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Permission is granted to use Surfing with the Alien Omega in continuity, edited to fit battle circumstances if neccessary or just as background events, should a suitable time appear.

eta- just remember that he (and any similar mecha built for his faction) can take 3-5 times the punishment of average gear, dishes it out as well. While he's doing it in melee with swords, he's using MAX. OUTPUT mode, for gravjump & limb accel ~150g plus normal reactionless drive. There's a reason he dies from the strain...
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Fixed the accel figure after finding the MAXIMUM OUTPUT short - it's in the thread that started discussing the Cybers but drifted of to making an IC fighting tournement game.

WC has also used 4ft armor piercing roses as Autobot Kamen in a couple of omake, which would probably translate as kinetic kill missiles using an accel drive for a more serious paradigm, most likely a Patriot style ganged box magnalocked to the fifth wheel in truck mode or detached and used like an emplaced weapon for 'bot
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Another note, Wave Convoy and similar 'Cybertronian' design mecha are LIGHT for their size, somewhere around 1/6 what you'd expect if they were made with steel frames and armor (actually, their design is mostly monocoque rather than having seperate frames) - WC was originally within the tow weight of an unwaved heavy pickup truck after all, though he's gotten a bit beefier with Boskone War rebuilds, probably 10-12 tons. Needless to say, he is fantastically light by Battledrek standards, explosives will
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
throw him around more than they do damage. Also, MAXIMUM OUTPUT mode is unique to himself, it's the semiuseful result of his original, failed attempt at gravitic drive, instanly lethal if used with a human pilot at 150g and suicidal even for an infomorph with the inevitable actuator & joint damage, so it was never included in later constructions.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Oh, and the drive is a failed attempt because it only works in bursts and requires a 1.5 to 1 cooldown cycle with the max sustained operation being about 1 second. MO mode uses fractional-second bursts to drive quick movements and increase the force and striking speed of blows, but even with reinforced components and smoothed out field edge gradients it puts vast stress on his internal components, and fine movements become impossible once enough breaks that the gravitics are what's doing all the driving.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
... that weight seems a little high, objectively. I'll have to look up some RL semi tractor stats again at some point.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows