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Some civilizations solve their technological problems biologically.  They genetically engineer as easily as others construct with plastic and steel.  They grow and do not manufacture.  Their products are all of organic origin and frequently alive.  They use the same technological level to determine what is available to their sciences.  They obtain products that solve the same problems in a different way.  Their armor and protective systems are an excellent example of how this same but different approach works. The armor is usually custom grown to fit an individual's requirements, and identical 'off the rack' suits are rare.  The client selects from a menu of options and a suit colony is assembled and fitted to the customer.  The armor is symbiotic and becomes attuned to its individual master.  Frequently the armor will not respond to another wearer making theft impractical.  All the basic armors jack, mesh, cloth, reflect, ablat and flak jackets can be obtained in standard batch grown inert organic models.  They function identically to manufactured versions and offer the same protection at the same price in the books.  The more complex armors equivalent to combat armor, battle dress and combat environmental suits are usually more unique.  There is usually a small delay for final fitting and adjustments as the armor adapts to its new master.  The living suits are available in a very wide variety of versions with many strange options not available in manufactured suits.  Biotech, Bio-weapons, and Bio-armor skills maybe necessary to design, build, maintain, and properly utilize this equipment.
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[[Bio-armor]] is a bio-technological set of personal armor, roughly equivalent to un-powered [[combat armor]].  
  
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Some [[civilization]]s solve their technological problems biologically. They genetically engineer as easily as others construct with plastic and steel. They grow and do not manufacture. Their products are all of organic origin and frequently alive.  They use the same technological level to determine what is available to their sciences. They obtain products that solve the same problems in a different way. 
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Armor and protective systems are an excellent example of how this same but different approach works. The armor is usually custom grown to fit an individual's requirements, and identical 'off the rack' suits are rare. The client selects from a menu of options and a suit colony is assembled and fitted to the customer. The armor is symbiotic and becomes attuned to its individual master. Frequently the armor will not respond to another wearer making theft impractical. 
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The more complex armors equivalent to combat armor, battle dress and combat environmental suits are usually more unique. There is usually a small delay for final fitting and adjustments as the armor adapts to its new master. The living suits are available in a very wide variety of versions with many strange options not available in manufactured suits. Biotech, Bio-weapons, and Bio-armor skills maybe necessary to design, build, maintain, and properly utilize this equipment.
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=== Model 1 Combat environment suit ===
 
{{InfoboxGoods
 
{{InfoboxGoods
 
  |name=Model 1 Combat Environment Bio-armor
 
  |name=Model 1 Combat Environment Bio-armor
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  |Type=Protective gear
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  |Type=Powered Armor
 
  |TL=10
 
  |TL=10
 
  |size=3l
 
  |size=3l
 
  |weight=10kg
 
  |weight=10kg
 
  |cost=Cr10,000
 
  |cost=Cr10,000
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|footnote=
 
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">'''Model 1. TL: A Type: CES''' Vol.: 3L Mass: 10 kg Encumbrance: 2kg (Nerve and Exo-muscular compensation) Price: Cr 10,000 Duration: indefinite with sun, food and water.  Heterotrophic by preference will go autotrophic (chemosynthetic of photosynthetic) if conditions warrant.  Optimized to live off user's wastes-heat, motion (mechanical energy), sweat, liquid and solid metabolic wastes (can last 30 days without food, 10 days w/o water on its own) Operating Noise: Silent Armor: 6
 
