Well, that brightened up my day.
If only because I am the person who owns the Platinum edition, and has some of the models. And the panel I'm giving is about modeling, not Eva...... Nope, I haven't fallen *that* far yet.
Meanwhile, to add more content. this is What Shinji receives as his starting gear:
It is reverse engineered Gate-alloy... but it's crude. It works as a high energy, fast charge battery, without any of the wormhole or dimension-bending effects. It's missing one or two elements and is somewhat watered down. They're further down the tech-tree than the people who might actually be able to understand it and what's going on inside the metal.... while just about high enough up to be able to figure out how to copy it and make it work.
Though compared to the real gate alloy, is like comparing an F1 engine to the one in a lawmower.
Unless of course, anyone objects. But it surprised me that nobody'd done it yet. Although the only thing they're able to contribute to the ultimate research into how the alloy works however is the name 'Tanalloy' for gate-derived alloys.
And I'm stuck for quirks.
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If only because I am the person who owns the Platinum edition, and has some of the models. And the panel I'm giving is about modeling, not Eva...... Nope, I haven't fallen *that* far yet.
Meanwhile, to add more content. this is What Shinji receives as his starting gear:
Quote:Bahamode Prototype.
Nothing apparently remarkable, one of a number of transforming motorcycles that began to appear from small garagiste gearheads after the introduction of the production Motorslave series by Atalante.
Unlike the motorslave series, the Judy is fitted with a single-person cockpit when in humanoid mode, so it can be safely operated by a pilot without a hardsuit.
Power is supplied by a hybrid powertrain consisting of a series of batteries, and four modified light thrusters to generate electricity and propulsion in open space, augmenting the standard wheel-hub mounted gravity-rotors. Ground power comes from a pair of electric motors, one in each wheel.
The Friggan MZ-23 differs slightly from the standard Bahamode template. It still provides the usual dual operating modes.
In Maneuver mode, it resembles the Highway Star motorcycle with the same low-slung, stretched out look. A pair of panniers straddle the rear wheel, which actually make up the legs of the 23’s humanoid form. Each contains a storage compartment, just large enough to fit a full-face helmet
In ‘Baha’ mode, it resembles a motorslave with a slightly enlarged torso to accomodate the pressurised cockpit for the pilot, formed from the forward part of the fairing and the aft tail unit and saddle. Lift is provided by the split front wheels, the same as a motorslave, with added thrusters increasing the top speed.
The main differentiator between the Judy and the other Motorslave and Garland replicas are the batteries. The advanced Tanalloy batteries used in the 23 took up much less space for the same energy content, reducing the weight, improving performance and allowing some of the saved space to be used for equipment storage.
What wasn’t widely known Tanalloy is shorthand for Tannhauser Alloy. It was created by crudely reverse-engineering a sample of gate-metal taken from the ruin of the Iconian gate. By no means the first to try, or the first to have a success, but the first to try market it . They’re pretty certain it’s stable within some conservative limits, and safety lockouts added for when the batteries look like exceeding those limits.
Fenspace at large only learned of this when an anonymous informant leaked a comparison of Tanalloy and samples of genuine gate metal to Walter Cronkite.
It is reverse engineered Gate-alloy... but it's crude. It works as a high energy, fast charge battery, without any of the wormhole or dimension-bending effects. It's missing one or two elements and is somewhat watered down. They're further down the tech-tree than the people who might actually be able to understand it and what's going on inside the metal.... while just about high enough up to be able to figure out how to copy it and make it work.
Though compared to the real gate alloy, is like comparing an F1 engine to the one in a lawmower.
Unless of course, anyone objects. But it surprised me that nobody'd done it yet. Although the only thing they're able to contribute to the ultimate research into how the alloy works however is the name 'Tanalloy' for gate-derived alloys.
And I'm stuck for quirks.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?