Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-24684131-20151208064212/@comment-24684131-20160330103053

"Kinda. It can be said that the need to...er...'repair' people is more troublesome." He said in an offhand manner as he ran through several system checks. With a sudden roar of air, the Red Dawn performed a jump, achieving a height of about ten meters before landing again with a crash.

"''Shakedown data; good: Ready for operations." ''The computer beeped at him. Altan made a mental note to name her something for the sake of personality if nothing else. Turning his attention back to the task at hand, he had to admit, he felt rather confident about his ability to win this fight.

The CAS was a big mean bitch in his professional opinion, and an obvious choice for modern military forces simply because it was a far more practical system for line production and deployment than the Carsys. That was not to say it had its weaknesses, as with anything, but he reckoned his Dawn could out-maneuver her. Mobility - as ever - was key.

Pressing forward with the controls, Altan broke into the equivalent of a light jog, reaching the boundry of the airfield and igniting the jumppack again, soaring high into the sky and over the treetops.

"We have plenty of maintenance to make up for the lack of armour repair though. Joints need constant watching, as with the central Crystal System components. We ended up saving ourselves the more generic tasks, only to find ourselves seated with far more complex systems to maintain"