I pretty much did the same thing. Basicly, the base concept was the VF-1S, not the 19. Also, since we were talking Man sized, missiles seemed right out. So, the armament became a Laser instead of the GU-11, and the underarm pods that would have held missles had an EMP launcher, and a TK weapon rather similar to that non leathal handgun seen on Tekwar.

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I did that for a project that is barely written and will probably never go any further. However, I did a fairly detailed spec on the suit, including the ability to transform into fighter mode. The weapon set was fairly heavy by the time it was finished, but then again it had gone through about 2 million years of upgrades by the time the design was finished with its last modifications...

I've also done a little work on a YF-21/VF-22 based suit, but nowhere near as much. Either way the transformation on them takes the most work, since the arms can't swing inward the way they do on the real thing... :)

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Heh. I know, its the hardest part about using a Valk for a concept... while human looking, the articulation isn't quite right for human comfort. Fortunatly, I had an out, that I built into the back-story. I'd recalled an old pilot of the week, where a scientist trying to crack the secret of teleportation/transporters pulls a Sam Becket. In this case, he t-ports into his bosses lab, only to materialise as part of her pet project... a robot meant for exploring mars. Then, through the rest of the movie, as the guy gets stressed, parts of him start 'turning robot'. How much, and how long, depended on the overall stress level; rather like the Incredable Hulk.

So, this became the origin for MY charecter. He doesn't climb into the suit... he becomes it. And in times of high stress, the robot AI may just take over for him.

I've had some fun with parts of that, too. The charecter in question became my Avatar for my personal (semi-pathetic) attempt to write something on the scale of UF. Only real difference was, Like Bob Shroeck, I was going to tackle them in a serial manner, rather than rolling them all up into one.

Only problem is the guys' next stop is in R.5 And I'm having one heck of a time trying to get it off the ground. I'm stopped up tighter than a colon full of government surplus cheese! >_<

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*blinks* Tales of the Wanderer, wasn't it? I for one enjoyed the stories, here's hopeing (hoping?) you can get past the writers block. I'd like to read more.

Yup. I'd like to be writing more, too, I assure you. And I think that's about as far as this should go on an EPU forum. ^_^

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I designed on on the base of a VF-1. Basically all I did was takeing the wings off and adding a backpack with two ground-to-air missiles and the ammo for the twin AA cannons in the right arm (Wich have a strong resemblance to the twin autocannons used by Chaos Terminators in Warhammer 40K. ^^")

Another armor i designed is based on the imperial Terminator from WH 40K. It's weapons load consists of two miniguns mounted on the underside of the forearms, the energy claws & assultboltgun combo and last but not least two 90mm cannons on it's hunchback. And I also redesigned the helmet and some other features to make it look scarier. (I know. That is not easy with an WH 40K Terminator, but it is doable.) That thing is _ugly_, _slow_ and runs out of ammo _really_ fast, but it can take out a mixed company of T-800s and c-55s on its own. ^^;

Edit: I forgot one. The Alien Hardsuit it looks like Giger's Alien and is equipped with mono-claws, a vibroblade in the tail,a lighsaber mounted on the back of each hand, one of the sonic devices from the old Dune movie in the "mouth" and a cloacking device. Makes one hell of a suit for assasins and commando units. ^^ I know, it looks too strong, but I designed it for a fanfic with apretty high tech environment.

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Hmm. define nowhere?
cause im thinking about the griffin suit uf-gryphon has.
wonder if its still powerless and not repaired..

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True, the Griffin in UF did basicly come out of nowhere, but so did all the other power armor in Core One. CLUELESS is a very powerful plot device.

>wonder if its still powerless and not repaired..

You're thinking of the original Griffin Suit that Gryph pulled apart in Scrapheap City Shuffle. He built a new Suit around its remains sometime around the 2330's, then Skuld upgraded that to the Mark Five during the Ragnarok.

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While the suit itself did, apparently the design itself did not. Gryph does mention that he got the orignal design from an old Comic. If you actually look around, he mentions that. The problem is I don't remember exactly where, so I can't point you in a closer direction.

