Jet pack and Rocket pack skills

[Crell Damar]

swoop doesn't have 5,000 meter altitude either

[Son of Fire]

Depends on what kinda swoop you got.
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[Icebrand]

Our house rule is:
Jetpack, Rocket Pack, RepulsorPack, and Powersuit Ops are one skill (call it what you want) with those specializations.
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[Ragnar]

that doesn't seem very fair, but it's your rule not mine.

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[Rathe Ehtar]

Icebrand wrote

[Crell Damar]

i haven't ever seen an item that uses repulsorpack skill...
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[Rathe Ehtar]

because all repulsorlifts are covered in one skill. Repulsorlift operation.
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[Crell Damar]

that's what i thought, but i agree that jetpack and rocketpack could be put together
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[garhkal]

While i can understand the seperation they made, i do see your argument for combining them. In a different post, someone made the argument to combine them along with powersuit operations as well, now that one i cannot agree with.
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[Boomer]

Jet pack not only requires an atmosphere, but it is almost implied it is for planetary use. Your are not only dealing with an entirely diffrent form of constant thrust, but it is indeed also meant for an entirely diffrent environment.

Rocket-packs work in small bursts, not a constant intake and output (which the jet-pack calls bursts, yet it can last for a few minutes... a few minutes is not what most people view as a burst.)

Rocket-pack explosive thrust not only requires no atmosphere, but it is meant for space, 0gravity. You have rockets pointing in more directions for more manuverability along a three dimensional plane upon which you should be able to move the same speed in any direction.

The jet-pack is working against gravity. Intakes on top, big thrusters on bottom, it blasts downward and force propels you upward, while secondary vents, or fins, or nozzles, or just plain leaning forward provides the rest of the momentum.

The rocket pack, many have the large thrusters, but that is for distance travel, not manuvers. There are many more nozzles all around the rocket-pack for it's main function, 0g, 360 degree, 3 dimensional motion and manuvers unhindered by a force funneling you in a specific direction.
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[KageRyu]

Boomer pretty much pegged it right on the head. I am certain there are different makes, models, designs of both Jetpacks and Rocketpacks, some bigger and bulkier than others, but the way they function is entirely different. Specializations of thes skills should be for a particular model, or terrain of use, etc...

As for Repulsorlifts, I can see the argument that an airspeeder is vastly different from a landspeeder or a skiff. Perhaps the GM could create a seperate skill for Airspeeder Ops, and this would include Airspeeders, cloud cars, and possibly old prop-driven aircraft.

But, on that same argument, a Landspeeder would not be much different from a car, except for mode of propulsion, and therefor you could roll cars and trucks into landspeeder...

So many possible skill changes.
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[garhkal]

Well, cars and trucks would go under the ground vehicle ops skill.
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[TarlSS]

Yeah. I think Repulsorbelts, Jetpacks and Rocketpacks honestly should fall under the same skillset. But if you want to get official, I think Repulsorbelts would fall under Jetpack operation, since they only work in places with gravity, while the thing about rocketpacks is they work everywhere, including deepspace. You should definitely be able to use a repulsorbelt wherever you can use a jetpack, since anybody that can hold an atmosphere pretty much must have gravity to well..hold it.