Chromatashift-paint

Overview

chromatashift paint is a paint used on many items in the Kepek Commonwealth from ships to prosthetics. The paint is made up of a crystalline structure that, when activated by specific electrical signals, changes the way light interacts with the paint, allowing its colour to be changed. It is primarily used on Interstellar Colony fleets and Ships, as they are too big and require too much of an investment if they need to be recoloured (the colour is often used as part of the ship's identification - if the ship changes owners, or the ship's colony flag changes, the ship needs to be recoloured to match it). It is also frequently used on the ships of astrofarmers, who are able to use the colour-changing as a way to attract flocks of their creatures such as purnekels, who are attracted to light.

This paint is also used in a number of other smaller items, such as prosthetic limbs, to create animated murals and, before holographic films became the norm, in movie theatres to display films.