> other avenue to cheat: put extra armor just around the fuel/power source.
Wouldn't that make it heavier and take away the advantage of having an exoskeleton in the first place?
I imagined something like the Soviet "Shtrafbat", battalions made up of prisoners and other undesirables.
Of couse the shtrafniks will die in a terrible conflagration when they bump their battery, but think of all the expensive equipment taxpayers can buy for them, and a use for the prison population! Of course the prisoners will be rented to the state for a nominal fee, and there will be compensation to PrisonCo when their property is damaged. It's a win-win-win!
Wouldn't that make it heavier and take away the advantage of having an exoskeleton in the first place?
I imagined something like the Soviet "Shtrafbat", battalions made up of prisoners and other undesirables.
Of couse the shtrafniks will die in a terrible conflagration when they bump their battery, but think of all the expensive equipment taxpayers can buy for them, and a use for the prison population! Of course the prisoners will be rented to the state for a nominal fee, and there will be compensation to PrisonCo when their property is damaged. It's a win-win-win!