[quote=“Muaddib, post:26, topic:8310”]The issue isn’t that if you make one you’ll crush yourself. The issue is that you’d probably need a thousand years of smithing tools to make tools to make tools to make tools to make power armour - it requires turning yourself into a one-man immortal civilization.
Like making a computer from scratch. It’s not hard to build a computer. But it’s near impossible to build a computer when you start with sticks, stones, sinew and spit.[/quote]The thing is, we aren’t. Just because the world has ended doesn’t mean all the infrastructure spontaneously blew up (as we can see)
We have characters who make working bionics from the fried remains of others, make targetted mutagenic compounds from scratch, build massive rolling armored supertanks from nearly scratch, and can build automated auto targetting turrets (with much higher quality than the military before the cataclysm), operate the cvd machine, make a working lit powergrid off of a minireactor in their home.
We have to take into account pre-existing infrastructute and tools, when deciding if something is feasible.
Also, wouldn’t there be civilian model exosuits too?
