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==Body Armor==
These unpowered suits and armored garments require no special skill to use.

All body armor can come in any desired color, including camouflage patterns. It takes three seconds per piece to don or remove most body armor.
====Body Armor Styles====
Ultra-tech body armor is available in a variety of standard styles.
=====Bodysuit=====
This outfit covers the torso, groin, arms, and legs. The neck, head, or extremities are uncovered, making it easy to add customized boots, gloves, and helmets.
=====Gloves=====
A pair of armored gloves. They're made of thinner material than other armor types to avoid compromising the wearer's manual dexterity.
=====Jacket=====
This is a heavier outfit that covers the torso and arms. It zips up and has plenty of pockets.
=====Suit=====
This head-to-toe outfit includes a hood and face mask with eye slit. It's a useful exploration suit, supers costume, or ninja suit. It is also used as the basis for [[tailored armor]].
=====Trousers=====
A pair of long pants, protecting the groin and legs (but not the feet). It is not obviously armor, and can pass for a normal pair of work pants or jeans.
=====Vest=====
A sleeveless t-shirt covering the torso. All concealable armor styles can pass as normal clothing, although bodysuits and complete suits are likely to be conspicuous.

Additional styles can be created using the [[tailored armor]] rules.

===Ballistic Armor (TL9-11)===
This armor uses flexible materials to resist high velocity projectile attacks as well as cutting blows. It's the ultra-tech successor to modern bulletproof vests. On a practical level, [[TL9]]+ ballistic armor's major advance is that it can provide full protection for areas other than the torso without sacrificing mobility.

Since bullets are among the most effective ways to deal damage at [[TL9]]-[[TL10|10]], ballistic armor is widespread at these tech levels. At [[TL11]]+ it often declines in popularity, superseded by armor optimized against beam weapons.

Ballistic armor is flexible with a split [[DR]]: it provides full protection against piercing and cutting attacks, and uses its reduced DR against all other types of damage.

As material technology advances, ballistic armor continually improves. Examples of progressively-better ballistic armor types are reflex, nanoweave, and monocrys armor.

====Reflex (TL9)====
This ballistic armor is a fabric woven from para-aramid fibers (such as Kevlar), polyethylene, or synthetics inspired by the molecular structure of spider silk. It is soaked in a "shear thickening fluid" of hard ceramic nanoparticles suspended in liquid. During normal handling, the armor is very flexible, but when a bullet or fragment strikes it, it becomes a rigid material.

====Nanoweave (TL10)====
This armor is similar to reflex armor, but is reinforced for extra strength by woven carbon nanotubes. Nanoweave armor can be fitted with various accessories, using "smart" properties that can be engineered into it.

====Monocrys (TL11)====
This is a single-crystal weave of syn- thetic diamondoid fibers, also called "nanocrystal." It is very light, but diamondoid materials melt at high temperatures, which means that monocrys is not particularly useful against beam weapons.

For heavier, non-concealable versions of reflex, nanoweave, and monocrys, see the descriptions of [[tactical vests]] and [[tactical suits]].

{{Concealable Ballistic Armor Table}}
===Tactical Vest (TL9-11)===
This thick, sleeveless, jacket-like vest covers the torso and groin, with front and back pockets for inserting rigid ceramic or alloy plates.

A tactical vest is made of similar materials to concealable body armor, but is heavier, and is obviously body armor. It provides full protection against cutting and piercing damage, and reduced protection against all other attacks. Its trauma plates provide full protection against all damage types. It takes three seconds to insert or remove the plates.
===Tactical Vest Table===
{|
|-align="center"
![[TL]]!!align="left"|[[Armor]]!![[Location]]!![[DR]]!![[Cost]]!![[Weight]]!![[LC]]
|-style="background-color:#eeeeee" valign="top" align="center"
|9||align="left"|[[Reflex Tactical Vest]]<br>''trauma plates''||[[torso]], [[groin]]<br>[[torso]]||18/7*<br>+34||$900<br>+$600||9<br>+9||2<br>2
|-valign="top" align="center"
|10||align="left"|[[Nanoweave Tactical Vest]]<br>''trauma plates''||[[torso]], [[groin]]<br>[[torso]]||24/10*<br>+46||$900<br>+$600||9<br>+9||2<br>2
|-style="background-color:#eeeeee" valign="top" align="center"
|11||align="left"|[[Monocrys Tactical Vest]]<br>''trauma plates''||[[torso]], [[groin]]<br>[[torso]]||36/15*<br>+69||$900<br>+$600||9<br>+9||2<br>2
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Flexible]].
===Assault Boots (TL9-12)===
These armored boots add metal or ceramic inserts to the sole of a ballistic fiber. At [[TL9]]-[[TL11|11]] they provide their full [[DR]] against attacks to the underside of the foot (e.g., stepping on a stake, a contact-detonation mine, etc.) but half [[DR]] against attacks from other angles. [[TL12]] boots provide full protection from all angles.

