Editing Dragonflight (section)

==Shared Traits==
Dragon's 'suits', as they are known to the public, are mechanical creations stylized with claws, scale-like armour plating and dragon-like "faces".<ref>The other dragon suits had the general stylings of dragons, with claws, armor plating that resembled scales and heads or faces that resembled a reptile.  In the end, though, they were still machines, and the theme was just that.  A theme. - [[Monarch 16.5]]</ref> Some had wings.<ref>Dragon suit silhouette in the background, wings echoing the wings of the PRT logo over their heads. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/21173580/ Wildbow on IRC], archived at Spacebattles</ref> They usually have names associated with dragons and related mythological tropes.

Since the public believed Dragon was a human who usually personally piloted her suits, the smaller suits were humanoid and the larger suits had interiors with room for a pilot.<ref>Dragon ejected, skidded to a stop eighty feet away, a smaller suit of armor with thin arms and legs, each tapering down to points.  The suit Dragon had left behind glowed red, orange, white, then exploded violently around Leviathan, as though every crevice had been packed with high explosives.  Leviathan reeled, lashed his tail, and then lunged back toward the gathered capes.  He was intercepted by three flying capes this time, who harried him with superstrength and the case of one hero, an oversized battle axe.<br>''Dragon enters battle with suit packed with explosives, risky, current suit has insufficient room for arms and legs: Suit unmanned.''<br>Remotely controlled?  Tattletale raised an eyebrow. - [[Interlude 8.y]]</ref> They often contained fetus-like "biological computers" which were very difficult to hack, and which could be mistaken for human pilots by some powers.<ref name="10.5">[[Parasite 10.5]]</ref><ref name="I10.5e1"/>

Her suits were expensive to construct, and were often funded by [[The Protectorate]].<ref>“They must have put millions into manufacturing this.  That was supposed to stop the Nine, and It was powerful enough that it might have, if it’d had Dragon’s brain backing it up.”<br>“They can build more,” Grue said. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/monarch-16-5/ Excerpt] from [[Monarch 16.5]]</ref><ref name= "16.5e1">“Suits leaving the city, satellite phones are working.  Few factors at play, there.  I got word back from the Dragonslayers.  Paid them a few million bucks to tell me how they keep getting the upper hand on Dragon, tell me how she’s relaying commands to her suits.  With that, I had some squads plant C-4 and knock down cell towers.  That slowed her down, cut her bandwidth, so to speak, and limited her ability to reprogram them on the fly.  I’m guessing you guys took out one or more suits?”<br>“Three,” Bitch said.<br>“Two or three,” I clarified.<br>“That cost the Protectorate a good chunk of cash, and it’s detracting from Dragon’s primary mission, which is the Nine.  My guess is she’s zeroing in on them.  Better to have a few suits closer to where she thinks they are than to leave them here in the city for you guys to keep breaking.  So she thinks, anyways, and the bigwigs that are footing the bill seem to agree.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/monarch-16-5/ Excerpt] from [[Monarch 16.5]]</ref> They also had substantial fuel costs when active.<ref>It’s a question of resources.<br>Keeping the suits active and scanning the countryside gets expensive as they start accruing fuel costs, some of which may be rarer and more expensive.<br>As is, they’re stationed around the city in sleep mode (See the Pythios/Wheel Dragon as they approach), and only active for thirty minutes at a time.<br>As for why the suits aren’t going after bigger/badder villains? The Undersider-Traveler alliance is fairly easy to find, and they’re in a city that’s the subject of national attention. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/monarch-16-2/#comment-6814 Wildbow on Monarch 16.2]</ref>

As the creator of [[containment foam]], Dragon's suits were one of the only locations containment foam solvent was kept (the other being specialized [[PRT]] trucks under high security.)<ref>Solvents aren't included with the tanks - only specialized trucks & Dragon suits have them. If they were freely available or part of the standard sprayer setup they'd be too easy to co-opt or steal. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/6bp7i0/weve_got_worm_podcast_readthrough_episode_10/dhpmcrs/ Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> She often utilized cell phone towers to communicate with them and re-program them on the fly; without them, her bandwidth was limited, rendering them easier to outsmart.<ref name="16.5e1"/>