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Intent: To sub a multipurpose facemask for future submissions and role-playing.
Image Source: [X]
Canon Link: N/A
Primary Source:
- Silhouette
- Panoptes HUD
- GE-AVM
- Vagabond-ILS System
- Computer Interface Visor
- CBA Dermi-Seal
Manufacturer: Visanj T’shkali
Affiliation: Closed-Market (Restricted to Certain Clients/Users Only)
Model: Vagabond Silhouette Facemask
Modularity: Yes; can be customized to users’ facial shape and contours.
Production: Minor-Production
Material(s): Reinforced Duraplast, Empyreal, Electronics Components, Panoptes HUD, Rubber, Gabonna Memory Crystal, Computer Interface Visor, Encrypted Hyperwave Comlink with HoloNet.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Classification: Facemask; Multipurpose
Weight: Very Light
Resistances:
- Blasters (And other plasma type weapons): High
- Kinetic: High
- Lightsabers: None
- Other, Sonic: Very Low
- Other, EMP/Ion: High
- Other, Radiation: High
- Other, Acid (And other corrosive substances): High
- Other, Environmental: High
- Other, Pressure: High
- Other, Force Abilities: None
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Built-in vocabulator / annunciator provides clear, audible speech or else sound dampener muffles verbal sounds entirely, at the user’s discretion.
- Compact closed-circuit rebreather system, providing up to eight (8) hours of breathable air when no other source is available.
- Filters dust particles, smoke, harmful and / or noxious chemicals, airborne toxins and pathogens, and poisonous gases from the atmosphere to ensure breathable air.
- Computer Interface Visor uses augmented reality to translate complex computer algorithms and code into easy-to-understand symbols and words when active, making slicing, coding, and interacting with programming used in droids, ships, vehicles, computers, and other systems much more simplified.
- Aural Amplifiers combine with active noise cancellation (ANC) technology to allow the user to hear whispered conversations at distances up to 20m, while reducing background noise, white noise, etc. for improved clarity. Uses bone-conduction hearing technologies, eliminating obvious earbuds or headphones, maintaining low-profile eavesdropping capability.
- Ballistic-grade polarizing lenses offer protection against debris and other particles/projectiles and account for incredible durability against rough use, wear, and damage. Since made with empyreal, these thin lenses provide some small measure of protection against blasters and flash to the eyes as well as collect light energy - making the unit self-powered.
- Anti-fog and moisture-beading coating on lenses allows vision to remain unobstructed.
- Port allows use of drinking tube of Vagabond-ILS System.
- Panoptes HUD provides a wide range of scanners, sensors, and other capabilities, and Gabonna Memory Crystals provide ample memory and processing space.
- Encrypted Hyperwave / HoloNet Comlink enables (near) real-time long-range communications and data transfer.
- Able to be used in various hostile and dangerous environments, even underwater or in space, to provide user with terrific capabilities virtually anywhere.
- Provides a wide-range variety of sensors, combining them into a single, compact package using micronization and advanced redundancy / efficiency methods to provide users with a remarkable amount of information, enhancing situational awareness significantly.
- Vision enhancements and special targeting-acquisition and assistance improve combat effectiveness for trained marksmen.
- Augmented-reality HUD interfaces with comlink systems to create visual transcripts, display transmitted images and recordings, and more, optimizing communications experience and providing users with digestible, real-time information.
- Various sensors and scanners can be toggled on or off, or even pre-programmed into tailored micro-packages allowing users to customize features at will for any situation or mission-specific needs.
- Lightweight and tailored to the facial features and contours of the wearer, it allows total freedom of movement and long-term wearability.
- Hardened against EMP/Ion threats.
- Rebreather enables up to 8 hours of breathable air before needing to recharge/refill.
- Unit is self-powered.
- Due to micronization, the range of many of the sensors and scanners used in this component are limited to a maximum effective range of 5 km, and many of the chemical sensors to 500m or less with a few (e.g. Hypnoscan, Truth Meter, etc.) working at point-blank or personal range only.
- It is possible to overload both the user and the system with too much information, creating confusion, disorientation, etc. when using all included scanners, sensors, vision-enhancements, etc. at once. While the droid brain can process and filter information very quickly, it cannot handle too much with the same efficiency, creating lag, disruptions, etc. which can be costly and even dangerous for users. It is highly recommended to limit active use to needed systems only.
- Using all systems at once has the further drawback of draining power supplies and overwhelming shared antenna, etc. Thus, range, effectiveness, accuracy, and duration can all be negatively affected.
- While hardened against EMP/Ion, it is not protected against massive attacks using these methods, and further, just as flash bangs and similar weapons can temporarily disrupt or deactivate sensors, this is no different and the same vulnerability exists.
- Totally vulnerable to lightsabers and lightsaver-type weapons such as light-whips, etc.
- Covers much of the face, making it impossible to be worn discreetly.
- Due to the use of CBS Dermi-Seal to affix the mask into position, it can only be removed using a standard medical-grade ultrasound wand prior to the 20-24 hour natural absorption / dissolution time; Inversely, without additional adhesive, the mask cannot be worn beyond this time frame, making it useless to the user in the field.
- Can feel claustrophobic when first worn, making it uncomfortable for unaccustomed users.
- Doesn’t protect uncovered areas of the head and face whatsoever.
- Aural amplification and noise-cancelling has maximum range of 20m, and will not entirely eliminate background noise, white noise, etc.
- Cannot operate computer interface visor and real-time data streaming to HUD simultaneously; one function must be chosen at the sake of other.
- Vulnerable to sonic damage.
- Completely undefended against Force Abilities.
DESCRIPTION:
The ultralight Vagabond Silhouette Facemask provides excellent protection to the eyes, temples, nose, and mouth of the wearer, all the while granting terrific communications and sensory advantages as well as protecting them against hostile environments and more. Able to filter out most every kind of dangerous contaminant, particle, and airborne toxins, chemicals, and gases, the VSF offers its users long-term sustainable breathing in most any environment. For those times when no breathable external air exists, it provides up to eight hours of reserve air through its rebreather system.
The built-in hyperwave comlink is encrypted and able to facilitate excellent long-range communications, just as the Panoptes HUD provides real-time translations and protocol assistance. Further, the Panoptes system used in this design grants the user a broad range of sensors and scanners, meant to ensure situational awareness and near-precognitive assessment of one’s surroundings. The HUD can be pre-set to deliver tailored information and execute particular duties, like say, for example, one wished to concentrate the system to environmental survey and analysis. In this case, DNA tracers and weapons detectors might be switched off to increase the clarity and effectiveness of other scanners better suited to these tasks. Providing excellent multi-spectral vision enhancements also, it is easily on part with the most advanced helmet systems.
Yet, it does have its drawbacks such as vulnerability to sonic weaponry, lightsaber-type weapons, and Force-powered attacks. The effective range of many of the sensors is limited to less than 5km, while for others it is limited to personal distances only! It offers protection only to those areas covered, and if CBA Dermi-Seal is reapplied daily, it loses its adhesive capability and thus its usefulness right along with it.