What Gear is needed to add flight on Iapetus to Bots?

[irmejnah]

What Gear is needed to add flight on Iapetus to Bots?

• Personal Transport (pg. 353) has Rocket Pack, Sled and Thruster Pack. The Sled seems to be a real, though minimalistic, vehicle. For Bots the Thruster Pack would be expected by name and even by the description text, except that it explicitly says micrograv, where Rocket Pack explicitly says how one can fly with it in all gravity. So is it Rocket Pack for the GP balancing (as it gives that function range), just understood to be integrated thrusters in the bot case, or is it Thruster Pack because it is thruster packs (there could be a case that thrusters on a bot need less stuff to make it suitable for fragile stuff such as humans, but then Rocket Pack if used by Biomorph still needs protective gear, so probably Rocket Pack for bots, too?

[irmejnah]

Also, the seemingly fairer way having it be Rocket Pack for all would simplify loadout if Nanofabbing and I guess if bringing pieces being free to integrate with either Biomorph or Robot.

[PhDaveMil]

The Sled and Thruster Pack says that they use Thrust Vector (Rocket) on page 353, but on page 352 the book provides the following two descriptions: "This small sled uses air impellers or nitrogen thrusters to maneuver in microgravity or vacuum, or propellers to move undersea. It is used to carry gear attached with numerous straps and clips. It can also pull along 2 medium-sized morphs"; "Worn for micrograv operations or EVA in vacuum, this thruster pack uses vectored thrust nozzles to maneuver." The former is a description of real undersea devices combined with realistic vacuum air jets. The latter is a description of real world, modern gas jets used by astronauts. Given that the Rocket Pack has a higher GP cost, it seems like the Rocket Pack is supposed to be used in all environments, the Sled is supposed to be used in undersea and micrograv environments only, and the Thruster Pack in micrograv only (which would explain the lower GP cost of the latter two models). That would suggest that version 1.3 needs some erata, and based on the movement rules in 1.3, the Sled uses turbojets with a description specific underwater and micrograv only stipulation, and the Thruster Pack is supposed to be labeled as a gas jet vehicle, not a rocket vehicle. We will treat them as such in our campaigns.

[itteerde]

• Mobility System Thrust Vector (Rocket)