[HoE] Another Junker Nugget

[Alex Karls <seventhirtyfour@hotmail.com>]

I've got a Junker question for y'all, especially those at the Pinnacle Staff 
who could answer it officially.

A while back I watched a future tech show that talked about this bizarre 
running device.  It was essentially a frame you strapped yourself into, that 
had a large back and digitigrade steel legs on it. By strapping your feet to 
the legs, you could use the frame's legs as an extension of your own.  Also, 
the backpack had a sophisticated elastic energy saving device in it.  The 
short of it was, you could use this thing to run about 1.5 to 2 times faster 
than a normal person, provided you practiced with it, and you wouldn't break 
into a sweat, because the elastic system on the backpack was saving most of 
the wasted energy from your step, saving it for the next step, propelling 
the legs of the machine forward.

I thought it was majorly cool.

So, here I was, a copy of The Junkman Cometh in hand, and I realized that 
there wasn't any way I could replicate a user-powered machine like that with 
Junker abilities.  Everythings gotta be powered by ghost batteries or spook 
juice.  Normally, this device wouldn't be very supernatural, but the way I 
figure it, a Junker would only build one bigger and better.  Something that 
could haul lots of equipment and run really fast.  Problem is, the person is 
suppsed to provide 90% of the energy to run it.

Any suggestions?

Here's what I've got so far.

Locomotion - At a high speed, with a big powerplant, but when calculating 
the gas costs and drain, cut that to 50% of normal, and make up the 
difference in x2 wind per hour.

Health - This would represent the elastic energy saving system, returning 
some of this lost wind to the user, to represent that he never spent it in 
the first place.


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