Armor Descriptions

• Description: The name or description of the armor.
• Protects: The hit locations covered by the armor piece, section, or suit.
• Armor Score: The Row Shift to the 2d6 armor roll. There are separate armor scores for mechanical (Mech), burn, electric arc, and radiation damage (Rad). If the Rad Armor Score is not listed, the armor will provide negligible protection from radiation. A "c" for the Arc armor score indicates the armor is conductive, and will short out electric arcs and provide complete protection to the wearer.
• Injury Susc.: The Injury Susceptibility for damage to the armor piece. Injury Score is score of [absorbed Pen] + Wound + Injury Susceptibility. Enough damage will degrade the armor, or even destroy it. Most kinds of armor are sufficiently tough that the effects of armor damage can be neglected, simply assuming that it gets repaired during down-time between fights. When the injury thresholds are not grayed out, the armor damage is likely to be significant and should be tracked.
• Blunt: The Wound score for blunt trauma transmitted through the armor.
• Pad: This represents padding. Subtract the Pad from the Pen absorbed by the armor when finding blunt trauma.
• Mass: The mass of the armor in kg.
• Price: The cost of the armor in Republic dollars ($).
• Activation: Many pieces of armor do not or can not provide full coverage for one reason or another. Perhaps they are only designed to protect a small part of the hit location (like gloves), or it may be that there are certain spots that are very hard to protect (like armpits). If the armor roll is less than the Activation, the armor does not protect at all.

Armor for different sizes The listed armors assume a Size +0 Human. Since not everyone is the same size, manufacturers make armor to fit different sized people. If your character is not Size +0, row shift Mass and Price by twice the character's Size, and subtract Size from Injury Susceptibility. Blunt cannot be more than Size+7. If Blunt is already maxed out, increase it to Size+7. Armor can be made heavier or lighter than what is listed. For a +1 to every Armor Score, the suit or piece of armor has a +1 Row Shift to Pad, Mass and Price. Blunt will increase by +1 to a maximum of Size+7. Pannovas can use the same stats for their armor, although Pannova armor will not fit a Human and vice versa.

Layering Armor Characters may want to wear one kind of armor on top of another. This is reasonable - it was often done and many kinds of armor are specifically designed for this. A knight who wants to wear a coat of plates over a mail hauberk, or a hauberk over a padded gambeson, has plenty of historical precedent. Layers of armor ⊕ together all their Armor scores and Blunt scores. The combined Pad is ([Pad of armor 1] - [Blunt of armor 1]) ⊕ ([Pad of armor 2] - [Blunt of armor 2]) + [Blunt of combined armor]. If either armor has a Pad of "–," the combined Pad is [Pad of the other layer] - [Blunt of the other layer] + [Blunt of combined armor]. Add the Mass and Price. If armors have different activations, only some layers may protect if the armor roll is greater than some activations but less than others. If there are a lot of activations to keep track of, it might be helpful to just write out a table on the character sheet showing how much protection the armor provides for each possible result on the 2d6 roll.

Carbon Armor

• Carboweave is fabric made from carbon nanotubes interlinked and bonded in a stress-distributing nanoscopic trusswork to fail gracefully and prevent the propagation of fractures. It provides excellent protection against piercing and cutting, but it is flexible so powerful attacks may still smash up the wearer even underneath the armor. Use the blunt trauma rules when wearing carboweave armors.
• Carboplast is a general purpose rigid armor, made of nano-structured carbon and other light elements (largely nitrogen and boron). It is not only strong but durable, and can give reasonable if not complete protection against typical military small arms.
• Carbolam, or laminated carboplast, is a sandwich of an elastic polymer between two carboplast plates. This provides the high protection of carboplast but with better protection against hypervelocity projectiles, explosive shaped-charge jets, and micropulse lasers. These kinds of attack can not have any AP score more penetrating than -5. This limit on AP does not apply to any other kind of attack. In addition, carbolam gives another +1 to Pad score against the blast and contact damage of explosives.
• Shatterplate is a rigid armor engineered to absorb energy from incoming projectiles by shattering. It gives superior one-stop protection from attacks compared to any other available armor material, but degrades quickly with repeated attacks. Use the damage to armor rules with shatterplate against mechanical attacks. Shatterplate is not particularly vulnerable to non-mechanical attacks. Against burning, radiation, or arc attacks, subtract 12 from the Injury Susceptibility if you feel you need to track damage against these damage types. For game purposes, you can assume that an attack which neither penetrates the armor nor at least cause an Injury Score +9 wound does not damage the armor – punching a shatterplate cuirass will likely have little effect beyond bruising your knuckles. Shatterplate armor has the same sandwich design as carbolam, so that projectiles and jets never have an AP score more penetrating than -5 and the armor has an additional effective +3 to to the Sharp of the blast and contact damage of explosions.

