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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 7486466" data-attributes="member: 8835">adding more details (ain't like y'all are gonna spoil it for readers).  The suit is a Vid Liv Kostym, a swedish acronym I made up with Google Translate to spell VLK which thus smells like Valkyrie.  It's got mass driver bracelet/anklets, solar panel wings bonded to the back and a happy coat of pico-printer-gel for general protection and utility.  Plus BalDR, the Ballistic Defense Ring, satellites hosting an AI that does all the heavy lifting, math-wise.So the mass drivers can move matter around up to some range and weight limit.  They'd be how she scoops up space debris to make a shield or something.  The pico-printer-gel does the fine detail work of re-organizing that matter when it's brought into range to make electronics, repairs, heal injuries by re-organizing atoms (hence why I went tinier than nano-tech).All of it limited by the power of narrativium as Tonquez surmises.  Basically if it sounds good or plausible within what I described above, but not too powerful.  Much like Umbran asking if she could kill the planet.  I guess, but I already got an asteroid on the way to do that so it ain't OP right now...Tom's idea to replicate the pico-gel is good.  I had similar thoughts but ruled them out for purposes of just dissolving the asteroid to save the day was "too easy"  Presumably, something about the total mass vs. time isn't possible.Now I could have it that Mars has been sending these every year or something, rather than looping around a century later.  Mars doesn't play directly into the story, it's just the big final reveal of how nobody understood what really happened to Earth.So to recap the ideas:perpendicular attack to deflectspeedup to skip might workdissolve it - not allowed per original restriction of too easy unless we think of some complicationput a rocket on it and push (hauling a rocket up might be too heavy or slow)build a mass-driver on it and move itself (variant of rocket idea)Did I get everything? There's a lot of posts since I got back, sorry if I missed something.  I'll be re-reading these after I finish my night-shift of work...I'm hoping for one that is risky to her, and being non-obvious. Extra points for if its something a sniper would think of OR if it required her to get close and personal (the opposite of a sniper's mentality).  Also, in the current draft, I only have 300 words left in my 6K budget.BTW, thanks to all of you for participating.  Good ideas from everybody.  I had a hunch that whatever I thought of might have a hole that y'all would find, which would ruin the story for some. Plus, hopefully this is fun.</blockquote>

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