Synthicator?

[shootingwomprats]

Perhaps I am just tired but I am unsure how to even stat this. It has been a while since I read the book, but if I remember correctly, she found this chamber/device and was able to figure it out her on her to make her personalized stormtrooper armor. She apparently did not need to do any programming etc. Just tell it what she wanted and provide it with the raw materials. So how would one go about creating mechanics for this device?

[Raven Redstar]

I think they mean "Replicator".
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[Xain Arke]

[Raven Redstar]

I would say that if the character possesses the necessary materials, the machine builds whatever they want without a roll. Something like this requires significant power generators.
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[Whill]

[Xain Arke]

[shootingwomprats]

[Dredwulf60]

Well, if you wanted it to be costly, you could link the skill die to the amount of credits spent on materials.

For example 1D for every multiple of the value of the part.

You need a Galactic-dobblie-goobert for your Droxamotoric? Well that normally costs 1000 cr.

So if you put in 1000cr worth of specific basic poly-material (purchased and stockpiled for use in the synthicator) you could roll 1D to try to replicate it.

(Hopefully it's a very easy difficulty)

If you put in 2000cr worth of material, you could roll 2D.
4,000cr and you could roll 3D....etc.

a failure means you have a flawed result and the materials are ruined.

[Whill]

[Whill]

[Whill]

[KageRyu]

While I would agree with what has been said about the backstory of Phantasma's armor being exceptionally lackluster and lazily written - that seems to fit with every aspect of how the new trilogy has been handled. So many great opportunity's missed or sabotaged by just plain laziness on the part of those involved.

That being said...
I have not read the source material in question, nor do I ever intend to. Even in the per-prequel era of Star Wars there were few novels I truly enjoyed or felt did the material well. From what is presented here it seems like a truly great opportunity to give Phantasma's armor an epic Back Story was missed 0 like having it be some prototype from Imperial Weapons Labs never previously deployed or some such... or a special ray coating taken from he Dark Trooper project... Oh so many missed opportunities... Also given that we are in a Galaxy Far Far away, I would not think Phantasm's armor was literally made of chrome nor that chrome could deflect blaster bolts, I would have considered it just to be highly polished to a reflective finish and might more likely have said it was made of stolen Beskar... but that's if I were writing a Star Wars book.

That also being said...
I will concede that there may be some who would like more details to include in a game. I do not feel such a device should come up as a usable item in a game - but could make a great target for sabotage, theft, etc. Based on what has been shared it has a scanning system, obviously has a vocabulary and voice input system, maybe a database of engineering programming to "interpret" verbal input from a user. It obviously needs a great deal of power, raw materials, and a large facility to house it. I would take advice from some others and say it likely has a droid brain, or several. I do not know if the exact workings are described in the source or not, but I am thinking it is some sort of automated production and manufacturing machine like a condensed version of a modern automotive plant - though with the ability to take verbal input, measurements, and visual scanning. So with these details it doesn't sound quite so far fetched for something in a Star Wars Universe... now the real question is deciding how large the items it can produce are, and what the maximum Die Code stats it can assign to any given item or device manufactured is? You may also want to consider if it needs a retooling time to go from making armor to, say, making a blaster?

Now, as far as hard Die Code Stats... well that's the real interesting thing about Role Playing - Stats do not always have to be the recognized attributes or skills of a system. For some things, just a great capsule and an approximation of size, and mass are it. For example - what are the exact stats of a Hyoerdrive Motivator? I am sure the size and weight for different models can be found out there in Star Wars sources, but doe sit need a Die Code or does it suffice to say a Hyperdrive needs one to work? If this Synthicator is infallible then I would say it should not be giiven stats for skills or attributes of any kind... if anything just lists the maximum Die Code it can give to stats on constructed items, and maybe list what types of items are out of bounds for it. I would hardly think that the same device making armor would or should be able to also make food and feel such a vague description was just a Mcguffin because the author could had no idea how to explain the custom armor and just wanted to move along to other parts of the plot. This could easily be described and detailed as a manufacturing device for armor similar to replicator like devices described for Tramp Freighters in GG6 (which can manufacture many simple things given source materials and adequate directions with no skill rolls needed).

Those are my thoughts.
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[MrNexx]

So, useful stats for something like this:

1) Cost
2) Availability
3) Fabrication ability. Like, if I need a part, how accurate is the part? How fine can the machining be? Can I get it to a millimeter of tolerance? The micrometer? The nanometer? I could see cheaper variants that had less ability, and expensive varieties that could work on a molecular level. The cheap ones put in iron and turn out iron... the expensive ones can take iron and turn out gold.
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