[gurps] A spaceships Mecha - the Chessmaster

[Onno Meyer]

> I think that one of the Bolo novels had a clever track repair method. 
> It had about eight tracks.  It had hydraulics on the track wheels, so it 
> could lift itself up.  Then it could break and spin off a damaged track, 
> extrude a new track from storage and roll the new track onto the 
> sprockets and wheels.

A late-model Bolo can fly, with tracks only as a sop to 
tradition. Or less cynically, ground movement provides a
much more stable firing platform when starkly astounding 
energies are thrown around.