Directorate Officer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To provide a combat-oriented flight suit in Lucerne Personal Defense's product line-up
- Image Source: Star Citizen OMC Light Armor concept art
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Lucerne Personal Defense
- Affiliation: Directorate, Silver Jedi, Closed-Market
- Model: Adar-class Combat Flightsuit
- Modularity: Pouches and other gear can easily be attached to flightsuit's clip system
- Production: Mass-Produced.
- Material: Durafiber bodyglove with reinforced Synthmesh panels, Thermal gel padding, duraplas flight helmet, armor plates, utility belt containers, and chest harness, Reifflex cellular padding(helmet), ceraglass flight visor, and Polyweave flight harness and modular webbing gear, spun-plast based magnetic boots, various armor components
- Classification: Armored Jumpsuit
- Weight: Light
- Resistances:
- Energy: High
- Kinetic: Very High
- Lightsabers: None
- Sonic: Very Low
- Ion: Low
- Environmental (Outer Space): Very High
- Loth-Wolf series Combat Scanner with SC-1 Hardened Comlink: Provides basic personal HUD complete with personal sensors, communications, and personal weapon targeting as described in that submission. The open sensor slot in the Loth-Wolf has been fitted with a data uplink that can connect to vehicles and starships to directly integrate their vehicle's sensor data, targeting information, and other vehicle systems data directly through this HUD system.
- Asclepius Bio-support Dispenser: This Bio-Support Dispenser provides basic physiological monitoring, emergency topical bacta/kolto administration, and can also inject users with a variety of emergency or performance enhancing drugs.
- Composite Armor: The Adar was designed to protect the pilot from near hits and shrapnel produced by his own ship from being hit along with limited firefights on the ground. To that end, the suit has strategically placed thin duraplast plate on the wearer's arms and legs as well as a pair of thicker duraplas plates for the front and back of the torso. These plates cover up a multiple layers of durafiber which contain pockets of thermal gel, which not only protects against energy flares and heat, but also helps disperse kinetic impacts. Panels of Synthmesh covering large portions of the body have been sandwiched between layers of durafiber to help protect the user from environmental threats.
- Environmentally Sealed: Adar is environmentally sealed in case the wearer is exposed to vacuum or toxic atmospheres. The helmet includes an atmosphere processor to provide additional oxygen in most environments. This helmet is also fed by a three hour air supply located in the suit's backplate.
- Magnetic Boots: Allow user some measure of extra traction on metal surfaces, such as inside spaceships if artificial gravity fails, or on the outside of starship hulls if EVA.
- Utility Belt: Adar comes with a streamlined utility belt with compartments made out of lightweight duraplas that contains the following emergency supplies and equipment: a spool of high tension wire, one grappling hook, 2 power packs, two ion flares(for illumination or emergency signaling), a combat de-ionizer, a GLiS Emergency Medpac, a radiation deflection badge, six emergency adhesive vacuum seal suit patches, and two ration packs.
- Polyweave flight harness / modular webbing gear: This allows the user to optionally fasten his suit to an ejection seat, repulsor-pack, or other emergency escape device if wanted. While the polyweave straps are normally pulled and secured tightly across the suit, they can be loosened and combined with a clip system allow pouches, weapon holsters, and other equipment to be secured directly to the suit.
- Resistance (Energy): The Adar provides reasonable protection against common hand-held energy weapons like blasters thanks to inclusion of duraplas armor plating, synthmesh panels, and the extensive use of thermal gel pockets. While this protection is fairly solid against a handful of hits and provides significantly more protection against them than the average flight suit, it does not have the durability of many dedicated personal battle armors.
- Resistance (Kinetic): Shrapnel was a major concern when designing the Adar, and consequently much of the design was aimed at protecting the user from kinetic threats. The visor faceplate is suprisingly resistant against shrapnel and many low-velocity bullets, since it is actually a plate of transparent, ceramic armor, just like the duraplas armor plates and helmet. Layers of durafiber is provides much protection against typical small melee weapons and helps to arrest shrapnel. Thermal gel, besides its heat-dissipating properties, is exceptionally good at absorbing kinetic blows and helping to diffuse them, lessening the blow of attacks even if they pierce through the previous armor layers. Perhaps more importantly, thermal gels pockets provide an important source of cushioning and shock absorption for the wearer if their ride crashes or suffers a collision.
