Quote:More than a little, though not, IMHO, as cool as being able to airlift six Abrams in a single trip.
And now I am having ideas about such a team operating out of Roswell using a highly retrofitted SR-71 airframe as transportation. (Think about it - they can be anywhere in the world for whatever reason within -hours- and arrive from a sub-orbital orbital drop. How cool is that?)
Still, while hypersonic aircraft are well established in canon, they can't possibly be cheap, and would -certainly- be hard to hide... to much infrastructure, ne? And this is thirty years in our future, remember - not a chance in hell that there'll still be one of the original Blackbird airframes still flying.
The team make-up is reasonable, as, for the most part, are the power levels, so long as one makes the assumption that not all the suit designs being produced from this technology are as sleek as Sylia's.
I don't think that the 'thorn system' you describe would be feasible given either the current state of nanotech or what can be deduced from the 'fusion' ability some boomers show.
Finally... At some point or other in the past, human beings have tried just about every possible edged means of dissassembling each other. 'Blades all over the place' never panned out well enough to be worth recording. What to use instead, I'll leave up to your judgement... although the idea of a hardsuit with a longsword amuses me quite a bit.
Ja, -n
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