The Third Skin

[Viktor Romanov]

After solving the riddle of the Second Skin armour, Viktor returned to his lab on Coruscant with his prize in tow. The problem with the suit being that it was form-fitted to it's previous owner, the late Rave Merril, and unfortunately Viktor was bigger than her and he had little muscles left, only cold steel. Viktor pulled out the instructions of how to regrow the armour and began preparing his lab to make it properly sizeable for the cyborg. He lay the instructions in front of his desk as he began preparing his alchemical and Scientific machines to rebuild the armour in his own visage.

 

[Viktor Romanov]

The armour could be useful, but it's weakness to electricity was it's main fault. Viktor had not the means to change this suit alchemically, but he certainly had some scientific means to protect the armour. He would place it under his skin which is a rubber compound that was artificially recreated skin. The armour would be protected by a small stasis field that would slow it's growth to a crawl and then he would be able to release it and it would envelope his body. This idea would allow for the suit to be hidden during periods of non-use and prevent it from being damaged during pointless times. At times during combat the suit would rapidly grow out of his skin and cover his body in the protective surface. He smiled during the drawing up the blueprints.

 

[Viktor Romanov]

Viktor began the process of regrowing the Second Skin into a suit that would fit him perfectly. As it regrew he limited it's space that it could grow so that it would stay the same shape that he wanted until he could put it under his skin. While the armour grew over time, Viktor redesigned his robotic limbs and even his mask so that he would be able to store the Third Skin in his arms, palms, legs, feet, and chest as well as his mask.

 

[Viktor Romanov]

Instead of completely remaking the suit into one organism, he split it into several parts for convenient storage inside of his body. To make sure that the suit would be able to compact and expand quickly, maximizing it's efficiency. In each of the parts where the suit was to be held he made sure that each part had a device that would be able to quickly store the suit back inside of him. The process of the devices was a bit too slow for Viktor to be deemed as efficient so he decided to redo the whole thing. Making it so that the devices would be very efficient in it's practical use although the suit itself had some weakpoints due to this alteration.

 

[Viktor Romanov]

After waiting for the suit to grow to a sufficient size, Viktor began matching it to his size. This process took awhile due to Viktor's mechanics, due to the gaps in the circuitry, but eventually he was able to overcome the problem and finally make the suit able to extend and retract allowing it to be worn at all times, storing itself in his body. He was able to completely fit the suit under his own normal uniform, now all that remained was to test it out in a simulation combat.

 

[Viktor Romanov]

After a few spars with some training droids the expansion of the armour still seemed ridiculously slow to Viktor, so he added some illegal parts that he bought off of the black market to speed it up to a 0.5 launch timer for the forearms, but the rest of the body took about 5 seconds to form. He went back into training to spar with some Proxy droids mimicking some Jedi Padawans.

 

[Viktor Romanov]

The second test was far more fruitful and had prove the augmentations to allow for plenty of blocking potential against swift strikes to his forearms. With this armour in his possession, Viktor finally decided to carry a lightsaber, although his proficiency in it was very limited. But now Viktor had to work on the mask.

 

[Viktor Romanov]

He had modified his mask to be able to expand around the entirety of his head, therefore surrounding it protecting it from the unpredictable nature of how it would grow. During the first test it had taken out an eye and almost impale Viktor's precious brain. Eventually he had it growing to a good area that perfectly covered the entirety of his head, though this also left another weakpoint around the throat and nape, where it combined with the chest piece.

 

[Viktor Romanov]

Double Post.