- Resistance (Environmental): Multiple layers of durafiber result in most of the suit's protection against the effects of the cold, vacuum of space. Thermal gel pockets provide some additional insulation and the other layers of armor provide some minor, additional effects.
- Auxiliary Systems: Like many other flight suits, the Adar provides the user with a variety of systems to help enable the user to better operate their craft and fight, ranging from integrated HUD systems to emergency medical assistance.
- Light-weight: Adar is a fairly lightweight piece of clothing, allowing users to comfortably sit in it for long periods of time in a cockpit or quickly move around on the battlefield.
- Limited Resistance (Lightsabers): Facing lightsaber-wielding opponents was not considered a serious concern when designing the Adar, considering that the average pilot wouldn't likely encounter an enemy force-user in direct personal combat. None of the Adar's materials provide any protection against lightsabers.
- Limited Resistance (Ion): While there was some concern that ion weapons might effect the suit, it wasn't a priority in the design. Thus, the Adar only has very limited protection against ion weapons, most of which is aimed at preventing the armor's components from being too heavily damaged to not be deionized in the field.
- Limited Resistance (Sonics): Sonic weapons were not considered when designing the Adar. Consequently, the suit provides little protection against such threats.
- Limited Endurance (Life Support): The Adar only provides three hours of life support, which is less than that of many dedicated flight suits. It is possible, but very difficult to change out air supply canisters in combat, as the air supply is in the back of the armor.
Always looking to diversify its product line to ensure steady profits, Lucerne Personal Defense decided to try and break into the spacer market with a flightsuit. Rather than try to compete the dozens of well-established general use models, Lucerne Personal Defense took their expertise with battle armor and applied it to flight suits to come up with a reasonably competent lightweight, armored flight suit. To that end, the Adar uses light layers of fabric along with strategically placed panels of synthmesh and duraplas to provide the user not only with protection against common hazards of stellar travel but also common battlefield threats. In order to better enable users to fly starships and other craft, the Adar comes with a personal HUD system that can directly integrate with a craft's computer systems via a data uplink. Another popular feature of the Adar is its advanced bio-support dispenser, which can automatically diagnose and provide limited medical treatment, which is indispensable if traveling in alone in a small starship like a starfighter. The suit has a number of other small features designed to appeal to the spacer crowd, including magnetic soles, a survival-oriented utility belt, and an integrated flight harness.
Despite these spacer-oriented features, there are some clear hints that Lucerne Personal Defense expects it to see at least some use in ground conflicts. Some of this is just pure legacy features obtained by reusing existing LPD technology. As example of this, the Lothwolf HUD can also act like a typical battle armor's HUD, supplying its own sensor data and providing targeting information for personal weapons. But other features were clearly intentionally designed to help the user survive ground combat, noticeably the way it integrates different types of materials to provide layered protection against battlefield threats. It's relatively snug and form-fitting design (in stark contrast to classic, baggy flight suits) show an interest in optimizing battlefield movements without getting snagged on objects in the environment. The integrated gear webbing system is another feature that clearly is oriented towards a more combat-oriented crowd: the average freighter pilot doesn't look for ways to attach different types of tactical gear to his body.
So far, Adar has made modest inroads into the flight suit market, primarily taking market share from older armored flight suits such as the Corellian TX-3. Many of the users are cautious starfighter pilots and mercenaries and commandoes who share almost equal mounts of time in space and on the ground. While specifically designed for ground vehicle use, many ground vehicle operators have also adopted the suit, ranging from airspeeder pilots to tank crewmen because of its blend of features suit their own needs well. Adar seems likely to enjoy a small if steady production run for some years to come.
