OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To sub a neat utility item
- Image Source: Charon logo, edited by [member="Varlo Shysa"], Final Fantasy: Spirits Within
- Canon Link: N/A
- Primary Source: Deep Eyes Tech
- Manufacturer: Rory Naasade, Charon Company
- Affiliation: Charon Company, Open Market
- Model: HDG Packets, Belt Mounted
- Modularity: No
Production: Limited
- Material: Modified grappling gun components, plastic, durasteel clip, Kyvalon-4 gas, anti-laser aerosol.
- Utilized for low atmospheric drops, HDG packets allow air dropping soldiers to land from heights that would otherwise cause injury or death.
- Inclusion of the anti-laser aerosol additionally protects someone in the critical first moments after the drop, allowing them to gain their feet and situational awareness before coming under blaster fire.
- Belt Mounted clip holds up to three (3) packets.
- All mechanical components make it immune to ion and emp effects.
- Geronimo - Can protect someone jumping from up to approximately 440 meters (in a typical atmosphere) above the ground with no injury sustained due to the fall when used correctly. Falls from higher altitudes are possible, but without additional tech to slow the fall and keep the user below terminal velocity is not not advised (see weaknesses).
- Gimme a Sec To Catch My Breath - From impact to gaseous dissolution takes 1.5 seconds, and then another 1.5 seconds after for the gas to disperse. For the first 1.5 seconds, the engulfed person is protected from other sources of blunt force trauma, and for the full 3 seconds is protected from blaster fire.
- Nothing Up My Mechanics - Purely mechanical firing and deployment, ion or emp effects will not adversely affect the use of the HDG packets.
- Geroni-NO - Higher jumps become increasingly unsafe. These are not made for higher altitude deployments without additional considerations. Serious injury can and will occur once a body hits terminal velocity (falling unfettered in normal atmospheres for 450m). While the HDG packets will make a fall like that survivable, the jumper may wish they had not.
- A Slug is a Guy That Thinks He's Fly - The gel packets offer zero protection from anything beyond basic blaster fire and blunt impact. Solid state slugs, fire, electricity, sharp shrapnel, etc cut through it like, well, air.
- Might I Recommend PRACTICE? - While it is certainly possible to utilize this tech on the fly, it is difficult to ensure that one is a) aiming at their target landing spot and b ) then hitting the target zone. A practiced user will have better results and recover faster from the disorientation of the fall itself, as well as knowing the best way to fall to maximize the gel's impact absorbing properties. Don't swan dive into this stuff kids.
- Wakey Wakey - Useful in both deliberate jumps and emergencies, these require deliberate action to activate. They are not useful whatsoever if the wearer is unconscious or otherwise incapable of activating the firing mechanism in the belt mount.
- No Ithorians Allowed - Due to the use of the repulsor lift gas, Kyvalon-4, as the primary component of the high density gel, cases of HDG have 'NO ITHORIANS' stamped in red in several places, as that race is prone to entering a homicidal mania when exposed to the gas.
Small, plastic wrapped packets barely look noteworthy on first glance, though are heavier than expected by their appearance. Made from hyper condensed gases that hold their form for a brief time upon impact, the belt mounted clip is a small measure of security for individuals or a squad that might find themselves suddenly bereft of solid ground, either through accident or design. While they are designed to work to stop a fall, a quick minded user could find other applications for this technology (buffering themselves if thrown with the Force, for instance). HDG packets are not automatically deployed- they must be 'fired' from the belt clip. Once deployed, the gel expands rapidly to an approximate two (2) meters cube, holding its gel texture in an unstable matrix until impacted by another force. Absorbing that impact breaks down the gel matrix, the components dissipating into their gaseous form rapidly.
Planets with different atmospheric pressure will effect the distance at which HDGs are useful. The key element is that the HDGs must be deployed before someone reaches terminal velocity. Once that is breached, the gel matrix is no longer reliably effective. While it may have some small measure of protection, there's no telling just how much.
HDG belt attachments come with three (3) packets, and additional packets can be purchased separately, by the case of twelve (12).
Submission Modifications:
4/21/09 - Changed Closed Market to Open Market
