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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
  • Classification: Multipurpose
  • Weight: Average
  • Resistances:
    • Energy: High
    • Kinetic: High
    • Lightsabers: Very Low
    • Other
      EMP/Ion: Average
      Electrical: Average
      Sonic: High
      Sonic Wave (Concussive): Average
      Explosive: Average
      Heat/Plasma: Low
      Cold: High
      Cyroban/Carbonite: High
      Radiation: Average
      Acidic/Biological: Low
      Tensor/Tractor: Low
SPECIAL FEATURES
  • Survival. Cold Resistance, Built for people living in hard times, the armor has a lot of Gherlian Fur insulation and padding to help keep the user warm. Synthmesh masks are a cheap way of stopping breathing in toxins, especially the pollution that many of these smaller gangs will come into contact with on a regular basis where they live, a scarf or mask is often sold with the armor for this purpose. The pink Goorlish lighting comes in strips that can be removed, or attached to the armor for low light areas or run-down buildings that the gangs will often operate in. Radiation protection exists too for these often harsher environments but sadly it's spotty given the nature of the armor.

  • Know Your Enemy. Gangs in the Triad wars are not facing Jedi or Sith. They are facing other street gangs, or mercenary hired help. As such this armor is very thick, cheap, but patchy. There are a lot of smaller kill zones for a Jedi with a lightsaber or just a good sniper. Most of the street gangs wearing this though are going to be in fighting in a back alley or in a run-down warehouse, not against highly trained professionals. When their opponent shoots at the chest, legs, arms, for example, they are only hitting durasteel, but thick durasteel often with sheets of armoweave underneath.

  • Targetting. Cheap but well made. The Jericho Hud Package offers target tracking and three spectrum scanning. 500 Meter Zoom. Thermal, Night Vision illumination and regular. Its easy to use and operate but lacks a lot of the more advanced features of expensive HUDs. The 360 degrees sonic Sensor motion tracker is exceptionally useful in spotting ambushes, giving gangs with this an edge. The hud communication is three key encrypted which makes setting up ambushes without being detected easier as well. Sadly a lot of street gangs don't wear a helmet, or recently sold it for a drink, spice, and blaster, so they don't have the hud!

  • Custom Job. You don't get much more patchwork than this armor. Bits are swapped in and out, often a full Numatra Snakehide jacket or arms are part of the design. Street gangs all have their own signs and clothing, or colors. All this means no suit of this armor is the same design even if the designer wanted it to be.
STRENGTHS
  • Unskilled Opponents. Swinging wildly with your lightsaber or shooting randomly may have an effect, but even a single layer of armorweave can take a glancing hit. This is patchy but layered armor. If an enemy panics or isn't well trained they lose their advantage in picking out its weakspots.
  • Patchwork. Customization of the layout between the materials is common, the small-time vendors often selling this are often doing it at the street level and have all kinds of custom jobs or unique designs. The bits of the suit that are armored, are usually double or triple-layered, making things like the breastplate tough for what its made out of.
  • HUD. The Jericho Hud isn't top of the line but it is easy to use and does the job.
WEAKNESSES
  • Patchwork. Rarely is one suit the same as the next. This is patchwork armor for small-time gangs and street punks, if you can aim you can kill people in a single shot, but you have to adjust each to each opponent, as they have likely customized their armor or are missing pieces.
  • Basic HUD. Lacks counters to ECM. Beyond the user's own awareness using sonic sensors, and the three spectrum vision, the HUD has no inbuilt devices to counter more advanced ECM.
  • Flesh and Bone. Lacks any real defense to lightsaber users who can hold their weapon with any kind of competency. The same with fire users, who will set parts of the armor on fire relatively easily let alone the person underneath. Acidic, biological, tensor and tractor weaponry will also find the gaps in the armor easy killing zones.
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DESCRIPTION

Fire For Effect have for decades employed street gangs to test their arsenal, often equipping both sides of a conflict to get a full overview and see if their product is worthwhile. What they found is the gangs love to customize armors to their liking. So they dedicated an entire product line to this end, selling an armor that can be highly personalized as the materials are cheap and commonplace.

Armors and weapons like these are usually dispersed to Fire For Effects street level vendors, who do custom jobs and fittings all the time. Sometimes they look like freakshows, and sometimes works of art. What is common is two gang members standing side by side in completely different looking but practically the same armor. Currently, it is estimated two dozen street gangs are using this armor, if only because it keeps them warm and has a cheap light source.

Realizing this potential success and seeking to make a profit. The armor did inspire the first real makings of Effective Fire, a street gang who have taken to using Fire For Effects products as gangsigns or marks of respect, something the company is happy to encourage. Kitting the gang out with some of their best new equipment, as walking and talking product adverts in the ongoing underworld, triad and gang wars.
 
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