Ardgal Raxis
More than a Man
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To make a new wave of Jet packs for the board
- Image Source: Here
- Canon Link: Jet Pack
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: My addiction to making things on the board
- Manufacturer: RMIA
- Model: JS-7 Daedalus-Class Jet Pack
- Affiliation: Closed Markets (Ask first)
- Modularity: High, appearance may be changed, material may be changed to match armor (if your making phirk armor, etc)
- Production: Limited
- Material: Durasteel (though this may be changed), air tanks, intake valves, engineering parts
- Intake Valve
- Air jets
- Faraday cage
- Launch tube
- Floodlights
- Intake valve: A specialized valve sucks in air to the air tanks which theoretically provide propulsion for this jet pack. As a result, this jetpack has an endless supply of air (as long as you are in a place with actual atmosphere).
- Air jets: The actual propulsion behind the tech, these air jets send the air shooting out the back of the Daedalus and give the user actual movement.
- Faraday cage: This jetpack comes with a faraday cage to protect all of its special and sensitive electronic parts from EMPs and Ion attacks.
- Launch Tube: There is a modular launch tube that can be utilized on this jet pack. It can fire rockets, flairs, grapple hooks, or even rocks (if you want).
- Safer: There are no fuel tanks to be set on fire. There is no blast splash that can burn any friendlies standing back behind the user. All in all, that makes the Daedalus a lot safer to use and reduces user damage due to jet pack Malfunction by a good 87%. No more getting smacked in the back by a blind guy and having your jetpack explode on you.
- More jumps: The Daedalus's true genius is in using the atmosphere around the user instead of jet fuel. For this reason, the Daedalus is able to make more jumps (and longer jumps) than your average jet pack. Its a top-of-the-line product with top of the line engineering.
- Atmosphere Dependent: Sure theoretically you have an endless air supply--as long as you are in an area that has an atmosphere. But suppose you want to use the Daedalus in space, the ocean, or on a moon with not atmosphere? For whatever the reason, if the user isn't around air when they are using this, they will have fewer jumps since the air valve cannot replenish the canisters.
- Clogging: A nefarious foe could clog the intake valve and slow its intake--or completely cut it off. The you have to go about the nasty business of taking your Daedalus off and unclogging it. Or having someone else unclog it for you. Until then, well, your going to have a hard time getting any air to replenish your air tanks there.
- A pain to repair: Say you drop an anvil on your Daedalus. Dude, why'd you do that? Now you have to go to a specialist to get it repaired since its a tough call for amateurs to do.
- Combustion: A Daedalus doesn't rely on cells of jet fuel, but it does rely on compressed air. While this is nowhere near as dangerous as the accidental detonation of jet fuel, breaking the pressure on an air chamber is certainly nothing to sneeze at.
The lack of proper advancement in jet pack units has been a tragedy. Basically for the past several hundred years Jet packs have remained the same with little real change. Enter the Daedalus. The Daedalus takes one of the most common constants in the civilized galaxy and puts it to use. Air.
All Jet packs work off the very basic idea of giving enough lift to take you from point A to point B. However, they pretty much all use super dangerous jet fuel. The Daedalus, on the other hand compresses air around you and shoots it out behind you to give lift. Its just as simple as that. These air chambers are supposed to be charged ahead of time with air, giving the user a few jumps before the jetpack automatically begins refilling. The Daedalus is constantly refueling its air supply. That doesn't mean that flight is unlimited. Due to the forces of heavier-than-normal gravity, just plain being held down, or anything like that, a Daedalus can have its air supplies used faster than they can be compressed. Also, this thing does run on batteries, and batteries do have to be recharged (or changed out). Changing the batteries on a Daedalus takes about 90-60 seconds minimum.
All in all, its just a new take on the Jetpack.
