Approved Armor Balun Dashiell's Spacer Apparel

[Balun Dashiell]

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION:

• Intent: To design a set of spacer apparel for Balun Dashiell—an alternative wardrobe crafted for versatility, tailored to serve him in a wide range of environments, from perilous encounters to more mundane, everyday situations.
• Image Source: Pinterest.
• Canon Link: N/A.
• Permissions: John Locke - Locke & Key Permission.
• Primary Source: Spacer Apparel.

PRODUCTION INFORMATION:

• Manufacturer: Balun Dashiell .
• Affiliation: Balun Dashiell .
• Market Status: Closed-Market.
• Model: N/A.
• Modularity: Yes - Parts can be swapped, repaired & replaced.
• Production: Unique.
• Material:
  • Synthleather.
  • Duramesh (Locke & Key Technologies).
  • Armorweave.
  • Hodharium Inlays (Locke & Key Technologies).
  • Thermal Gel Liners.
  • Blast-Resistant Ceramics.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

• Classification: Multipurpose.
• Weight: Light.
• Resistances: High.
  • Energy: High.
  • Kinetic: High.
  • Force: Average.
  • Lightsabers: Average.
  • Elemental: Average.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Gloves:

• Enhanced Tactile Grip: The gloves are lined with a precision-textured surface along the palms and fingertips, ensuring a firm, responsive grip—perfect for steadying a blaster, maneuvering starship controls, or performing delicate repairs in tight quarters.
• Insulated & Shielded Fingers: Each finger is reinforced with a thin layer of shock-resistant and heat-dampening material, offering protection when working with unstable systems, sparking panels, or overheated components—essential in the unpredictable guts of a starship.
• Integrated Wrist Commlink & Multitool: Built discreetly into the cuff is a compact communication node and multitool array, allowing Balun to send encrypted messages, interface with ship systems, or make field repairs without ever needing to dig into a gear pouch.
• Navi Personal A.I Assistant: Embedded within the datapad housed in Balun's left gauntlet is a sleek, purpose-built artificial intelligence developed by Locke & Key Technologies. Seamlessly integrated into the device's interface, the AI serves as a constant companion—streamlining tasks, analyzing data in real time, and delivering critical feedback with uncanny precision. Whether navigating hostile terrain, slicing into encrypted networks, or monitoring life support systems in zero gravity, the AI adapts to any environment, ensuring Balun stays one step ahead—always informed, always connected.

Jacket:

• Reinforced Duramesh Lining: Woven from a fusion of Duraplast and Protera, the outer shell of Balun's jacket is crafted from a material known as Duramesh—a tough, composite fabric renowned for its superior resistance to blasterfire. More than just a rugged aesthetic, this outer lining serves a crucial purpose: reinforcing the jacket with an additional layer of defense over his protective vest. In hostile encounters, where a single well-placed shot can mean the difference between life and death, Duramesh acts as a final barrier—discreet, flexible, and unyielding—shielding Balun's vital organs with quiet efficiency.
• Wrist Interface Compatibility: Forearm panels support datapad integration or clip-on modules, letting Spacers monitor ship diagnostics, hack terminals, or receive field data without removing their jacket.
• Tool Loops & Anchor Clips: Hidden beneath flaps or sewn along seams, these reinforced loops allow the attachment of multitools, blade sheaths, or utility pouches, offering fast access to vital equipment.
• Shoulder Beacon Node: An embedded signal patch or emergency transponder can be activated in distress, broadcasting a coded beacon to allies, ships, or rescue units.
• Built-in Commlink Array: Concealed within the jacket's collar or chest lining, the comm unit provides secure, short-range communication with crew, droids, or starships—ideal for coordinating in noisy or hostile environments.

Vest:

