- "Ha! Caught the enemy on a caf break. Prison defenses might as well be made of flimsiplast."
- ―Oteg
Flimsiplast, often shortened to flimsi, flimsy, or sometimes plast, was one of the most popular media for the written word. The hair-thin sheets of acrylic medium were almost transparent and were sometimes collected into hardbound books. Flimsiplast was also used for printing hard-copies of computer files. Flimsi could also be used to make such items as disposable gowns in hospitals.[2]
Flimsiplast was reusable, unlike paper, but dissolved in liquids.[3]
A variety known as change flimsiplast could store multiple writings on the same surface; the reader could cycle through them by touching the surface in a certain manner.[4]
Appearances[]
Sources[]
- The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook
- The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook
- Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
- No Disintegrations
- "Kessel: Hell in Space" (original article link) on Wizards.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- The Essential Atlas
- Xim Week: The Despotica (Part I) on Hyperspace (article) (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)
- The Essential Guide to Warfare