Digital Soft Camouflage
Digital Soft Camouflage or (DiSC) is a type of lightweight, highly flexible, and digitally augmented material that can be used as tarps or cloaks. DiSCs use tiny embedded cameras spread across their surface to monitor their surroundings and mimic them, though their initial resolution is limited and generally fails to stand up to close-range inspection. However, if left in place for minutes or even hours, a DiSC’s recreation of its surroundings becomes exponentially more detailed and convincing, making it useful for disguising snipers or stationary objects.
DiSCs are a favored tool of riyadi, who use them as cloaks to disguise their presence, scout the positions of opposing forces, and set traps behind enemy lines. Although most riyadi prefer to use the cover of night to enhance the effect of DiSCs, some will use them in broad daylight or in the midst of battle, relying on chaos and distraction to make up for the cloak’s lack of resolution. In many cases, riyadi will pair their DiSCs with other outerwear that makes them harder to detect by thermal or radar sensors.
According to battlefield reports and debriefs of GuardCorps forces, seeing a DiSC in action on the battlefield resembles a mirage or heat haze when moving, or a simple “blurry” patch when immobile. Because DiSCs struggle to rapidly adapt to changing light conditions, part of the standard operating procedure for rooting out DiSC-disguised opponents is to fire bursts of colored tracer rounds over the suspected area or shine floodlights at them.
