At 12:44 AM 3/28/96 +0000, Andrew Stodden wrote:

The use of sheathed glass fibre for actuation is highly recommended. 
It has both better strength and survivability for the same weight.

I'll pass the suggestion along to see what the department says.

A dual-phase re-engramming light-photon computer is recommended. With 
no heat buildup, immunity to emp weaponry, low power cunsumption and
unlimited storage space in a package about 1/4 inch squared, this is 
the current best in computing power.

We only did simulations with knowledge of actual systeming.  I'll see what
they can make on this.

Neural pre reading is accomplished via a sensor net woven into the 
softsuit, the cpu will learn the thought patterns of the user, 
building a rapport. The cpu will be able to tell with absolute 
precision if the user has security clearance to use the suit.

We never considered this.  At least not at a rewritable level.  Not everyone
wants something that tries to predict movements, it can be very annoying and
can cause a lot of problems in the middle of a battle.

Early tile failure on nasa type space shuttle was caused by hot 
plasma oxidization, not vibrational stress.

This is what the department passed on to me concerning the cracking of
various tiles.

Additional: The armour should be scored along it's surface, 
containing any fragmentation to a smaller area. Also, the aluminum 
substrate should be 'drilled' to further prevent fractures from 
spreading.

This was tried back in a simulation in the 100,000 to 100,500 area.  It
caused more fragmentation due to the scores breaking more often.  It was
dropped in later simulations.

Additional: The use of a warm superconducting wire 'web'  in the 
armor can be used as a defense against IR weaponry and detection.

I'll pass this suggestion on to see what they say.

Additional: Linking a surface coating of phosphourus ceramic to the 
superconducting 'web' can reduce laser damage by 99%, reconverting 
the light energy back to electrical energy. This also 'cloaks' the 
suit against radar or laser targeting.

Again I'll pass this on to see what they say.

Additional: Passing 'pulses' of energy through the superconducting 
'web' should reduce energy-to-matter weapon effectiveness by 
approximately 50 percent. This includes poth particle and plasma 
based weaponry. This also acts as a damper against high frequency vibration.

I'll pass this on to see what they say, although I remember someone
suggesting something similar a while back for another project.

Weapons project: SNLGP (Static Non-linear Gravity Projector)

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Note: Also a heat-sink, it can be used to compensate for and sort of 
abberant heat condition.

This was not to design weaponry, only a new hardsuit armour that would work
right now.  I'll pass on the weaponry suggestions to the Quantum department
and see what they say about them.

Hitomi
Ichinohei Hitomi
Hitomi@terminal.autobahn.mb.ca