• Hodharium Inlays: Beneath the surface of Balun's protective vest lies a network of embedded Hodharum Plates—rare and formidable in nature. These plates form a resilient barrier, deflecting the searing impact of blasterfire and absorbing the punishing shock of kinetic strikes, all while safeguarding his vital organs from harm. But Hodharum is no ordinary alloy. Infused with a unique property seldom found in defensive materials, it grants an uncanny resistance to Force-based attacks, making it an invaluable shield against the unseen and the arcane. Yet this power comes at a cost—for just as it repels the Force, it also dampens Balun's own connection to it, muting his sensitivity and limiting his abilities while he wears its protection.
• Blast-Resistant Composite Shell: Engineered from a hybrid of laminated Duraplast, woven Protera mesh, and rare Hodharium alloy inlays, the vest forms a sleek but resilient shell around the torso. It offers critical protection against blaster bolts, shrapnel, and energy surges—shielding the heart, lungs, and spine while preserving full range of movement for combat or shipboard maneuvering.
• Kinetic Force Dampening Interior: Beneath the armored shell lies a layer of impact-absorbing gel and shock-resistant foam—form-fitting and reactive. This interior padding disperses the force of physical blows, crashes, and blunt trauma, lessening the risk of broken ribs or internal injury during rough landings or close-quarter skirmishes.
• Segmented Armor Plating System: The vest's armor panels are precision-segmented across the chest, ribs, and spinal ridge, allowing it to move fluidly with the wearer's body. Each panel is crafted to pivot and shift without creating gaps in coverage. Modular ports along the interior let the user integrate auxiliary armor, climate adaptations, or specialized tech systems as needed.
• Integrated Emergency Sealant Mesh: Woven into the vest's internal structure is a micro-reactive mesh that responds to punctures or deep wounds. Upon detecting damage, it activates to seal ruptures, stemming blood loss and preserving structural integrity.

Utility Belt:

• Modular Pouches & Magnetic Clips: The belt is lined with interchangeable storage compartments, each secured with high-tension magnetic or snap-lock fasteners. Designed for fast loadout changes, they hold firm even in zero-gravity or under sudden impact, keeping essential gear locked tight and within easy reach.
• High-Grade Multitool Holster: A reinforced sheath houses a compact multitool—whether it's a fusion cutter, hydrospanner, or plasma torch—allowing for rapid field repairs to hull plating, wiring clusters, or power conduits when every second counts.
• Power Cell Slots with Inductive Charging Nodes: Built-in power slots along the waistline hold compact, rechargeable energy cells. Some models feature wireless charging nodes, letting Spacers replenish tools or blaster packs on the go without fumbling with cables.
• Encrypted Slicing Kit Pouch: This slim, armored pouch contains a full slicing array: dataspikes, mini-decryptors, code cylinders, and encryption scramblers—perfect for cracking doors, slicing terminals, or disabling enemy droids mid-op.
• Quick-Draw Blaster Holster: Magnetized or spring-loaded for swift access, this holster is fitted for Balun's K-16 Bryar Pistol—ideal for emergencies when speed means survival.
• Integrated Medpac Compartment: A small, press-sealed medical pouch holds essential first-aid supplies: bacta-infused patches, adrenaline injectors, fast-acting painkillers, and coagulant mist for rapid stabilization during or after a firefight.
• Micro-Comlink Transceiver Node: Hidden in the belt buckle or side plate, this encrypted short-range commlink ensures secure communication with Balun's ship, allies, and droid companions—ideal for coordinating across noisy battlefields or silent voids.
• Grapple Hook / Ascension Rig: Compact and motorized, this cable-launcher attaches to the back of the belt, providing instant vertical mobility—whether scaling wreckage, boarding hostile ships, or escaping collapsed terrain.
• Emergency Mini-Rebreather Canister: Discreetly slotted into the rear panel, this canister offers a few precious minutes of breathable air in the event of vacuum exposure or toxic atmosphere. Some variants connect directly to a sealed helmet system.
• Signal Beacon & Locator Tag: A small but vital device that transmits a distress signal or personal locator code if the wearer is incapacitated or lost—crucial for recovery teams in deep space or chaotic ground skirmishes.
• Scan-Shielded Credit Vault: Hidden inside a reinforced side compartment, this anti-scan vault safely holds credit chips, identity cards, and high-clearance access tokens—keeping valuables out of sight and beyond slicer reach.

Utility Harness:

• Utility Loops & Modular Holsters: A series of reinforced loops, rings, and quick-access holsters line the belt and outer legs, providing secure attachment points for essential tools, sidearms, or compact gear pouches—everything a Spacer might need within arm's reach.

Pants:

• Hodharium Shin Guards: Mirroring the hidden plating beneath Balun's Spacer's Jacket, the Hodharium Shin Guards encase his lower legs in sleek, high-grade metal. Forged from the same rare alloy, these guards offer formidable defence against both ballistic strikes and blunt force, wrapping their shins in a protective shell that blends durability with subtle design. Each plate is contoured to move with him, shielding his limbs without hindering agility—armour made not just for survival, but for fluid motion in the chaos of battle.
• Reinforced Knees & Thigh Panels: The pants are armoured with strategically placed padding and flexible plating along the knees and upper thighs—built to endure the grind of crawling through maintenance shafts, ducking behind debris, or bracing during rough landings without restricting movement.
• Thermoregulated Fabric Weave: Woven with reactive fibers, the material adjusts to fluctuating temperatures in real-time—keeping the wearer cool in scorching starship engine bays and warm on wind-lashed landing pads or icy moons.

