TURBO X-SKIN R
Self-Healing 3D-Printed Polymer · System 01
A self-healing 3D-printed polymer. Cut it, tear it, drive a blade clean through it. The lattice closes behind the wound and returns to specification. Kayanite Core behaviour, engineered into a material.
Why it exists
Conventional armour is spent the moment it fails. One blade, one round, one bad landing, and the operator is carrying dead weight for the rest of the deployment.
X-SKIN R does not stay broken. The polymer chains are printed to seek each other out, so a severed lattice draws itself closed and rebonds without heat, adhesive or a workshop. The armour is repaired before the operator is clear of the contact.
Behaviour
- Closes and rebonds after being sliced or punctured
- Repairs in the field without heat, adhesive or tooling
- Returns to full specification, not a patched approximation
- Generatively formed per operator, printed as one continuous body
- Minimal weight, maximal range of motion
Specification
- Class
- Self-healing personal armour. Worn under or over standard issue.
- Structure
- Generatively formed polymer lattice, 3D printed as a single continuous body.
- Repair
- Autonomous. Severed sections rebond unassisted and hold to original tolerance.
- Fitting
- Mapped to the individual operator. No two units are identical.
- Issued to
- World Defence Force field operators and forward units.
- Real-world lineage
- TurboSkin X. The impact-absorbing compound behind the Turbo Fight Sleeves.
CoreX derivation
A Kayanite-bonded body takes a wound and closes it. X-SKIN R was engineered to do the same thing in a material, for operators who were never bonded to anything.
CoreX origin file →