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8
7
14+Body
24/30 days
45,000
3
2-L
The ultimate in personal-armor engineering, hardened armor is designed, manufactured and used almost exclusively for military applications. Each suit offers maximum protection to the entire body, incorporating hard- and soft-armor integration into an ergonomic design that still allows the body to breathe and restricts movement as little as possible. Each suit must be custom-fit to an individual, tailored to her specific body contours and range of motion. The suits also feature an incredible array of technological integration, from intrasuit wiring conduits to surface antenna matrices, making a wide range of built-in accessories and combat electronics available to the user. Each suit also comes in any color or custom camouflage pattern desired (CC 97). - If the base Power of an attack (unmodified by burst or full-auto fire) does not exceed the rating of the armor, the attack is deflected and does no damage. If the attack's Power exceeds the armor rating, the hardened armor reduces the Power by its appropriate rating in the same way as other armor. Against armor-piercing and anti-vehicular munitions (such as APDS ammor or AV rockets), hardened armor counts as half its rating (round down). Dartguns, blowguns and needle attacks used to expose the target to injection-vector compounds (i.e. attacks that have no physical damage code) cannot penetrate hardened armor. - No other armor can be wornj with hardened armor. Wearing a hardened armor suit may affect a character's Combat Pool (SR3 285). Hardened armor may receive a number of integrated options.
Cannon Companion, page 51
