Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-24684131-20151208064212/@comment-24684131-20151216112423

Altan stared at her for a moment, never before having made such a connection with the suits designation. Perhaps to Mints surprise, he started to laugh rather hard.

"Oh, hohoh, WOW, I honestly had never though about it like that, heheheheheh. Aaaah...well. You're right to a degree. The design brief stated that the suit needed to be capable of rapid deployment and extraction under it's own steam, without the need of aerial or land based support. Making it smaller and lighter, and therefore capable of higher top speeds made such a thing easier. Also opens up the posibility of deployment in urban areas, but I digress."

Altan reached up behind him and gently tapped the metal plates of the Dawn.

"Crystal System. Crysys. A device not a million miles away from the dust core you use if I read correctly, but it is the lynch knot of our design. Uses the pilots aura to activate an array of thunder crystals, that in turn activates and powers the machine as a whole. Even with heavy weight capacitors, there was no way to efficiently use such a device with a larger frame. We had to downscale, which brought me to the design before you right now. Lost the heavy capacitors and a lot of armour plating to keep it light, but then that left her dangerously perceptive to small arms fire. Another work around was needed."

Altan was grinning, his ears twitching and flicking as he talked. He hated himself when he talked to much, but he couldn't deny it felt good to speak at length about his baby.

"So. We examined various methods of strengthening the armour. Ceramic composites. Carbon nanotubes. All very viable, all very expensive. And then a thought; "We use the pilots aura to power the machine, so why not to protect it also?"."