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><u>Description</u>: A pliable armored full body suit. This typically black polycarbon ooze masses 10kg and is alive. It is a complex organic soup of carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids, and it is green when absorbing solar energy. It will operate in temperatures from -150&deg; to 500&deg; C and up to 100 atmospheres pressure. If exposed to more than 5 minutes of hard vacuum the suit and probably its occupant will expire. It is typically stored in a long narrow cylinder in a nutrient medium in a state of hibernation. These organism can move and flow. They are not typically put on as much as they climb on for themselves. They can be bred to respond to a variety of somatic, verbal, mental or chemical signals and commands. The suit can function and adapt to great environmental extremes and protect its user from the same. It aids in survival in desert , arctic, aquatic environments and exotic climates. The suit conforms to an environmentally secure head-to-toe bodysuits of an extremely flexible but resilient armored hide. Any portion of the body can be covered or not at will. The user can still using the suits senses (human equivalent unless augmented) if the "hood is up."  The suit can soak up and store up to 10kg in additional food and/or water for the user in whatever desired combination.  It can provide nutrients and water recycled and purified from wastes.  It recovers water like a filtration/distillation unit.  Offers complete protection against most NBC agents when completely sealed up.  Self seals ruptures.  Thermal insulation and absorption eliminates signature.  Psi shield, Color and thermal Chameleon option at tech C.  The mutability of the suit allows it to be trained with a memory form.  The ooze can harden part of the covering into a specified form.  Any bio-weapon/bio-armor skill allows alterations of the programmed form.  Any melee' weapons that the user is skilled in or wants can be extruded from any desired surface of the suit.  These shapes are still part of the suit and cannot be permanently removed from the suit w/o damaging it. The suit organism can take 20 hits before it dies.  The armor value 6 acts as the suit's level of invulnerability.  The suit only takes damage if the hit inflicted more than 6 points of damage and penetrated level 6 armor.  The user can share damage w/suit to save the suit or himself.  The user regenerates at twice the normal healing rate while wearing the suit, 2 points to user or suit/day or they can each get one point.  The suit can lend the user hits in a last gasp struggle and to prevent bleeding to death or going into shock.  It acts as built-in bio-monitor/medical kit.  To kill both the suit and the user the hits of both are added together.  The user can also use the suit to augment the user's stats.  Instead of the unlimited endurance and double strength of tech D battledress, up to 6 points can be added to the user's physical stats.  This ability is a-kin to psionic awareness combined with natural combat drugs.  The suits acts as a redundant set of enhanced nerves, muscles and exoskeleton.  One stat can go up by 6 or strength, dex and endurance could all go up by 2 each or any combination desired totaling 6 points.  The adrenal, neural, muscular enhancement lasts for any desired length of crises time up to a total of two hours straight before suit fatigue.  Once all the 2 hour reserve of boost time is exhausted it is available again after 10 hours of uninterrupted "rest."  If any boost is used but the full two hours isn't used up, the suit resets and recovers after 8 hours.  The way the enhancement is apportioned can only be changed after the rest period and prior to the next boost.  Intelligence and education can also be  enhanced if an NAC is installed and not used for skills.
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: Mass: 10 kg
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: Encumbrance: 2kg (Nerve and Exo-muscular compensation)
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: Price: Cr 10,000 Duration: indefinite with sun, food and water.  Heterotrophic by preference will go autotrophic (chemosynthetic or photosynthetic) if conditions warrant.  Optimized to live off user's wastes-heat, motion (mechanical energy), sweat, liquid and solid metabolic wastes (can last 30 days without food, 10 days w/o water on its own)
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: Operating Noise: Silent
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A pliable armored full body suit. This typically black polycarbon ooze masses 10kg and is alive. It is a complex organic soup of carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids, and it is green when absorbing solar energy. It will operate in temperatures from -150&deg; to 500&deg; C and up to 100 atmospheres pressure. If exposed to more than 5 minutes of hard vacuum the suit and probably its occupant will expire.  
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It is typically stored in a long narrow cylinder in a nutrient medium in a state of hibernation. These organism can move and flow. They are not typically put on as much as they climb on for themselves. They can be bred to respond to a variety of somatic, verbal, mental or chemical signals and commands. The suit can function and adapt to great environmental extremes and protect its user from the same.  
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It aids in survival in desert, arctic, aquatic environments and exotic climates. The suit conforms to an environmentally secure head-to-toe bodysuit of an extremely flexible but resilient armored hide. Any portion of the body can be covered or not at will. The user can still use the suit's senses (human equivalent unless augmented) if the "hood is up."   
  
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The suit can soak up and store up to 10kg in additional food and/or water for the user in whatever desired combination. It can provide nutrients and water recycled and purified from wastes. It recovers water like a filtration/distillation unit. Offers complete protection against most NBC agents when completely sealed up. Self seals ruptures. Thermal insulation and absorption eliminates signature. Psi shield, Color and thermal Chameleon option at {{TL|12}}. The mutability of the suit allows it to be trained with a memory form. 
  
