Eralam
Character
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a new chassis for Eralam, designed specifically for dueling
- Image Source: https://www.artstation.com/christopheyoung
- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: [member="Eralam"]
- Model: N/A
- Affiliation: [member="Eralam"]
- Modularity: N/A
- Production: Unique
- Material: Songsteel, Durasteel, Alusteel, Hydraulic Components, Processor, Shard Interface Components
- Classification: Multipurpose Shard Chassis
- Weight: 200 kg
- Resistances
- Kinetic: High
- Lightsabers: Very High
- EMP/ION: Low
- Elemental: Low
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Precision hydraulic system
- Custom Shard Interface
- Bespoke armor plating
- Advanced Sensor Suite
- Dueling- This particular chassis has been optimized from the ground up for dueling. The precision hydraulic system allows for an incredible degree of control, while still providing greater than human strength and endurance.
- Bespoke Plating- The hand-forged songsteel plates are several times thicker than standard armor plating, providing a much greater degree of resistance to lightsaber strikes.
- Situational Awareness- In addition to standard binocular vision, this chassis is equipped with a variety of other sensors, including millimeter wave radar, FLIR, and ultrasonic sonar. Though the range is limited to about twenty meters, within that sensor bubble, it has an incredible degree of awareness.
- Weight- This chassis is heavy. One might not think this would be a problem, as it's controlled by a hydraulic system, but that weight adversely affects mobility. Though it can run and jump about as well as the average humanoid, it's incapable of the sort of acrobatics common to Force Users, and it has great difficulty operating in snow, mud, or sand. Moving quickly over unstable or damaged surfaces is also a bad idea.
- Tactile Input- This armor lacks the ability to sense touch in the way that most would. Instead, it relies on the hydraulic system to provide feedback based on the resistance it encounters. This information is then fed into the processor, which converts it to usable data. While this allows Eralam to function fairly normally, he cannot sense things like temperature, or air pressure. This lack of feedback could prove fatal under the right circumstances.
- EMP/Elemental Resistance- Since the standard methods of hardening against electromagnetic or environmental threats would have slowed reaction times, Eralam chose to forgo them.
- Close Range- The sensors on this suit are tuned entirely for dueling. Though it's not quite accurate to call it myopic, stormtroopers would have a better chance of hitting targets beyond twenty or thirty meters.
- Vulnerabilities- An impervious suit of armor would hardly be sporting. Thus, there are several portions of the armor that are completely open, including large gaps on the flanks. Some might call leaving these areas open an act of arrogance, and, well, they'd be right. Eralam, however, likes to think of it as giving the other guy a fighting chance.
- Subtlety- This chassis is loud. The hydraulic pumps are loud. It's heavy as hell, and the feet are made of metal. It's also shiny. If you don't see or hear it coming from a mile away, you've no one but yourself to blame.
DESCRIPTION
Eralam has long wanted a chassis designed solely for dueling. His former chassis was a heavily modified assassin droid body that had seen several upgrades over the centuries, but the patchwork of repairs and modifications proved increasingly unreliable. And so, he set out to build his perfect body.
The skeleton is made of durasteel, and is articulated by an advanced hydraulic system that provides a ridiculous degree of precision, as well as strength and endurance. When coupled with the advanced sensor suite, the chassis is capable of detecting and reacting to a variety of threats within its twenty meter bubble. The "skin" is mostly alusteel, covered with beautifully forged sonsteel plating. The plates are designed to be removed and replaced, though doing so requires a proper shop.
The chassis as built from the ground up to be a dueling platform, at the exclusion of all else. It is completely and utterly incapable of stealth. It's not designed to stand up to the rigors of a battlefield, and it's certainly not designed to operate in rough terrain. It also lacks protection from EMPs or elemental threats, as Eralam believed that the modifications necessary to provide that degree of protection would have slowed overall reaction time.
For the sake of sportsmanship, the armor features several vulnerable areas. Should a duelist manage to strike them, Eralam would be in a bad way. His hydraulic system is analogous to the human circulatory system: cut a line, he bleeds. If he looses too much hydraulic fluid, he becomes weak. If enough is lost before he can make repairs, the pumps burn out and the suit "dies."
