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Thanks for keeping this blog alive for over a year and a half! I hope all your projects are going well!
Thanks for keeping this blog alive for over a year and a half! I hope all your projects are going well!
Medpac info and diagrams (from The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology). Transcript under the cut.
“Medpacs are emergency medical kits used in the field to treat minor injuries and stabilize badly injured patients until they can be taken to advanced medical facilities. These inexpensive kits cost only about a hundred credits each but carry a wide variety of medicines and emergency-care tools. Internal diagnostic computers offer the user complete descriptions of essential procedures, and so persons with no medical training can use them effectively.
“The Chiewab GLiS (General Life-Sustaining) is a basic medpac and carries supplies for treating contusions, broken bones, burns, and traumatic injuries. Its computer can store treatment procedures for one species at a time – typically humans – although program modules can be purchased for thousands of other species. Its limited diagnostic scanner allows the user to monitor a patient’s vital signs constantly.
“Standard medicines include coagulants to stop bleeding, healing salves and sterilizers used to treat burns, and antiseptic irrigation bulbs and disinfectant pads that cleanse wounds and prevent infections. Small bacta patches can be applied to promote the healing of traumatized tissues. Stim-shots and adrenaline boosters keep the patient alert and prevent him or her from going into shock, while painkillers and localized nerve anesthetics reduce discomfort. General-use antibiotics, countertoxins, and immunity boosters can be used to treat patients subjected to poisons, animal venoms, diseases, and infectious microbes, thus stabilizing a patient until he or she arrives at a health facility where more potent countertoxins can be administered.
“All medicines can be applied through patches or painlessly injected with a spray hypo. The GLiS also has a bone stabilizer and several spray splints that immobilize and protect broken bones; when the patient arrives at a hospital, bone fusers can repair the damage completely.
“More advanced and expensive medpacs such as the BioTech FastFlesh are designed for use by trained medics and include a much larger assortment of medicines. These medpacs are excellent for battlefield use, offering multiple spray splints, large supplies of stimulants and body boosters, and advanced synthe-nutrient replicators that sustain patients with vital nutrients. Specialized medicines can counter the effects of radiation, biological poisons, and nerve agents. The FastFlesh medpac also includes a canister of chromostring, which offers deeper penetration of healing agents without causing nerve damage. This medpac has several instruments for emergency field surgery, including a sonic scalpel, a laser cauterizer, and nerve and tissue regenerators.
“The FastFlesh diagnostic computer’s database covers five hundred different species and is linked to the unit’s remote scanner and a sample analyzer that can identify poisons, toxins, and unknown compounds. The computer automatically stores a record of the patient’s condition for later reference. This medpac costs five hundred credits and is widely used by emergency-care technicians, including many New Republic medics.”
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Thanks for your consideration!
~ Jacen
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Hey guys! Recently I’ve gotten a few asks wondering about canonical planets with little or no background, ones that could be used for anything, or planets with a very specific placement and history. I usually suggest that it might be best to create a new one, but I know firsthand how easy it is to get stuck on even the most basic aspects of worldbuilding. Hence, this!
This is a random generator that will create for you the basis of an original planet: a name, a region of space, prominent surface features, possible imports and exports, rotation period, gravitational pull, and atmosphere type. You can pick out the information you want, mix it up as needed and go from there. As always, any suggestions are welcome. I hope you guys get some use out of this!
(P.S. All of the names created by the generator are completely random, and occasionally it will spit out a real word or the name of a canonical planet. Check to make sure the name isn’t already taken!)
While I was researching Devaronians (y’know, like I always am), I noticed the Wookieepedia article on the Devaronese language is pretty sparse—so sparse, in fact, that it doesn’t actually contain any Devaronese words. SO, despite me being less than a linguist, I decided to try and come up with some of my own!
Basically, I extrapolated what I could from what few Devaronese words we know (all of which are italicized on the list itself, just for reference), while with others I and Nick (@of-stardust-and-wanderlust) gave meanings to our OCs’ names—the rest I basically just
pulled out of my assderived from the other words. This is of course an ongoing, ever-expanding list, and I’d be happy to add more to it if anyone has any ideas!For now though, feel free to read through this, leave comments about what you find interesting, bash me for my misunderstanding of how languages work, or anything else! I’d love to hear your guys’ feedback on this 😀
Reblogging cuz I (and some pals in the Devaron’s Angels group chat) made some additions to the dictionary 😀
Take a look at this fantastic project by @thefoodwiththedood!
Just a heads up, it’s exam break for me so my answers are going to be sporadic for a bit. I have two exams tomorrow and then a couple left next week; the asks in my inbox will be answered tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!
~ Jacen
I’m sorry, nothing like that is coming to mind. The issue would be that most of the dangerous jobs and some of the menial ones were done by droids rather than crew members. The closest thing I can think of would be sanitation duty, which probably isn’t all that dangerous but would likely be considered lowly and unpopular.
If anyone else can think of an example, please add on!
~ Jacen
@trooperst-3v3, provide some examples for this anon.
The worst job would probably be the time M4-RT1N’s crew had to clean the toilets after the Space Sushi Incident.
The most dangerous would probably be trying to dispose of the bodies that litter the bottoms of our many gaping chasms that sit below railing-less bridges and trying to work fast enough so you don’t get hit by falling objects. Or maybe trying to sober up the Knights of Ren after one of their alcohol-soaked board game nights. One of the two.
Here you go, anon, maybe these would work!
gffa:
SPECIES OF A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY: Klatoonian
Including: Physiology, Society, Homeworld, Lanugage, and HistorySource: Fantasy Flight Games
Caveat: RPGs have always been low-rung canon and FFG continues to use Legends materials, so Actual Canon may overwrite these at any timeor may already be overwritten
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Uses: it can be useful for filling out the background of a character or wold you need to reference in fic, games, or whatever else you like!
I’m off to Hawaii with my band for the next week! The inbox will stay open, but my answers may be sporadic. Thanks!
~ Jacen