Exostationary Suit

> This suit of yours could revolutionize this empire, in more ways than we can imagine.
>
> Hularia Munipet, addressing Undeles Munatas

An exostationary suit is a form-fit, full-body suit that allows the wearer to place any item they wish into the air around them, regardless of the object's weight. Each is tailored special to its wearer, and requires lots of calibration for one to work properly.

Exostationary suits are powered by Mana cells, which are most often located on the hip, shoulder, or chest depending on the wearer's preference so they can be easily removed or replaced as needed. The Mana is then extracted from the cell and circulated through a complex network of channels all throughout the suit, allowing objects to remain in the air around the wearer. The number of cells the suit can use at once can be customized as well.

Obtaining an exostationary suit requires a hefty purchase, potentially setting one back many years.

## Usage

When placing items into the exostationary field of the suit, it's generally recommended one doesn't place them near any joints, with the exception of the shoulders and hips. This is to prevent items from coming into contact with each other and drifting significantly when bending them.

When a Mana cell starts to run low on Mana, the objects placed into the exostationary field will start to drift. This can be dangerous if not kept close track of. Exostationary suit wearers must be extra cautious with the items around them should their Mana cells run low. Most exostationary suits are fitted with visual indicators and an additional auditory warning system, both of which also being custom to the wearer. Some may come with some sort of vibration feature, like around the arm or at the neck as another indicator. Most wearers will take additional Mana cells with them in case they need to use them.

### Sport

A number of different sports have recently cropped up using the exostationary suit as a key component of play.

### Combat

In addition to convenience and recreational activities, certain Invardium military factions have incorporated exostationary suits into their toolkit. When calibrated certain ways, an exostationary suit becomes very useful in combat. They may be capable of catching oncoming projectiles mid-air, or even deflecting them either away or around the person. The latter use serves best for individual combatants, the former serving best for squadrons. Seeing projectiles bend around the subject is said to strike fear into onlookers. Phantoms in particular are most well known for using exostationary suits as part of their repertoire.

## History

The exostationary suit is an Invardium invention, created by Undeles Munatas with the help of Invardium Mana Smiths. They experimented with Mana, using it stored within a Mana cell to lock items around it.

The initial exostationary suit designs used several Mana cells placed at key points across the body, such as hips, back, shoulders, and on the chest, but it proved to not function as intended. Items could only be placed near the cells. This by itself was useful, but Undeles and his team wanted to push it further.

They later devised a system that would pump Mana through tubes around the entire body, which proved successful. It was the refinement of this system that would later become what the exostationary suit looks like today. One problem they encountered early and often was item drift. It took them many, many iterations with lots of finetuning before they finally landed on the current design.

### Demonstrations to the Jadeth Council

Undeles recognized the versatility the exostationary suit offered and knew it would be greatly beneficial to Invardia. It was after the second iteration when they added the piping system that he would demonstrate the tech to the Jadeth Council. He had become exhausted after working so long and hard on the tech, hoping their approval would inspire him to continue. They were exultant with his demonstration, pushing to fund not only the Exostationary Suit project, but also all of Undeles Munatas' projects going forward.

Reinvigorated by the reception, Undeles immediately got back to work.