Re: Cargo? I barely know her!
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 2:23 am
Smiling_Bandit wrote:Hey folks! Been poking around the ol' collection of books and I need some input from ya'll. I got a nice character in the works and I need a vehicle to complete the "look". I'm looking for a hovercraft cargo sort of thing. I was looking at a Triax B-Type Hover Work Vehicle (Triax 2, pg. 82). I'd like to bump it up to a MDC unit and call it well enough to look like a traveling salesman sort of look. It'd give me space to store equipment, armor, weapons all while looking like a common salesman. Looking perfectly harmless is a bonus. Anyone have a suggestion as to something else to look at? I was aiming for electric power source and some fancy solar panels with a kill switch to keep kids from stealing my precious vehicle.
Smiling_Bandit - Will usually go out of his way to foil the plot of random kids
Just had a similar discussion in another thread. If you're traveling through the wilderness on Rifts Earth, you don't look helpless. It's inherent to the idea of going outside the "SAFE" zones. You could look like an utter bum, but if you're seen coming in from the forest, you're automatically considered a THREAT.
That having been said:
1] RRK Super-Armored Hover Truck from Triax 2. From the write up: T
he RRK Super-Armored Hover Truck has as much armor built into it as some tanks. The potential for abuse with such a heavy-armored vehicle is high. Regardless, it is very popular among security companies, banks, collectors of art and pre-Rifts artifacts, wilderness merchants, adventurers, mercenaries and Gypsies. It is illegal within the borders of the NGR.
As you can see, even this write up, brief as it is makes it clear that you won't go unnoticed in a simple hover truck, and is in fact illegal to own in certain places. Although the write up makes it clear it is otherwise exactly what you want. It's even electric. Unfortunately, they don't include a cargo load weight (in a cargo truck).
