Alpha Dawn - Star Frontiersman

Security Skeinsuit
Whereas the military skeinsuit is camouflage and
appears very militant, and civilians who can afford it
wear normal-looking clothes inlaid with the same
protective layers, security personal tend to wear
something in between. Local police, star law
officers, and some espionage agents tend to
purchase a security skeinsuit.
Security skeinsuits are function over form. They are
not designed to help hide the character like a
military suit, nor are they designed to conceal their
existence, such as a civilian suit. Instead, they
consist of overlapping layers of kevlar and other
ballistic cloth. It is generally gray, occasionally
black, and is light weight.
Security Skeinsuits protect against ballistic and
melee attacks, just as a military or civilian skeinsuit
does. Half the damage affects the wearer, the other
half gets absorbed by the suit. The suit continues to
help the wearer until it has absorbed 25 points of
such inertial damage, then is too ripped
up/damaged to continue protecting its wearers.
This can happen pretty quickly, even in a small
fight, so Security Skeinsuits are generally designed
to require replacement after a good fight, thus their
inexpensive nature.
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Stealthskin
Sometimes direct protection against physical or
energy damage isn’t as important as just avoiding
detection. The best defense for an attack is simply
not to be attacked.
Stealthskins are made of a special fiber that makes
no noise when it rubs together. It is silent, even to
the enhanced hearing of some races. Robotic
devices or technologies with advanced hearing
sensors will not even hear it rub together.
The Stealthskin is only effective when worn alone –
no other clothes, no skeinsuit, no screen. When
wearing the Stealthskin, the character is fully
encased in a single piece of dark black fabric,
stretching from top of his head to his toes. Even his
face is covered. A single strip of specially-made
non-reflective synthetic transparency runs across
the eyes, allowing the wearer to see out quite
easily. Many tiny stretchpockets exist along the
thighs, waist, and arm, to give the wearer a place to
place gear where it won’t rub or bounce or touch
other equipment he carries.
The Stealthskin fabric is quite stretchy. It allows for
the unusual shape-shifting abilities of a Dralasite to
function normally. Additionally, the suite can be
purchased to accommodate the wing membranes of
a Yazirian or the unusual shape of a Vrusk, but
when purchased for one of these other races it can
only be worn by members of that species.