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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Opaque Hardlight is more a description of what sets the technology apart from most holographic displays than an accurate desciption; Hardlight can be opaque and it can be as hard as a metallic surface, but it is just as likely to be partially yielding and transparent.
The technology is normally used to generate tangible interfaces in mid-air or to display information in a manner comparable to ordinary holograms. More exotic uses include Hardlight stairs, chairs, and furniture (health and safety rules generally prohibit their use over dangerous drops) or even a kind of physical 'avatar' for AI systems - think sparring partners for dojos and tangible servants that can appear 'from thin air'.
Given that droids are also able to fill such roles, Hardlight is generally only used in this way where adaptability is key. Examples include wanting to spar not just with a humanoid droid, but also an akk dog, a rancor, and the tentacular monster you saw in your dreams last night.
Training weapons should be used against Hardlight sparring partners, unless you want to break the 'hologram' every time you hit.
- Intent: Flexible holographic emitters; can be hard and opaque, in addition to the usual transparent light shows.
- Image Source: Hololens 2 Hummingbird by Jarod Erwin, Dragon Dreams II by Jackson Tjota.
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Hologram
- Manufacturer: The Globex Corporation
- Affiliation: The Globex Corporation
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Model: Opaque Hardlight Emitters
- Modularity: Moderate; emitter size, maximum power output, etc.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Technology.
- See below for the effects. Hardlight is not, for the record, light given tangible form - rather, clouds of particles are emitted and controlled by nearby emitters. These particles are empowered by wireless power transfers and must stay fairly close to emitters. The density of the clouds and the amount of power poured into them determine how 'hard' they can be - most interfaces can be 'broken' by a human's punch.
- Hardlight can even be used to create holographic clothing; tangibility is optional (and more expensive). Sensible users tend to favour emitters embedded into bodygloves or underwear, given that your no-doubt-fancy attire will disappear if the emitters are disabled or lose power. Such attires are by no means limited to the mundane - it is entirely possible to 'wear clouds, fire, or strands of coiling light'. Likewise, it is possible to incorporate Hardlight emitters into regular clothing, e.g., a dress with sparkling motes of light dancing around it.
- Flexible Display: Opaque Hardlight Emitters can produce so-called 'Hardlight' that is hard or airy, opaque or transparent, and everything in between. Hardlight can be used for photorealistic displays, tangible interfaces formed from thin air, and even artificial sparring partners!
- Yielding Matter: Hardlight is not all that useful in combat - it can form walls or sparring partners, but these won't survive real weapons. At least, not unless restricted to rooms filled with emitters and fuelled by vast power reserves. Nine times out of ten, there are better traps.
- What Interface: Hardlight interfaces are interactive, easily customisable, and will disappear the moment the emitters lose power.
Opaque Hardlight is more a description of what sets the technology apart from most holographic displays than an accurate desciption; Hardlight can be opaque and it can be as hard as a metallic surface, but it is just as likely to be partially yielding and transparent.
The technology is normally used to generate tangible interfaces in mid-air or to display information in a manner comparable to ordinary holograms. More exotic uses include Hardlight stairs, chairs, and furniture (health and safety rules generally prohibit their use over dangerous drops) or even a kind of physical 'avatar' for AI systems - think sparring partners for dojos and tangible servants that can appear 'from thin air'.
Given that droids are also able to fill such roles, Hardlight is generally only used in this way where adaptability is key. Examples include wanting to spar not just with a humanoid droid, but also an akk dog, a rancor, and the tentacular monster you saw in your dreams last night.
Training weapons should be used against Hardlight sparring partners, unless you want to break the 'hologram' every time you hit.
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