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** As to the physical structure of the suits, less than desirable. Think less a suit and more a portable shell for your body. Flexibility will be limited but it’ll get the job done. | ** As to the physical structure of the suits, less than desirable. Think less a suit and more a portable shell for your body. Flexibility will be limited but it’ll get the job done. | ||
** There will also be a standard Starfleet wetsuit underneath the main shell. | ** There will also be a standard Starfleet wetsuit underneath the main shell. | ||
=== Medical === | === Medical === | ||
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* Assistance | * Assistance | ||
** Science collaborated with other departments and is willing to continue to do so where needed. | ** Science collaborated with other departments and is willing to continue to do so where needed. | ||
== Final Diving Suit == | |||
'''Reference''': The diving suits are a more modernized version of these Deep Dive Suits, meaning they are hard shell, but ours are updated for a more modern material, finger movements and some embellishments and functionality. (Click on image for bigger view) | |||
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=== Aquasuits (The Flores Tidesuit) === | |||
A bulky hardshell deepsea diving suit made from a metallic alloy. Soft suits would need too much pressurizing to counter the water pressure, so hardshell is the way to go. They are not as manoeuvrable, but they will get the job done. | |||
Once the protective shell was established, it was easy to mount other, lighter decorative elements on top of the suit. | |||
As to the physical structure of the suits -think less of a suit and more of a portable shell for your body. Flexibility will be limited, so sorry to those who were hoping to swim around with some grace. A standard Starfleet wetsuit is worn underneath the main shell. | |||
Includes | |||
* a system that limits the effects of the conductive minerals, a way to back up the existing suit systems and secondary containment of the suit’s power systems to prevent accidental overload. | |||
* an emergency transporter enhancement patch so that in case of a major suit breach, the person could be immediately transported out of the water and back to the ship. They are programmed automatically initiate an emergency transport in case of a precipitous drop in oxygen or system shock indicators, for example, a tear or leak in the hard shell | |||
* a retractable drinking tube (like a straw) to be able to have a sip of a drink from an internal water tank, that helps not to fully dehydrate but cannot be used for other outside drinks. | |||
* Colored fibre optics and tri-chromatic electrochromic material! Ability to add patterns and additional ambient light with minimal extra weight. | |||
* Arm patch with the Starfleet logo and the Constitution logo | |||
* Gold piping for rank on the suit arm | |||
* Lights in the grooves between limbs display the department colour | |||
* Extra lights for the darkness of the deep sea. The lights are not in the view of the wearer to not be distracting. Light elements are around the shoulders, the legs and the back of the helmet in form of light-up trims around the joints | |||
* Sensors for augmented view | |||
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|''The display embedded in her visor began augmenting the scene around her. The computer picked up on the little bit of light in the distance and compensated for the bioluminescent structures around them to artificially brighten the seafloor beyond for her eyes.'' ~ Rachel Flores | |||
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=== Process of donning the suit === | |||
* Apply goo (with a texture like a whippy frosting with a glaze finish) all over your body, every bit of skin exposed and not exposed. | |||
* Wear a wetsuit | |||
* Attach any gear you may need to the suit’s tool hinges and hooks. | |||
* Once the wetsuit is worn climb into the top of the Aquasuit and allow the mechanisms to close up the suit and secure the helmet to the suit. | |||
* Do a system and seal check. | |||
* If needed ask someone to help you. | |||
* Once you wear the suit you won’t be able to fly the shuttle or adjust much, so make sure to do all you need before, that includes a snack if you are hungry. | |||
Example from Jalana’s Process | |||
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|''Jalana nodded and walked over to her 'armour' as she could clearly see by the rank and departmental markings, and grabbed her undersuit and the container of goo before she stepped aside into one of the little alcoves and stripped down to her underwear to goo up. She took a good portion out of the container and raised it to her nose. Mhm, Minty. But subtle, not too much. It smelled... fresh. She grinned and began to cover her skin carefully, lathering it on real nice. She was lucky that her picking up dancing again was helping her to be able to reach her back and everything without help. It felt surprisingly refreshing. '' | |||
''Once she had done that she grabbed the undersuit which was like a classic dive suit, skin-tight, Starfleet edition in a boring dark gray with the conny logo on the check, none of which would be visible under the 'armour' deep dive suit. Once she was in that suit she closed the mechanism which luckily in this day and age was on the side instead of the back and stepped out again. To see if anyone needed help. '' | |||
