Velok the Younger
When I Was A Young Warthog
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Intent: A lightweight, minimal anti-lightsabre defense, wearable as dress, shirt, or undershirt
Development Thread: AEL runs farms on a world where tikulini are native; other tikulini have been acquired at one point or another here, here, and here. So far they have only been cited for unique products, and tikulini are large.
Manufacturer: Akure Executive Leatherworks
Model: AEL Myriad Singlet
Affiliation: Exclusive customers
Modularity: No
Production: Mass-produced
Material: Tikulini leather, gently alchemized; electrum ornamentation
Classification: Anti-lightsabre
Weight: 2kg
Quality: Class 3
Special Features: Full resistance to lightsabre strikes. Sustained or repeated contact will cook the wearer, then burn through.
Description: In celebration of AEL's exponential growth and the establishment of free-range farms and hunting preserves on tikulini-rich Kyrikal 17, AEL crafted what may be its first true mass-produced product, having built its success on more exclusive items. The alchemical reagents applied during the leatherworking process are minimal, just enough to preserve the lightsabre-immune quality of tikulini hide.
The resulting garment is a slimming, lightweight leather singlet which can repel the heat and cutting power of a lightsabre, though not its blunt force. It protects neck, shoulders, torso and hips, no more. Though mass-produced, it is mass-produced in the sense of a moderately expensive, moderately exclusive product marketed to elites on ten thousand world. It also represents an attempt by AEL to capitalize on demand from a clientele that doesn't work well with its more Dark Side-oriented products.
