Difference between revisions of "Ablat Personal Armor"
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Revision as of 22:33, 3 September 2017
| Ablat | |
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| Type | Protective gear |
| Tech Level | TL–9 |
| Cost | Cr75 |
| Size | 4.5l |
| Weight | 2.0 kg |
Ablat is a cheap alternative to reflec fashioned from a material which will ablate (vaporize) when hit by laser fire. The ablation of the material carries away the energy of the laser and protects the wearer. Continued fire against ablat degrades its effectiveness, but the armor is cheap and easily replaceable. Ablat also has some value against other forms of attack.
Ablative armor has been known since pre-spacefaring days. With the advent of increasingly effective energy weapons, ablative armor came into wider use and increasingly more effective ablative armors were developed.
This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.
- Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 41.Marc Miller, Robert Eaglestone, Don McKinney. Characters and Combat (Far Future Enterprises, 2019), 41.
- Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 74.