''Jalana stepped to her 'armour', she really liked that word for some reason. Reaching for her own medication she pressed the hypo to her neck and injected it. Just then she stepped inside the legs and straightened up. Thanks to Starfleet tech, the closing up of the suit was automatic on button press. So she pressed the button and listening to the moving of the parts she slipped her arms into the arm tunnels and adjusted herself to the proper position for the suit to be able to align and seal itself shut. This thing was clunky, yeah but just like during her test runs in preparations, she was still surprised that it was not too hard to move in it. Well, she moved the arms, for a test, moved the fingers, and made a fist. The controls worked fine. Her hands were not that big, and her body wasn't either, she was not sure she knew anyone who filled this out fully really, but that was why the hands were on control panels inside the cone that formed the suit's hand. That was also why they all had to practice this during the flight, to make sure they would be able to move around with this properly.'' | |||
''Once she had done her tests to make sure it was properly aligned, she moved her arm to the side, pressing another button and the helmet lowered onto her suit and into proper position, since the suit itself had not moved yet, and sealed shut. The mechanism worked in a way that the lights would light up if everything was properly put together and only then. Her rank and department lights as well as the patch lit up just as it was supposed to. At the same moment, the oxygen supply began to work, like the suit was eager to move out. '' | |||
''Rajel: “Ready to go. How's it looking over there?”'' | |||
''That was also the test for the coms, which would now come automatically through the suits comm systems. Since every suit was assigned to someone the gear needed had been put into compartments or hung from fixtures on it during the flight so they didn't have to deal with that later on. That proved to be useful now. '' | |||
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Afterwards, the officers enter a pressure chamber to decompress and not be overwhelmed by the water pressure outside the vessel. Flooding and pressurization in the chamber takes about three minutes. | |||
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|''The bussard collectors outside hummed to life and water started pouring into the compartment. From feet to shins and up to their knees, it didn’t take long for the seawater to pour in. The rear compartment team had done seven or eight test runs and could completely flood or drain the compartment in just under three minutes. It was an impressive feat on their part. '' | |||
''It didn’t take long for the water to pass chest height and up above their helmets. As it did she looked down at her left wrist. The schematic of her suit was up on the control panel. There were no yellow or red markers, no indications that the suit was having trouble or leaking. When she moved her arm, she could feel it was a bit more difficult. The water was putting up a fight against her as the pressure increased to match the outside. The shuttle ramp lowered down, unburdened by the pressure now that the shuttle’s interior pressure matched.'' ~ Rachel Flores | |||
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When returning, step into the compartment and drain it. It takes about three minutes to drain and bring the pressure to the one in the inside of the shuttle. After that, you can re-enter the aqua shuttle. | |||
== Other updated tech == | |||
===Breathing apparatus for Sarek=== | |||
As a Dolphin he needs oxygen. Engineering worked on creating a breathing apparatus for him that uses the water’s oxygen and converts it for him to use, based on the way Xindi “breathe”. | |||
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|''Sadly, he couldn’t spend a lot of time down deep, because he was an air breather like the rest of his pod. It just worked out to be many hours that he had to wait, swimming back and forth in the Cetacean tanks in a blur of anxious motion while the smart Engineers made him something that would let him breathe underwater for long periods of time without having to surface. ''<br> | |||
''Eventually, they’d finished the breathing thing they’d been working on and a few of them had put on those skin-tight wet suits they wore when in the tanks. Sarek knew they wore those because it helped them to handle the water’s temperature better. It had taken almost a half hour for them to put the harness onto Sarek that would let him breathe for many hours underwater. It felt weird, and somewhat tight and it took him a little while to adjust to swimming with it on. But the crew had told him that the thing they put on him, that covered his blowhole, would draw oxygen from the water around him and let him breathe. And even better, they said they could make it better and smaller and lighter in the future if he wanted. This one was bulky because they had a short time frame to work on it. Sarek of course told them yes!''<br> | |||
''The best part of all? It was Shiny!!!!!! Sarek had two shinies on him now. The one around his body, covering his blowhole and oddly angled so it didn’t interfere with his fin and flippers. And he still had the shiny near his tail. The one that let them beam him back and forth from the ship and let him communicate with everyone that wasn’t Xindi.'' | |||
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=== Holoemitters === | |||
For Mark Two Foster and Georgio to go to the planet, they had to make adjustments to their holoemitters. They were updated after a mission in Endaasi and now upgraded again to make sure they could easily visit the colony. So they were equipped with waterproof shields for their emitters in a frequency that did not interfere with the water make up of Daaka. | |||