Matt the Radar Tech
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FIRST ORDER ROYAL GUARD ARMOR
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To sub a semi-unique Royal Guard armor
- Image Source: Artstation - Brian Matyas
- Canon Link: Royal Guard, Sovereign Protector
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: The First Order
- Affiliation: First Order Royal Guard
- Market Status: Closed
- Model: RGa-01
- Modularity: Yes; utility belts allow personal weapons, inventory and/or accessory-type equipment
- Production: Semi-Unique
- Material: Betaplast plating, molytex-armorweave composite material, thermal gel padding, biorestorative underlay, ferrocarbon coating, glasteel flash lens visors
- Classification: Personal Armor
- Weight: Average
- Resistances:
- Energy: High
- Kinetic: High
- Lightsabers: High
- Vibro: Average
- Sonic: Average
- EMP/Ion: Average
- Helmet:
- Military HUD (includes Rangefinder, Multi-Frequency target and acquisition system & Multi-Spectral target assessor)
- Enhanced Optics Suite (includes MULTI-enhanced vision system)
- Starlight imaging and EM filter visor settings
- Sonic dampener and Annunciator
- Broadband antenna and Combat sensor
- Sensor mapper and Life-form scanner
- Signal interceptor
- Encrypted communications uplink
- Integrated power supply
- Torso and Back:
- Betaplast plating (with Ferrocarbon coating)
- Molytex-Armorweave combat suit (with Bio-bacta biorestorative underlay)
- Armorweave cloak (with inlaid baffleweave)
- Left Gauntlet:
- Light-Shield (built into gauntlet)
- Right Gauntlet:
- Integrated Datapad (with encryption module)
- Personal weapon slot available
- Legs:
- Waist:
- DFB-200 Utility Belt, secondary Comlink (with encryption module)
- Combat de-ionizer, Blast energy sink, Anti-security blade and Medpacs
- Other:
- Thermal Gel Padding
- Sonic Nullifiers
- Tech Support: An array of helmet data and systems for enhanced battlefield application and capability enhance wearer's combat effectiveness
- Anti-corrosive: The ferrocarbon coating allows the armor to withstand very strong corrosive effects from various sources over a long period of time
- Improved Healing: Having an integrated biorestorative underlay means more immediate applications of bio-bacta to injured areas, offering faster tissue and muscle restoration, when activated
- Sonic Sources: Due to both sonic dampeners and nullifiers, the suit has a good sonic resistance
- Weight Balance: A high balance of armor to mobility has been reached, combining protection with combat agility and speed
- Resistant Not Impervious: Betaplast is an impressive plastoid armor alternative, but it lacks the considerably higher resistance of alloys like impervium or phrik, etc
- High Caliber: The armor is still vulnerable to high caliber slugthrower rounds, such as armor piercing types
- Segmented: Vulnerable to blades in joints of armor and some non-vital areas
- Gel Breakdown: Excessive repeated kinetic damage can result in the bonded thermal gel layer breaking down, and lessens overall resistances
- Bio-Bacta Supply: There is a finite supply of bio-bacta in the suit, meaning excessive injury will deplete it, requiring refill out of combat
- Complex Systems: The helmet systems are vulnerable to strong, consistent EMP and Ion damage, which would disrupt the functionality for several minutes until they could restart
The Royal Guard armor has been specially made for Royal Guardsmen, elite members of the First Order charged with protecting the Supreme Leader. With a focus on vital area plating utilizing betaplast, durable combat suit materials, and HUD systems to assist with sensory input and rapid healing, the Royal Guard armor is well-suited for a range of tasks. While not hermetically sealed, the materials used offer general environment protection, combined with an anti-corrosive coating, as well as anti-sonic damaging components. Due to the limitation of a medium-type armor and its layers, there remains a very average-to-high overall resistance where the armor doesn't standout in any one particular area of resistance.
Due to the importance of mobility in combat, the armor has focused on vital plating to the body in segments, leaving portions not protected by betaplast plating. This allows the guardsmen a balance of protection and agility, suited to their combat needs, even though the lack of armor plating on some locations is not ideal. The offset is that, due to the segmented nature of the plating across the body, the armor itself falls into a weight range comparable to medium armor.
When combined with the thick cloak, which adds additional blaster and vibro resistances, the Sovereign armor provides a good balance of protection for the wearer. Additionally, both gauntlets are housed with accessories, such as a light-shield (left) and integrated datapad (right), with space for a personal weapon on that same gauntlet. There is also an integrated biorestorative underlay in the combat suit, which provides the wearer's body with bio-bacta sources to injured areas for immediate - and increased - field healing. Though, the armor can only contain so much bio-bacta, so liberal use of the liquid is not recommended.
All in all, the Royal Guard armor has been created to provide a multipurpose role for the Guardsmen, affording them protection to perform their wide range of duties and responsibilities, with minimal need for equipment changing or additional items. Finally, the Captain of the Royal Guard wears a black cape variant of the armor.
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