''Hiking:'' Ultra-tech combat boots incorporate smart-matter responsive fabrics and biomaterials that treat or prevent blistering from long marches. They count as the best quality equipment and add +[[TL]]/2 to [[Hiking]] skill.
===Assault Boots Table===
{|
|-align="center"
![[TL]]!!align="left"|[[Armor]]!![[Location]]!![[DR]]!![[Cost]]!![[Weight]]!![[LC]]
|-style="background-color:#eeeeee" valign="top" align="center"
|9||align="left"|[[Assault Boots]]||[[feet]]||12/6||$150||3||4
|-valign="top" align="center"
|10||align="left"|[[Assault Boots]]||[[feet]]||18/9||$150||3||4
|-style="background-color:#eeeeee" valign="top" align="center"
|11||align="left"|[[Assault Boots]]||[[feet]]||30/15||$150||3||4
|-valign="top" align="center"
|12||align="left"|[[Assault Boots]]||[[feet]]||50||$150||3||4
|}
===Laser-Resistant Body Armor (TL9-11)===
Ultra-tech lasers are capable weapons at [[TL9]] and become common at [[TL10]], resulting in the development of flexible body armor optimized to counter them.
====Ablative Armor (TL9)====
This is similar to reflex armor, but made of plastic fabric designed to vaporize when struck by a laser beam. Since the armor is damaged by the attack, ablative armor is more useful against a single assassin than it is in a lengthy combat mission!

Ablative armor has a split [[DR]]. Its full [[DR]] is used against the [[burn]]ing or [[cr]]ushing [[ex]]plosive damage inflicted by any type of laser (including X-ray and graser models). This [[DR]] is also semi-ablative: For every 10 points of basic laser damage rolled, remove one point of [[DR]] from the location struck, regardless of whether the attack penetrated or not.

Its lower [[DR]] is used against all other attacks, and is not ablative.
====Reflec (TL9)====
Reflec is a light, highly-reflective armor of polished metallic fibers that reflects laser fire. It is useless against other attacks, but can be worn over other armor. Reflec has a split [[DR]]: It gets its full [[DR]] against microwaves and lasers (but not X-ray or gamma-ray lasers), but provides no protection against other weapons.

Reflec is an excellent radar reflector: any stealth benefits against radar are negated, and add +1 (+2 if wearing a full suit) to rolls to detect its wearer.

Reflec is not superscience, but is a cinematic technology. Realistically, mirrored material is not very effective against laser weapons, although it will function against microwave beams.

Any rigid helmet can be made reflective for $50. It gains +20 [[DR]] vs. lasers and microwaves.
====Ablative Nanoplas (TL10)====
This is advanced ablative armor made of tailored carbon nanotubes. It has higher [[DR]], but it is otherwise equivalent to [[TL9]] ablative armor.
====Retro-Reflective Armor (TL11^)====
This superscience reflec armor is embedded with polished, metallic fibers covered with millions of tiny spherical lenses. The micro-mirrors reflect laser fire back at the attacker. The armor "bounces back" half the  damage from visible-light or near-infrared lasers that the [[DR]] actually resisted. The remaining damage affects the wearer normally.

