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In the Rifts role-playing game, SAMAS is a classification of powered armor, standing for Strategic Armored Military Assault Suit (although some sourcebooks say it stands for Strategic Assault Manned Armored System). Basically, the SAMAS (also nicknamed Sam) is an armored exo-skeleton capable of jet flight through a back-mounted thruster and fold-out wing system, originally intended for tasks like aerial combat, maneuvering through urban terrain, and riot control. There are many variations of the SAMAS in different parts of Rifts Earth.

Coalition States SAMAS

PA-06a "Death's Head" SAMAS

The common nickname for the first model of SAMAS Palladium Books created, the PA-06a SAMAS used by the Coalition States (or CS) military. Based on a design created by the US Air Force prior to the Great Cataclysm, the Death's Head isn't much different from the original (although it has a lighter weapon and a skull-shaped helmet). A CS SAMAS is typically armed with a machinegun-like C-40R railgun and a pair of mini-missiles housed in the suit's left arm, and can attain flight speeds in the vicinity of 300 MPH. In P.A. 105, the Coalition Emperor, Karl Prosek, announced the Campaign of Unity, a military schedule to conquer most of the other kingdoms on the north American continent; with this campaign, new models of vehicles, robots and power armor were introduced, relegating many Death's Head SAMAS units to police forces or 'acquired' by the black market to be sold to independents.

PA-07A "Smiling Jack" SAMAS

One of the new models of SAMAS to replace the Death's Head in the Coalition States military, the Smiling Jack SAMAS (so called because of the menacing white toothy grin on its helmet) is a representation of the 'new-style' generation of equipment being used for the Campaign of Unity. Slightly faster and more agile than its predecessor, the Smiling Jack uses the same rail gun, and has 3 mini-missiles in their own launcher on each wing.

PA-09A Super SAMAS

The third model introduced by the CS, the Super-SAMAS (also called the Grinning Demon due to its size, power, and the same "grin" as the Smiling Jack) is a larger than normal model of SAMAS patterned after the Smiling Jack. Breaking from tradition with the original, which is essentially man-sized, the Super-SAMAS is a huge, 10-foot bruiser of a power armor. Its built-in armament includes a pair of shoulder mounted plasma cannons and a combination of rifle grenade launchers and sickle-shaped Vibro-Blades on both arms. In addition, the Super-SAMAS is supposedly able to switch from normal flight speeds to mach speed (which the Death's Head and Smiling Jack SAMAS aren't capable of achieving).

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