How much does it weigh?, Can't find it! Options

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Hey ho,

So my decker has a cyberdeck. w00t! But then they do rather tend to have them, don't they?

Anyway, this deck is custom built by my friendly neighborhood Triad sponsor (that is so obviously gonna bite me in the ass if I'm not careful that I constantly throw them bits of info, cred and gear to keep them sweet), and is incorporated into an armoured breifcase of the stainless steel, slightly-grooved-on-the-outside type (I hope you know what I mean. I can't think of a film oranything with one in off hand). Y'know, its a big, solid, heavy breifcase. Its more armoured than usual, (barrier rating 10) which again has no weight, so I'm gonna go with five kilos empty - heavier than many guns.

But all the extras built into this case have just got to make it much heavier. Its got a maxed out MCPC 8 deck inside, plus chip library (copies of all the matrix programs, know and data softs including mapsofts, lingua softs, the odd programming background skill and so on. I figure about 30 seperate chips, with the matrix programs stored in the storage memory. It also has a ton of offline storage, about a hundred meters of optical fibre on a spool with the jack on the end, a flip up display (when the case is open), hitcher jacks, compartment for the fold out mini sat-dish and the spray canister for the dish webbing. Its got miniaturized microtonics and electronics kits built into it as slide out compartments and a pistol sized storage compartment just in case. Combined Cred- and chip reader, a few mini-cameras both flat, camcorder, and trid, a printer, a selection of biometric scanners, as well as custom built slots for my ultrasound emittor detector, maglock passkey and sequencer, and some wire cutters.

Obviously, its all cunningly designed to fit together like a jigsaw in little compartments, and getting to stuff when you need it is not all that quick, depending on what it is, but its prioritised - chips are easiest to get to, or you can lift that tray up and gain access to the security devices and tool kits. One half of the breifcase is the actual deck and relevant parts for it (satellite components, optic fibre spool). You obviously have to open it up to use everything, but the deck itself has a secondary external jackpoint under neath one of the combination lock as well as one in the actual console itself when you open it, and the fibre spool feeds out externally. Oh yeah, and it cost a bloody fortune and that's not including the deck itself (in other words, I'm quite happy with it as a game item as both a GM and a player).

Trouble is, for almost none of this stuff is there a weight listed. I'm tempted to make it reeeally heavy, at about 15 kilos (not including a gun if I've stashed one in there), but this might well be overdoing it so I'm asking the knowledge base that is dumpshock - whaddaya think? I think, miniaturized, the tool kits weigh about half a kilo each, but the 100m spool of cable must weigh quite a bit, as well as the multitude of chips. But decks have no listed weights. Does this mean that they weight so little they didn't consider listing it, or have I missed it? I can't find weights for chips, or the armoured case, not to mention a bunch of other stuff. Is it reasonable for the stuff I can find to put out a 'discount' weight because its all designed to fit together and probably the tool kits will have some items in common, and if so how much?

If I've really missed obvious weight listings that would resolve this, let me know and I'll slink away, I'm not looking for you guys n gals to do my maths for me, I just can't find what I'm looking for. The character being a mage as well means he's not exactly the strongest fella - and I do treat the breifcase like its very big and bulky and taking up most of my weight allowance when it comes to kitting out armour and other working gear. If possible though, I'd like a more precise figure.

TIA