Reinforced Insulated Sheath armor

"Let's get started. I'm going to teach you how to construct my masterpiece invention: R.I.S. armor. This armor has no equal in battle. Everything else is junk compared to this!"

- Mol Ni'mai

Reinforced Insulated Sheath armor, or R.I.S. armor for short, was a form of heavy yet flexible armor which saw use during the Galactic Civil War. It could be customized in a variety of colors. Mol Ni'mai, a male Bothan master armorsmith living in the mountains of the planet Dantooine, was the inventor of the armor. It could only be crafted by the most proficient armorsmiths. In addition to its more basic resource requirements, it also required the bones and hides of various creatures within the galaxy. During the Galactic Civil War in 1.5 ABY, Mol Ni'mai taught a spacer and fellow armorsmith how to make the armor.

Description
Reinforced Insulated Sheath was a heavy, yet surprisingly flexible armor. It provided equal protection to all areas of the body and could be customized in a wide variety of colors, from blue to black to red. Its protection could be augmented with a personal energy shield. The armor's construction was particularly difficult, requiring not only the skills of a experienced armorsmith, but many rare materials from across the galaxy in addition to its more mundane material requirements of various minerals and synthetic materials. The mundane materials were fiberplast, copper, gemstone, aluminium, intrusive and extrusive ores, and synthetic cloth. The rare materials were the hide of a gurk king and the scales of a giant dune kimogila from Lok, and the bones of a woolamander harrower from Yavin 4. The armor's appearance layer required the feathers of a peko-peko albatross from Naboo.

History
Reinforced Insulated Sheath armor was the invention of the male Bothan master armorsmith Mol Ni'mai. In 1.5 ABY, at the height of the Galactic Civil War, Mol was visited by a spacer at his hut in the mountains of the planet Dantooine. The spacer was an armorsmith as well, and wished to learn from Mol. Mol demanded 50,000 credits from the spacer before he would agree to teach them, which the spacer readily paid. Credits in hand, Mol began to instruct the spacer in the construction of R.I.S. armor, explaining the construction of its armor segment and its appearance layer. Once he was satisfied that his student had learned the basics, he tasked them with constructing a pair of R.I.S boots. The spacer was successful and Mol rewarded them with the schematics for the remainder of the armor pieces.

Behind the scenes
Reinforced Insulated Sheath armor is a type of heavy armor in the 2003 MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided. The armor, along with its designer, and the quest to learn how to craft it, were added to the game in 2004. The player must be a master armorsmith to craft the armor. R.I.S armor is of the "Battle" type within the game, meaning it provides equal protection from energy and kinetic damage sources. Prior to the addition of Mandalorian armor to the game, the R.I.S armor was the most difficult to construct, as it required many rare items from creatures both difficult to find, and to defeat. Prior to 2005 and the release of the New Game Enhancements for Star Wars Galaxies, the peko-peko feathers gave a health bonus when used to construct the armor. Additionally, the acklay within the Geonosian Bio-Lab on Yavin 4 could drop a schematic for a Interwoven R.I.S Armor Segment. However, with the release of the NGE, this item no longer drops and if a character has already learned it, it just produces a normal R.I.S armor segment.