Directorate Officer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
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Color: Silver-white
SPECIAL FEATURES
DESCRIPTION
After months of galactic seclusion on the water world of Hast, Admiral Quee's return to the galactic scene informed him that especially large and high-powered weapons were becoming more and more common on the battle front, whether in space or on ground. The obvious solution was to simply add more and more armor to resist these weapons, but the increase in mass quickly becomes impractical for many applications. To that end, Lucerne Labs took inspiration from the old Ultrachrome armor plating used on Great Sith War era starships. They work on similar principles, using the material's properties to disperse damage from a single point and apply it equally throughout the entire material. But rather than using a single, rare and expensive material, Lucerne Labs decided to utilize several much more common materials to produce a similar effect on their own version of matrix armor.
The base material of Argentum series are interlocking, composite tiles formed of alternating dura-armor and trimantium layers. Dura-armor is primary used to absorb direct energy attacks, which it then disperses laterally across its connecting dura-armor layers. This is primarily a feature of its partial neutronium composition, which was used in a similar fashion to the hull-plating found on the Acclamator-class Assault ship. Trimantium is similarly used to disperse physical impacts, using its high tensile strength to slowly stretch and spread the impact as its sister tiles like the interlocking rings of old-fashioned chain-mail. These composite tiles are supported off of the inner hull by sturdy ferrocarbon bracing, which provides further structural support against physical impacts. A fluid bath of thermal gel fills the space between the interlocked tiles and the inner hull. This thinned gel circulates across the vessels hull, helping to circulate and move heat around from individual tiles to disperse more evenly across the rest of the vessel, not unlike an old-fashioned water radiator. Thermal gel also acts as local dilatant, quickly hardening in proportion to the physical agitation it experiences when an object attempts to move through it. This makes it more effective than traditional armors at stopping fast-moving projectiles but paradoxically less effective than traditional armors at stopping slow-moving projectiles. So in other words, while it would be particularly effective against a high-powered sniper rifle, it would conversely be less effective against a submachine gun spraying a large number of low-velocity bullets.
While Argentum is primarily designed to resist common large-bore energy and projectile guns, it is reasonably effective at providing some protection from other threats through a combination of the materials' properties using the principles already described. As an example, the heat produced by a explosion or a lightsaber would be radiated throughout the entire armor system instead of at a single point. It is still possible to quickly mass too much heat at a single point too quickly and overwhelm the local materials. Likewise, the trimantium links would resist sonic deformation better than many materials, but the thermal gel underneath would practically negate any advantage this grants because the waves would propagate through it easier. Argentum design emphasis was more focused on conventional threats, and while it provides some protection against more exotic threats, it is usually quite limited against elemental, radiation, and corrosive weapons.
Argentum is used in the same capacity as traditional matrix armor, seeing use in everything from personal armor inserts to massive armor plating on capital ships. Several ISAF forces are experimenting with personal armors made out of the material, and Lucerne Labs is already planning on utilizing the armor in its latest starships or as an after-market modification for existing vessels.
Intent: To provide an updated matrix armor material for use by the Silver Jedi
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Name: Argentum-series Matrix Armor Plating
Manufacturer: Lucerne Labs
Production: Mass-Produced.
Affiliation: Directorate, Silver Jedi, Closed-Market
Modularity: No
Material: Dura-armor & Trimantium composite tiles, thermal gel, ferrocarbon bracing, quantum fiber lining (contains the gel)
Classification: Compound
Weight: Heavy
Resistances
Blasters (And other plasma type weapons): High
Kinetic: High
- Explosives: Average
- Lightsabers: Average
Sonic: Average
EMP/Ion: Average
Corrosion: Low
Elemental: Low
Radiation: Low
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Color: Silver-white
SPECIAL FEATURES
Matrix Mesh Construction: Argentum is primary composed of dura-armor/trimantium composite tiles, which are then mounted on ferrocarbon bracing . A thermal gel bath is sandwiched between the tiles and the outer lining of what the armor is protecting. This gel is contained by quantum fiber lining.
