"It's not easy for this old guy."

Edward muttered as he asked Andy to help overturn the forklift and stare at the chassis.

"Is something broken?"

Andy stood aside, he didn't know how to fix a forklift, although this thing was much simpler than the structure of the atomic Humvee, but it was still very complicated for the layman.

Edward tapped, observed.

"I can't say that there is anything that is broken, I should say that there is something here that cannot continue to hold...... Engine, Fuel Supply, Ignition, Cooling..... Oh, the launcher seems to be a bit overwhelming. ”

Andy watched from the sidelines and suddenly noticed that the patterns on the wheels of the forklift were almost worn off.

"Isn't it time to change this tire?"

Edward glanced at him and shook his head nonchalantly.

"Small problem, isn't it still usable, the key is that you can't find anything to replace at all, so you can only fix the more critical parts first..."

The two of them went around the forklift and circled around it, and finally Edward said that he couldn't do anything about the rest of the problems after repairing a few large and small faults, Andy restored the forklift to its original state, and his main thing to do today was to put the forklift down and lift it up or up or move the forks of the forklift up and down.

"I'll give it to you."

He took out a book of moderate thickness, and Andy saw that the book was even broken on the cover, presumably a repair book.

"This is an introductory book on mechanical repair, maybe you can understand some principled knowledge, I loved reading this book when I was a child."

Andy puts the book in the Pip-Boy to read.

The two of them sat in a corner of this storeroom, drinking beer and resting.

"I'm really curious about power armor."

Andy took a sip of his beer and pointed to the rows of power armor hanging in mid-air, with several yellow workbenches on the ground, which appeared to be used for power armor maintenance.

"I was intrigued by the first sight of the power armor, it looked like it had an industrial aesthetic, it was incredible that something like this was once invented and cast by human hands, but what I know about it is almost limited to its metal sculpture-like appearance, what is so special about it? Is it just a special full-coverage armor set? ”

Edward smiled.

"I'm just like you, really, when the Brotherhood of Steel came to our town to recruit me, I couldn't walk when I saw their power armor. Those high-tech equipment are more complex and sophisticated than any generator or car, they are the crystallization of human technology and the pinnacle of human industry in the pre-war world, every line and edge is attracting me, and I wonder in my heart how the process of restoring it was made from a pile of raw materials was made little by little. ”

"Of course, I repaired the power armor many times later, and I can't count the number of times, so I didn't have that feeling of first sight later."

He walked over to a power armor that was fixed to a bench awaiting repairs, and it appeared to have been corroded by some kind of highly corrosive liquid, and the surface was pitted.

Andy saw that it was a common type of power armor, the kind that knights wore more.

"This is a T-45D power armor."

Edward patted the power armor's arm, and the heavy armor didn't hear any echoes.

"It was developed by the pre-war SA military joint defense contractor Western Technology, and the birth of power armor was born from a special environment of the times, at that time, the SA government was aware that fossil energy could be exhausted in the near future before most countries in the world, so they began to fully promote the development of radioactive energy projects, Western Science and Technology is a pioneer in this regard, they invented the nuclear fusion core."

As he spoke, he walked over to the ring valve behind the power armor and pulled out a yellow cylinder from the very center of the valve.

"That's it, it's a long-lasting miniaturized nuclear battery, and with it, SA's nuclear energy technology has taken to a new level. In view of the fact that various fossil energy-powered military vehicles, such as tanks and armored vehicles, were still widely used in the military at that time, in order to cope with the possibility of international conflicts in the future due to the fossil energy crisis, the power armor project was launched. ”

"The initial power armor development project is as you can see, its model is T-45, the first version was produced and found many deficiencies in actual use, such as driving is too difficult and often out of control and some action coordination software is out of control and some action coordination software is out of tune resulting in the driver's limb fractures and the like, these problems have been overcome one by one in the subsequent iterations, the final mature product of the T-45 power armor is this T-45D, and the SA Army unit wearing it was at the forefront of the times at that time."

Edward walked over to a table and pointed out the heavy piece of power armor shoulder armor to Andy.

"You see, the structure of these armor pieces is very exquisite, and their casting materials are scarce special steel, casting this metal is very difficult, it is said that most of the power armor pieces are made in a place called Pittsburgh in the far east, which is the industrial heart of the pre-war SA, I really want to go over there and see it with my own eyes, I think those permanent industrial plants are unlikely to be easily destroyed by nuclear bombs, and there should be a lot of heavy industrial facilities left in the area."

Andy looked at the nail and touched his chin and thought of a question.

"If these metal creations were to be deformed by an irresistible external force, wouldn't it lead to extremely bad consequences? For example, causing the driver to be seriously injured or even difficult to open the power armor for rescue due to deformation? ”

Edward snapped his fingers.

"You're right, this is something that the original designers tried to avoid, these special steel power armor pieces are quite hard and extremely tough, even if they are baptized by bullets or drowned by explosions, they will not be easily damaged. But you also know that any material will eventually break, even metal will fatigue, and if metal fatigue occurs, then deformation is inevitable. ”

"So this thing is designed with a threshold that if it is subjected to a certain amount of external force, it will crush directly, not deform. This avoids the problems you mentioned, which would result in the driver being exposed to the outside as a whole, but there is no way around it. ”

He walked over to the power armor bench and used a mechanical arm to remove the chest armor from the power armor, revealing a white metal "skeleton".

