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Unreviewed Tarkin-Imperial Shadow Trooper Armor

Manufacturer: First United Astral Engineering
Market Status: Closed Market
Production: Semi-Unique
Weight: Heavy
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Mellifluous Magenta

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
  • Classification: Stealth Multipurpose Combat Armor
  • Weight: Heavy
  • Resistances:
    • Energy: Very High
    • Kinetic: Extreme
    • Lightsabers: Average
    • Sonic: Average
    • Weaponized Acid / Corrosives: High
    • Electromagnetic / Ion / Electronic Disruption: Extreme
    • Tensor: None
    • Weaponized Radiation: Very Low
    • Weaponized Cold: High
    • Weaponized Heat: Very High
    • The Force: Very High
SPECIAL FEATURES
STRENGTHS
  • Energy Aegis: The combination of triple-phase Echani conformal shielding, energy sinks, and betaplast-laminanium composite plating gives the armor extreme resistance to blasters, disruptors, plasma, particle weapons, electrical attacks, ion weaponry, and stun effects. Against most ranged energy threats, the wearer can remain fully mobile under sustained fire.
  • Kinetic Shield: The MRS-04D Omvendt Ablative Inertial Damper alters the armor’s interaction with kinetic threats by significantly reducing momentum at the moment of impact. As a result, slugthrowers, mass drivers, shrapnel, explosive shock, and blunt-force impacts may lose most of their kinetic force dramatically reducing internal injury and acceleration trauma. Against conventional ballistic weapons, even anti-materiel calibers may cease to be reliable one-shot threats.
  • Mind and Body Augmentation: Achieved via energized and reactive polymer materials incorporated into the body glove, the armor will enhance the wearer’s speed, strength, and athleticism roughly thricefold. In addition, the Ghost Link integrated into the helmet significantly enhances reaction time, mental processing capability, and awareness.
  • Metaphysical Shield: Terentatek hide significantly dampens direct Force-based effects. While not total immunity, this resistance complicates many types of Force attacks and reduces the effectiveness of many Sith and Jedi techniques. In addition, a dedicated neural stabilizer in the helmet protects against mental attacks.
  • Extreme Thermal Tolerance: Ostrine reinforcement and thermal shielding allow the wearer to operate in environments with intense heat, fire, or plasma exposure. Directed flamethrowers, thermal detonator shock-heat, and heat bloom are far less lethal than they would be to conventional armor.
  • Storm Chaser: Reinforced duraplast electronic hardening, solar ray shielding, and the AEGIS nanoarray make the armor extraordinarily resilient to ion weapons, EMP grenades, and electronic warfare. This prevents catastrophic system shutdowns common to advanced armor systems.
  • Attrition Survivability: Laminanium’s self-reforming properties, supplemented by programmable matter, allow the armor to seal penetrations and repair microfractures over time. While not instantaneous, this capability prevents damage accumulation from escalating into catastrophic failure, greatly extending operational endurance during prolonged engagements or extended campaigns without immediate resupply.
  • Multi-Spectrum Stealth Architecture: The armor is a multi-spectrum concealment platform designed to defeat visual perception, electronic sensing, biometric tracking, metaphysical senses, and battlefield acoustics simultaneously. Its stealth profile is layered, redundant, and adaptive. Its core strengths include near-total visual obfuscation via the photo-reactive coating, sensor and scanner suppression via the stealth polymer and the mirror masking system, electronic surveillance defeat via the Blue Witch sensor jammer, thermal/infrared invisibility via the thermoguard system, concealment from metaphysical senses via the taozin node, and acoustic erasure via D-baffling.
WEAKNESSES
  • Surface Damage: While the armor’s equipped Dream Sight possesses an extremely advanced surface-integrated passive reception array, any direct damage to the surface of the armor may diminish the effectiveness of the system due to the destruction of a number of passive micro-sensors. This can result in blind spots in the passive reception array.
  • Slow Self-Repair Cycle: Programmable matter repairs are gradual. Severe damage incurred in rapid succession cannot be immediately undone and may accumulate during prolonged engagements. It goes without saying that the programmable matter will not be able to effect repairs during most live confrontations.
  • Energy Intensive: The simultaneous operation of the conformal Echani shield projector array, inertial damper, strength enhancer, and other systems demands an extreme-output power source. This power core, the Hypermatter Synthesis Engine, is a critical single point of failure; disabling it would drastically reduce the armor's capabilities to its (still formidable) passive layers.
  • Low Tensor Resistance: While optimized to mitigate damage from most forms of energy-based assaults, tensor weapons are indeed the exception. In firing compressed tractor beam waves, they can bypass most of the armor’s defenses and affect the wearer’s body at a cellular level, with the potential to cause severe injury.
  • Radiation Attrition: Although the suit is fully sealed against contamination, its resistance to high-energy radiation is low. Extended exposure degrades organic components, stresses electronics, and shortens system lifespan. Radiation-heavy environments are survivable but not sustainable for long-duration operations. And high-energy directed-radiation weapons are likely lethal.
  • Shield Projector Criticality: The armor is a high-tech combat platform that depends in part on its electronics for its defensive prowess. Thus, should its electronics be overloaded, disabled, or impaired, the armor’s ability to protect the wearer will suffer in turn. In such a case, the Echani shield array might suffer malfunction. Since this system is a linchpin to the armor’s resistance against disruptors (the protective material by itself is unable to adequately defend against this weapon type as solid materials can not be proofed against disruptors), these weapons will likely pose an especially mortal threat to the wearer in the event of system failure.
DESCRIPTION
The Tarkin-Imperial Shadow Trooper Armor is the apex of the Tarkin Initiative's commitment to overwhelming technological superiority. Produced in strictly limited quantities, the armor is reserved exclusively for the Initiative's elite Shadow Troopers, who are among the most fanatically loyal of Imperial servants. Externally, it presents the iconic stormtrooper silhouette rendered in matte obsidian black. However, this aesthetic belies a septenary-layered stealth architecture that renders the wearer functionally undetectable across visual, thermal, sensor, acoustic, electronic, life sign, and Force detection spectra simultaneously. The armor's photo-reactive overcoat and Skuggalegt P-pattern polymer undercoat work in tandem to provide both active optical camouflage and near-perfect sensor invisibility, while integrated Thermoguard, D-baffling, mirror construction, and Blue Witch systems eliminate thermal signatures, sound emissions, life sign readings, and all forms of electronic surveillance.

