OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Create a custom suit for a picky mandolorian
- Image Source: Source
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: Company Use
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: MandalArms, MandalBioEng
- Affiliation: Hix Tribbul
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: Limited - Belts and few hard-point connections
- Production: Unique
- Material:
- Agrinium and Cortosis blend interwoven into Armorweave underlayer
- Songsteel Plates with Advanced Ablative Plating
- Superstretch Durafiber Base layers
- Rancor Leather Cape and kama
- Spun-plast boots with FritctionGrip sole
- Glasteel Eye Modules and Internal Systems
- Classification: Lightweight Prototype Armor
- Weight: Light
- Resistances:
- Energy: High
- Kinetic: High
- Lightsabers: High
- Sonic: High
- EMP/ION: High
- Elemental: Very Low
- Radiation: Average
- Helmet Systems -
- Sonic Nullifiers built in
- Annunciator for clear speech
- HUD display
- Polarizing Lenses
- Night Vision Capable
- Life Support system, Enviro filters with oxygen supply
- Comlink system
- Short Range Proximity Sensors
- Directional Tranceiver
- Vacuum Capable Suit and Helmet
- Totally not rad - Boasting a radiation resistance, which does not seem apparently useful, at least until the need to hide in strange or questionable places while rancor watching happens. Or perhaps on clandestine operations. Either way, the option to resist mild radiation was a welcome boon to Hix.
- Jack of all Trades - Hix was pointed in his want for decent all around protection maintained in a lighter than average armor system.
- Lightsaber, bah - The initial strike from a lightsaber will be largely ignored as the cortosis weave will help deal with that particular threat, aided in large part by the songsteel plating.
- Rancor Hide - While comparably thin compared to a living rancor's hide, the addition of the cape and kama were for an additional blaster and debris repellent layer.
- Jack of all Trades - It is decent armor, but it is not specialized and could fail under sustained fire of any particular sort.
- Rancor Aesthetic - The cape and kama can be grabbed or snag on things if the wearer is not careful. If either is lost, a portion of the energy resistance is lost.
- Chillin and Grillin - Elemental weapons will affect this suit readily along with extreme temperature zones.
- You got insurance - As the songsteel is limited to plating, there are weak points in the armor such as the joints or mobility pinch points.
Hix is a particular person when it comes to what he wears. Despising the traditional styles of heavy armor that most think make them near invincible, this suit is the prototype for rancor handlers in the future. The idea being for Hix to begin troubleshooting what should be kept in a combat situation, and what should be removed. Being an all or nothing fellow, Hix went ahead and opted for the most he could squeeze into as little as possible for the best possible testing.
Made with songsteel plates rather than typical mandalorian favored beskar, the suit is fairly light. The songsteel being resistant to lightsaber attack was an added bonus in his mind as he thought of possible additives to include. Upon building the skin suits beneath it for attatchement purposes, he opted to have a thicker body suit on top of superstretch durafiber to allow for some vacuum capable safety measure. The armorweave is blended with agrinium and cortosis to further amplify resistances, the agrinium being something that Hix himself requested against the suggestions of others.
Another request was made to add advanced ablative plating to the suit, adding to the weight but helping to combat the threat of emp and ion based weapons. A final,if begrudging addition was made in the form of sonic nullifiers as the base build of the helmet along with opting for a non traditional helmet design of separate eye sockets as versus the well known t-visor style typically attributed to the mandalorian people.
When it was assembled, the open points around the armor where mobility was paramount bothered him. Mulling on the seemingly small issue, he decided to add his own idea to it in the form of rancor hide. The additional cape and kama made the suit heavier, as it had been near weightless before the addition, but provided the solution that Hix sought by covering glaring weak points around the neck and waist in exchange for a different weakness. The addition of loose material gave an advantage to anyone attempting to grab them. Something Hix welcomed, even if others did not.
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