Name: Hardlight Weaving is the collective name of all of the hardlight cloth related objects. Other techniques include: Hardlight sewing, hardlight knitting, etc. Description: The entire technique starts with one thing, the hardlight fibres, the building stones within all hardlight weaving products. These fibres are in fact small chains, linked together to form long, fairly durable strings, thinner than a hair. This is due to each link being no larger than 30 microns large, about the size of a human skin cell. These fibres are then woven together to form fluffy, soft, and most of all, light strings. These strings can then be turned into a wide array of forms, be it soft fabrics, yarns, ropes and even in some cases, stuffing for luminescent stuffed animals. Most uses of these materials are within decorative clothing, such as coats, scarves, capes etc. The cloth is then attached to some sort of chargeable power source (often a small battery) in order to provide it with the much needed power. Some fabrics are even known to possess the ability of basically acting like monitors. example of a coat with hardlight cloth lining the inside. Abilities: -Are surprisingly durable. A single fibre can handle about half a gram of weight. Now that may not seem like a lot, however thicker ropes can easily handle very heavy lifting. -Hardlight fabrics are incredibly fluffy and light, and very soft. -The technology is fairly cheap. -Has it's uses within certain exotic pieces of tech as wiring. -Some can have fancy moving patterns. -The cloth is not damaged by EMPs! Limitations: -Due to the very airy and light nature of hardlight woven materials, they provide awful insulation to the cold. -The material is transparent, and therefore is only suited for decorative purposes, and not full clothing. -Despite hardlight ropes being fairly strong, most industrial grade cables and chains will outperform it massively, thus making it only suitable for civilian rope-needed purposes. -Needs power to glow. -Emps will dim the cloth to a desaturated gray. How does it work: It all starts with a hardlight loom, which is capable of forging these tiny hardlight fibre chains out of a silicon carbide store, and start weaving them together to form strings. The actual manufacturing of the fibres is often done by nanobots, due to the small size of each link, meanwhile simple machines braid together the fibres into string. These strings can then either be turned into thin cloths, or be further woven together to form yarns, which in turn can become ropes. Sometimes the hardlight fibres can even be scrambled together to form a sort of woolen material. The resulting materials can then be either sewn, knitted or woven into decorative clothing or stuffed animals. Dyes can also be included into the material. These are often applied into the hardlight itself right during the production of the fibres, however in certain cases dyes are applied to the finished products, where it will seep in between the fibres. This, although being cheaper, makes the cloth much rougher, less flexible and less luminescent. The final step to any hardlight fibre product is to simply attach it to a battery. The silicon carbide that makes the fibres does contain small amounts of copper, to allow the fibres to act as conductors. This is what allows them to glow, but also has it's uses within electronics, due to the small nature of the fibres. Some companies have even attached small computers to their fabrics, which allow the hardlight fibres to change colours at will through signals sent by the computer. This can allow for anything from dazzling displays of galaxies lining the insides of coats to civilian grade active camo equipment. Flavor text: After the discovery of hardlight, many clothing companies have looked to it for it's potential within clothing. Shortly after the tech necessary for producing hardlight cloth the tech became a huge hit within fashion all over the galaxy. Referenced Technologies (Optional): Hardlight Attainability: [Open] Tags: [Civilian] Category: [ Materials ]