Penetration Resistant: Argentum is designed to spread out damage from a single point across the entire armor system, which make it exceptionally effective at preventing high-powered attacks from penetrating through the armor. Dura-armor absorbs the energy blasts and quickly disperses it across its entire matrix. Likewise, the trimantium underneath the dura-armor spreads out kinetic effects throughout the armor system through its high tensile strength. The thermal gel beneath these composite layers aids in further dispersing both energy and kinetic attacks, with the gel absorbing and dissipating excess heat building up on the tiles, and also immediately thickening under physical impact as a shear thickening fluid to further resist kinetic penetration.
General Purpose Armor: Argentum provides protection from a wide variety of threats, ranging from mundane energy and projectile weapons to exotic radiation and elemental weapons. It is slightly more optimized to deal with the more common threats, and its protection from exotic threats is often limited.
Penetration Resistant: Argentum is designed specifically to defeat high-powered and penetrating weapons, such as hypervelocity cannons or proton beams on a capital ship level, or shatter guns and high powered laser rifles on a personal scale. This makes Argentum-armored items less likely to suffer critical damage from relatively heavy weapons.
Collective Damage: Damage is usually spread out across the entirety of the armor system, which means armor can be damaged and even destroyed despite not being directly hit by weapons. As an example of this, it would be entirely possible to continually plink shots in a vessel's blindspot at the stern, and eventually end up with the vessel's bow armor destroyed, as damage tends to spread out across the ship's hull equally
DESCRIPTION
After months of galactic seclusion on the water world of Hast, Admiral Quee's return to the galactic scene informed him that especially large and high-powered weapons were becoming more and more common on the battle front, whether in space or on ground. The obvious solution was to simply add more and more armor to resist these weapons, but the increase in mass quickly becomes impractical for many applications. To that end, Lucerne Labs took inspiration from the old Ultrachrome armor plating used on Great Sith War era starships. They work on similar principles, using the material's properties to disperse damage from a single point and apply it equally throughout the entire material. But rather than using a single, rare and expensive material, Lucerne Labs decided to utilize several much more common materials to produce a similar effect on their own version of matrix armor.
The base material of Argentum series are interlocking, composite tiles formed of alternating dura-armor and trimantium layers. Dura-armor is primary used to absorb direct energy attacks, which it then disperses laterally across its connecting dura-armor layers. This is primarily a feature of its partial neutronium composition, which was used in a similar fashion to the hull-plating found on the Acclamator-class Assault ship. Trimantium is similarly used to disperse physical impacts, using its high tensile strength to slowly stretch and spread the impact as its sister tiles like the interlocking rings of old-fashioned chain-mail. These composite tiles are supported off of the inner hull by sturdy ferrocarbon bracing, which provides further structural support against physical impacts. A fluid bath of thermal gel fills the space between the interlocked tiles and the inner hull. This thinned gel circulates across the vessels hull, helping to circulate and move heat around from individual tiles to disperse more evenly across the rest of the vessel, not unlike an old-fashioned water radiator. Thermal gel also acts as local dilatant, quickly hardening in proportion to the physical agitation it experiences when an object attempts to move through it. This makes it more effective than traditional armors at stopping fast-moving projectiles but paradoxically less effective than traditional armors at stopping slow-moving projectiles. So in other words, while it would be particularly effective against a high-powered sniper rifle, it would conversely be less effective against a submachine gun spraying a large number of low-velocity bullets.
While Argentum is primarily designed to resist common large-bore energy and projectile guns, it is reasonably effective at providing some protection from other threats through a combination of the materials' properties using the principles already described. As an example, the heat produced by a explosion or a lightsaber would be radiated throughout the entire armor system instead of at a single point. It is still possible to quickly mass too much heat at a single point too quickly and overwhelm the local materials. Likewise, the trimantium links would resist sonic deformation better than many materials, but the thermal gel underneath would practically negate any advantage this grants because the waves would propagate through it easier. Argentum design emphasis was more focused on conventional threats, and while it provides some protection against more exotic threats, it is usually quite limited against elemental, radiation, and corrosive weapons.
Argentum is used in the same capacity as traditional matrix armor, seeing use in everything from personal armor inserts to massive armor plating on capital ships. Several ISAF forces are experimenting with personal armors made out of the material, and Lucerne Labs is already planning on utilizing the armor in its latest starships or as an after-market modification for existing vessels.