>>wonder if its still powerless and not repaired..
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>You're thinking of the original Griffin Suit that Gryph pulled apart
>in Scrapheap City Shuffle. He built a new Suit around its remains
>sometime around the 2330's, then Skuld upgraded that to the Mark Five
>during the Ragnarok.
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The one we see in SCS gets repaired, all right. He's using it again by the time he lands on New Tokyo(?) and meets up with the UF Knight Sabres. He's working on an upgrade when the events of BGC 8 come down, and is late to the battle. Priss dies because of this and Gryph blames himself; and leaves the Gryphon suit in 'hammerspace' storage until he summons it for the final showdown with Largo in Core 4. We don't see him use the suit again until Twilight, when, as you note, Skuld upgrades him. He presumable still has it, too... he's just never had the need to use it on screen.

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>The one we see in SCS gets repaired, all right. He's using it again
>by the time he lands on New Tokyo(?) and meets up with the UF Knight
>Sabres. He's working on an upgrade when the events of BGC 8 come
>down, and is late to the battle.

BGC 6. In the UFverse, Priss dies atop GENOM tower in the Knight Sabers showdown with Largo.

The actual orignal design for the Gryphon IIRC, is based on a Comic, where it serves as the battlesuit for one Don griffin; in addition, his summoning meathod is the same as what UF Gryphon uses. And that's all about I remember.

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No.

The GRFN (or whatever the "acronym" is) was created during a Marvel Super Heroes campaign, for Gryph's alter ego from that universe, one Don Griffin. It was basically a Battletech design that was scaled down to power armor size.

All of this is readily documented. Look around.

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The original Battletech Technical Readout 3025's GRF-1N Griffin medium BattleMech (55 tons, move 5/8/5, 1 PPC right arm, 1 LRM 10 right torso, if you're really curious) is the most human-looking 'Mech in the game. It, a couple of the other 55-tonners (the Wolverine and Shadow Hawk), and a couple of the 80-ton-range assault 'Mechs, plus the infamous hundred-ton AS7-D Atlas, are about the only 'Mechs that really could be men in armored suits. The Griffin was originally a battledroid called a Soltic Roundfacer from an obscure anime entitled Combat Armor Dougram.

The original Battletech 'Mechs were all designs from obscure anime (at the time, Macross was obscure) - the Locust was from Crusher Joe, Valkyrie, Super Valkyrie and Armored Valkyrie Battroid modes turned up as no fewer than four original 'Mechs (the Wasp, Stinger,Phoenix Hawk and Crusader, and most of the Macross Destroids appear. Even the Zentraedi Officer's Battle Pod shows up as the 75-ton MAD-3R Marauder.

(As an aside, you may have heard that FASA, Battletech's publisher, used these designs without permission; that's not true. They were all obscure and cheap at the time. The original borrowed 'Mech designs have all vanished from the later editions of the game not because FASA got "busted", but because the licenses expired and, thanks to Robotech, the Macross ones were impossible to get back; and anyway FASA was going out of business around then, so they published the Stalinized TR3025 and washed their hands of the whole messy business of existing.)

Anyway, my favorite 'Mech from the original TR3025 was the WHM-6R Warhammer (known to Robotechies as the Excaliber [sic] and Macross fans as the Tomahawk), but that's not a design that could be a man in a powersuit unless he had no arms. The Griffin is a very convincing man-in-an-armored-suit design, complete with friendly round helmet and properly proportioned limbs, and I liked its lines a lot, so when I was casting about for a design for my Marvel Super Heroes character's powersuit, I hit upon it quickly. Thus, the Griffin Mark II and its heirs (the Mark I was very primitive and the less said about it the better :) exactly resembled the original TR3025 illo of the GRF-1N:

As to the history of the GRF series in UF, that's a matter for a separate post, I think. I may sketch it out for you, or I may not, depending on my mood this evening. I have no tunes thanks to busted headphones, which is cramping my buzz a bit.

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Yeah you are right. The last I remembered it was in SCS so therefore
"latest" in my memory. also therefore did not consult my longterm
memory. resulting in utterly brainless statement.

Sorry.

-WF-
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Is this why HL-Gryph is building a new armor suit?

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