Lucullus Lacar
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Intent: To create a low-profile unpowered exoskeletal augmentation to assist with lifting and general arm movements.
Manufacturer: Crown Consortium
Model: Azai-2
Affiliation: Open-market
Modularity: None
Production: For humans/near-human races, nearing mass production - for others who's proportions are dissimilar to human, special orders must be made (limited)
Material: Durafiber
Description: While strength enhancing exoskeletons have been designed and theorised for individual use, the main focus is "How many swoops can I flip at once with it?" These designs have been generally bulky, cumbersome and can make it difficult for users to fit through doors. The most common feature these heavy lift attachments have is enormous battery packs, and an inversely small battery life accompanied by many pistons, pulleys and straps.
Thusly, Crown Consortium sought to make a suite of exoskeletal augmentations that can enable users to lift slightly more than what their strength range would normally allow - it won't let someone flip over an X-wing, but heavy lifting is certainly more accessible, and arm movements overall are increasingly easy. The attachment works by understanding the normal range of human (editor's note:- "human" is used interchangeably to refer to both human and near-human races, proportionately) movements and bolstering them. It does this by re-inforcing human muscles at key points through a specifically layered fabric membrane which reduces the amount of force muscles must exert to lift heavy objects.
In layman's terms, it can be described thusly - picture yourself pushing a heavy box over a table with one arm, slightly difficult, yes? Now imagine you have braced the palm of your other hand behind your elbow - the fact that your muscle can rely on bolstering strength behind it vastly reduces the work load required to push the object. The attachment is designed to bolster the entirety of the upper arm, including shoulder, so a full range of lift such as overhead is available.
The system is unpowered and contains no rigid framework which results in two outcomes, one viewable as negative, the other equally positive - the system can never be used for moving heavy loads, but it is entirely in and of itself, compact, and battery power is never an issue.
