Approved Armor Burowga-class Combat Engineer Armor

[Gir Quee]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To provide a combat engineer-oriented power armor in the LPD product line-up
• Image Source: HALO armor pieces combined together through Vanity App by yours truly and edited with Grok
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Primary Source: N/A

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Lucerne Personal Defense
• Affiliation: Directorate, The High Republic, Lucerne Personal Defense Customers
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Burowga-class Combat Engineer Armor
• Modularity: various aesthetics; different tools in Kinrath Intelligent Handless System; different knowledge cartridges in tactical computer.
• Production: Mass-Produced
• Material: Plasteel-Duraplast-Duravlex composite armor plates, layered Defensa textile body panels, spun-plast panels and webbing with agrinium fasteners, power pack, typical battle armor components

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Other - Combat Engineer Armor
• Weight: Very Heavy
• Resistances:
  • Energy (And other Blaster type weapons): High
  • Kinetic: Very High
  • Thermal: High
  • Lightsabers: Low
  • EMP/Ion: High
  • Radiation: Average
  • Sonic: Very Low
  • Elemental: Average
  • Environmental: Average

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Composite Construction: Burowga uses a set of composite plates that integrally attached to its Uller series exoskeleton. Each plate is constructed using a standardized process designed to maximize the effectiveness of each individual material within the armor. Each plate consists of a duravlex lattice which holds several duraplast inserts which may be hollowed out to allow circuitry and wiring to run through. This unit is this placed in mold into which molten plasteel is poured under intense pressure to form the remaining bulk of this plate. The duravlex wire frame essentially works like miniaturized slat armor, making it useful against against small explosive projectiles, melee weapons, and slugs. Additionally, it can also act as a farraday cage for components integrated into the armor plate itself. However, most of the EMP/Ion protection afforded by the armor is the results of the duraplast inserts, which provide most of the overall protection afforded by the armor. The outer covering of plasteel provides additional resistance to the armor, especially to heat based weapons such as blaster rifles. The bodyglove uses a blend of armorweave and insulfiber to provide a base layer to help reduce damage that penetrates through the plates and to insulate the wearer from the environment, providing the user with some elemental protection. Joints and other common areas of high impact have insulfiber padding to make the suit relatively comfortable to operate in.
• Loth-Wolf series Combat Scanner: This system provides the Burowga with its standard package of HUD, sensors, and basic power suit command and control systems as described in that submission. An open sensor slot in the Loth-Wolf has been plugged in with a mechanical interface visor, allowing users to better understand and diagnose different mechanical devices found in the field. Loth-Wolf automatically incorporates the built-in tools found on the Burowga's gauntlets and Kinrath Intelligent Handless System, making repair and engineering work relatively painless.
• 888-series Tactical Microcomputer: Mounted on the back of this suit, the microcomputer is attached to the suit's HUD, and typically holds knowledge cartridges related to construction, demolition, vehicle repair, or other indepth technical tasks that the operator may need help remembering or doing. It can be accessed through the Burowga's HUD system.
• Uller series Exoskeleton: This is the suit's base power-armor chassis. Unlike the company's other power armors, the Burowga's has been optimized for raw lifting strength over agility and speed, giving the user about the raw strength of a wookiee. This allows the user to hold up large objects as they conduct repairs or break things down. As with other armors using this exoskeleton, it is surprisingly comfortable and easy to move around in, and absorbs shocks well when subjected to physical attacks or collisions.
• Asclepius Bio-support Dispenser: This internal device provides basic physiological monitoring, emergency topical bacta/kolto administration, and can also inject users with a variety of emergency or performance enhancing drugs.
• Bia series Portable Fusion Generator: Mounted on the suit's back, this generator provides the suit with a constant source of power to the power armor, which is typically around 12 hours, comparable to the old AV-1A Assault Power Armor. The redundant restart energy pathways built into this reactor allow the Power Armor to "sputter" along when faced with Ion, EMP, and other tech-dampening threats.
• Kinrath Intelligent Handless System: The Burowga has the Kinrath, one of the so-called intelligent toolboxes, mounted on its back. This device provides a trio of servo-arms with built-in tools that are automatically linked to the Burowga's HUD. This allows the users to wield multiple tools at once to quicken construction, repairs, and other field work. While the Kinrath can use dozens of tools, the most commonly used ones on the Burowga are macro fusers, arc welders, and fusion cutters.
• Repair Gauntlet (Right Gauntlet): Intended to help users make repairs to diagnose and repair machines and vehicles, the right gauntlet of the Burowga contains an arc welder and a scomp-link. It's not uncommon to the arc welder pressed into a combat as an electrical shock or cutting weapon at close ranges. Additionally, the Burowga's scomp-link has been modified to allow it to transfer from the suit to other devices and vice-versa, allowing it to both charge objects in an emergency, or draw power from them.
• Construction Gauntlet (Left Gauntlet): The left gauntlet of the Burowga contains a built-in F-187 fusioncutter and a FastTurn-3 hydrospanner. While these are common construction tools, they are nonetheless invaluable in fixing or a modifying equipment. The fusioncutter is sometimes used as an impromptu weapon.
• Magnetomic Gription Boots: The Burowga comes with built-in magnetomic gription boots, allowing users to latch onto metallic structures and vehicles without fear of easily falling.
• Utility Belt: Burowga comes with a streamlined utility belt with compartments made out of the same armor plating as the rest of the suit. While heavily inspired by the classic stormtrooper belt, it contains fewer items in terms of types and quanitities in order to cut down on bulk. Each belt contains the following 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, and two ration packs.
• Dump Pouches: The Power Armor comes with a pair of armorweave pouches on outer aspect of each thigh to store miscellaneous items, such as personal weapons, ammunition, additional power packs or medpacs, and other small equipment not integrated into the armor.
• Basic Environmental Protection: Like many common battle armors such as stormtrooper armor, Burowga provides limited protection from hostile environments. Each suit is vacuum proof and provides some insulation through the use of the base insulfiber-armorweave body glove. Burowgaarmor also incorporates air filtering through an atmosphere processor in addition to a 60 minute atmosphere supply, allowing troopers to operate for a limited time in hazardous atmospheres or in a complete lack of breathable atmosphere.

