Meir Battle Armour
Biotech armour grown in the organ-bays of Meir People Meir The only people of Elshore not born of it. hullcraft and released to soldiers along planned seams rather than issued from stores. Plates emerge slick with translucent slime; the donning sequence is a bonding event in which the armour warms to the wearer, seals to four-armed geometry, and confirms through chest-embedded pulses. Each release is a consumption event against the ark's irreplaceable power budget.
Key traits
- Grown on demand in the Ark's organ-bays and released along planned seams, never manufactured, never stored in an ordnance sense.
- Fitted exclusively for the Meir four-armed, digitigrade body; no single-pair analogue fits, and captured armour is unusable by other peoples.
- Amber-and-cyan seam-light runs along the armour's edges in constrained states, the same luminescent register as the Ark's interior architecture.
- Chest-pulse confirmation is required for a valid seal; armour without the confirmation pulse is unsealed and will fail under load.
- Once bonded to a wearer, the armour cannot be transferred in a single session, the Ark must re-ingest and re-grow the seal layer before release to another body.
- Every deployment fractionally depletes the Ark's ark-core cells Technology Ark-Core Cells Dense, sealed power organs that output stable high-grade energy without combustion, designed to last a generation-ship lifetime.; the armour can win a battle and cost the civilisation years of operational margin.