Power armor manufacturing

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Something is bugging me... how exactly do you manufacture a Power Armor?

The Brotherhood cannot manufacture new suits, right. But they posess the technology to repair them, maintain and use two non-functional suits to make one functional and have spare parts.

Just curious, how would the process look like.
 
I have no idea but now that you mention it I think it would look like a Tank getting a refit only because PA was designed to be a one man tank, I think they could have done it in machine shop's or a well equipped mechanic's garage. Gime a while and I will have a think about it as it could be quite interesting.
 
Mikael Grizzly said:
Something is bugging me... how exactly do you manufacture a Power Armor?

The Brotherhood cannot manufacture new suits, right. But they posess the technology to repair them, maintain and use two non-functional suits to make one functional and have spare parts.

Just curious, how would the process look like.
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I think the Brotherhood can't manufacture new suits because they don't know how to manufacture the alloy.
 
Not sure if the Brotherhood can't make new power armour suits, I always thought quite some manufacturing structure was needed to make new suits.

It needs a computer, fusion reactor, whatever the technology is that increases the strength, NBC countertech, all kinds of stuff you would probably make in advanced factories.

Perhaps the Brotherhood can put suits together of technology they manage to salvage.
Don't forget, in Van Buren you would be able to make your own Power Armour suit if you had the right technology and knowledge.

I do wonder, the creators of Fallout probably got the Power Armour suit from Wasteland, but were the creators of Wasteland inspired by "Starship Troopers"? (the book, not the movie)
 
The Brotherhood can design and manufacture computers and electronics so I doubt that's the issue. I'd say it's the reactor which gives them trouble. It can't be easy to construct a brand new micro-reactor with such limited resources. The miniature hydrolics of the suits might cause issues too.
 
Mikael Grizzly said:
Something is bugging me... how exactly do you manufacture a Power Armor?
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I suspect that you simply build a few factories that produce fusion reactors, hydraulics, armor shells, optics, electronics etc.
Then you put the parts that they produce together.
Nothing that a single organisation locked up in a bunker can achieve.

The Dutch Ghost said:
Don't forget, in Van Buren you would be able to make your own Power Armour suit if you had the right technology and knowledge.
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Which doesn't make it logical or realistic. It's Fallout, not Arcanum.
 
Goweigus said:
Maybe Vault 0 in Tactics had the stuff...
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Not canon I think.
Hell, Tactics had the BoS manufacturing their own type of Advanced Power Armour.. something only the Enclave could do.
 
Vault 69er said:
Hell, Tactics had the BoS manufacturing their own type of Advanced Power Armour.. something only the Enclave could do.
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Heh...
Tictacs had the BoS having their own type of APA, don't I don't recall anyone manufacturing it ;) .
IMO it's presence had more to do with a need to have more stuff in FT than in <s>Fallout Monty Haul</s> err... Fallout 2 than with game world's logic ;) .
 
I could build a crude power armor in my garage if I wanted to and had 500,000 it be bulky, but it could work, I believe A titanium stainless steel mess chromed with a polished polycarbon finish with kevlar and carcon inlays, would be good for the armor its self, I've thought about this.

the mini-hydraulics are the only problem, I mean were talking about a lot of presser, I think silicon artificial muscle, combined with a smaller weaker hydraulics system would be your best bet.
 
Afaik; the actual process of making it wouldn't be too different from the suits of Power Armour in Warhammer 40.000.

On the french website you can find a lot of talk about the way their power armour "evolved".
Don't forget, in Van Buren you would be able to make your own Power Armour suit if you had the right technology and knowledge.
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MacGuiver-like? (or whatever he's called)

And wow, that thing actually got 56 bids. o.0
 
What is the point of having constructed a powered armor which really looks like the ones seen in F1/F2?
I admit they might be of use against an untrained crowd, or perhaps in mele combat. But anyone using his/her wits would target all those tubes attached around the helmet and on every joint. That would practically render those suits worthless, except for its anti ballistic protection of the materials itself.
But, I'd never care to carry 55 to 100 lbs with me, if a lighter armor combined with overgarment, when needed, would do nearly the same job.
Rember that F2 splash with that tribal wearing the powered armor helmet?
The only reason I can think of is *cult*, and therefore it'd be done made out of tin and paint. It'd be weighting much less than the stated above ;)
Alex
 
Please avoid gravedigging. I think this is at least borderline.
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What does that mean? Maybe my understanding of the engish language is actually very poor, but I really don't get the point.
This thread goes about *manufacturing* an actual 'powered combat armor', such as the T-51B is one in Fallout.
If this thread, on the other hand, is about ingame then I apologize for my post, because then it has been way off the rail.
My intention was to only show that it *is* great ingame especially in Fallout itself after having it hardened, but would be, according to how it actually looks like, be worthless (far too vulnerable) if done 1:1. Even if that were possible.
What's wrong or even 'grave digging' in it?
 
'Gravedigging' is the term for posting in (and hence 'reviving') a thread that has been inactive for several months.
 
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