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Approved Tech Varex's Power Suit

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
  • Intent: To sub a personal suit of armor for Varex.
  • Image Source: Zealot by Yi Yoon-Gi (Tazzi)
  • Canon Link: /
  • Restricted Missions: /
  • Primary Source: The Vaemath
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
  • Manufacturer: Varex (Forged on Baratia)
  • Model: Ceremonial Power Suit
  • Affiliation: Varex
  • Modularity: No
  • Production: Unique
  • Material: Ultrachrome Plating, Electrum Coating, Kyber Crystals
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
  • Classification: Custom Vaemath Power Armor
  • Weight: 115kg
  • Resistances
- Blasters/Plasma: Very High
- Kinetic: Very High
- Lightsabers: High
- EMP/Ion: Low
- Elemental: Low
- Sonic: High

SPECIAL FEATURES
  • Crystalline Rebreather
  • Feeding Tube Injector Port
  • Internal Comlink
  • Vital Signs Monitor
  • Adaptive Internal Compressionweave
  • Short Range Sensor
  • Hydraulic Servomotors
  • Kyber Blade Emitter Gauntlets
  • Personal Energy Shield
Strengths:
  • Energy Shield: An additional layer of protection beyond the power suit's considerable armoring, while based in Vaemath science and design this technology functions the same as a personal energy shield in principle. Capable of absorbing a series of energy blasts before dissipating, its purpose is to allow the wearer to close into melee range and isn't meant to stand up to sustained fire.
  • Highly Resistant: A Vaemath power suit of such exceptional quality can absorb just about anything, from the impacts of slugthrower projectiles to blaster fire to even lightsaber slashes or high intensity sonic blasts.
  • Exotic Power Armor: Classified as power armor because of its dense armor plating and mobility enhancements, Vaemath power suits are in many ways a class of their own. While few save the strongest species would be capable of bearing its heavy weight, due to their unique musculature the Vaemath move in them with ease. In fact, because to its exposed back it is widely used by those who favor agility.
  • Double Jump: Hydraulic servomotors beneath the power suit's legplates serve to enhance a natural strength inherent within the Vaemath's digitigrade biological design. This artificial assistance allows even non-Force sensitives to make comparable leaps to a Jedi or Sith. When used by a Force adept, the only limits are in the maximum hydraulic thrust before the suit can no longer safely absorb landing impact.
  • Kyber Emitters: On the outer side of each gauntlet, there is the Vaemath equivalent of a lightsaber's emitter matrix, complete with focusing lenses, power cells, and twin blue kyber crystals. These specially designed gauntlets emit an energy blade roughly two thirds the length of a standard lightsaber, with a confinement beam configured in such a way as to terminate in a more pointed tip.
Weaknesses:
  • Shield Power Drain: With a limited power source, the suit's energy shield is not designed for sustained use. It must be activated before battle, leaving the wearer vulnerable to surprise attack. In addition, its personal shield's chest mounted power cell is vulnerable to ion fire and electromagnetic discharge as well as a precise melee attack.
  • Energy Overload: A property inherent in the suit's outer ultrachrome shell, if enough energy is transferred from a source such as heavy laser weaponry, a powerful elemental assault, or successive lightsaber strikes to the armor and its outer shell begins to melt.
  • Conductive: Ultrachrome is a superconductor, which means that a sufficiently charged ion blast or electromagnetic pulse could not only overload the power suit's internal systems, it could raise the armor's internal temperature to a point where it begins cooking its wearer alive.
  • Exposed: While Vaemath power suits provide extensive frontal coverage, this heavy armoring stops at the base of their neck, the midriff, upper arms, and all along their back. Designed so as not to restrict freedom of movement of a species with both natural strength and agility, the trade off is large exposed areas of complete vulnerability.
  • Some Assembly Required: Ceremonial Vaemath armor isn't something its wearer simply climbs in and out of. The process for both donning and removing the power suit is extensive to say the least, and is usually performed with some assistance. It is also not very compact, making it impractical to transport separately.
DESCRIPTION

It has been said that for many species with proud martial traditions, the history of their armor reveals as much about a culture as its history of art, and the aggressively hypercompetitive Vaemath are no exception. Ornate in their design, each power suit is an individual work of art in its own right, crafted reverently by the forgesmiths of Baratia. Like minds are often drawn to the worlds' subterranean armor-smithies, for to be a renowned as a smith is a path to renown and an enduring legacy, so naturally like all things of significant cultural worth each Vaemath seeks always to supplant their master on a world where position and power are always up for grabs.

