Civilian Armor Database

Ballistic Vest: A lightweight, flexible form of flak armor that can be worn somewhat covertly. While it is still obviously armor when detected, it can be concealed under most light jackets unlike most other armors of this type.
Cloth Armor (Clothing Weave): A lightweight demilitarized version of advanced cloth armor, clothing weave cloth is virtually indistinguishable from regular clothing under most circumstances. Though it isn’t compatible with armor layering like militarized cloth. This armor, because of its milspec protection capabilities, and extremely easy concealment does require a reason for licensure in most jurisdictions,
Cloth Jacket: A form of clothing weave cloth taking the form of a heavy bomber style jacket. It can be worn over many armors, including, uniquely, anti-energy armors. Cloth jackets are easier to detect than regular clothing weave, and can be detected with a Difficult (10+) Investigate or Recon check, or an Average (8+) check if environmental conditions make wearing a heavy jacket unusual.
Cloth Trench Coat: A form of clothing weave cloth taking the form of an ankle length great coat. The cloth trenchcoat can be worn over any standard armor, except the cloth jacket, but nothing can be worn over it. Unlike most other cloth armors, the cloth trench coat is fairly obviously armor and cannot be concealed in most circumstances.
Diplo Vest: A form of clothing weave cloth taking the form of a light shirt or waistcoat, this ultralight armor can be worn under any other standard armor. It is also very easy to conceal being virtually undetectable under most circumstances.
Diplowear: An advanced form of clothing weave cloth armor that is lighter and more protective than standard advanced cloth armor. This armor is difficult to detect, and requires a security license to purchase.
Environment Suit: Intended to bridge the gap between vacc suits and basic air filtration, environment suits provide protection against most actively noncorrosive hazardous atmospheres, including very thin and trace atmospheres (D6 hours) and vacuum (D3x10 minutes) for short circumstances. It also has advanced heat regulation protecting from temperatures between -50 and 50 degrees centigrade and waste collection that allows the suit to be worn for up to a week at a time. A more advanced version of the environment suit exists, that has light ballistic protection.
Exoskeleton: The Exoskeleton is a form of load bearing equipment that enhances the strength and carrying capacity of the wearer. A basic exoskeleton requires some skill with vacc suits, can slightly enhance the general strength of the user, in exchange for reduced dexterity, and triples the wearer’s carrying capacity. It can be worn over light civilian or milspec armor, and it is common for mid-tech militaries to equip soldiers with an exoskeleton over their armor. An advanced exoskeleton is easier to use, enhances the wearer’s strength more significantly with no tradeoff, and is light and compact enough that armor could be worn under or over the exoskeleton. Exoskeletons can be operated for up to 72 hours before needing a recharge, which can be extended with external batteries.
Explosive Ordinance Disposal Suit: The EOD Suit or Bomb Suit is a suit of heavy ballistic armor intended for use by explosive disposal technicians, and provides extreme protection for its tech level, but slows the user down considerably, limiting its utility in everyday use.
Fireproof Suit: A fireproof suit is a suit made of a lightweight, heat resistant material. It is a suit favored by racers, some pilots, and firefighters. It provides no protection against weapons other than lasers however.
Hunter Field Garb: A form of light duty field armor intended for use by game hunters pursuing dangerous prey, hunter field garb provides light protection from damage, but is protective against most earthlike extreme temperatures and its camouflaging abilities make the wearer hard to detect.
Jack: A jacket of leather, hide, or a synthetic equivalent, or alternatively especially tough clothing, jack provides some protection against melee weapons, but is almost useless protecting against firearms.
Mesh: An advanced form of Jack armor, mesh consists of leather woven together with metals, it provides slightly better protection than Jack, though it is still primarily most useful against melee weapons rather than firearms.
Personal Energy Shield: Not so much armor, as a small belt projecting a gravitic shield, the Personal Energy Shield protects against almost every form of weaponry except lasers. It provides up to six hours of protection before needing to be recharged. A skilled wearer can overload the battery to get more Protection by making a Difficult (10+) Electronics (computers) check to recalibrate the device. Success with Effect 0–3 provides Protection +18 but reduces the battery life by one half. Effect 4–5 provides Protection +24 with one half the battery life. Effect 6+ provides Protection +24 with no reduction in battery life. This recalibration must be repeated every time the shield is recharged.
Pressure Sleeve: A lightweight, form fitting garment, typically worn under the uniforms of naval officers, it is designed to protect against low pressure environments. With its hood pulled up, limbs sealed, and paired with a mask it can protect against trace environments for up to fifteen minutes, or hard vacuum for five, buying the wearer critical time to get into a vacc suit or similar protective equipment.
Protec Suit: An intermediary between basic cloth and clothing weave cloth that is available at higher levels, a Protec Suit is a business suit made from layered ballistic cloth. Unlike true clothing weave, Protec Suits are fairly obviously armor, but its styling makes it seem more respectable in polite company.