STRENGTHS

• Resistant (Energy): Duraplast and its Defensa textile base are known for their exceptional resistance to blasters, providing the user with good protection against common blaster weapons.
• Resistant (Kinetic): Burowga's Defensa base and Duraplast plates provide the user with good kinetic protection, a key concern in the engineering field because of falling debris, accidents, and shrapnel on the battlefield. Spun-plast impregnation and burthan thread provides some protection from glancing hits of physical weapons while the duraplast plates can withstand some good direct hits from even some high velocity weapons. Unlike many armors, Burowga's use of thermal gel pockets in the Defensa textile makes such hits easier to endure on the wearer: when struck, this gel stiffens up and absorbs kinetic energy upon impact before spreading its energy across the rest of the connected cloth.
• Resistant (Thermal): The duravlex found in the plates are known to provide excellent heat protection, which provides good protection for key body parts against extreme heat.

WEAKNESSES

• Low Sonic Resistance: Burowga's base material, Defensa textile, provides very little protection against sonic weapons due to its lightweight construction and frequent fluid pockets (through which sound transmits through easier than many solid materials of similar depth).
• Low Lightsaber Resistance: The Burowga was designed to protect the wearer from common threats and hazards on the battlefield, of which lightsabers are not relatively common. Any protection from lightsabers found in the Burowga is largely incidental, with materials known for protecting against heat and energy weapons having some similar properties to those that protect from lightsabers.

DESCRIPTION
With the end of the Bryn'adul invasion of the galaxy, Lucerne Personal Defence was content to let its achievements in the power armor market stand, especially with its mainstay Howlrunner-class Power Armor remaining competitive against many newcomers. But while the company was content to focus on other markets, the original power suit design teams were not, continuing to quietly move forward by developing more specialized suits. The Burowga is one of the first fruits of these largely internal department projects. Unlike the company's other power suits, the Burowga's function in combat is more secondary, with its intend instead being focused on providing an engineers and construction crews with a means to enhance their strength and ease their efforts in building and repairing structures and vehicles.

This design focus shows in the exoskeleton being optimized solely for raw lifting strength rather than speed. This gives users an impressive amount of brute strength that rivals many binary loadlifters, allowing single users to move around construction materials and large tools swiftly and with a minimum of effort. Similarly, the HUD and computer systems of the Burowga are optimized to better diagnose structures, vehicles, and other devices, with the knowledge cartridges of the tactical computer allowing users to pull up reams of technical data and/or repair and construction details through simple voice activation commands. Tools are not only built into the suit's gauntlets, but also sprout from the user's back via a Kinrath Intelligent Handless System, theoretically allowing the wearer to use multiple tools at once or effortlessly switch to a different tool as needed. Magnetic boots allow users to walk up thick metal structures or cling to the hulls of starships and other vehicles, allowing users to safely make repairs while those vehicles are moving.

Burowgas do not have the raw combat abilities that appeal to most soldiers, and their expense is typically prohibitive for many industrial concerns. Instead, the Burowga is designed to a niche market: combat engineers. To that end, the suit has excelled in allowing combat engineers to repair and build things in the thick of battle. While not designed for combat engineers conducting demolitions work, its excellent protection from heat and kinetic hazards has drawn the suit into that work as well, and its not uncommon to see several of the Kinrath Intelligent Handless System arm's being equipped to precisely disarm or place explosive devices. As decidedly niche product, the Burowga is set for small steady, production run to supply more elite and well-funded combat and starship engineers.

 

[Darth Prazutis]

Under Review.

 

[Darth Prazutis]

Gir Quee

Looks good. Approved.