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Approved Tech Solarium Solar Sail

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION


PRODUCTION INFORMATION
PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS
  • Classification: Textile material
  • Weight: Very Light
  • Resistances
    Blasters (And other plasma type weapons): High
  • Kinetic: High

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Color: Clear

SPECIAL FEATURES
  • Flexible, thin, solar gathering technology that is blasterproof and moderately more strudy, allowing a 70% more efficient solar energy solution than other solar sail technology.
Strengths:
  • Interwoven micro trackers effectively capture sun, star, and moon rays by tracking the course of the sun, allowing the textile a solar energy solution that is 70% more efficient than standard solar sail technology.
  • Sturdy - Absorbital is a blaster proof substance that makes Solarium solar sails blaster proof and able to withstand moderate stellar debris or micrometeorites.
Weaknesses:
  • Areas with no light whatsoever will not provide the light needed to ensure proper solar energy collection.
  • While blaster proof and far sturdier than traditional sails, intensive focused blasterfire or sustained stellar debris can overcome the coating and shread the material.
DESCRIPTION

With the great success of the Solar Gather Panel via the patented solarium glasteel technology, Haven Shipyards in conjunction with Mara Tibx have expanded their research to include a new highly advanced version of today's solar sail technology. The result was an enhanced version of solar sail technology of nearly clear micro-tracking photo-voltaic textile material that is light, sturdy, and that were able to use solar sail technology to harvest and store solar energy.

Instead of the more expensive Aurodium, an inexpensive material of girondium and colium was used along with an ultra light mesh of standard gold. This would mimic the Solarium Glasteel technology, allowing for a high percentage of solar energy absorption even with moonlight with the unique beveled design.

These rays are harnessed to beam down upon micro-tracking photo-voltaic material, allowing a 70% more efficient solar energy solution. The micro tracker allows for capture of the sun and moons rays by tracking the course of the sun, allowing the photovoltaic material to easily follow the arc of a sun or stars. What is more, is that the material is clear to the visible eye, allowing the warmth and light of the sun to still pass through.

Of course, in locations where there is no light for the solar material to absorb energy from will make these inert. While sprayed with Absorbital, a blaster proof substance used to help in creating a more durable sail to sustain moderate stellar debris and micrometeorites, intensive focused blaster fire or sustained stellar debris can overcome the coating and shred the sail.

Much like traditional solar sails, these can also be modified to be propelled by tachyon streams and ultraviolet lasers rather than the photons and "solar wind" of sunlight. Gathered on a sufficiently large surface, the absorbed momentum would then accelerate the spacecraft.
 
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