Maintainer's suit

From MYSTlore

The Maintainer's suits were used by members of the Guild of Maintainers when travelling to unsafe, unstable or unknown areas or Ages. The suits were made out of deretheni rock.

At least three different versions of the Maintainer's suit are known to exist or have existed.

[edit] The Environmental Verification Suit

The Environmental Verification Suit has several external sensors for environmental sampling.

Occasionally, the Maintainers had no idea what waited for them on the other side of a linking book. What is the surface temperature of the Age? Is it too hot to support D'ni life, or too cold? Is the atmosphere breathable, or poisonous? Is the link-in point over a pool of quicksand, or the mouth of a volcano? The Environmental Verification Suit was used for such "first contact" links.

The Environmental Verification (EV) Suit is little more than a shell that the operator stands in. The operator is completely protected from the outside elements by the suit's hermetically sealed, deretheni armor plates.

Most of the EV Suit's work is performed by the sensors and air samplers that dot the exterior of the suit. Information collected by these sensors will be more thoroughly analyzed by the Maintainers upon return to D'ni.

The suit operator serves only two purposes. One purpose is to provide a first-hand, visual account of the target Age's environment. The other is to start the suit's automated linking mechanism. Once initiated, the suit would link into the target Age for a mere two seconds before automatically linking back to D'ni. But two seconds was sufficient to gather the data Maintainers needed to decide if further visits to the Age were feasible.