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Which then runs into the same issue as the Space Marines: Kerenzikov equipped people have to be at least somewhat vulnerable to non-Kerenzikov equipped people or else nobody would field any non-Kerenzikov or Sandevistan equipped forces (unlike game/tabletop/animation where most people including...

The cooldown appears in different forms in the RPG books - for example in Cyberpunk RED (p. 112) the Sandevistan gives +3 initiative for 1 minute and then goes into cooldown for 1 hour. Considering both the protag, RPG and Edgerunners don't act like having a Sandevistan is a permanent boost I'd...

A Kerenzikov lets people react faster for 2-3 seconds at a time followed by a lengthy cooldown. There's plenty of feats for Space Marines deflecting bolter rounds - this isn't some OCP for the 40k side. Unlike the IOM where monomolecular weapons are only every single Space Marine combat knife...

Space Marines fire while moving in videos, games and lore - not sure why you're assuming that they're unable to fight at that speed when even in that video the SM's movements are very accurate. They're certainly slower than a lot of vehicles but that's less on their reaction time and more on...

Well James Norris with the experimental Sandevistan (which is lorewise rarer and better than the already uber-rare and good Apogee) is also in no way your baseline. Even then he couldn't use it for more than a few seconds which is a performance issue that Space Marines (and at an even higher...

SMs have feats like: "No one had even seen him move, such was the prophet's speed, clearing ten metres and vaulting a console table in the time it took a human heart to beat once." (src Void Stalker - pg 93) Now I'm not going to say that they're all round faster than high end cyberware but...

I don't think we can agree with that. The Night City cyberpsycho and the MaxTac tanked small arms fire and shotguns. On the other hand one Space Marine tanked a fairly massive vehicle mounted weapon, another just slammed through an admittedly janky sort of car without appreciably slowing down...

[x] Plan: The Prismatic Wanderer [x] Armor of von Tarnus [x] Flying Tower

Hmm... I'm thinking - if we provide another 8 Orbs could the Colleges provide a taskforce of Battle Wizards & Altars assigned to Mathilde/attached to WEB-MAT? @Boney Because other than that or Skyship we don't really need much? Book is solved by Dawi money, Waystones are good for everyone...

Doing significant stuff probably creates a social obligation - Boons are probably the meta expression of doing it on the macro level but the average Dawi probably gets a sort of 'social credit' for the relatively minor stuff (Mathilde's actions probably maxed that out).

It kind of is though? Ranald actively approves, the Grey College has endorsed everything Stirland related, the Dawi will believe Mathilde over any other manling and so on. It is. The Penthouse has to be secure to house the K8P superweapon, has to be well equipped enough to serve all of...

Considering she's just about to unroll stuff that nobody but Teclis has done before I'd say she's getting in that ballpark... ...or at least in the ballpark of % of Teclis or Volans contribution. Mathilde has less uber-big ticket stuff with the Colleges but between being top tier in all...

I think taking the trip makes a lot of sense now. Before Mathilde just had so much stuff on her plate that it felt quite awkward to just randomly drop all the very important projects that she was juggling and the critical research backlog. Now, though? Now the time seems just right! The...

Even with there being very few elves capable of doing this a very large portion of Magisters and LMs don't know enchanting. The Grey College didn't have a dedicated staff turner despite that being an important, esteemed and reasonably cushy position. Waystones are valuable but they're not...

Would it be a good way to use our time though? Waystones are good but they're not exactly top priority for most places which means most wizards in the Empire are doing stuff that's more immediately useful (like killing one of the myriad foes of mankind or enchanting swords so that other people...