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The ooze can harden part of the covering into a specified form. Any bio-weapon/bio-armor skill allows alterations of the programmed form. Any melee weapons that the user is skilled in or wants can be extruded from any desired surface of the suit. These shapes are still part of the suit and cannot be permanently removed from the suit w/o damaging it.
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Use of a NAC, an optional extra, can be used to further enhance the user's abilities
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=== Model 2 combat armor ===
 
{{InfoboxGoods
 
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  |name=Model 2 combat bio-armor
 
  |name=Model 2 combat bio-armor
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  |Type=Protective gear
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  |Type=Powered Armor
 
  |TL=12
 
  |TL=12
 
  |weight=20kg
 
  |weight=20kg
 
  |size=6l
 
  |size=6l
 
  |cost=Cr120,000
 
  |cost=Cr120,000
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">'''Model 2. TL: B Type: Combat Armor''' Vol.: 6L Mass: 20 kg Encumbrance:  2kg (Nerve and Exo-muscular compensation) Price: Cr 120,000 Duration: indefinite with sun, food and water. Heterotrophic by preference will go autotrophic (chemosynthetic of photosynthetic) if conditions warrant. Optimized to live off user's wastes-heat, motion mechanical energy), sweat, liquid and solid metabolic wastes (can last 30 days without food, 10 days w/o water on its own)Operating Noise: Silent Armor: 8 and 45 hits. 
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: Vol.: 6L  
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: Mass: 20 kg  
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: Encumbrance:  2kg (Nerve and Exo-muscular compensation)  
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: Price: Cr 120,000  
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: Duration: indefinite with sun, food and water. Heterotrophic by preference will go autotrophic (chemosynthetic of photosynthetic) if conditions warrant. Optimized to live off user's wastes-heat, motion mechanical energy), sweat, liquid and solid metabolic wastes (can last 30 days without food, 10 days w/o water on its own)
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: Operating Noise: Silent  
  
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><u>Description</u>:  The armor is an isotropic polycarbon fiber matrix bonded with organic iron polymers and cemented with calcium carbonate ceramics which are in turn held chemically inert by coatings of regenerative (i.e. molting) chitinous longchain polysaccharides. To accomplish the levels of user protection and augmentation this organism is capable of, an invasive neuromuscular interface is needed. This suit is not a free ooze. The suit assembles itself and actively assists the user in donning it. The interfaces mate and the symbiote is ready for action in two rounds (30 seconds).  When hibernating the suit looks like a 10cm tall squat cylindrical bundle with a silver hemispherical disc on top (the prime neural interface and NAC).  A two point NAC is integral to the suit, expansions of up to 6 points are possible.  The default skills are bioarmor-1 and survival-1.  Other skills can be specified at time of purchase.  The suit and/or user heals 5 points/day.  18 points of physical stat augmentation available.  The suit's energy storage potential is high enough to power weapons and an arsenal is usually selected at the time of purchase.  Changes are possible, if expensive and time consuming.  
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The armor is fan isotropic polycarbon fiber matrix bonded with organic iron polymers and cemented with calcium carbonate ceramics which are in turn held chemically inert by coatings of regenerative (i.e. molting) chitinous longchain polysaccharides. To accomplish the levels of user protection and augmentation this organism is capable of, an invasive neuromuscular interface is needed. This suit is not a free ooze. The suit assembles itself and actively assists the user in donning it. The interfaces mate and the symbiote is ready for action in 30 seconds.  
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The suit comes with a NAC as standard equipment, and can be enhanced further as an option.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">EVA Thruster pack: water and/or compressed gas resisto-jets for zero-G maneuvering. Full vacuum options with rigid suit only. Full climate control, Full waste reclamation, Any grafted weapon Grafts and biological enhancements:
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When hibernating the suit looks like a 10cm tall squat cylindrical bundle with a silver hemispherical disc on top (the prime neural interface and NAC).  
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Neurological Activity Controller: or NAC is and RNA enhanced memory cell bundle implanted or interfaced with the users central nervous system.  These options can influence the users perceptions, thoughts, knowledge, emotions, and/or body movement.  The memories and information stored in these nodes allow the user to perform as though he has mastered skills and capabilities which he has not.  NAC nodes can vary in capacity and can be grown for a fixed task or be re-trainable with the corresponding costs.  .01kg mass up to +6 bonus to intelligence, education or both if total bonus doesn't exceed 6. Instead of general stat bonuses up to 6 points of skills can be stored; no one skill at more than level 3 ability.  50,000 Cr/point of stat or skill and double if reprogrammable.  One gigabyte of raw data can be stored /point if the appropriate computer/neural interface can be found.  Bonuses to mental stats and skills in combinations totaling no more than 6 points are possible in human brains.  For tasks the user may not add a stored skill to a naturally learned skill, it is one or the other but not both at the same time. Remote Sensory data transmission and brainwave transmission options are possible.  Real-time transmission of all sensory input to another node.  Nodes may be designated transmitters, transceivers, or receivers.  The full brainwave option transmits all neural activity: sensory impressions, thoughts, and emotions.
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The suit's energy storage potential is high enough to power weapons and an arsenal is usually selected at the time of purchase. Changes are possible, if expensive and time consuming.  
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">A. Senses:
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=== Neurological Activity Controller ===
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The Neurological Activity Controller (NAC) is an  RNA enhanced memory cell bundle implanted or interfaced with the users central nervous system. These options can influence the users perceptions, thoughts, knowledge, emotions, and/or body movement. The memories and information stored in these nodes allow the user to perform as though he has mastered skills and capabilities which he has not.
  
