Approved Tech [Shadow Tech Industries] Fire Walker Armor (Medium Armor)

[Ice]

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Intent: To create a medium armor.
Development Thread: N/A
Manufacturer: Shadow Tech Industries - STI
Model: Fire Walker Armor
Affiliation: Open Market
Modularity: No
Production: Limited
Material: Different portions of a Greater Calama, composites.
Classification: Medium Armor
Weight: 12 kg
Quality: 9 (against blasters), 5 (against slugthrowers)
Special Features: Fire proof, extremely resistant to blaster fire
Description: This suit is going to work well for a more basic trooper that wants some upgraded protection against blaster fire and other energy based weapons, but can't necessarily afford the upgrade of active camo that the Mirage offers. Our scientists at STI worked extremely hard to bring you this unique piece. They started with the skin of a Greater Calama. As the creature is able to travel naturally through fire and even molten lava, this suit is right off the bat, fire proof. The natural properties of this skin being what they are, also make it extremely resistant to blaster fire. To the point of being on par with durasteel armor.

The benefit to this, is a lightweight alternative to durasteel, but still maintaining the same strong protection. For added resistance, we added plates to cover major portions of the body, and and armor weave to cover the rest. The plates are made from the Greater Calama's own shell. This adds a good deal bit of weight, considering how light it would be without it, but the trade off was felt to be worth it. The reason, is, although the hide is extremely resistant to fire and blaster weapons, it's still just a hide. Slugthrowers will still make quick work of it without the plates.

In order to maintain the flexibility and light weight though, these plates were only put across key areas, while leaving the rest open.

Strengths:
Resistant to blasters

Weaknesses:
Expensive
Vulnerable to slugthrowers

Links:
Link to purchase of Greater Calama

 

[Ellie Mors]

Due to the plates of the Calama's shell, I would like to see the weight increased to at least 12 kg.
[member="Ice"]

 

[Ice]

Done!

[member="Darth Sinna"]

 

[Ellie Mors]

I don't have any issues with the armor itself, but I am going to give you two options on production:

First Option: Lower Production to Limited, due to the purchase of only two Greater Calama
Second Option: Obtain another purchase, in bulk, of Greater Calama, or request a contract of some sort with a provider in order to sustain the need for the demand once the production begins.

[member="Ice"]

Basically, I just need to see the production or purchase of Greater Calama shift to accommodate the other.

 

[Ice]

I am cloning them. The two were just to get the operation started.

http://starwarsrp.net/topic/39835-shadow-tech-industries-rd-manufacturing-ship/

This is my manufacturing hub. in it are cloning facilities for my beasties. So supply problem solved.

[member="Darth Sinna"]

 

[Ellie Mors]

[member="Ice"]
Where will a tier 1 company be finding the suitable resources to clone these sithspawn, especially on a scale for minor production? To give an example, one million credits is hardly enough to cover the costs of cloning a human.

That aside, your company does not delve into cloning - regardless of owning a cloning facility. If you wish to go this route for obtaining your supplies, I suggest you have your company submission changed and come back to me with a tier two company that has cloning operations listed in it.

If you have any questions about increasing your company tier from 1 to 2, I suggest you speak with either of the judges who specialize in companies, [member="Cira"] or [member="Darth Janus"], via PM. Don't fret too much, if you want to still go with this idea you can let me know and I'll mark this as a work in progress until you have made the necessary changes or changed your mind.

 

[Ice]

Oh I actually have IC and OOC reasons for why this works. Here let me explain.

The company is government funded. Tiberius Rex, the faction leader, gave his consent. Considering Ice is the Shadow Hand or #3 man in the entire Shadow Empire, it makes sense IC that he would be able to get the funding.

The ship which houses the cloning facility has already been approved, and at his tier 1 level.

In regards the cloning facilities, they are not for public use. So they wouldn't specifically be mentioned in the company profile, as no company (that I have seen) mentions how they acquire their materials. It did however mention light specialist armor. This is considered specialist as it isn't mass produced and it uses exotic materials. Plus one of these Greater Calama can make a ton (hundreds theoretically) of these armors sets. I wouldn't need to be cloning more than a couple every few weeks. Which is possible. He utilizes the fastest form of cloning (which takes a mere 3-4 weeks to a grow a full grown whatever your cloning), since he doesn't need to worry about brain damage of his animals.

