Klaus Kipling
Mongoose
As it stands, the Mechanic skill is only for repair and maintenance, with Engineering reserved for making modifications, but it seems perfect for the out and out bodge.
I'm talking Scrapheap Challenge / Junkyard Wars, Top Gear challenges, and those A-Team moments. Or even Mal welding an AA gun to the roof of his spaceship. None of these are sensible engineering solutions, most will fall apart on first use, and asking difficult things of such 'inventions', like flight, or even float, would be asking too much. Though even then, success might be achieved; after all, Clarkson did drive a Nissan pickup truck across the English Channel.
But it would be nice to have a mechanic for Mechanic to replicate these doomed bodge-ups and jury rigs.
I'm talking Scrapheap Challenge / Junkyard Wars, Top Gear challenges, and those A-Team moments. Or even Mal welding an AA gun to the roof of his spaceship. None of these are sensible engineering solutions, most will fall apart on first use, and asking difficult things of such 'inventions', like flight, or even float, would be asking too much. Though even then, success might be achieved; after all, Clarkson did drive a Nissan pickup truck across the English Channel.
But it would be nice to have a mechanic for Mechanic to replicate these doomed bodge-ups and jury rigs.