<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=199515.msg9929168#msg9929168">Quote from: Shjade on 02-05-2014, 10:10:12</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'm sorta surprised Rez is even trying to sell it, to be honest. I mean, maybe I just know crap about mechanics, but I'd think there's plenty of spare parts to be pulled out of that thing to do some major improvements on the gang's bikes. I mean, sure, the idea of getting rich (comparatively) might be appealing, but she's gotta know the vultures are just gonna blow it all anyway, right? ;p<br/><br/>Though I suppose Amanuel would be averse to the idea of using that wonderful machine for parts.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Parts compatibility is iffy even today between automobiles of different make and manufacture. You can jury-rig things like air filters and the like pretty easily given enough duct tape and cardboard, and nuts and bolts tend to be of standard sizes in automotive use, but it'd be a waste of a working high-tech machine to take it apart so you could use, say 20% of its parts. Of course a Savvyhead can do any-damn thing but it's probably nothing the poor mechanicky types in the Vultures would think of.<br/><br/>Rez considers it a giant target. It can't keep up with the rest of the wolfpack on level ground, it's not unstoppable (though it's hard to stop), and it might bring bigger, badder warlords around to come looking for it.<br/><br/>If a bike gets too damaged to keep up in a fight, she can just pillion up the rider and drop the bike and it doesn't mean much. If word goes around that she's got this monster and she loses it, it'd be a major reputation issue. On the other hand, acquiring it and selling it suggests she's above needing it, and may make whoever gets hold of it think twice before using it against her (since clearly someone else failed to do so at least once).<br/><br/>But for Marco, at least as I picture Rez's way of thinking, it doesn't have to keep up with the Hardhold, it can be moved around to support any breaches or threaten folks attacking from outside of the Hold's range, and if it stops running it's still a bunker. Mobility isn't a core concept of survival for the Hardholder like it is for the Chopper. Like she said, to her it seems his kind of thing. Four big armored walls, but with wheels stuck on.<br/><br/>@SgtDan: don't sweat it too much, we're also waiting on Thufir and this is hardly a "post every day or be dropped" game.