((About the amp/manip discussion: while it is true that the microwave is good enough for indiscriminate murder, that doesn't mean the other amps don't have a use either. They are great at providing support for your team (e.g. sending rpg round back at their owner).
And GWG, while you could probably indeed use a magnetic amp to make stuff levitate/fly, remember that using it like that would require enormous brainpower and be hard to pull of roll-wise (aka anything but perfect 5 would end in a very dead frog). Using the matter manipulator makes doing that stuff is less taxing on your poor brain. Likewise, stopping a bunch of shrapnel of killing your team members with the matter/vector amp would be very hard because it's a large amount of stuff going every fast, whereas with the magnetic amp you can simply create a very strong magnetic field pointing down to force them all down at once.))
((Or Miya's latest... "tour de force". Granted, that's a universal manipulator, but still.))
((You know, once I get that decomp I think it'll be lot's of !FUN! figuring out what the possibilities and combinations are with that thing. Especially because there are so many cool combos we could think of. Imagine decreasing the gravity on the gangway to zero, then lightly magnetizing the floor and the soles of our boots, and bingo, we can still move around normally while any enemy entering gets a crash course in zero-G bullet dodging. Or, in the battle of Hexbarax, create a donut-shaped area of crushingly high gravity, with a HMRC squad in the middle to cut down altered that make it through.
Or hell, why not give something a large amount of upward speed (vector amp) while decreasing its gravity to zero (like a grav shute does), and voila, we can send enemies/megaton bombs set to blow off into space!
Or, if the the grav amp is capable of creating 'reverse' gravity (aka matter will repulse other matter instead of attract), combining that with the 'shockwave' thing Miya just used... It'd be a wave that makes
everything that it comes into contact with
explode violently by making its own atoms hate each other... Beautiful destruction.
The Melee MCS would still have a central tesla grid for all-round defense though. It's too useful not to have.
((Care to elaborate? I
think I know what you're planning to do, but not sure if we're on the same page.))