Chameleon Suit

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Chameleon Suit

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Full-body stealth suit covered in specialized interlinked mesobots and nanobots that form an Optical Phased Array. The background on one side of the suit is detected via cambanks and this is then projected on the other side, enabling the wearer to be invisible. Some models also have built-in laser capacity. Not as sophisticated or impervious to detection as a janusuit, and easily detected by most perimeter security tech (motion analysis, nano cloud, sonics, interferometry, etc). It is still used in some kinds of games and sports, or on occasion for casual anonymity where security devices have not been deployed. It is till popular among some feral and barbarian groups.

Chameleon - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
YTS-43522-438793494-0004. Resource-poor red dwarf located in upper spinwards STC. The star lacks planets and is named after a famous and peculiar artifact that orbits it, The Chameleon.
Chameleon Technology
Janusuit
Janusuit Countermeasures
Optical Phased Arrays

Appears in Topics

Clothing

Contests and Competitions

Drytech/Hylotech

Games and Pastimes

Middle Tech / Midtech

Nanotech

Personal Weapons

Development Notes

Text by M. Alan Kazlev; minor additions by Stephen Inniss
Initially published on 31 January 2002.

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