John Locke
V U L K A N
- Intent: To create a new generation of bodyglove to be produced and sold by Locke and Key Mechanics
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- Manufacturer: Locke and Key Mechanics
- Affiliation: Closed-Market (Any character can use this if they have explicit permission through, for example, a marketplace purchase),
- Model: Hexarium Bodyglove Mark II
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Produced.
- Material: Sichouweave
- Classification: Multipurpose bodyglove
- Weight: Light
- Resistances:
- Energy (And other Blaster type weapons): High
- Kinetic: (Piercing): High
- Kinetic: (Bludgeoning): Very Low
- Lightsabers: High
- Sonic: Very Low
- Acid: Very Low
- EMP: High
- Elemental: High
- Grip: The bottom of the foot is textured to provide additional grip to prevent the user from sliding around when walking around in the bodyglove. The grip provided is analogous to a pair of trainers, not enough to stick to walls, or fight against a vacuum.
- Health Sensors: The suit is threaded with a variety of health sensors which collect data on the wearer’s heart rate, breathing and other biological functions. This data is collected via the Iris Link built into the suit that will allow the data to be processed by any armour you are wearing, or transmitted via a commlink.
- Iris Link: Locke and Key’s newest generation of datalink has the ability to link up to other systems via a direct-wired connection or a wireless link. This data can include readings from the medical sensors and Direct Neural Interface, as well as commands sent via the Apollo Mark II.
- Apollo Mark II: An improved version of the Apollo interface, the Mark II replaces the need for a datapad, providing a holographic display and interface when needed. It also comes with a few basic sensors built-in and solid light technology, allowing the user a greater ability to interact with their environment without needed tools or armour. Very useful when you need to make a quick repair or adjustment onboard a ship.
- Direct Neural Interface: A series of medical sensors spread across the suit allow it to detect motor impulses, feeding them into a suit of armour or other vehicles if able which will cut down the reaction time of the user.
- Shield: The Hexarium glove was designed to be the basis of further armour systems created by Locke and Key Mechanics, but also to be a ship suit, able to be worn by itself when the need arose. However, there were times when, regardless of good intentions, that someone may find themselves on a ship under attack. While it was hoped that this situation would never come to pass, if the compartment you are in is exposed to space the body glove comes with a ‘shield’ capable of creating a forcefield around you to maintain a semblance of an environment and capture your body heat. The forcefield won’t last forever but does give rescuers the ability to get to you before you succumb to the vacuum of space.
- Airtight: Paired with the correct helmet the suit is airtight, capable of sustaining you in certain hostile environments for a time.
- Low Combat Capacity: The body glove is a skin-tight suit with only basic armour, while it can protect you from blaster bolts and can stop the penetration of a slug or other weapon, the physical impact will still transfer to your body.
- Nowhere to hide: A skin-tight suit the Hexarium doesn’t come with an additional backpack or stored supplies, meaning that it carries with it no emergency supplies, if you’re not holding it then you’re out of luck.
- Emergencies only: The Body glove’s forcefield is not meant as an alternative for full EV suit but will sustain you if your armour is breached, or if the hull of the ship you are on is opened to space, for long enough for you to escape or be rescued.
- Not a hazmat suit: The suit is airtight but not designed as a hazmat suit, while it can handle the cold of space for a time, and some other environments it’s not a replacement for a proper hazardous environments suit.
Locke and Key Mechanics had become well known for their armours, shadowy stealth suits or hulking suits of power armour. Yet beneath them all there were some basic systems that were the same, the sensors, the HUD and the like. One of the key building blocks of many of Locke and Key’s creations was the undersuit, a bodyglove that everything could be built upon. The Mark I Hexarium Bodyglove was just that, a suit to wear under armour, but with the Mark II Locke and Key wanted to expand the capabilities of the suit.
There were two areas in which they felt the suits could be improved, their ability to be used by themselves as a stand-alone piece of clothing, and as the basis for armour.
To improve their stand-alone functionality, the Hexarium Mark II was built out of Locke and Key’s new Sichouweave, the silk-like textile able to shed most blaster bolts that came its way.
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