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Visual/Sight= Image enhancement, Thermal, Passive IR, LI, Micro, Macro, EM Spectral Range, Antiglare, Targeting=telescopic, electronic battlefield  scope equivalent.
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NAC nodes can vary in capacity and can be grown for a fixed task or be re-trainable with the corresponding costs. .01kg mass.  
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Auditory/Hearing= Directional, Amplified, Sound-Edit-Out, Hi/Lo Sonic Range.
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For tasks the user may not add a stored skill to a naturally learned skill, it is one or the other but not both at the same time. Remote Sensory data transmission and brainwave transmission options are possible. Real-time transmission of all sensory input to another node. Nodes may be designated transmitters, transceivers, or receivers. The full brainwave option transmits all neural activity: sensory impressions, thoughts, and emotions.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Gustatory/Taste= Enhanced sensor processor for detection and identification of substances by taste.
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==== Sense enhancements ====
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;Visual/Sight
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:Image enhancement, Thermal, Passive IR, LI, Micro, Macro, EM Spectral Range, Antiglare, Targeting=telescopic, electronic battlefield  scope equivalent. 
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;Auditory/Hearing
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:Directional, Amplified, Sound-Edit-Out, Hi/Lo Sonic Range.
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;Gustatory/Taste
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:Enhanced sensor processor for detection and identification of substances by taste.
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:Tracking, reduced or enhanced sensitivity to volatile airborne; chemical substances.  "Sniffer" bio-scanner, life detector.  Processor/analyzer: sniff bombs, drugs, mines, people etc.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Olfactory/Smell= Tracking, reduced or enhanced sensitivity to volatile airborne; chemical substances. "Sniffer" bio-scanner, life detector. Processor/analyzer: sniff bombs, drugs, mines, people etc.
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:Bio-sonar, Bio-radar, Vocal range modulator, emulator, amplifier,
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;Pain-blockers
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: A specialized synaptic inhibitor device which obstructs the flow of pain signals to the brain. Gravity adjust rig, Balance rig (dex bonuses)
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; New glands and organs
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: These monitor and/or dispense some specific drug or hormone or other bioactive chemical into the body. Nerve booster, adrenal booster. Grafted strength enhancements. Blood loss healer, ingested chemical bypass, arterial chemical by-pass toxin binders, gametic filtering, filtered compressed oxygen extractor, gills
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;Tools and weapons
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: Any implanted, grafted tool or bladed weapon equivalent. Mega knuckles, razor nails, wrist razors, detachable symbiotic slave beasts used as scouts or weapons stored in body; mouth, chest, hands etc. pouch, homing instinct, photosynthesis coating-food, current, energy storage, light generator cold luminol or flash bulb, organic laser, fangs, claws, horns, hooves, stinger, thrasher, taser electro shocker, organic battery, poisons/toxins, adhesives, silk, cables, climbing, digging/burrowing, tail, hydraulic, pneumatic projectiles, extra limbs, wings, fins, entangler/net, webbing, spines, spikes, secretions-hormones, viral agents, acids, gas projector tear, tranq/knock-out.  
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=== Additional enhancements ===
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; EVA Thruster pack
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: A water and/or compressed gas resisto-jets for zero-G maneuvering. Full vacuum options with rigid suit only. Full climate control, Full waste reclamation, Any grafted weapon Grafts and biological enhancements:
  
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Pain-blockersare specialized synaptic inhibitor device which obstructs the flow of pain signals to the brain. Gravity adjust rig, Balance rig (dex bonuses)
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| Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect [[User:Ronald B. Kline, Jr.|Ronald B. Kline, Jr.]] of the [[Imperial Navy]]
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Tools and weapons= Any implanted, grafted tool or bladed weapon equivalent.mega knuckles, razor nails, wrist razors , detachable symbiotic slave beasts used as scouts or weapons stored in body;  mouth, chest, hands etc. pouch, homing instinct, photosynthesis coating-food, current, energy storage, light generator cold luminol or flash bulb, organic laser, fangs, claws, horns, hooves, stinger, thrasher, taser electro shocker, organic battery, poisons/toxins, adhesives, silk, cables, climbing, digging/burrowing, tail, hydraulic, pneumatic projectiles, extra limbs, wings, fins, entangler/net, webbing, spines, spikes, secretions-hormones, viral agents, acids, gas projector tear,  tranq/knock-out.
 
