Approved Tech Shisa's Jacket

[Adder]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

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  Intent: Look Rugged & dangerous™
  
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  Image Source: X
  
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  Canon Link: /
  
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  Restricted Missions: /
  
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  Primary Source: /
  

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

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  Manufacturer: Unknown
  
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  Model: /
  
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  Affiliation: Shisa Thalvi
  
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  Modularity: /
  
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  Production: Unique
  
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  Material: Spacers leather, Shell spider silk, Glistaweb
  

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

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  Classification: Jacket
  
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  Weight: 2.5 kg
  
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  Resistances:
  

- Blasters (And other plasma type weapons): Extreme
- Kinetic: High
- Lightsabers: None
- EMP/ION: None
- Force: Very High
- Ballistics: None

SPECIAL FEATURES

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  A really nice jacket
  

Strengths:

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  Dances with plasma: The jacket offers a fantastic resistance against blasters. Like, really – bolts will just bounce off most of the time. Obviously this protection only extends as far as the jacket does which… isn’t a whole lot.
  
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  Choke me if you can: Matters of kink and consent aside, the areas covered by the jacket will prove exceptionally slippery in the Force. Anyone trying to grab, manipulate, or otherwise affect the wearer with space magic will have a bad day. As with blasters, this protection against the Force only extends as far as the jacket itself.
  

Weaknesses:

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  Just a jacket: It may be brilliant and fantastic in some ways, but come up with a knife or whip out the old slugthrower, and it’ll offer all the resistance of butter to a hot knife.
  
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  Wrong a Vong: Force Lightning can still affect the wearer as normal, as with all Vong organisms. The glistaweb likewise displays an allergy towards Bafforr pollen, which will effectively 'knock it unconscious'. Over longer periods of exposure, the glistaweb will die.
  

DESCRIPTION

Really long story really short: Once, in the olden days when she was much younger and sprier still, Shisa Thalvi was gifted a jacket for her exemplary service to a crime lord.

At least, that’s what she tells people.

In truth, she looted it off some poor kark after she shot him dead in a back alley. Or… did she? That may be the story you heard, but what actually happened is totally different.

She slept with the boss’ son, and when Old Pappy came knocking, Thalvi had to leg it out the window. To blend with the crowd, she grabbed the boy’s jacket on the way out, popped the collar, and stuck her fiery mane behind it.

“But it’s got the initials A.Y.K.T. on the lapel,” you point out. “What kinda guy’s name is that?”

Shisa stops talking and serves you one of her death glares. You shut up and go back to staring at the bottom of your glass. The enforcer gives you a light pat on the shoulder as she heads out of the bar.

Maybe you’ll come home tonight.

Maybe you won’t.

 

[Haytham Kaze]

Hello, I'll be the factory judge reviewing your submission. If you have questions, please feel free to respond to this thread once we are underway.

 

[Haytham Kaze]

Awesome. Pending Admin Approval. Thanks! [member="Cira"]

 

[Cira]

[member="Shisa Thalvi"] [member="Haytham Kaze"]

Hello, Love the idea, but just one question.

Choke me if you can: Matters of kink and consent aside, the areas covered by the jacket will prove exceptionally slippery in the Force. Anyone trying to grab, manipulate, or otherwise affect the wearer with space magic will have a bad day.

From what material or method are you able to have this effect?

 

[Adder]

[member="Cira"]

The Glistaweb. It's Vong biotech, and all Vong biotech (with the exception of Voxyn) is, like the Vong themselves, Force-dead.

 

[Cira]

[member="Shisa Thalvi"]

Not all vong biotech is force dead:

Gablith masquers it could at least partially mask the Force-void 'absence' of its Yuuzhan Vong host from the senses of Jedi. Same as the Chazrach and the voxyn.

None the less, this doesn't mean that vong biotech is Force dead. Much like the Yuuzhan Vong themselves, they were still susceptible to some Force Based attacks. So while it might not be "sensed" by the Force, this doesn't make it immune.

Nothing states specifically in the Glistaweb is force dead. I can grant you the charge-neutralizing field and it being able to deflect blasters, but not force dead.

Take for example, the primary sources for Glistaweb:

• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Page 345

• The New Jedi Order Sourcebook, page 22

 

[Adder]

[member="Cira"]

The Vonduun Skerr Kyrric also doesn't specifically state that the crab is Force-dead, but it's understood and accepted to be such, because it's Vong biotech / living organism. The source you quote above even compares it to Vonduun crab and states explicitly that glistaweb is a species.

Here's a specific example of the 'Force-dead by default', from the Voxyn article:
Voxyn were unlike the rest of Yuuzhan Vong–created organisms in their ability to sense the Force, as members of the Yuuzhan Vong species and their other creations were completely devoid of the Force and could not touch it in any way.

That being said, Yuuzhan Vong and related biotech isn't completely immune – I'll be happy to edit in the classic weakness to Force Lightning if that's an issue.

 

[Cira]

[member="Shisa Thalvi"]

If you add that along with the Bafforr pollen allergy, as that is also part of the classic weakness, subject to a living creatures problems and weaknesses.

Also, the protection would only cover the areas which it is currently projecting. If they are unable to sense them as this is a jacket, it also means that the rest of them may be susceptible to Force based attacks.

 

[Adder]

[member="Cira"]

As with blasters, this protection against the Force only extends as far as the jacket itself.

Wrong a Vong: Force Lightning can still affect the wearer as normal, as with all Vong organisms. The glistaweb likewise displays an allergy towards Bafforr pollen, which will effectively 'knock it unconscious'. Over longer periods of exposure, the glistaweb will die.

Done.

 

[Cira]

Approved.