keir451 wrote:I think you need to put on your reading glasses sir, I'm lloking at the description of Tm Operation and it explicitly states that it "does not work on artificially intelligent machines(i.e. intelligent computers, robots, etc.)" It's right there in black and white on pg. 44 of Psyscape. Of course your prining may have had that removed, i cannot say. All I know is what MY book says and it does NOT agree with what everyone else is saying. TM Possession, however, DOES work on A.I.s from the skelebot up to Archie 3.
I stand partially corrected, TM possession does indeed list empty power armor. But that is also quite specific inthat it is EMPTY POWER ARMOR, nothing is mentioned about possessing PA while the pilot is operating it.
So I admit the error of my initial assumptions regarding TM Possesion (but ONLY TM Possession), I had apparently missed that little paragraph in the middle of the description.
I formally apologize.
It doesn't list empty power armor, it lists power armor. TM Possession (I have been careful to state TM Possession) considers anything without an AI or neural linked to a living creature as a simple machine, a human in a PA or robot isn't linked to it he's just moving switches and relays no different than those of a laser rifle. Without an intelligence inside it or part of it in some fashion power armor has no defenses to being possessed and controlled. And no that's how it reads whether it was my character in the PA or my character trying to take over a power armor.
Of course since players rarely like their characters being possessed/controlled it's not surprising there are few powers to do that with, like TM Possession. One likes at least a chance of winning not 'the bad guy just possessed your PA, froze the systems, and is opening it up so his buddies can gun you down once the armor's off'. For which I can understand that as a motivation for house-ruling things so if the PC is in the armor running it so someone can't just lock him up and such, but it also means if your PA pilot is knocked unconscious his Psi-Tech partner can't possess the armor and use it while he's down for the count so they can both survive.
No need to apologize for misreading the text, we all do it from time to time.