Technological Terror
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Created for battlefield use, Shadeweave is a chameleonic armored fabric designed for durability, comfort, and tactical versatility.
Remarkably light and strong, this material is used on everything from clothing to armor to machine components. Under a microscope, Shadeweave reveals itself to be an incredibly fine mesh of Shiftsteel filaments woven together with fibered strands of Helglass. Most disturbingly, these filaments can be seen re-stitching themselves when their structure is damaged, adding to the fabric's superb longevity.
The resultant material is sufficient to turn away small-caliber slugthrower rounds or indirect blaster shots, while still remaining exceptionally comfortable to wear when used in garments. It is likewise highly resistant to wear, stretching, and tearing. Despite this durability, Shadeweave is silky to the touch, pliantly elastic, and ideal for clothing. Multiple layers of the fabric can provide even greater protection, but can begin to compromise comfort and mobility.
Shadeweave can also be woven into remarkably thin wires and strings of varying flexibility and strength. This makes it ideal for use in materials such as bowstrings, musical instruments, and numerous other applications.
More interestingly, and likely due to the Shiftsteel used in its construction, Shadeweave is capable of near-instantaneous color change when subjected to very specific vibratory frequencies. This allows a user to alter the fabric's hue, enabling it to more easily blend into the background of a nearby environment.
As this is a simple change of color, it will not suffice to fool scanners or even a particularly-observant naked eye, but it can allow one already skilled in stealth to hide a bit more easily.
- Intent: To create a light armored fabric for the Helix Privateers
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- Manufacturer: Helix Privateers
- Affiliation: Helix Privateers
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Shadeweave
- Modularity: Yes
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Shiftsteel, Helglass
- Can change color to the user's preference
- Exceptionally wear-resistant
- Light and comfortable
- Wear-Resistant: Little short of a direct weapon impact will damage Shadeweave. It seldom requires repairs from typical daily wear and tear, and can remain intact through these conditions almost indefinitely. Likewise, it provides some minor protection from small arms and blades, and can slowly self-correct rents and tears to its structure.
- Comfort First: Shadeweave is exceptionally light and flexible, almost too much so for an armored fabric. When used in clothing, its effect on a wearer's mobility is negligible.
- Chameleonic: Shadeweave is capable of swift color and pattern changes when subjected to the correct vibratory frequencies. A user can thus edit its exact hue to their preference.
- Skin-Deep: Shadeweave's chameleonic abilities are a mundane change of hue and pattern, and will not hide it from anything more serious than a cursory glance.
- Light Armor: Shadeweave will not long withstand repeated glancing impacts, or even just one or two direct ones.
Created for battlefield use, Shadeweave is a chameleonic armored fabric designed for durability, comfort, and tactical versatility.
Remarkably light and strong, this material is used on everything from clothing to armor to machine components. Under a microscope, Shadeweave reveals itself to be an incredibly fine mesh of Shiftsteel filaments woven together with fibered strands of Helglass. Most disturbingly, these filaments can be seen re-stitching themselves when their structure is damaged, adding to the fabric's superb longevity.
The resultant material is sufficient to turn away small-caliber slugthrower rounds or indirect blaster shots, while still remaining exceptionally comfortable to wear when used in garments. It is likewise highly resistant to wear, stretching, and tearing. Despite this durability, Shadeweave is silky to the touch, pliantly elastic, and ideal for clothing. Multiple layers of the fabric can provide even greater protection, but can begin to compromise comfort and mobility.
Shadeweave can also be woven into remarkably thin wires and strings of varying flexibility and strength. This makes it ideal for use in materials such as bowstrings, musical instruments, and numerous other applications.
More interestingly, and likely due to the Shiftsteel used in its construction, Shadeweave is capable of near-instantaneous color change when subjected to very specific vibratory frequencies. This allows a user to alter the fabric's hue, enabling it to more easily blend into the background of a nearby environment.
As this is a simple change of color, it will not suffice to fool scanners or even a particularly-observant naked eye, but it can allow one already skilled in stealth to hide a bit more easily.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create a light armored fabric for the Helix Privateers
Technical Information
Affiliation:
Helix Privateers
Model:
Shadeweave
Modular:
Yes
Material:
Shiftsteel, Helglass
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