A reference sheet showing the designs for a spacesuit meant for the alien species of Kepek, who are tall, bipedal, 4-armed creatures with a long, kangaroo-like face and 6 rabbit-like ears. The suit is black with grey armoured pieces around the chest, forearms and feet with neon blue accents on the chest piece. The helmet encases their whole head with glass on the top for them to see out of, and plates on the bottom letting their jaws articulate. The image has boxes with explanations about certain features, and a colour pallet right down in the bottom left corner. The top left box reads: "Jawed Helmet: Kepeki helmets feature a movable jaw mechanism with a silicone-like material between the plates, allowing for minimal movement of their two jaws, enough for them to be able to speak into the microphone installed at the font of the helmet's snout". It also contains an illustration showing the helmet when the user's mouth is open, revealing the silicone fabric. The box under it shows the suit's accents with various colours and the following text: "Suit accents: Kepeki Space suits are fitted with LED accents, both to increase visibility of the suit from a distance, and to convey messages to other nearby Ship passengers and astronauts. Each colour has a set meaning. Blue = Normal, Green = approach, yellow = danger, stay away and red = help! System Failure". The last box on the left says, "Thrusters: thrusters are located on the palm of the Kepek's secondary hands, the bottom of their feet, and the along the tail in order to help them move in 0-gravity". On the right are 2 boxes. The top reads: "Pouch Pocket: unfortunately, there was no safe way for Kepeki astronauts to be able to access their abdominal pouches, so instead most Kepeki space suits feature a pocket held closed by a magnetic edge to allow for the easy carrying of tools and items, especially since two of their arms are required for moving around." and the bottom right box reads, "Holo-watch interface: Holo-watches are an important part of daily-life technology for the kepek, and this is also true for kepeki astronauts, but the defining feature of the holo-watch is it's holographic display, which doesn't work in the vacuum of space where there are no air particles that can be manipulated into displaying the hologram. Instead, Kepeki space suits normally have an old-fashioned solid-glass display built into their suits, which interfaces with the watch (which is worn under the wrist panel)"
I had to do some... last minute redesign of the Kepeki space suits last week when I realised I may have created some problems for myself. Since I was at it, I decided to put together this handy ref-sheet! (please ignore my bad spelling 😅)
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