Fred
Retired Staff
5tar said:Sumaru's plan with the capacitor units is not to charge his weapons or it's normal use in powering up his teleportation pack. Instead, his plan is to use it as a backup power supply to his suit, in the case that he enters one of these superior anti-aether fields. Seeing how the Mindy is powered by a aether generator, it would simply shutdown without a secondary source of power for life support and other integral systems such as the AIES. That's where the capacitor units come in, if they provide enough power that is.
I was sure I got it, though. *looks back*
Ah, there's the problem. You see, when I was writing the reply to Sumaru, I actually had written something like three or four versions, trying to nail the right approach, technical terms and so on.
When I cleaned it all up to leave the final version, I apparently cleared my first paragraph, which attended to what you quoted. My bad. I rewrote it, so, Sumaru should have his answer.
I'll sum up:
Due to a precedent in a Sakura mission, the Mindy's power supply, even under interdiction, holds enough power reserves to insure physical mobility (mostly thanks to the flesh-core insert' a synth insert would require more power due to its un-neko-like nature), electronics and anti-gravity... as long as your needs are for planetary combat involving shorter distances. Having the CFS work and the sensors tuned to monitor things at longer ranges aren't really supported.