Battledress familiarization you say?
That would imply Marine or Army Instructors....
How much time can I get with your people if I ferry say four of your guests from Regina and the survivors back to Regina, in the ISS Blue Rose (see .sig for specs/papers)?
Yours,
Magnus.
The trip is aboard the Hunting Excursion Ship (a converted 400Td Fat Trader). The actual instructor is Detatched Scout Dar Willardson; the familiarization course is a week, and occurs during jump. Army and Marine instructors are avoided due to a "suck-it-up" mentality, tho' Col Shushugliar does verify the trainer and occasionally loans bodies for security purposes, generally an NCO and two recruits who go through the training as well.
Prior longarms experience is a must; if you can't fam-fire at His Grace Col Shushugliar's range in the Regina system, you can't buy tickets.
Participation is, of course, at your own risk. Between 12-17 hours to suit failure, and the 44000kg flying pouncer you target, survival is always at risk.
His Excellency Scout Mason Soltar-Stone discovered, the hard way, that Dragons can, will, and do take a bite out of air/rafts. Totalled the enclosed air/raft, and then his right leg, despite a fully equipped post-duty-life IMC TL14 Battlesuit.
(for the in-character impaired: Scout Soltar-Stone and Col Shushugliar were PC's, and Scout Willardson was a recruited NPC with Instructor 3 and Battledress 2, using a hybrid of CT and MT rules. My patent is provided by Mr. Miller, as a Baron, and I've always claimed Wypoc/Lanth as my homeworld on COTI, and as my TML Landgrab. The hunting expedition was developed by PC's in a game back in 1992... and I actually rolled a 44ton hiland flying pouncer... 4 hexes would be a rather impressive chunk, tho still not much of the planet, given 420 hexes, it's about 1%... and the dragon's range covers some 10% of the planet. In 1124, IMTU, a licensed psionicist discovers them to be protosentient... thus ending a 17 year run of expeditions hunting them, averaging 2-3 expeditions per year. Given the KCr500 cost of the adapted suits, and the KCr250 to refurbish a suit after the expedition, the price is not actually that high. Dragon hunts have killed half a dozen PC's.)