Boots:

• Magnetic Soles: Each boot is equipped with magnetic locking mechanisms in the soles, allowing Balun to anchor himself securely to metallic surfaces—perfect for navigating zero-gravity environments, clinging to the hull of a ship mid-repair, or holding ground during sudden decompression.
• All-Terrain Tread: The outsoles are reinforced with a high-friction, adaptive tread pattern, offering reliable grip across a wide range of surfaces—from the polished floors of starships to the shifting sands of desert worlds or the slick ice of remote outposts.
• Concealed Compartments: Discreet storage slots are built into the sides and heels of the boots, ideal for smuggling compact tools, data chips, or even a hidden holdout blaster—kept close and easily accessible when situations turn dangerous.

STRENGTHS:

• High-Level Protection Without Sacrificing Mobility: Segmented plating and impact-dampening interiors allow for agile movement in tight quarters, free-running through wreckage, or reacting in zero-G without sacrificing protection.
• Tactical Versatility & Modularity: Customizable belts, harnesses, and holsters provide a fully modular system where every pouch, tool, or weapon can be repositioned or replaced depending on mission type.
• Environmental & Situational Adaptability: Thermoregulated fabrics and oxygen-support systems keep the wearer alive and stable in extreme heat, freezing cold, or hostile atmospheres.
• Integrated Technology & Tools: Multitools and slicing kits are stored within reach, ideal for repairing starships, unlocking sealed doors, or disabling enemy security systems.
• Stealth, Smuggling & Subterfuge: Scan-shielded compartments in the boots, vest, and belt allow for the concealed transport of illegal tech, datachips, or hidden weapons.

WEAKNESSES:

• Force Suppression Side Effect: Hodharium plating, while highly resistant to Force-based attacks, comes with a cost: it dampens the wearer's own sensitivity to the Force, potentially reducing reflexes, precognition, or Force-assisted perception during combat or navigation.
• Limited Armor Coverage: Exposed areas—like the neck, upper thighs, or joints—remain vulnerable to precise attacks, energy blades, or fragmentation in intense combat zones.
• Maintenance-Intensive Design: Spacers who don't maintain their gear risk malfunction in life-or-death situations—something Balun, as a Retrofit engineer, would definitely be aware of.
• Tactical Drawbacks in Social Settings: Despite its civilian-friendly appearance, the amount of gear—combined with subtle armour plating and comms hardware—might draw suspicion in secure areas like Core World spaceports, Republic outposts, or Imperial customs scans.

DESCRIPTION:

The first time Balun met Persephone Dashiell, she didn't mince words. With a single arch of her brow and a biting comment about his "monastic fashion disaster," she dismantled his Jedi tunic—the only style he'd ever known from a life shaped by the austerity of the Force. Back then, he wore his robes like armour, still clinging to the ideals of the Temple on Coruscant, unaware of how far his path would soon diverge.

Today, things are different.

Years have passed, and Balun Dashiell has stepped well beyond the worn corridors of Jedi sanctuaries. Under the guidance of his father, Judah Dashiell, he's immersed himself in the complexities of the corporate world—managing business contracts, balancing logistics between orbital operations, and growing Dashiell Retrofit™ into a formidable player in the starship salvage and repurposing market. At the same time, he's taken on his most personal responsibility yet: raising his infant son, and learning the quiet strength required of a father.

His new outfit reflects a far cry from the flowing simplicity of Jedi robes. It's a Spacer's ensemble, tailored for the demands of life aboard The Nomad, his commercial-class heavy freighter. Designed with modularity, durability, and embedded tech in mind, the outfit suits his constant travel between the Retrofit Foundry in orbit of Kesh and the family estate on Joiol. Each detail—from the magnetic soles of his boots to the Hodharium-reinforced vest beneath his jacket—speaks to the calculated pragmatism of a man who's lived too long on the edge of danger.

Still, there's something more in the design.

Perhaps it's a quiet homage to his past—a reflection of the Rebel and Aquilian Ranger he once was. The modular armour, the field tools, the reinforced gear—it all hints at the part of him that once patrolled the Tingel Arm, keeping peace with blaster and blade. In truth, the outfit is far more protective and tactical than his current duties require, but Judah Dashiell would be the first to remind him: "You've always had a way of attracting trouble."

And Balun, with a half-smile and a distant look in his eye, would simply reply:
"Then it's better to be overprepared than underdressed."

 

[Krass Wyms]

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