Hardly worthy of being called an armature, the Squawkbox is nothing more than a lunchbox-sized container for an AI matrix core equipped with basic audiovisual sensors, a vocalizer, and four small manipulation limbs. The Squawkbox is almost useless in combat, being far too weak to do any damage with melee weapons and too small to effectively employ firearms. It can move at a speed of 5 meters per round, however, and it can be carried as a single item's worth of encumbrance by another character. Some AIs prefer to have a Squawkbox or two packed with their comrades in case of sudden, drastic unserviceability of their main armature. The armature price represents the cost of buying a finished article; a technician with the requisite skill could assemble one himself for a tenth of the cost using nothing more than raw materials, a postech toolkit and a day's labor.
Special: Squawkboxes are such simple armatures that installing a matrix core into them requires no more than five minutes of effort and does not require tools