Infantry Armor
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This is a "Stub", or a short article with little useful information. Any editor with more information about this subject is invited to help improve it.
This page is a collection point for several related items, protective equipment worn by humans going into combat without the protection of a ship or an armored vehicle. If we ever learn enough about any particular item to have more than 2 or 3 paragraphs, then that item should get its own page. Otherwise, it's faster for a 'researcher' to find everything known right here.
Confederacy Marine Corps
The Confederacy Marines wore a wide assortment of different armor designs for different purposes and at different stages of the war. One consideration was mass and volume; most small craft used to carry Marines between their ship and their landing point had their capacity listed in several ways, depending upon what the Marines were wearing. For instance, Ocelot mentions capacity as
- 12 Marines in "AS-23 Powered Armor"
- 18 Marines in "Standard Kusari Armor"
Ergo, if armor is critical, you put them in powered armor and only bring 12 Marines per load. If numbers are more important, though, you put them in Kusari and take 18 Marines.
AS-23 Powered Armor
(We know NOTHING about this beside the single mention in Ocelot
Kusari Body Armor
Kusari Body Armor is a lightweight concealable body armor worn under clothing, designed to withstand high-powered assault rifle rounds. Created in response to injuries suffered by Marines during extractions the armor was named after medieval Japanese samurai armor. The armor is available in year five. The primary function is to prevent penetrative attacks ranging from bladed weapons to projectile weapons fire. Individuals and organize groups who attempt to prevent or impede extractions very rarely attack the augmented Marines using blunt force. The armor will reduce thirty percent of a blunt force attack. Unless the attacker is highly trained in hand-to-hand combat the Marines' augmented body will shrug the effects of such attacks away.
The tightly interlinked chain mail and the overlapping scales are created using a nanotube ceramic. A long sleeve upper torso piece weighs between four and seven pounds depending upon the build of its wearer, the leggings are held in place using a simple suspender design, the leggings weighs between three point five and six pounds. The nanotube scales effectively make seventy percent of his body able to withstand an AK47 round.
Shipboard crew usually wore their standard "skinsuit" or "ship-suit" whenever their ship was not docked and secured. However, more protective versions were available if crew had to board a hostile ship or land a shore party on a hostile planet.
CMC transports usually had CN or FA crews. On these ships, the medical department usually contributed a team to land with the Marines to deal with casualties. Since neither area-effect weapons nor the Sa'arm themselves cared whether the medics were Marines or not, these "Medical Go Teams" generally were trained in and wore whatever armor suits the Marines themselves were wearing.
Planetary Militia
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