Dash Kessler
Technically Outlawed.
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a utility tool for the lazy spacer.
Image Source: Chak Long Cheung
Canon Link: Pressor Field, Tractor Beam
Primary Source: N/A
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Tricks of the Trade.
Model: TTOT-007 Longarm.
Affiliation: Closed-Market.
Modularity: No.
Production: Limited.
Material: Trimantium, Duraplast, Pressor beam components, Tractor Beam components.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Tractor/Pressor Beam Projector
Beam manipulator claws
STRENGTHS
Laws of Attraction: While active, the Longarm is capable of projecting a constant force field around any singular object within 30 meters, allowing you to effectively pull it towards you, push it away or otherwise manipulate it from a distance.
Deftly Handled: The addition of the beam manipulator claws potentially allow a skilled operators to complete exceptionally fine and delicate work with this tool, focusing and directing the beam accordingly.
WEAKNESSES
Weight Just A Minute: In order to be fully effective, the Longarm requires you to have a higher mass than your target in order to affect it. Simply put, if you’re heavier than what you intend to use this on, chances are that it will move. If not, well, you will be the one finding themselves being moved by this device.
Take Measure First: While the Longarm seems a potentially powerful tool in the right hands, it is somewhat limited due to the portable size of its beam emitters. As a result, the beam itself can only encompass an target roughly 2m³ in diameter. Any target above that and the beam quickly loses the necessary cohesion needed in order to manipulate it.
Bit of a Tool: It might seem simple in concept, but learning how to effectively use tractor/pressor beams in an effectively manner is deceptively difficult. So much so that, during the golden age of Palpatine’s Galactic Empire, the course material for the subject was some eighty seven thousand pages long. While not as complex as all that, this still isn’t a device you can simply pick up and intuitively use without some measure of practice.
DESCRIPTION
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they must accept the difficult, heart rending truth that occasionally what we truly want most of all lies painfully just out of our reach. A universal truth in love, life and mechanical engineering.
While you’re sadly on your own when it comes to the first two, the latter is certainly now a thing of the past thanks to the arrival of the Longarm. Now skilled individuals can finally get a hold those difficult to reach items with no trouble at all, with its innovative beam manipulator claws allowing for even delicate work to be accomplished from the comfort of their crash couch. Of course, you might... Break a few things here and there getting the hang of this device, but we at Tricks of the Trade ask you this: can you really put a price on future laziness?
