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SELKIRK SURVIVAL KIT
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a survival kit for future submissions and role-playing.
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Visanj T’shkali
Affiliation: Closed-Market
Model: Selkirk Survival Pack
Modularity: None
Production: Minor
Material(s):
General Component(s):
- Utility-Survival Knife with Self-Sharpening Sheath
- Multi-Tool
- Field Ration Pack (4)
- Glowrods (2)
- Breath Mask (with 24 spare filters)
- Di-Chrome ThinHut
- Thinsuit
- Scout 5 Field Goggles (with anti-glare protection)
- Firerods (5)
- Portable Heater
- Light Portable Fusion Generator / Universal Recharger
- HydroExtractor
- Water Jugfilter
- Synthecord (20m)
- Grappling Spike Launcher
- A99 Aquata Breather
- Emergency Beacon
- EC-17 Holdout Blaster Pistol (with extra power cell and holster)
- Hypospray
- Spray Splint
- Sonic Scalpel
- Laser Cauterizer
- Bone Stabilizer
- Bacta Spray
- Substance Analyzer
- Medisensor
- Flexclamp
- Sythflesh
- Irrigation Bulbs
- Spray-Bandages
- Stim-Shots
- Wireless Defibrillator
- Other basic medical supplies.
- Provides wide array of survival tools, rations, and medical supplies meant to enable individual survival on a variety of worlds (climes, terrain, atmosphere, etc.) for up to two weeks without outside foraging, hunting, or re-supply.
- Includes holdout blaster pistol and knife to facilitate small game hunting and personal security.
- Kit comes inside a durable yet lightweight plastoid shell backpack with adjustable straps for easy carrying.
- Medical supplies can be use to treat full-range/course of illness or injuries, including emergency trauma cases.
- Provides users with (at least) two weeks’ worth of shelter, heat, water, rations, and medical supplies, and can permit longer-term survivability for users with at least some basic knowledge of survival techniques, fieldcraft, and emergency medicine.
- Sturdy plastoid backpack ensures contents can be kept organized, carried about safely and easily and will survive through a crash landing or similar incidents.
- Emergency Distress Beacon, once activated, will continuously broadcast on pre-set emergency channels for up to 2 standard years without needed additional charge or replacement of power source.
- Rations only extend to 12 days – perhaps a day or two more if truly cautious in using them – meaning that without some additional means of providing nutrition, users will begin to experience hunger-related conditions typically within 5 weeks’ time (Less so if users are pregnant, injured, etc.).
- Most medical supplies are only 1-2 use items/dosages contained, and medical package will not treat severe or extensive wounds beyond initial emergency care and short-term sustainment before requiring additional services or transport to a medical facility.
- Generally meant for more humanoid creatures, and species requiring highly-specialized accommodations will not find the same level of survivability provided by this kit as others.
The size of a standard small-to-medium-sized backpack, featuring a durable and sleek plastoid shell and nylonite web straps that can be adjusted for user’s body type and dimensions. Entirely waterproof, the kit weighs less than 13.65kg. or 30-lbs., making it just three-quarters the standard pack weight used by most militaries and thus lighter and more efficient, making it easily used by civilians also. Measuring just 45.72cm (high) x 30.48cm (wide) x 25.40cm (deep), the backpack fits most humanoids comfortably. Opening at the top and organized within to various sub-compartments, pouches, etc. for easy stowage and location, items in the kit remain safely, quietly, and securely stored.
The contents of the kits were inspired by interviews with scouts, reconnaissance soldiers, bounty hunters, big-game hunters, explorers and others with extensive outdoor experience to create a contents list that would provide the most useful and reliable items. Beginning with improved versions of Scout 5 Field Goggles, allowing users to protect eyes from glare, sun, wind, dust, and debris, and Thinsuits enabling survival in a variety of conditions and environs, breath masks and an A99 Aquata Breather, the kit also contained a di-chrome ThinHut, for maintaining both concealment and survivability amid hostile worlds. Other tools included glowrods, knives, multi-tool, synthcord, a grappling spike launcher, and more. Field rations packs were included, ensuring users could survive without additional sources of nutrition for several days, and water filtration and storage gear enabled them to produce potable water for much longer. A holdout blaster and spare power cell were included, along with a utility-survival knife, granting users a means for small-game hunting and self-defense. An onboard medical kit provided the means to treat emergency trauma cases, serious illnesses, and most mundane injuries, at least until more capable help could be attained.
Not intended for long-term situations or to supplant other more sophisticated armors and equipment, the Selkirk provides enough of the right kinds of gear to facilitate survival almost anywhere for short periods, making it ideal for downed pilots, survival situations, and light kits for short-term but long-range scouts and others. Not meant to be used by non-humanoids, some species will find this kit less useful than others as they may require certain accommodations and equipment this kit just simply doesn’t have. For humanoid species however, especially those with some measure of survival training or field experience, this kit can be a game-changer, enabling survival in even the worst conditions.