Ritualistic tradition and reverence for societal status are also key to understanding the Vaemath's power suits, for as a physical manifestation of that social position each set of ceremonial power armor is akin to a sort of spiritual icon, an artifact of the greatest significance. They are quite often ornately carved, a difficult process carried out for aesthetic and honorific purposes, using a written script from Baratia's ancient past. As a species which eventually developed into strictly telepathic communication, the symbols more often than not refer to concepts or emotions rather than specific thoughts or phrases.

And yet in this way Varex's power suit is distinct, for carved into his is a rough analogous translation of the Jedi Code. Vaemath power suits are often granted to honor those who have served with distinction in battle, although it is also considered a great honor to grant such a set of armor to a Vaemath Tranquil for ceremonial purposes, one of those very few revered individuals born on Baratia without this base nature to compete. This is another way Varex's is distinct, for despite being Tranquil his was granted after the first in a series of successful military campaigns the Vaemath waged to restore peace and stability to his peoples' territories after decades of infighting.

Power suits are rarely seen offworld, and are so valued by collectors as to be considered more or less priceless. Not only for their rarity and aesthetic value, but in the hopes of learning the secrets to their nonetheless eminently functional design. The art of a power suit's creation is known only to the Vaemath, and while each suit is unique in its degree of craftsmanship and quality, work produced by artisans of Baratia with access to the highest quality material can rival even the beskar'gam of Mandalore.
 
Varex said:
Material: Ultrachrome/Laminanium Alloy
We do not permit blends of restricted materials in the factory. You can have both materials utilized, but they cannot be a blended alloy of the two.
 
[member="Nadja Keto"]

Apologies, thought I'd be able to skate by with only ultrachrome being restricted and all. Edits to listed materials made, as well as several language clarifications to the submission's wording to distinguish an outer ultrachrome shell from internal laminanium plating. Also added kyber crystals to material list as it was an obvious oversight on my part. I hope this alteration is sufficient to satisfy factory rules. Thank you for taking the time to look this over so close to the holidays. :)
 
Varex said:
Resistant and Regenerative: A Vaemath power suit of such exceptional quality can absorb just about anything, from the impacts of slugthrower projectiles to blaster fire to even lightsaber slashes. Through a method of action known only to artisan Vaemath armorsmiths, the power suit transfers this absorbed energy to fuel the innate regenerative properties within its inner platings' tempered laminanium alloy.


Varex said:
Energy Overload: A property inherent in the suit's outer ultrachrome shell, if enough energy is transferred from a source such as heavy laser weaponry or successive lightsaber strikes to the armor and its outer shell begins to melt. Over time, the suit can regenerate and repair this damage to a point, but only after a prolonged period between attacks.
This may be an artifact of the combination of ultrachrome and laminanium (which I believe you had missed when checking our restricted material list), but only laminanium itself reforms over time (over a period of time, it's not like fast-healing species fast). Do you have a way to explain the ultrachrome being repaired as well?
 
[member="Nadja Keto"]

The placement of that wording was indeed an artifact of the initial concept. I've removed any references to regeneration from the Energy Overload weakness, as well as modified the Regenerative strength to specify that this reforming process does not take place instantly. I believe these edits are sufficient to clarify that it is only the laminanium plating that regenerates and not the ultrachrome shell, but let me know if explicit specification in the submission's language is necessary.
 
Varex said:
Double Jump: Hydraulic servomotors serve to enhance a natural strength inherent within the Vaemath's digitigrade biological design. This artificial assistance allows even non-Force sensitives to make comparable leaps to a Jedi or Sith. When used by a Force adept, the only limits are in the maximum hydraulic thrust before the suit can no longer safely absorb impact.
Is this only for the ability to jump further, or does this also increase general physical strength? (i.e; lift strength, the ability to throw a heavier punch, grip strength, etc)
 
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