One of my friends started getting into the rigger books, something none of out group has looked at in quite some time. I personally don't care for the classic rigger archetype of building all kinds of insect, rover, and hover drones and controlling a bunch of them as support for the other runners, but another idea came to me.
How about a combat droid builder and pilot?
I know the Shadowrun world isn't quite to the point of having fully robotized military forces, but I mean there ARE fully functioning human (and humanoid) droids out there. I played around with one before that the GM let me use as essentially an NPC that I commanded to switch active/skillsofts and told what to do, and he cost a fortune but only because I outfitted him with 5 different fully loaded skill groups.
The idea I have here is to make a character whose only purpose is to build, outfit, and then personally control these types of combat droids. Stronger and faster than a human normally would be and able to be loaded to the gills with plenty of equipment. It may be expensive later on, but the benefit is I can start building bigger and better droids than I would be able to upgrade my character physically if I was a weapons specialist, for example.
It's just a concept now, but what say you? All comments welcome!
