I have always thought, since the emergence of GURPS Vehicles, that GURPS needed equivalently versitile systems for creating other types of game elements...weapons for example. With the appearance of GURPS Vehicles, 2nd Edition -- we had such rules. But what about armor generation, to go along with the weapon generation? Battlesuits? GURPS Robots? Well, they are dramtically cool...but, on a little larger scale.

So, I adapted the battlesuit generation rules, grabbing game mechanic bits from Robots and Vehicles 2nd Ed., and made these very simple rules.