Editing Technophobia/Stress (section)

==Introduction==
STRESS fully replaces pilot HP used in the Core Book. It represents wear and tear experienced by pilots, both physical and mental. It is tracked using an eight-segment clock. Each time a PC takes STRESS, their player fills in a number of segments equal to the amount of STRESS taken. When the clock fills up and a character would take STRESS again, that character is overwhelmed or hurt and becomes [[#BREAKING|broken]]. A character that becomes broken takes some long term harm, called a [[#BURDENS|burden]], and is out of the scene for a short while.

In narrative play, STRESS replaces the concept of damage completely. The stress clock replaces pilots’ HP and ARMOR statistics when not in mech combat.

STRESS represents not only physical harm, but also exhaustion, fatigue, mental or emotional suffering, and so on. As such, PCs can take stress in a range of situations, including ones that aren’t violent or physically dangerous (e.g., social situations, gathering information, etc).