Identification: small or insubstantial entities wearing bulky high‐tech environment‐suits
Variants: psychologically insecure entities wearing bipedal battleships (often inaccurately described as giant robots)
Also Known As: Walkers, Vorltrons, or Space‐Suits
Origin: must be somewhere very un‐Earthlike, if they hate our weather that much
| LOOKS: | all sleek polished metal with chrome trim and mammoth shoulder‐pads | B− |
|---|---|---|
| BRAINS: | often psychically gifted, or at least prosthetically enhanced | 120 |
| LETHALITY: | integrated weapons systems including big stompy boots | 0.66 |
| CULTURE: | advanced but facelessly esoteric | 90 |
| HARDNESS: | common in the variety of sci‐fi that's described as “hard” on the grounds that it's written by gun fetishists | 7½ |
| TOKENISM: | covered by wheelchair access regulations | 45 |
Acceleration: 0 to 60 mph in 28 seconds
Affiliated With: the Union of Field Observers
Not Affiliated With: too organic for the Silicon Federation
Weakness: banana peels
Wardrobe: the Pantellurian Fraternity refuse to recognise the validity of techno‐trousers
Not To Be Confused With: armoured Macropygmoids