Also, there are no numbers associated with any amount of production. Says so in the rules. We can deduce by unique that means 1. Semi unique maybe a half dozen or so tops. But after that. How does one judge? Limited could mean a limited time, it could also mean only to a limited group of people or faction. But there is no number. Same thing with minor. As long as it is available to everyone, minor could mean i only produce a few hundred a year. Minor could include anything not produced in an attempt to get it to everyone in the galaxy (Mass production)

Considering this, and the fact that I already have an approved vessel with cloning facilities able to continue supply of what I need. I respectfully request you to reconsider. Please?

As a note. This will be my 3rd minor item, if allowed. I will be able to, at that point, submit my company to tier 2 to advance to that level, and accomplish what you want.

[member="Darth Sinna"]

 

[Ellie Mors]

Oh I actually have IC and OOC reasons for why this works. Here let me explain.

The company is government funded. Tiberius Rex, the faction leader, gave his consent. Considering Ice is the Shadow Hand or #3 man in the entire Shadow Empire, it makes sense IC that he would be able to get the funding.

The ship which houses the cloning facility has already been approved, and at his tier 1 level.

In regards the cloning facilities, they are not for public use. So they wouldn't specifically be mentioned in the company profile, as no company (that I have seen) mentions how they acquire their materials. It did however mention light specialist armor. This is considered specialist as it isn't mass produced and it uses exotic materials. Plus one of these Greater Calama can make a ton (hundreds theoretically) of these armors sets. I wouldn't need to be cloning more than a couple every few weeks. Which is possible. He utilizes the fastest form of cloning (which takes a mere 3-4 weeks to a grow a full grown whatever your cloning), since he doesn't need to worry about brain damage of his animals.

Also, there are no numbers associated with any amount of production. Says so in the rules. We can deduce by unique that means 1. Semi unique maybe a half dozen or so tops. But after that. How does one judge? Limited could mean a limited time, it could also mean only to a limited group of people or faction. But there is no number. Same thing with minor. As long as it is available to everyone, minor could mean i only produce a few hundred a year. Minor could include anything not produced in an attempt to get it to everyone in the galaxy (Mass production)

Considering this, and the fact that I already have an approved vessel with cloning facilities able to continue supply of what I need. I respectfully request you to reconsider. Please?

As a note. This will be my 3rd minor item, if allowed. I will be able to, at that point, submit my company to tier 2 to advance to that level, and accomplish what you want.

[member="Darth Sinna"]

Limited means it is an amount to be produced for a limited amount of people. So an example would be for just the Shadow Empire. Minor is any PC, but no NPCs, and Major means any characters at all. Unique is just 1, Semi-Unique is anything more than 1 but is still less than enough to be considered limited. While there is no specific number associated with anything except for Unique, it is a generalization of the amount of the item produced. It has nothing to do with the length of production.

That little confusion aside, the cloning operation is not covered by your armor operations - regardless of the armor itself. Cloning is an extremely expensive procedure, something a tier 1 company is most likely unable to do without outsourcing, with the unlikely exception of a tier 1 company that solely operates in cloning in very small production scales. All operations of companies must be submitted in the company profile - there are no exceptions to this rule to my knowledge. What you may be referring to is the marketplace thread, which needn't be updated with all operations (I have seen your marketplace thread, and I have to say it is the most organized and informative of the bunch, but I digress). I suggest you find something in the realm of your operational capabilities to add to the required three minor productions, then return to this, but I cannot approve of this with a tier one company that does not have the operational capabilities - regardless of owning a facility (anyone can go and buy a cloning facility, it does not mean they have the materials to use them, or the employees to do so) that was built for this reason.

I suggest you go back to what I suggested prior, or you perform either of the two options I gave you originally and then apply for a submission modification once you have cloning under your company belt.
[member="Ice"]

 

[Ice]

Production changed to Limited.

[member="Darth Sinna"]

 

[Ellie Mors]

Thank you. Pending secondary.
[member="Ice"]

 

[Allyson Locke]

Approved.