Building Your Own Power Armour

**TimeDragon888** Sat Aug 28, 2010 7:07 am

Originally posted by Echelon on 29 Jan 2009. Link here: http://surrealtwilight.com/viewtopic.php?p=254461#p254461

And...I'm back for this week's sermon! The topic for today is...

Building your own Power Armour (TM)(R)(C) <Insert more privacy symbols here>

Power Armour makes the man. Literally. Or the woman, if you're female. But more importantly, it allows you to take down the protaganist (with a survival rate of less than a percent. But 1% is better than none, eh?). So anyway, enough talky, more buildy. Echelon is back again to give you tips on making your own power armour!*

*[size=50]Actually, not exactly your own, as shown by the first example. Oh well.[/size]

1. Never, I repeat, NEVER, design your armour from scratch/by yourself.

"Good" guys (AKA the guys you will eventually rule over) create plans for power armour. "Bad" guys (AKA you, those government fools think they're the good guys...bah) steal those plans and use the power armour for themselves. No self respecting supervillian builds their own power armour (unless they're really desperate), so remember, no having a creativity spark and designing your own. Who knows, next thing you know is that you've built your very own nuke! (These are supposed to be stolen from top secret silos, duh)

2. It's okay to "modify" them though and add new "features".

While you must never design your own power armour, it is perfectly acceptable to modify them. We don't want that watered-down death laser on the arm that had been modified to <insert public health safety ministry here> standards do we? No, instead, f**k the standards. Who cares about the regulations? Go supercharge that laser to 700TW (Terrawatts) (even if it says "May explode if charged over 100kW" in bright red lettering on the back of the laser). Feel free to add in rocket launchers or flamethrowers, those government people never add anything nicer than a fancy laser to their power armour, something about human ethical reasons I guess.

3. Make sure it actually fits you comfortably.

This is pretty obvious. It's pretty embarrassing to spend a year building an armour, only to realize that it won't fit you. Even if it does, make sure it's comfortable for long periods of time. We don't want you getting your world domination plan halted just because your underwear got wedged in your butt by your armour now do we?

4. Looks over usability.

This is extremely important. What's the point of having a super powerful power armour if it makes you look like Postman Pat and makes National Guardsmen laugh at you? (Actually, it makes a huge and important point, but you get it) No, the main point of the power armour is to make them run in fear at the first sight of you. Remember, the fear factor is actually half of all the weapons you're actually carrying. So yes, technically you could make an extremely scary suit with no weapons and still inflict chaos.

5. Built-in toilet.

Yep, nothing spoils a good day like having the urge to pee while in your power armour. Firstly, by the time you're done, all the toilets nearby would have been destroyed by now. Secondly, electronics + pee do not work well together. And thirdly and most importantly, it's just plain embarrassing, trust me.