Fusion Core 🔳 💰 200
A sealed pre-war fusion cell the size of a thermos, still ticking over two centuries after the plant that made it stopped existing. It is the only thing that makes 🦾 Power Armor more than a very expensive statue.
Charges
A full core holds 20 charges.
Drain Cost Simply wearing powered Power Armor 1 charge per day Overdrive Servos — each 💨 Sprint 1 charge Stealth Field — each activation 2 charges Jetpack — spin up, lasts the combat 1 charge Reactive Plates — charge the plates, lasts the combat 1 charge At 0 charges the core is spent and the suit goes dead where it stands.
A dead suit
With no charges remaining:
- You cannot 🚶 Move at all.
- You lose the 💪 Strength 11 bonus.
- You lose 📋 Environmental Protection.
- Your Evasion cannot exceed 5, whatever your 🏃 Agility.
The pieces keep their HP and 💎 Hardness — you are still armored. Climbing out takes time.
Swapping a core
2 ⚡ AP in combat. Free outside it.
Cannot be crafted
No workstation builds one — the 🔨 industrial-workshop rule puts sealed fusion cells well out of reach. Found, bought, or taken.
Source: pulled from derelict suits, generators and military sites, or bought in tech-focused settlements. Trades as a Tech & Tools good at ~200 caps full; a partly drained core is worth proportionally less.
Related
- 🦾 Power Armor — what cores are for
- 📋 Power Armor Rules — the full penalty and requirement list
- Stealth Field · Jetpack — servos that draw on the core directly
- 🔋 Fission Battery — the common power component, not interchangeable with this
- 💰 Bartering — what you will actually pay