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Digestion= Tailored metabolism, ingested chemical bypass, increased efficacy. Respiration: Filtered, compressed, oxygen extractor, gills, air storage, inhaled chemical by-pass, bonus to endurance.
 
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Latest revision as of 18:32, 27 February 2024

Bio-armor is a bio-technological set of personal armor, roughly equivalent to un-powered combat armor.

Some civilizations solve their technological problems biologically. They genetically engineer as easily as others construct with plastic and steel. They grow and do not manufacture. Their products are all of organic origin and frequently alive. They use the same technological level to determine what is available to their sciences. They obtain products that solve the same problems in a different way.

Armor and protective systems are an excellent example of how this same but different approach works. The armor is usually custom grown to fit an individual's requirements, and identical 'off the rack' suits are rare. The client selects from a menu of options and a suit colony is assembled and fitted to the customer. The armor is symbiotic and becomes attuned to its individual master. Frequently the armor will not respond to another wearer making theft impractical.

The more complex armors equivalent to combat armor, battle dress and combat environmental suits are usually more unique. There is usually a small delay for final fitting and adjustments as the armor adapts to its new master. The living suits are available in a very wide variety of versions with many strange options not available in manufactured suits. Biotech, Bio-weapons, and Bio-armor skills maybe necessary to design, build, maintain, and properly utilize this equipment.

Model 1 Combat environment suit[edit]

Model 1 Combat Environment Bio-armor
Type Powered Armor
Tech Level TL–10
Cost Cr10,000
Size 3l
Weight 10kg


Vol.: 3L
Mass: 10 kg
Encumbrance: 2kg (Nerve and Exo-muscular compensation)
Price: Cr 10,000 Duration: indefinite with sun, food and water. Heterotrophic by preference will go autotrophic (chemosynthetic or photosynthetic) if conditions warrant. Optimized to live off user's wastes-heat, motion (mechanical energy), sweat, liquid and solid metabolic wastes (can last 30 days without food, 10 days w/o water on its own)
Operating Noise: Silent

A pliable armored full body suit. This typically black polycarbon ooze masses 10kg and is alive. It is a complex organic soup of carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids, and it is green when absorbing solar energy. It will operate in temperatures from -150° to 500° C and up to 100 atmospheres pressure. If exposed to more than 5 minutes of hard vacuum the suit and probably its occupant will expire.

It is typically stored in a long narrow cylinder in a nutrient medium in a state of hibernation. These organism can move and flow. They are not typically put on as much as they climb on for themselves. They can be bred to respond to a variety of somatic, verbal, mental or chemical signals and commands. The suit can function and adapt to great environmental extremes and protect its user from the same.

It aids in survival in desert, arctic, aquatic environments and exotic climates. The suit conforms to an environmentally secure head-to-toe bodysuit of an extremely flexible but resilient armored hide. Any portion of the body can be covered or not at will. The user can still use the suit's senses (human equivalent unless augmented) if the "hood is up."

The suit can soak up and store up to 10kg in additional food and/or water for the user in whatever desired combination. It can provide nutrients and water recycled and purified from wastes. It recovers water like a filtration/distillation unit. Offers complete protection against most NBC agents when completely sealed up. Self seals ruptures. Thermal insulation and absorption eliminates signature. Psi shield, Color and thermal Chameleon option at TL–12. The mutability of the suit allows it to be trained with a memory form.

The ooze can harden part of the covering into a specified form. Any bio-weapon/bio-armor skill allows alterations of the programmed form. Any melee weapons that the user is skilled in or wants can be extruded from any desired surface of the suit. These shapes are still part of the suit and cannot be permanently removed from the suit w/o damaging it.

