* Spacers who are more serious, more paranoid, in positions decreed by their chain of command to require it (e.g. most combat and/or military positions), or who doubt the reliability of their quaint rustbucket tramp freighter, would wear a full-body suit made out of a material similar to the shorts above, but thicker and with a few more advanced features.
The suit would typically be complete coverage from the upper neck down, with the exception of the hands. Separate gloves would be carried in a pouch. There was a reinforced ring at roughly collarbone level, for attaching the inflatable emergency "bag helmet", also carried in a pouch. It is designed to be a medium-to-long duration space suit liner. With the accessories, it is also capable of functioning as a fairly decent bad-air suit (e.g. smoke or noxious gasses basically at normal pressure), and a passable emergency space suit in its own right.
These would typically have an electro-thermal control layer (capable of considerable heating and limited cooling given some power). Rather than automatically wicking moisture away from the body like the shorts, the outfit had an active pore system, that could range from a Gore-Tex like arrangement (passes moisture but not liquids), down through various calibrated pressure-equalization settings that offered adjustable resistance to gas transfer, and finally to completely gas-tight. Assorted sealable pass-throughs allow for connection of spacesuit "plumbing".
Over this would typically be worn the same sorts of cargo shorts or tool belts mentioned above, with some bias toward the belts... you want something that you can take off *fast* to get into your space suit. "Passenger side" crew on liners may have some sort of fabric uniform over it just for visual appearance, although the wide variety of decor options on the suits rendered that fairly redundant. The typical look here would be closer to the sort of look one sees today in motorcycle racer body suits, but with much less padding.
For a variety of reasons, I decided that color- and pattern-coding of uniforms would become common. Somewhat more expensive outfits were capable of changing color, and these sorts of things were used in some organizations to denote current roles.
For instance, if you were suddenly assigned from your normal engineering position to be damage-control, you'd hit a few keys on your PDA, and it would not only change which displays and functions it presented you, but change your uniform from yellow to red. Or on a passenger liner, whichever purser was closest to the best way out of a large zero-g ballroom in case of emergency would be tagged by the computer as the designated exit manager, and their suit would change color to a blindingly obvious arrangement while the suits of pursers keeping people from going through "bad" exits would be subdued down to make them less obvious.
Private spacers would adopt personal designs, which act as a sort of heraldry, typically with matching or thematically related designs on their body suit and their spacesuit.
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The suit would typically be complete coverage from the upper neck down, with the exception of the hands. Separate gloves would be carried in a pouch. There was a reinforced ring at roughly collarbone level, for attaching the inflatable emergency "bag helmet", also carried in a pouch. It is designed to be a medium-to-long duration space suit liner. With the accessories, it is also capable of functioning as a fairly decent bad-air suit (e.g. smoke or noxious gasses basically at normal pressure), and a passable emergency space suit in its own right.
These would typically have an electro-thermal control layer (capable of considerable heating and limited cooling given some power). Rather than automatically wicking moisture away from the body like the shorts, the outfit had an active pore system, that could range from a Gore-Tex like arrangement (passes moisture but not liquids), down through various calibrated pressure-equalization settings that offered adjustable resistance to gas transfer, and finally to completely gas-tight. Assorted sealable pass-throughs allow for connection of spacesuit "plumbing".
Over this would typically be worn the same sorts of cargo shorts or tool belts mentioned above, with some bias toward the belts... you want something that you can take off *fast* to get into your space suit. "Passenger side" crew on liners may have some sort of fabric uniform over it just for visual appearance, although the wide variety of decor options on the suits rendered that fairly redundant. The typical look here would be closer to the sort of look one sees today in motorcycle racer body suits, but with much less padding.
For a variety of reasons, I decided that color- and pattern-coding of uniforms would become common. Somewhat more expensive outfits were capable of changing color, and these sorts of things were used in some organizations to denote current roles.
For instance, if you were suddenly assigned from your normal engineering position to be damage-control, you'd hit a few keys on your PDA, and it would not only change which displays and functions it presented you, but change your uniform from yellow to red. Or on a passenger liner, whichever purser was closest to the best way out of a large zero-g ballroom in case of emergency would be tagged by the computer as the designated exit manager, and their suit would change color to a blindingly obvious arrangement while the suits of pursers keeping people from going through "bad" exits would be subdued down to make them less obvious.
Private spacers would adopt personal designs, which act as a sort of heraldry, typically with matching or thematically related designs on their body suit and their spacesuit.