Guavian Death Gang Soldier

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Model DZ-12530, Photo by Ramey Chanadet
Description: Guavian Death Gang Soldier
Prefix: DZ
Detachment: Underworld Detachment
Context: Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens

The Guavian Death Gang is a criminal organization driven out of the Core Worlds by unrest in the galactic underworld. The Guavian Soldiers give up their humanity and undergo cybernetic augmentation, with a mechanical reservoir and pump injecting chemicals into their bloodstreams to enhance speed and aggression. They are silent in battle, communicating via high-frequency data streams.

This is a visual guide used for 501st costume approval, not a how-to for construction. Construction details are found at the costume's Detachment website. Measurements provided here are are generalized, and not criteria for approval. All 501st costumes are proportionate to the wearer in terms of size, fit, and scale. During evaluation, both text and images (CRL and Reference) must be considered. When in doubt about a feature of a submitted costume, GMLs should post questions in the Legion forum's DL/GML peer review section.

Required Costume Components

The following costume components are present and appear as described below. For 501st membership only the requirements in black need to be met.

• Helmet is proportional to the wearer.
• Front half of the helmet body is gloss red.
• Back half of the helmet body is flat black.
• Front of helmet has a slightly oblong circular opening containing the following details:
• Opening contains black mesh.
• The bottom half of the black mesh area contains a grid of wires and details.
• Centered in the opening there is a circular detail in the same red as the helmet body.
• The front half of the helmet is divided with a visible seam at approximately eye level.
• The bottom half of the back of the helmet contains a chevron pattern around the entire piece.
• The top half of the back of the helmet contains two visible grooves running from the top down to the start of the chevron details.
• Helmet is heavily weathered.
• A black balaclava or similar should be worn beneath the helmet to conceal the wearer’s skin.

• Black with horizontal ribs, fitted to the wearer.
• The neck seal extends to conceal the entire neck.
• The neck seal has a glossy finish.

• Each shoulder has four (4) rounded slots that extend from the approximate middle of the piece up to about one (1) inch from the top.
• The base colour of the shoulder armour is gloss black.
• The left shoulder has a red “drip” paint detail, the same colour as the red on the helmet, that extends from the top of the armour down between the first two (2) slots approximately ⅔ of the length of the armour.
• Shoulder armour is heavily weathered.

• The collar armour base colour is black.
• There are four (4) grooves of varying widths on each side of the armour.
• There is a one (1) inch wide red stripe on the widest raised section on the wearer’s left side of the armour.
• There are two (2) rectangular cover plates that cover the seams between the left and right sides of the armour.
• The front cover plate is approximately five (5) inches wide and has four (4) raised sections of varying widths. The second raised section from the wearer’s left is painted red.
• The back cover plate is approximately seven (7) inches wide and has six (6) raised sections of varying widths. The second raised section from the wearer’s left is painted red.
• Both cover plates must be tall enough to conceal any joints on the armour.
• Collar armour is heavily weathered.

• The flight suit base colour is a dark-red/burgundy and is appropriately sized to the wearer.
• There is a bright red “circuit board” pattern painted onto the entire suit.
• The suit has long sleeves, with short sleeves capping the top of them.
• The longer/inner sleeves have a panel of black fabric that runs the length of the sleeve on the outer side of the wearer’s arm.
• The inner thigh area of the flight suit has the same black fabric panels that run down the inner leg.
• The upper half of the back of the flight suit is also made from the same black fabric.
• There are no visible pockets on the flight suit.
• A covered zipper runs down the front of the suit.
• The flight suit is very heavily weathered with black weathering throughout the entire suit.

• Black in colour.
• Made from a nylon material with leather, or a leather-like material, on the palm side and details on the back of the fingers.

• The forearm gauntlets conceal the outer sides of the wearer’s arms and the back of the hands.
• Covered in the same fabric used for the black panels on the flight suit.
• There are three (3) two (2) inch thick hook-and-loop strips down each side of each gauntlet that enclose the inside of the forearms; each is joined with a silver metal oval ring on the inside of the arm.
• There are two (2) elastic strips, one (1) around the wrist and one around the palm of the hand.
• On one gauntlet there is a raised section that contains a red circular detail with cutout crescent.
• The gauntlets are interchangeable and either can be worn on either arm.

• There is a circular valve port on a flat square, positioned on the wearer’s left leg.
• Extending from this port down to the knee armour there is a rubber hose that has the appearance of having red liquid inside.
• The knee armour is covered with the same black fabric as the forearm armour and flight suit.
• The knee armour has a six-pointed “diamond” shape when viewed from the front.
• There are two (2) one (1) inch elastic strips that wrap from the armour around the wearer’s knee.

• The utility belt has four (4) nylon pouches across the wearer’s abdomen.
• There is a rectangular hook-and-loop panel on the back of the belt.
• Extending from each side of the back panel around the wearer there are two (2) one (1) inch nylon straps that the front pouches hang from.
• Each of the two (2) straps has a buckle detail on each side.
• When viewing the pouches from the front left-to-right:
• Pouches #1, 2, and 3 are all approximately 3" wide and 6" tall.
• Pouches #2 and 3 each have a 2" red circle detail on the front.
• Pouch #4 is approximately 5" wide and 6" tall. With the sides of this pouch matching the flight suit red “circuit board” pattern fabric.
• Pouch #4 has two metal eyelets along the bottom of the pouch.
• All pouches and strapping are heavily weathered.

• The harness is composed of several segments of nylon webbing each consisting of two (2) layers; an approximately two inch (2”) wide nylon strap with a one (1) inch wide strap sewn onto it.
• There is a main belt that extends around the waist and closes with a roll pin belt buckle.
• Extending down from this belt hang two additional straps that form an X across the wearer’s legs.
• On the front of the “X” there is a buckle detail.
• On the wearer’s right leg hanging from the lower strap there is a black 3" x 6" pouch matching the belt pouch style.
• Extending from this pouch around the right leg there are two 1" nylon straps each with a buckle detail.
• Extending from the wearer’s left side of the top belt there is a thermal detonator greeblie.
• The belt strapping and buckles are all heavily weathered.

• Boots are black leather or leather-like material and extend to just below the wearer’s knee.
• The boot soles are flat.
• There is a ribbed panel that extends across the top of the foot.
• There is a ribbed panel that extends from just above the ankle to the top of the front of each boot.
• The back of the boots have panels with a mesh appearance.
• If a zipper is present it is on the inside of the boot or concealed under the front panel.
• Boots are heavily weathered.

Optional Accessories

Items below are optional costume accessories. These items are not required for approval, but if present appear as described below. If adding in an accessory after initial approval, the item still needs to be submitted to local GML for approval before use.

• Blaster is gunmetal grey and heavily weathered.
• On the “sawed-off” version of the blaster the stock is optional and not required to be present.