Maris Fero
Riff-raff, Street Rat.
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a textile with adhesive properties to be used in the manufacture of climbing equipment, with further applications possible to attach heavy objects easily to smooth surfaces.
- Image Source: GeckSkin at UMass Amherst
- Restricted Missions: None
- Primary Source: GeckSkin at UMass Amherst
- Name: Glistex
- Manufacturer: Revenant Industries
- Production: Limited
- Affiliation: Closed Market
- Modularity: No
- Material: Elastic Polymers and Carbon fibre
- Classification: Textile
- Weight: Lightweight
- Resistances:
- Kinetic: None
- Lightsabers: None
- Color: Untreated the material is slate grey, Can be treated at manufacture in a number of colours.
A hardwearing and tough adhesive textile with adequate adhesive properties that an index-card sized piece can hold and support a 700 pounds on a smooth surface, such as glass, yet can be easily released and leaves no residue.
Strengths:
- Adequate adhesive properties that an index-card sized piece can hold and support a 700 pounds on a smooth surface, such as glass, yet can be easily released and leaves no residue.
- Provides little to no protection against weapons.
- Adhesive surface is easily ruined by extremes of heat.
- Provides little to no thermal insulation.
The scientists at Revenant Industries became interested in how certain climbing reptiles adhere to even smooth surfaces such as glass, and how such methods of adhesion could be used in a situation where the use of gravity fields or magnetic forces were insufficient to fulfil mission parameters.
Practical applications imagined for the project included adhesive strips to fasten bulk explosives to a target object or surface whilst still evading magnetic or electronic detection, climbing equipment for use in electromagnetically unstable environments and even for the installation of temporary surveillance hides on sheer rock faces. Eventually, the scientists at Revenant discovered an approach which made use of draping adhesion, much like the reptiles they studied, using stiff fabrics and soft elastomers to create pads with incredible adhesive qualities whilst still being easily released.
The Glistex fabric was developed over the course of three years and now acts as a key component in several Revenant Industries projects, including a specialised climbing equipment range.
This submission is pretty self-explanatory, it's an adhesive textile to stick heavy things, to smooth surfaces, such as an explosive to a pane of glass or a person to the underside of a transport. In a world where antigrav-technology exists already, I don’t really see too many ways to abuse this tech that wouldn’t be served just as well as antigrav. My later intention is to submit climbing slippers, pads and grip gloves all utilising the same material for contact surfaces. I can imagine countless other uses but none that strike fear into my heart.
Revenant Industries is owned by [member="Enyo Typhos"], this has been submitted with her agreement.