Aislinn Trista wrote...
Sable Phoenix wrote...
It's a multilayer, MPIA-aramid sheathed, diamond-nucleated carbon nanotube weave, mass-effect compressed over an imbricated silicon-carbide ceramic laminate nested with a tungsten-boride resin-matrix composite. Its apparent molecular density outstrips far more massive substances (nearly three times that of lead) and it can withstand temperatures of approximately 3650 degrees kelvin (3380 degress centigrade), nearly the melting point of pure diamond. Rosenkov Materials markets theirs under the name Ilyaride, while Hahne-Kedar produces a similar variant they call Spiderskin.
... yes, I just made all that up.
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Love you, Sable.
Well... I'm fascinated by future combat systems, so I study all sorts of exotic armors and materials and personal sensing systems and high-tech camoflauges like electrochromic paneling and stuff. Yes, reading Popular Mechanics and Popular Science is my idea of fun, I'm a geek. I find the idea of creating more deadly weaponry a lot less interesting than finding ways to defeat those weapons. Plus I do tend to overthink the pseudoscience behind my science fiction. Everything I wrote about, however, is based off materials that actually exist or could theoretically exist.
I figured that the fabrics in the Mass Effect universe's body armor would be the real armor in combat suits; even hardsuits are largely flexible, and you can only armor so many areas with hard plates. Using mass effect fields and nanofacturing it would be fairly cheap and easy to produce high-density armors; the "hard" part of hardsuits being a hypercompressed titanium-boron-carbide (sometimes combined with tantalum-hafnium-carbide for the more expensive superthermal and nuclear-biological-chemical {NBC} shielded suits) ceramic fullerene composite sandwiched over a foamed osmium-tungsten core. The really expensive part is granting an equivalent level of protection for low-profile and flexible armor.
Low-profile combat armor consists of a multilayer approach; the actual bodysuit is an
auxetic MPIA aramid (an equivalent to modern-day Nomex), allowing the entire bodysuit to be woven as a single piece and avoiding the weaknesses that seams would present, as well as providing superior torsion and shear resistance. The next layer would be a high-impact liquid barrier of
polythylene-glycol silica gel. Finally we'd have the outer layer of the exotic ballistics and thermal materials that I already described above; Ilyaride, Spiderskin, and their equivalents.
Although all the major armor manufacturers that produce their own ballistics fabrics have their special brand name for their particular variant and spend notable amounts of their marketing budgets on trying to associate that name with the fabric underneath every suit of armor, Aldrin Labs' (comparitively) cheap and prosaically named "Hyperweave", used in the Onyx armor that is so prevalent among the Systems Alliance military, has become the genericized trademark for advanced ballistics materials and is typically used as a catch-all colloquialism for the entire bodysuit underneath any hardsuit. The kleenex of ballistics fabrics, if you will.
I've already sat down and figured all this out for my own fanfic of Jessica's backstory that I'm dicking around with. I really am a geek extraordinaire.
And since I'm wandering way into off-topic land:
Dawww. Puppydog Shepard is so squeezable.
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