Errant-series Armored Vest

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Cheap, quick to mass produce, and easy to replace, the Errant-series of armor is step up in terms of quality compared to P.P.E's old Knight-series but remains true to the principals that guided of its predecessor. Effective at stopping blaster weapons across the galaxy, the Errant incorporates lessons learned in the production of other armor series', making use of the overlapping discs utilized in Victory armor, and many of the basic design philosophies that went into the Rivet-series. On the fact of it, the armor is incredibly simple. And really it is, it can be patched up by just about anyone with a good armor repair kit, and it isn't going to shatter any records in terms of stopping bolts, or come with all the fancy features of full body armor suits.

One feature the armor does have however, that's often a nasty surprise is a robust electronic lock breaker, as it didn't take a lot of field research for P.P.E designers to come to the conclusion that the only thing that sucked worse than getting shot by a blaster, was being stuck in a locked room, and then shot repeatedly by a blaster.

Errant armor is available to anyone on the open market, as it is mass produced, and licensed to many other entities for further production as well, ensuring that keeping control, or restricting, the utilization of the armor is next to impossible.
Affiliation
Hutt Cartel | Independent

Ownership
Free for open usage by anyone, and any NPC

Intent
The intention is to replace Cassanova's extremely popular Knight-series Body Armour which sadly poofed when blog entries vanished. This armor is not merely a copypasta of that however, and has been upgraded in several areas to make it more deserving of an actual tech profile. Still the intent is largely a cheap, mass producible, and widely available body armor so it might not have all the bells and whistles of a full body armor writeup. It's very much on the generic side of things however, and I apologize to Clayton if I'm just wasting his time with this.

Model
Errant-series Body Armor

Weight
6 kg

Composition
The vest is primarily composed of two layers; outer and disc.

The outer layer of the vest is composed of basic fabrics, quantum fiber, and small strips of Duraplas on the inner side.

The disc layer of the vest is similar to that of the Victory armor, featuring overlapping discs suspended in a shear thickening fluid to allow for maximum protection, and flexibility. The discs themselves are made of Hadrium, and Durasteel

Rating
Errant armor is primarily intended to be effective at stopping blaster based weapons, though it would perhaps be effective against the effects of not dissimilar energy weapons such as masers based ones as well. The plates are designed to effectively stop any light/holdout blaster pistol fire, and can for all intents and purposes shrug off fire of this nature, unless it's at close range, and the holdout blaster empties an entire energy pack into the vest, in which case it will fail.

Against heavy blaster pistols (or carbines and rifles with a similar power) it's also somewhat effective. In very close quarters, three or four shots from an average blaster will pierce a single disc. At closer ranges (such those fighting in the interior of a YT-1300) they will pierce after one or two shots.

Errant armor is effective at stopping two or three shots from an average strength blaster rifle at range, but will effectively be pierced after a stopping a single shot at ranges similar to those described above.

Errant armor is ineffective against repeating, or dedicated sniper blaster rifles at all ranges.

The armor is effective at stopping piercing/stabbing melee weapons such as vibroknife's, and other small bladed weapons. It can likewise be effective against smaller slashing weapons, but against anything such as a sword, or larger it can be cut through with ease.

Errant armor offers no other protection aside from what's described above.

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Looks good, Zappleman.
 

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The protective qualities seem awfully well enhanced over the base model. I feel like a lot of even the heavier armors here tend to describe taking only marginally more damage than this vest does before failing.

That said, I do love this item overall, as I did the original.
 

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The protective qualities seem awfully well enhanced over the base model. I feel like a lot of even the heavier armors here tend to describe taking only marginally more damage than this vest does before failing.

That said, I do love this item overall, as I did the original.
Yeah the properties were generally enhanced so it was less generic, and made to take more of a beating to counter that it's only a vest, and so not covering bas much as the usual heavy armor. Good enough so there's incentive to use it, but I can take it down a few notches, no problem.
 

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I was wondering if a Knight-Series replacement was going to appear. Good work, Zapp!
 

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Yeah the properties were generally enhanced so it was less generic, and made to take more of a beating to counter that it's only a vest, and so not covering bas much as the usual heavy armor. Good enough so there's incentive to use it, but I can take it down a few notches, no problem.

Yeah, tone down the blaster resistances a little bit, please. A robust vest is nice, but this is a little too robust.

Also, "It can likewise be effective against smaller slashing weapons, but against anything such as a sword, or larger." I think the forum ate some of your sentence.
 

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Yeah, tone down the blaster resistances a little bit, please. A robust vest is nice, but this is a little too robust.

Also, "It can likewise be effective against smaller slashing weapons, but against anything such as a sword, or larger." I think the forum ate some of your sentence.
Fix'd.

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Good, 'cause I need one... for reasons...
 
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