Ironworks ~ Loharr Talem armour suits

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IRONWORKS, LLC

~ Purchase Order ~

3 x custom sets of armour for Loharr Talem

Materials ~

Mesh weave & cotton overall under-pad/cloak material.

Ballistic mesh breast plate, gauntlets, thigh pads and shin coverings.

Cured leather boots and external joints.

Durable Durasteel buckles.

3.5kgs including boots and gloves.

Stats ~

\*Light and strong. Ballistic mesh breast plate, gauntlets, thigh pads and shin coverings able to stop a slug thrower.

\*Mesh weave overall under-pad/cloak & glove materials able to stop melee attacks up to a Vibroblade.

\*Standard cured leather boots.

\*custom embossed insignia

\*Alchamised \*durability enhancment

Process ~

Terrogate entered his next shift at IRONWORKS forge after a few well earned days off to see another order had backed up while he was absent. Not happy to let the customer service levels slip from his Lords managed Forge he gets to work right away. Taking his datapad he downloads the schematics.. it reads 3 individual suits of lightweight material but to be used for armour in combat. There would be restraints also on the type of materials used to adhere to an apprentice level.

After another hour or so of planning, Terrogate places the order for the materials and lays out the dressmakers paper on a large bench to begin drawing out the designs.

He also melts a quantity of durasteel alloy down and fills the boot buckles and lace eyelets, belts and apparel buckles & pins in the standard sand relevant moulds and sits them to rest for cooling and formation.

~\*~

A day later

The Catharian apprentice receives the leather, he boils, dries, stretches, oils and hangs the cured leather in preparation.

The next orders also arrive with the mesh weave and ballistic mesh. Terrogate has seen ballistic mesh used for the entirety of outfits before but it's more weighty and restrictive to movement. An Ataru student himself the apprentice knows the equal importance of speed and agility as well as strength in your attacks and counters. So he has chosen a mix of available materials for the commission and in doing so keeping the armour strong and durable where it would require to be so, and also flexible and unrestricted where the wearer would need it when evading and during more complex and force assisted movements.

Using the pre-made templates he places, measures and cuts the Mesh weave and the cotton material for the overall under-padding and cloak material for all 3 outfits keeping them separated and organised.

He then lays the Ballistic mesh and also begins cutting and fashioning the breastplates, gauntlets, thigh pads and shin coverings using very specialised equipment to bend and mould the ballistic mesh to his whim.

The muscular Cathar warrior spends 3 days, allowing a full 10 hours for assembling each of the each one of the garments. Trimming, pinning, sewing, pressing and altering the materials into the requested designs that had been sent.

The young warrior had not been back to Batorine in a week to see his new family and he had even missed a morning duel session at Lord Vexx’s training academy but he was determined to get these completed in time for his colleague and business partner Loharr who had already been kept waiting longer than he'd liked.

~\*~

On the end of the 5th day, Terrogate finally finishes stamping in the remaining studs for the cured leather bootstraps on all 3 sets of custom boots he had cobbled, especially to match the 3 individual armour suits.

The 3 mannequins set out in the corner of the forges armoury now donned 3 magnificent suits of armour, the leathers still had that fresh oil smell and they looked and sized exactly to the specifics given in the holo image he had been sent.

Dark, cloaked and incredibly durable. Completely abrasion resistant and it's main martial contact points fashioned from Ballistic mesh. The breast and back plates, gauntlets, thigh pads and shin coverings can stop a slug thrower from penetrating and dealing massive damage to the wearer. Yet… It was incredibly light for the defence it offered, only 3.5kgs in total each.

Terrogate stands back after setting the 3 sets of boots down and looking at the finished products.  He was happy with the work, sure the finished results were perfect to specs......  but he was not satisfied.

Something was missing.. After all this was no mere apprentice ordering these garments.. He was a captain of industry, already well respected and well known in the wider empire.

After what seems an hour starting frustrated at the suits he has an idea, and heads off to the Remembrancer archives.

~\*~

He returns in a few short hours, and with a loose piece of parchment in his hand.  He goes into the metal works tooling room grabs the forge specialist embossing tools and a stool, and gets to work.

Several hours later, somewhere around midnight the warrior stands and looks at the suits, ”ahhhh” he exclaims.. ”that's better.” he says with a wide toothy grin. The Cathar had embossed the same emblem he had seen on Loharr Talem’s personal insignia ring onto each set of armour.

One onto the belt, another onto the chest plate and the third the inner edge of the boots. Unlike the ring's gold emblem, these were dark enough to blend into the material but visible enough  to be recognised up close. A permanent and personalised touch from the Artifex of Tollere.

With one last thing to do he sends a com message to the Divine Empress Mother herself to help strengthen the durability even more so using alchemy as per his Lord's orders.