighs about 11.5 grams. This compares to a .50 caliber round at 52g (the heaviest bullet commonly fired from the Barrett M82). If the osmium round is moving at even 3,000 M/S, the kinetic energy yield is 52KJ. A Barrett round carries only 20 KJ. At 5k M/S you get 144 KJ out of the osmium projectile.

Either speed is enough for a frightening amount of kinetic energy, and the projectiles are small enough that you can carry a lot. They're heavy, but that's what powered armor is for. If you ramp up to 10K M/S, which we'll say you can do if you need to punch a hole in a tank, you get half a megajoule striking a surface of 1/3 of a centimeter.

What happens if one hits flesh? It goes right through, but the displaced tissue is now literally exploding outward and blowing the target apart.

"Expensive ammo", you may say, but with asteroid mining osmium should be easy to come by. As mjuch as you need for this, anyway. Platinum or other dense material can be substituted.

I chose a projectile weapon for this guy because the lore is that there is a mix of energy and projectile weapons in use. Looks like it'll work with a little tweaking from the original design. 83

Well, the numbers work, although there's still little reason to spin the projectile. Another possibility is to not carry ammunition at all, and make it locally. If you can do tricks with gravity, it shouldn't be too hard to convert atmospheric hydrogen to deuterium, squeeze a pellet really hard, and have an effective gamma-ray laser.

This reminds me of a Cizerack Battle-harness, especially the smartgun, that reminds me of the more expensive version, I loved the name though, the "Look-n-Shoot"™ Battle harness was very similar, though not nearly as heavily armored, you still had to get armor seperately. Then again, the Cizerack are felids, and they're -terrible- at moving around on just their legs. I think it was a -95 penalty to agility, in a 1-100 point system, though they racially did have the highest bonus at something like +35. I like the joint structure on the armor the best, I think. Though the scorpion-esque bayonet is really kewl as well, as is the thought of the gun on the tail itself to allow for cornershotting without having to peek one's head around.

definately i dont wanna mess with one of those XD

oooo looks very awsome i do say

However, you can use that plasma to your advantage and make a jacketed round. Have a core of, say synthetic diamond (simple to make with gravity manipulation technology, carbon is CHEAP, and cant beat a melting point of like 3800 degrees Kelvin.) Jacketing the core is something that will ablate easier with friction than the core so you do generate a thin layer of plasma around the core. Fire a lower powered laser down the barrel microseconds before the bullet (to generate a vaccuum and eliminate friction in the barrel.) Bullet leaves barrel & plasma sheathe forms on contact with the air. At even 10k-12k meters per second, travel time would be a small fraction of a second. On impact, plasma sheath burns through the outer layers of the target's shields/armor and a semi-molten diamond core impacts the inner armor or inside of the target at high speed and vaporizes due to friction. Should ruin almost anyone's day :)

sounds like a plasma sabot. Its being worked on or is going to be. Saw something similar to that for a grenade launcher.

I am distrubed but amused! mecha and powar armor.. ftw