Armor

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Armor Type TL Protection Required Skill Cost Mass
Jack 1 1 NONE 50 1
Mesh 6 2 NONE 150 2
Cloth 7
10
3
5
NONE 250
500
2
1
Flak Jacket 7
8
4
6
NONE 100
300
2
Vacc Suit 8
12
14
4
6
8
Vacc Suit 1
Vacc Suit 0
Vacc Suit 0
7,000
10,000
13,000
24
12
4
Hostile Enviroment Vacc Suit 8
9
12
13
14
6
7
8
9
10
Vacc Suit 2
Vacc Suit 2
Vacc Suit 1
Vacc Suit 1
Vacc Suit 1
12,000
16,000
18,000
20,000
150,000
36
27
18
12
6
Ablat 9 1
6 against lasers
NONE 75 2
Reflec 10 0
10 against lasers
NONE 1,500 1
Combat Armour 11
12
14
12
14
16
Vacc Suit 0 200,000
300,000
600,000
18
10
6
Battle Dress 13
14
16
18
Battle Dress 0 2,000,000
3,500,000
26 (6.5)*
12 (3)*

(*)As powered armour, battle dress largely supports its own weight. The mass in brackets is the effective mass to the wearer while the suit is powered up and turned on. The actual mass of the suit is the normal value.

Jack

A natural or synthetic leather jacket or body suit covering the torso and upper arms and legs. Jack is better than ordinary clothing or bare skin when defending against blades but bullets will punch through it easily.

Mesh

A jacket or body suit lined with a flexible metal or plastic mesh that gives it added protection against bullets.

Cloth

A heavy duty body suit tailored from ballistic cloth. The fabric absorbs impact energy and spreads it over the body, which can result in bruising. However, cloth armour is highly useful and versatile – it can be effectively concealed under normal clothing although observers making an Investigate or Recon check at 8+ will notice something unusual. TL 10 cloth armour is lighter and more flexible, and is indistinguishable from ordinary clothing to the naked eye.

Flak Jacket

A less expensive version of ballistic cloth, the bulky flak jacket is an unmistakably military garment. The TL 8 flak jacket incorporates advanced polymers which allow for greater protection without noticeably increasing bulk.

Vacc Suit

The vacc suit or space suit is the spacer’s best friend, providing life support and protection when in space. Early vacc suits are unwieldy and uncomfortable, but they quickly shrink as technology advances. A vacc suit provides a breathable atmosphere and protection from the extremes of temperature, low pressure and radiation typically found in a hard vacuum, for six hours. At TL 14, ‘tailored’ vacc suits feel like ordinary clothing with a flexible hood and face mask.

Hostile Enviroment Vacc Suit

Hostile environment suits are designed for conditions where a normal vacc suit would be insufficient, such as deep underwater, worlds shrouded in toxic or corrosive gases, extremes of radiation or temperature, or other locales that offer serious physical danger as well as the lack of a breathable atmosphere. HEV suits provide all the life support offered by a normal vacc suit (for six hours) but are also impervious to flames, intense radiation such as that found at nuclear blast sites, and high pressure environments like undersea trenches. The amount of protection increases with the Technology Level – as a rule of thumb, apply the HEV suit’s armour rating against any damage done by a hostile environment.

Ablat

A cheap alternative to Reflec, ablat armour is made from a material that ablates (vaporises) when hit by laser fire. Each laser hit on ablat reduces its armour value (versus lasers) by one, but the armour is cheap and easily replaceable.

Reflec

Reflec armour is a flexible plastic suit with layers of reflective material and heat-dispersing gel. It is highly effective against lasers, but provides no protection against other attacks. Reflec can be worn with other armour but is hard to obtain and quite expensive.

Combat Armour

This full-body suit is used by the military and not generally available on the open market, although those with military or criminal contacts can obtain it without much difficulty. It is issued to troop units and mercenary battalions. Combat armour protects from hard vacuum in the same way as a vacc suit and provides life support for six hours. TL 12 combat armour is considerably lighter, substituting carbontube weave for the smart plastic of the previous generation. TL 14 combat armour offers vastly improved protection without impairing movement.

Battle Dress

The ultimate personal armour, battle dress is a powered form of combat armour. The servomotors vastly increase the user’s speed and strength, boosting his Strength and Dexterity by +4 while wearing the armour. Damage to the wearer’s characteristics is calculated as normal, but the values from the armour are used for all other purposes such as hand to hand damage or skill checks. The HEV suit. TL 14 battle dress is considerably stronger, giving Strength +6 instead of +4, and upgrades its internal systems to Computer/3 (although still running Tactics 2).