The armor's defensive architecture matches its stealth capabilities with deliberate, methodical redundancy. Kinetic threats encounter four overlapping countermeasures: the Echani particle shield layer provides ablative defense, betaplast-laminanium composite reinforced with Ostrine provides structural integrity, the MRS-04D Omvendt Ablative Inertial Damper nullifies impact energy at the moment of contact, and finally, the anti-shank cloth's shear-thickening fluid dampens any remaining kinetic force. Ionic and electromagnetic warfare is resisted through triple redundancy: reinforced duraplast hardening, Skuggalegt's inherent EMP resistance, and dedicated combat de-ionizers. The armor's environmental seal, Anti-Corr 113 treatment, and laminanium self-repair systems ensure operational persistence in chemical, vacuum, and sustained combat environments. Against the Force, the Tarkin-Imperial Shadow Trooper is uniquely protected: terentatek hide comprises both the bodyglove and internal system lining, while integrated taozin skin nodule actively clouds and disrupts Force senses.

However, the armor is not without its limitations. Radiological shielding is conspicuously absent. Lightsaber resistance is only modest, as Shadow Troopers are trained to never engage Jedi and Sith in direct melee combat but rather, to strike from invisibility with overwhelming firepower.

In all, Shadow Troopers equipped with the Tarkin-Imperial Shadow Trooper Armor become an instrument of the Empire to end all Empires. The armor is treated in a manner akin to a strategic weapon, entrusted only to those whose loyalty has been proven beyond question and whose capabilities have been honed to surgical precision. Thus, the Shadow Troopers entrusted with these suits are the knife's edge of the Tarkin Initiative's Imperial ambitions. Where they walk, worlds fall silent. Where they are suspected, rebellion freezes in paranoia. Where they act, the enemies of the Empire are forever ruined!
 

Out Of Character Info

Intent: Create a set of modernized Shadow Trooper armor.
Permissions: See Body

Technical Information

Affiliation: Tarkin Initiative, Exclusive Writers and Buyers
Model: Tarkin-Imperial Shadow Trooper Armor
Modular: Yes
Material: See Body
Classification: Multipurpose
Defense Rating: High
Energy Resist: Very High
Kinetic Resist: Extreme
Sonic Resist: Average
Thermal Resist: Very High
Radiation Resist: Very Low
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