All carbon armors have a Temperature Resistance Score of +8 (it takes a Temperature Score of at least +8 to damage the armor, even though it can still conduct heat to the wearer without being damaged).

Like many other products of the Verge, armors produced and sold in the Verge Republic usually come with a fair amount of automation. Hard armor will fold apart and open up to allow it to be easily donned or doffed. The length and girth of armor parts will be adjustable over a moderate range to accommodate wearers of different builds. All varieties of armor come with embedded sensors that monitor structural integrity.

Concealable Vest		Body Armor Vest		High-Threat Body Armor		Body Armor Suit		Cuirass		Hardsuit

Description	Protects	Armor Score				Injury Susc.	Blunt	Pad	Mass	Price	Activation
		Mech	Burn	Arc	Rad
Concealable Vest	4-5	+6	+6	-1½	-12	-4	+2½	-2	1.5	30	4
Body Armor Vest	4-5	+7	+7	-½	-11	-5	+3½	+0	2	40	4
High-Threat Body Armor	4-6	+7	+7	-½	-11	-5½	+3½	+0	3	60	4
Carbolam Cuirass	4-5	+9	+9	+4½	-9	-6	+7	+3	4	150	4
Shatterplate Cuirass	4-5	+11	+9	+4½	-9	+4	+7	+3	4	30	4
Body Armor Suit	4-5 2-3,6-10	+7 +6	+7 +6	-½ -1½	-11 -12	-5 -6	+3½ +3	+0 -1	8	150
Combat Hard Suit	4-5 2-3,6-10	+9 +8	+9 +8	+4½ +3½	-9 -10	-6½ -7	+7 +7	+3 +3	15	500
Shatterplate Hard Suit	4-5 2-3,6-10	+11 +10	+9 +8	+4½ +3½	-9 -10	+4 +3	+7 +7	+3 +3	15	120
Battle Helmet	1	+9	+9	+4½	-9	-5	+7	+3	2	80

• Concealable Vest: A lightweight, flexible carboweave vest covering the chest and abdomen, designed to be worn underneath clothing.
  
• Body Armor Vest: A flexible carboweave vest covering the chest and abdomen, designed to protect against sidearms.
  
• High-Threat Body Armor: The above body armor vest with protection for the hips and groin.
  
• Carbolam Cuirass: A rigid plate armor for torso protection. It is often worn over flexible armor to provide improved resistance against blunt trauma and increased protection against longarms.
  
• Shatterplate Cuirass: A rigid plate armor for torso protection, designed to provide superior one-shot protection at the cost of long-term durability.
  
• Body Armor Suit: A flexible carboweave suit, for protection against sidearms. It is commonly worn with a cuirass to protect against longarms. When the gloves are worn, the wearer has the Thick Fingered 2 Limitation. The suit is sealed and water-tight; with a battle helmet, it will provide protection against most hostile atmospheres, biohazards, and particulate contamination.
  
• Combat Hard Suit: A suit made from rigid carbolam sections. When the gloves are worn, the wearer has the Thick Fingered 2 Limitation, but gets +½ RS to punching Penetration. The suit is sealed and water-tight; with a battle helmet, it will provide protection against most hostile atmospheres, biohazards, and particulate contamination.
  
• Shatterplate Hard Suit: A suit made from rigid shatterplate sections, sacrificing durability for single-hit protection. When the gloves are worn, the wearer has the Thick Fingered 2 Limitation, but gets +½ RS to punching Penetration. The suit is sealed and water-tight; with a battle helmet, it will provide protection against most hostile atmospheres, biohazards, and particulate contamination.
  
• Battle Helmet: A rigid carbolam helmet providing full head protection, with an armored transparent carbolam visor to protect the face. This helmet comes with an integral phone and sensor visor (treat as sensor glasses). The helmet is sealed, and can accept air filters or SCBA feeds.
  

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