Use of a NAC, an optional extra, can be used to further enhance the user's abilities

Model 2 combat armor[edit]

Model 2 combat bio-armor
Type Powered Armor
Tech Level TL–12
Cost Cr120,000
Size 6l
Weight 20kg
Vol.: 6L
Mass: 20 kg
Encumbrance: 2kg (Nerve and Exo-muscular compensation)
Price: Cr 120,000
Duration: indefinite with sun, food and water. Heterotrophic by preference will go autotrophic (chemosynthetic of photosynthetic) if conditions warrant. Optimized to live off user's wastes-heat, motion mechanical energy), sweat, liquid and solid metabolic wastes (can last 30 days without food, 10 days w/o water on its own)
Operating Noise: Silent

The armor is fan isotropic polycarbon fiber matrix bonded with organic iron polymers and cemented with calcium carbonate ceramics which are in turn held chemically inert by coatings of regenerative (i.e. molting) chitinous longchain polysaccharides. To accomplish the levels of user protection and augmentation this organism is capable of, an invasive neuromuscular interface is needed. This suit is not a free ooze. The suit assembles itself and actively assists the user in donning it. The interfaces mate and the symbiote is ready for action in 30 seconds.

The suit comes with a NAC as standard equipment, and can be enhanced further as an option.

When hibernating the suit looks like a 10cm tall squat cylindrical bundle with a silver hemispherical disc on top (the prime neural interface and NAC).

The suit's energy storage potential is high enough to power weapons and an arsenal is usually selected at the time of purchase. Changes are possible, if expensive and time consuming.

Neurological Activity Controller[edit]

The Neurological Activity Controller (NAC) is an RNA enhanced memory cell bundle implanted or interfaced with the users central nervous system. These options can influence the users perceptions, thoughts, knowledge, emotions, and/or body movement. The memories and information stored in these nodes allow the user to perform as though he has mastered skills and capabilities which he has not.

NAC nodes can vary in capacity and can be grown for a fixed task or be re-trainable with the corresponding costs. .01kg mass.

For tasks the user may not add a stored skill to a naturally learned skill, it is one or the other but not both at the same time. Remote Sensory data transmission and brainwave transmission options are possible. Real-time transmission of all sensory input to another node. Nodes may be designated transmitters, transceivers, or receivers. The full brainwave option transmits all neural activity: sensory impressions, thoughts, and emotions.

Sense enhancements[edit]

Visual/Sight
Image enhancement, Thermal, Passive IR, LI, Micro, Macro, EM Spectral Range, Antiglare, Targeting=telescopic, electronic battlefield scope equivalent.
Auditory/Hearing
Directional, Amplified, Sound-Edit-Out, Hi/Lo Sonic Range.
Gustatory/Taste
Enhanced sensor processor for detection and identification of substances by taste.
Olfactory/Smell
Tracking, reduced or enhanced sensitivity to volatile airborne; chemical substances. "Sniffer" bio-scanner, life detector. Processor/analyzer: sniff bombs, drugs, mines, people etc.
Tactile/Touch
Heightened or decreased sensitivity. Thermal/Temperature Precise temperature judgment or discomfort edit out.

Addition enhancements[edit]

Special
Bio-sonar, Bio-radar, Vocal range modulator, emulator, amplifier,
Pain-blockers
A specialized synaptic inhibitor device which obstructs the flow of pain signals to the brain. Gravity adjust rig, Balance rig (dex bonuses)
New glands and organs
These monitor and/or dispense some specific drug or hormone or other bioactive chemical into the body. Nerve booster, adrenal booster. Grafted strength enhancements. Blood loss healer, ingested chemical bypass, arterial chemical by-pass toxin binders, gametic filtering, filtered compressed oxygen extractor, gills
Tools and weapons
Any implanted, grafted tool or bladed weapon equivalent. Mega knuckles, razor nails, wrist razors, detachable symbiotic slave beasts used as scouts or weapons stored in body; mouth, chest, hands etc. pouch, homing instinct, photosynthesis coating-food, current, energy storage, light generator cold luminol or flash bulb, organic laser, fangs, claws, horns, hooves, stinger, thrasher, taser electro shocker, organic battery, poisons/toxins, adhesives, silk, cables, climbing, digging/burrowing, tail, hydraulic, pneumatic projectiles, extra limbs, wings, fins, entangler/net, webbing, spines, spikes, secretions-hormones, viral agents, acids, gas projector tear, tranq/knock-out.

Additional enhancements[edit]

EVA Thruster pack
A water and/or compressed gas resisto-jets for zero-G maneuvering. Full vacuum options with rigid suit only. Full climate control, Full waste reclamation, Any grafted weapon Grafts and biological enhancements:
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