Chee Jela Armor

[Kuroshi]

Chee Jela Armor​

Chee Jela armor is the armor used by the Nav'ir military force, appropriately named Chee Jela. The armor is made from light grey Armorweave, Duraplast, Duralium Alloy and a limited amount of Phrik in the vambraces. The armor is designed for melee fighters, and as such cannot handle heavy weapons or explosives. There is some blaster protection in addition to melee weapon protection, with Phrik lined bracers to offer at least some coverage against energy weapons and prevent a user to instantly lose their hands in a fight against a force user. The actual armoring would be found in the black Duraplast and Duralium alloy sections of the armor on the main body, with the cloth and armorweave components being too weak to do much more than resist a regular sharpened blade cutting through it immediately. Similarly the mask doesn't offer much of any protection past what a duraplast mask would usually give.

Because of the armor being made specifically for Dom-Bradden's armed forces the only size range would accommodate humanoids between six to seven feet tall, and for someone to have one that isn't a Nav'ir or someone that stole it from a Nav'ir is incredibly rare if not impossible. Similar to how a Nav'ir keeps their sword after leaving military service, their armor is gifted to the wearer if they survive their five year military draft.​

Stats

Type: Medium Armor.
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Heavy Blasters: None
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Blasters: Two
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Vibroblades: Two
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Lightsabers: Glancing blows on both bracers
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Explosives: shrapnel resistance​

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Functions​

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Function 1: Grappling Wire Bracer

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  • For the purposes of scaling buildings, walls, etc. while in the middle of a mission while trying to remain at least somewhat stealthy, either the right or left bracer comes equipped with a DGL that can easily be deployed and retracted in order to help the movement of a soldier. Which arm this grappling device goes on is usually up to the wearer's preference, but mainly goes to their off-hand as to not be in the way while they are trying to use a sword.

Function 2: Electric Wave Amplifier

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  • Due to the Nav'ir predominantly communicating through bioelectric waveform in order to escape detection on missions and maintain the element of surprise, this suit of armor has a built in amp that can be used when sending out electric waves. Rather than the standard three meters a Nav'ir can usually send out messages, the machine gives them an extra meter of non-verbal communication.

Function 3: What Function? Auditory Frequency Modulator

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  • Inside the headpiece of the armor is an AFM, primarily there to do what an auditory modulator would do, control incoming sound heard by the wearer. This is used to protect ears from things like explosions, flashbangs, and the like while also giving the option to slightly enhance the picked up audio for use in reconnaissance and stealth missions.

 

[Clayton]

What parts of the body is covered by armor? Is it the...matte darker blue?

 

[Kuroshi]

The darker non-cloth black parts would be the actual armor, with the light grey being the armorweave and the hood just being a hood made of misc. material.

 

[Loco]

The darker non-cloth black parts would be the actual armor, with the light grey being the armorweave and the hood just being a hood made of misc. material.

Light/Medium/Heavy refers to coverage, and the coverage shown looks more like Heavy armor.

 

[Kuroshi]

Light/Medium/Heavy refers to coverage, and the coverage shown looks more like Heavy armor.

Would there be any other reasoning for the change from medium to heavy outside of the appearance? Not to argue the change, which I'll do if needed, but if it would be counted as heavy armor based purely on the amount of coverage rather than a mix of coverage, rating and materials I'm a bit confused by some of the other medium armors currently approved. With the current reference image the armor would have about the same physical coverage as the Redoubt or Jedi's modular armors if not a bit less, and only slightly more coverage than something like the Vagabond armor's image by having armor plating past the middle of the torso.

Edit: Looking at the actual tech rules there's a baseline for light/medium/heavy vs. coverage, which kind of fixes the confusion on my part as to why the physical coverage might make it look like heavy armor to a certain extent. Exclusively the actual black armor plating would make up the rating, while things like the mask and any fabric like say for the gloves or even the armorweave body wouldn't. The armorweave is just there as a sturdy fabric that can't reliably protect against much past showing resistance to a regular old knife or something to that same effect instantly cutting through it due to it's relative need to be mass produced for an army. I should have clarified that in the post to begin with, and can if you'd want me to.

 

[Loco]

Materials and composition is much less important now than defensive rating and coverage. I hate seeing long, complicated descriptions of the half dozen layers of ceramic and duracell alloys and orthopedic gel layers that make up an armor plate, because it doesn't really matter- I only care that it's good for 2 blaster hits and it covers the elbow. Focus on those points. Heavy vs Medium is a judgement call based on how much protective coverage you have.

If you clarify that in the description, this will be easier to judge than just going off the picture.

 

[Kuroshi]

Materials and composition is much less important now than defensive rating and coverage. I hate seeing long, complicated descriptions of the half dozen layers of ceramic and duracell alloys and orthopedic gel layers that make up an armor plate, because it doesn't really matter- I only care that it's good for 2 blaster hits and it covers the elbow. Focus on those points. Heavy vs Medium is a judgement call based on how much protective coverage you have.

If you clarify that in the description, this will be easier to judge than just going off the picture.

Edited the description to clarify the actual pieces of the armor being the black metals shown in the reference image while the rest offers little physical protection.

 

[Loco]

Approved.

Be free, little fish people.