[gurps] A spaceships Mecha - the Chessmaster

[rekres]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Onno Meyer<Onno.Meyer at gmx.de> wrote:
>> The M-CCM1 (Manned - Command and Control Mech 1)
>
> I had never even thought of dual control rooms. Two crewmen
> are better than one, but even two are a small crew for a C3
> vehicle. We're talking about a 30-ton vehicle, more than
> most present-day APCs ...
>
>
> What good are those arms? Sure, a proper mecha needs arms,
> but a C3 vehicle doesn't.
> Onno

Makes me think of one of the mecha in William H. Keith's Warstrider
series.   It was one of the heavier mechs in the setting and it was
designed as the unit commander's mecha.  It had a crew of three:
pilot/primary-gunner, secondary gunner, and the unit-commander.  In
normal configuration, the pilot controlled the legs, arms, and the
main weapon.  The gunner operated all the secondary weapons
(counter-measures, missiles, anti-infantry).  The unit-commander was
in a direct 3D virtual-reality suite commanding all the other mecha in
the field.

The big thing in the setting was that all mecha were controlled via
nanogrown cyberlinks and the command mecha could be changed out so
that any of the 3 crewmembers could take over operation of any of the
systems.

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Chris J. Whitcomb
"I try to keep an open mind, but my brain keep falling out!"