Shuklaar Kyrdol
CEO of Breshig War Forge Consolidated
- Intent: Make an optical camouflage suite to use with armor for Breshig War Forge Consolidated.
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- Canon Link: Cyricept Personal Concealment System, Mark VI
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Cyricept Personal Concealment System, Mark VI, Sound Dampening Stealth Unit
- Manufacturer: Breshig War Forge Consolidated
- Affiliation: Breshig War Forge Consolidated
- Model: 'Akar' Optical Camouflage System
- Modularity: Can be installed into most suits of personal armor and droid models.
- Production: Limited
- Material: Duranium frame, reinforced Duraplast reinforcements, Agrinium mesh, combat de-ionizer and concealment system components.
- Backup Power Cell
- Illusion: The Akar can bend light, sound and electromagnetic waves around itself, making the user essentially invisible.
- Resilient: The system's housing is well protected against kinetic, energy and ion/EMP damage with a duranium frame, agrinium mesh liner, reinforced duraplast reinforcements and a combat de-ionizer.
- Armor and Equipment: The system can bend light around equipped gear and weapons, not just the user's armor. Naturally discharging a loud weapon that makes a bright flash will overload the system. However, stabbing someone with an invisible knife will likely only cause a flicker, and firing a Verpine weapon will not affect the system at all.
- Calibration: The system can mitigate the issue of flickering while moving by calibrating itself to its users movements, though quick movements
- EMP/Ion: Because of the complicated electronics, should the system actually take any EMP/Ion damage, it will fry like a protato in a deep fat fryer.
- Repair: Should the device actually sustain any damage, or experience any severe malfunctioning, it is not something that can be fixed in the field without specialist knowledge, specialist tools and a clean working space to work on it.
- Overload: At short ranges, if exposed to very bright lights, loud sounds or intense electromagnetic waves the system will fail to bend that particular wave. If exposed to all three, the system will overload, shutdown and go through a recalibration and reboot cycle.
- Imperfect: The camouflage is not perfect, the user has an almost phantasmal silhouette. Additionally the camouflage system doesn't render the user flat against their background, careful observation will show the user as an odd blur and against a wall it will look like someone placed a statue with the same proportions as the user colored in the same colors as its immediate surroundings against the wall.
- Movement: Careful movement is required to not cause the camouflage to flicker. Rapid movements of any sort will likely cause the camouflage to flicker.
- Atmospheric Conditions: Atmospheric conditions such as precipitation or ashfall can tend to stick to armor and undersuits or the hulls of droids, and if it does not, it still causes flickers and distortion in the camouflage. Nonetheless, some camouflage is better than no camouflage in the hands of a skilled infiltrator.
- Backup Power: The system is designed to run off a continuous power supply, and as such its backup power supply is only in the case of emergencies. It will last for an hour or two at most under heavy use.
- Not A Cloaking Device: This device doesn't stop sensors, and it is possible for powerful sensors can pick up the distortions caused by the system. Skilled operators or advanced analytics suites are likely to identify the distortions as those caused by a stealth suite.
- The Force: Users are still very much detectable by force based means of detection, as the system provides no means to avoid this.
- Calibration Time: The system takes time to adjust to the user's movements, and a newly installed system will perform far worse than a system that has had time to calibrate.
- Cannot Be Used With Energy Shields: The system cannot be used in conjunction with personal energy shields.
Necessity being the mother of all invention, the difficulty of obtaining stygium crystals drove Breshig War Forge Consolidated to develop an active camouflage system. Of course, like all great ideas developed by the company's R&D team, this one was also the brainchild of several drunk Mandalorians and their sober Verpine tag along/babysitter/colleague. The evening started out cursing the Galactic Empire of old for all their stupid super weapons, then went on to cursing Stygium for being so hard to find, then cursing MandalMotors for actually managing to develop a stealth cruiser, then cursing their boss for being such a stingy shabuire and continued on to cursing The Sith Empire simply because they could. What eventually did happen however, was one enterprising fellow used the condensation that had formed on his mug of ale to explain how if they could bend light around the device, then that was the key to making something that didn't cost the company ten arms and a few internal organs in raw materials.
The next time they were in, the merry bunch of nutters found Shuklaar Kyrdol himself in their office. Expecting a verbal dressing down, they were surprised to hear that instead they were getting help from the head buy'ce himself because of how crucial the project was. However, being specialized in weapons himself, Shuklaar did little more than pitch in wherever an extra head could help get through temporary roadblocks. Thankfully for their collective sanity, they managed to put together a prototype before anyone went insane, well, any more insane than they already were. Tests continued, and before long they had a prototype that was ready for field testing. To do this, Shuklaar called on Ver'alor Saram Kote of the Vuhyr'yalilyr, his close friend Nyles' younger sister, and expert marksman.
Attached to her armor, the system was able to bend light, sound and electromagnetic waves around her and her equipment. Though she quickly found that having not calibrated to her movements, the system did tend to flicker when she moved more than it should have been doing so. A few weeks of testing and adjustments proved that the system was far from perfect. Just when Shuklaar and the others were about to call it quits on the system, Saram herself intervened and stated that while it wasn't a Stygium based cloaking device, it was still extremely capable given how much cheaper it was when compared to the cost of acquiring Stygium and producing a cloaking device. Conceding the point to her, trials continued with other representatives from the Vuhyr'yalilyr, and before long the results were good enough that production was greenlit.
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