If he wasn't suspecting the reflection, the attacker doesn’t get an active defense against the first attack reflected back at him. He gets his usual defenses against subsequent reflected attacks, or if he knew the armor would be retro-reflective. Retro-reflec only works against direct hits!
===Laser-Resistant Armor Table===
{|
|-align="center"
![[TL]]!!align="left"|[[Armor]]!![[Location]]!![[DR]]!![[Cost]]!![[Weight]]!![[LC]]
|-style="background-color:#eeeeee" valign="top" align="center"
|9||align="left"|[[Ablative Jacket]]||[[arms]], [[torso]]||24/4*||$450||3||3
|-style="background-color:#eeeeee" valign="top" align="center"
|9||align="left"|[[Ablative Suit]]||[[all]]||24/4*||$1,200||8||3
|-valign="top" align="center"
|9||align="left"|[[Ablative Trousers]]||[[groin]], [[legs]]||24/4*||$280||2.8||3
|-valign="top" align="center"
|9||align="left"|[[Reflec Helmet]]||[[head]]||20/0*||$25||0.5||4
|-style="background-color:#eeeeee" valign="top" align="center"
|9||align="left"|[[Reflec Jacket]]||[[torso]], [[arms]]||20/0*||$150||1||4
|-style="background-color:#eeeeee" valign="top" align="center"
|9||align="left"|[[Reflec Suit]]||[[all]]||20/0*||$300||2||4
|-valign="top" align="center"
|10||align="left"|[[Ablative Nanoplas Jacket]]||[[arms]], [[torso]]||36/6*||$450||3||3
|-valign="top" align="center"
|10||align="left"|[[Ablative Nanoplas Suit]]||[[all]]||36/6*||$1,200||8||3
|-style="background-color:#eeeeee" valign="top" align="center"
|10||align="left"|[[Ablative Nanoplas Trousers]]||[[groin]], [[legs]]||36/6*||$280||2.8||3
|-style="background-color:#eeeeee" valign="top" align="center"
|11^||align="left"|[[Retro-Reflective Helmet]]||[[head]]||40/0*||$250||0.5||4
|-valign="top" align="center"
|11^||align="left"|[[Retro-Reflective Jacket]]||[[torso]], [[arms]]||40/0*||$1,500||1||4
|-valign="top" align="center"
|11^||align="left"|[[Retro-Reflective Suit]]||[[all]]||40/0*||$3,000||2||4
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Flexible]].

===Bioplas Armor (TL10)===
Bioplas is a strong, pseudo-alive smart matter material that is light and comfortable to wear – see [[Smart Bioplastic]]. Flexible armored suits and clothing are made out of this material. Like other bioplastic equipment, it can heal rips and tears if it has access to moisture and heat, such as sweat and body heat. Bioplas is also a popular material for swimwear and other sports clothing.

Bioplas is flexible armor with a split [[DR]]. Unlike ballistic body armor, bioplas provides its full [[DR]] against [[burn]]ing and [[piercing]] damage, but gets only one-third [[DR]] vs. other damage types. Thus, it's very effective against a bullet or most energy beams, but not that much use against a powerful blow or a vat of acid.

See [[Space Biosuit]] for a sealed environmental suit version.

{{Bioplas Armor Table}}
====Transparent Bioplas (TL10)====
This is an option for any bioplas outfit and the space biosuit. It does not protect against laser fire, but otherwise is the same as any other bioplas vest or suit. The suit adjusts around the user's body, and is almost invisible when worn. (A [[Vision roll]] from a yard or less will spot it, and anyone touching the wearer will notice it.) Transparent bioplas also comes in translucent colors; by covering up strategic areas, a wearer of a tinted bodysuit can look as if he or she is wearing a swimsuit while protecting the entire body. Transparent bioplas costs twice as much as ordinary bioplas, but is otherwise identical.

===Energy Cloth (TL12)===
This light and easily-concealed armor is an ultra-tech ballistic fiber similar to monocrys. Its hyperdense "fabric" is resistant to nearly all forms of attack. It is flexible, but gets its full [[DR]] against all damage types.
===Energy Cloth Table===
{|
|-align="center"
![[TL]]!!align="left"|[[Armor]]!![[Location]]!![[DR]]!![[Cost]]!![[Weight]]!![[LC]]
|-style="background-color:#eeeeee" valign="top" align="center"
|12||align="left"|[[Energy Cloth Bodysuit]]||[[body]], [[limbs]]||30*||$2,000||6||3
|-style="background-color:#eeeeee" valign="top" align="center"
|12||align="left"|[[Energy Cloth Gloves]]||[[hands]]||15*||$50||neg.||4
|-valign="top" align="center"
|12||align="left"|[[Energy Cloth Jacket]]||[[arms]], [[torso]]||30*||$1,500||3||3
|-valign="top" align="center"
|12||align="left"|[[Energy Cloth Suit]]||[[all]]||30*||$4,000||8||4
|-style="background-color:#eeeeee" valign="top" align="center"
|12||align="left"|[[Energy Cloth Trousers]]||[[groin]], [[legs]]||30*||$1,400||2.8||3
|-style="background-color:#eeeeee" valign="top" align="center"
|12||align="left"|[[Energy Cloth Vest]]||[[torso]]||30*||$1,000||2||3
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Flexible]].

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