Lucullus Lacar
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Intent: To create a low-profile unpowered exoskeletal augmentation to assist with lifting, walking and general leg movements
Manufacturer: Crown Consortium
Model: Azur-7
Affiliation: Open-market
Modularity: Clips for gear bags/belts and armour plates to be attached
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: In conjunction with the Azai upper body exo attachment, Crown Consortium has created another augmentation in their suite of performance enhancing wearables. Following up to the shoulder attachment is a more full enhancement consisting of a durafiber lower body glove overlain with a system of cables attached to a battery pack worn behind the waist. Unlike the previous enhancement which provided only reactive support in an unpowered, low-profile medium, the Azur lower body augmentation is a powered alternative which takes some of the strain and energy required for leg functions and, hopefully excusing the pun, takes it into stride.
In this case, aforementioned expression refers to the complex system of cables, pistons and microprocessors - which have connections to elasticated sensors for full detection while moving - which detects leg movements and uses the cables to assist with movement. The sensors relay information on how exactly the leg muscles are moving - which direction, which angle, what approximate speed, to what elevation etc. etc. - to the microprocessors, which in turn relays instructions to relevant pistons to retract cables as necessary, providing a slight extra tug to mechanically reduce some of the exertion the muscles are using.
As is consistent with the Azai, the Azur won't turn an operator into a being capable of effortlessly sprinting a kilometre in a matter of seconds, but will make running that kilometre at a regular pace a lot more relaxing.
Unlike the Azai, this attachment requires a battery pack to power the processors and pistons and can last for approximately 12 hours of regular use - high-stress testing on the outfit results in 2 hour battery life of consistent full-burst sprinting (Manufacturer's note:- you probably shouldn't use it like that).