"As you can see, power armor is not just made up of those armor pieces, otherwise wouldn't it be as cumbersome as the medieval knight's plate armor recorded in the books? It's that kind of thing that only a strong man can wear to walk around, and if you want to attack on that basis, it would be really embarrassing, wouldn't it? So power armor power armor, we just talked about armor, now let's talk about power. ”

"You know what this thing is that mounts them inside the armor?"

Andy looked at the metal "skeleton" with a lot of pipes and small equipment on the surface, and although he couldn't tell the name of the thing, he could see that it played a key role in power armor.

"Sort of.... Supports? Like the bones of power armor? ”

Edward nodded repeatedly.

"The power armor skeleton, which is the core of a power armor, represents the power armor more than those armor pieces. It is made of a special composite metal, and although it is not as good as the armor, it is more resilient and can bear weight for a long time in a sports environment, and thanks to its existence, the driver of the power armor does not have to endure the weight of the extremely heavy power armor armor itself. ”

It is also equipped with a series of sensors to report the overall condition of the power armor anytime and anywhere, and inform the driver of the durability status of each part of the armor in real time. The scattered power servos convert the power supplied from the fusion core behind it into power, which helps the driver easily drive the power armor and lift heavy weapons that would otherwise need to be mounted on the vehicle, such as a minigun. ”

"Without the help of the power servo, the driver would have to force the power armor forward with his own power, which seems to me like walking around a heavy two-headed ox on his back, you know how terrible that would be."

Andy felt that he hadn't done it in vain today, which was a lot of knowledge, and as a scribe of the Brotherhood of Steel, Edward knew a lot more in this regard than he had been in a blank slate.

"Edward, I also see a lot of intricacies on the helmets of the power armor."

Edward took off the helmet of the T-45 power armor next to him, which seemed to be the lightest detachable part of the power armor.

"Yes, power armor helmets are also highly technologically integrated products, and the design of helmets requires more consideration than other parts. First of all, we had to imagine the need to protect ourselves in extreme environments, so the power armor helmet was partially equipped with a powerful air filtration device, which allowed the driver to move in the dirty air without being affected. ”

"The high containment of the helmet and the rest of the body allows people to temporarily move in the water, or to shield themselves from radiation poisoning that comes mostly from the environment."

"There are headlamps for lighting, eyepieces that protect the surroundings, electronic devices for communication, and speakers that transmit the driver's words from the helmet to the outside."

Edward sighed as he put the helmet back in place.

"What an amazing creation! But can you believe it? These things that seem to us to be incredibly advanced are not actually state-of-the-art models, even before the war. Davis told me that he had seen the power armor captured during the battle with the enclave at the Lost Mountain headquarters in the past, and that the power armor they were wearing was really high-tech.... Those armor pieces were not even cast from special steel, but a composite ceramic material that was not inferior to special steel in terms of defensive properties. ”

"This composite ceramic material is simpler and faster to make armor than traditional special steel, and it also has better defense against energy weapons, and it is also lighter, making the soldiers of the enclave more agile and strong than the soldiers of the Brotherhood of Steel."

"The technology integrated into the Enclave's Power Armor is incredible, Davis told me that the Enclave's Power Armor does not have eyepieces, but instead has two optical sensors, the lights are merged into it, and the two optical sensors are also high-lumen lights; In addition, there are head-up displays, target indicators, built-in databases, aiming aids, automatic medical devices, built-in stealth devices, and many more. ”

Andy was fascinated by these colorful descriptions, if one day he could get such a power armor to wear on his body, the world was really so big that there was no place to go, and the gods in the mouths of those tribesmen were nothing more than that.

But he also had a doubt in his heart, would such a luxuriously equipped enclave really be defeated by the Brotherhood of Steel and the NcR?

He felt a little puzzled.

Edward's words were a bit of a stir, and he pointed to a power armor hanging in mid-air on the other side.

"Do you see that?"

Andy looked over, and the power armor was obviously not the same model as the T-45, which was worn by Elder Dyson before.

"See, what kind of power armor is that?"

Edward looked at the power armor with longing, and there were some special livery on the arm part of the power armor, which meant that this was a high-level power armor for the elders of the Iron Brotherhood.

"This is a T-51B power armor, the second generation of power armor designed after the T-45 power armor, according to the records, it was developed in a military base of the SA military in Massachusetts, its armor uses a more advanced casting process, so the defense performance is incredible, and it is specially coated with a chemical protective coating, I almost think it is indestructible. Of course, it may be lacking in design for protection against energy weapon attacks and radiation resistance due to its age, but that doesn't stop it from being a landmark creation. ”

"This power armor is the most advanced power armor that the SA public thought was the most advanced before the war, and it was the countless SA guys who wore it who went to the front line of Anchorage to block the bA that made SA finally win, and the one in front of you is the exclusive power armor that belongs to Elder Blixley, the Supreme Commander of Fort Maxson, but it has been in the dust for a long time, and no one has ever used it to go out to fight during the time when Elder Blixley was bedridden."

Edward squeezed his eyes at Andy and told him something interesting.

"Can you think of it? Those pre-war designers also took into account the problem of excretion and water supply when designing this power armor, so this power armor has a special excrement recovery device inside, you can urinate directly in it, and then the recovery device will filter your urine into clean water and then store it, don't think this function is very chicken and disgusting, when you wear a heavy power armor and walk in the desert outside against the sun, you will understand how powerful this function is. ”