Protec Formal Wear: Perhaps the ultimate expression of concealable cloth armor, Protec Formal Wear is a fashionable suit or dress made of extremely thin and flexible ballistic cloth. It is extremely convincing looking in its appearance as regular clothing. Even under direct and intense scrutiny it imposes a DM-4 to detect visually or DM-2 with equivalent TL or better sensors. Protec Formal Wear can be made more bespoke than usual, costing up to one hundred times more for increasing levels of luxury. The most expensive forms of this armor are very eye-catching, even if it is virtually impossible to tell if it is armor.
Scavenged Armor: Scavenged armor was an extremely common form of armor following the Great Cataclysm. Pieced together from metal plates, bits of tough synthetics, leather or rubber, and the remains of more advanced armors, scavenged armor provides a modicum of protection being roughly equivalent to a mid-tech flak vest.
Shipsuit, Basic: A compromise between a ship’s uniform and a light duty vacc suit, a basic Shipsuit can be worn as clothing and under most forms of armor. It has waste collectors that allow the shipsuit to be worn for up to a week before it needs to be replaced. Shipsuits have boot and glove seals, and a deployable soft helmet that provides protection against noncorrosive atmospheres for up to thirty minutes. It can be hooked up to external life support to increase this time. The basic shipsuit has a radio transceiver built into the collar with a 500 kilometer range.
Skinsuit: A skinsuit is a highly advanced form of environment suit that is sometimes worn as a fashion statement in certain communities. It is an extremely tight fitting pressure suit that provides protections against most earthlike conditions, and can automatically deploy sealed gloves, boots, and a helmet to protect against most atmospheric conditions. It has waste collection and water recycling systems and its automatically repaired and cleaned by nanomachines built into the suit. It’s surface is coated in polychromatic materials that allow the suit to change color. It is powered by body heat and motion and can run almost indefinitely under most circumstances.

E3 Suit: Extreme Environment Exploration (E3) Suits are designed for extremely hazardous environments, in oceans, or under extreme gravity. Instead of being worn like traditional armor, it is essentially a mini-mech with waldo controls. It can be operated in up to 5Gs of gravity without issue, and provides complete protection from all temperatures from just above absolute zero to 1400 degrees Kelvin. It can be worn in corrosive atmospheres, and insidious atmospheres, losing a point of protection per hour until destroyed at 0. When exposed to insidious atmospheres, the E3 suit must be repaired at 10% of the cost of the suit. E3 suits can be worn in up to 10,000 meters depth of water under earthlike atmospheric and gravity conditions. The suit has an eight hour charge which can perhaps be extended to sixteen or twenty four hours with light use or under benign conditions. When out of charge the suit’s weight does not support itself, and the waldos become inoperable. The suit enhances the strength of the user, but reduces dexterity.
Emergency Vacc Suit: Emergency Vacc Suits are disposable suits included in emergency kits on most ships serving in civilized space. There are two kinds of emergency vacc suits, softsuits and hostile environment suits. Softsuits are made of a soft material that protects against noncorrosive hostile environments and vacuum only. Emergency HEV suits are carried by starships to allow engineering crew to make emergency repairs under unusual conditions. It protects against any hostile environment for up to eight hours after which there is a 1 in 6 chance of the suit failing. The suit can be refurbished for Cr6000 but each refurbishment inflicts DM-1 to the chance of failure after the ‘safe’ time and reduces possible failure time by one hour. Once the failure chance has reached four in six, the suit is too degraded to be of use. An electronics suite is not included but there is an integral six-hour life support system. Emergency suits provide up to four hours of life support, but can be hooked up to shipboard life support systems if required. Emergency suits do not have a vacc suit electronics suite.
HEV Suit: Hostile Environment (or HEV) Suits are designed for use in most environments that are too hostile for a regular vacc suit. It provides protection against most environments including corrosive environments, though insidious environments will cause the suit to fail eventually. It also provides protection against radiation, basic submarine functionality, and is rated for a dive depth of up to 600 meters in earthlike gravitic conditions and atmospheric pressure. It enhances the strength of the wear at the cost of reduced dexterity.
Montovaya: See Montovaya article for more details.
Parditech Vacc Shield: A Parditech vacc shield is a specialized form of personal energy shield recently developed in the Pardian Frontier. The Parditech Vacc shield takes the form of a lightweight belt that projects a shield against dangerous atmospheres and recycles the air within the bubble. The Parditech Vacc Shield protects against all atmospheric conditions for up to six hours, but cannot protect against extremes of gravity, nor will it work underwater.
Rescue Suit: A resilient heavy duty vacc suit, the Rescue Suit is well armored and has spare oxygen tanks and a specialized vacc emergency kit with the radar bubble replaced with a rescue bubble. Some Rescue suits are sold as boarding suits to mercenary groups that cannot secure permission or the funds to acquire proper boarding vacc suits or combat armor.
Vacc Suit: The basic vacc suit used galaxywide. Vacc suits protect against most environments and radiation. They also possess a reasonable amount of armor thanks to the thick heavily resistant materials used in their construction. The most primitive forms of vacc suits are extremely heavy and unwieldy, though more advanced suits become increasingly lightweight.