OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A personal armor for Arette
- Image Source: Here and Here - Artists are Tombslug and Angelina Sennoma, respectively
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Arette, and a workshop's worth of deeply traumatized armorers.
- Affiliation: Arette
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: You could...roll up the sleeves? Add some patches to the coat?
- Production: Unique
- Material: Phrik, Armorweave, Rancor Leather, Miscellaneous Other Components
- Classification: Multipurpose
- Weight: Very Light (~3kg)
- Resistances:
- Energy: High
- Lightsabers: High
- Kinetic: Average
- Bladed: High
- Impact: Low
- Very good weight-to-protection ratio
- Armorweave enhanced with microlayers of phrik mesh
- Comes with chemical weapons protection
- Extremely Aesthetic
- Featherweight: The Panoply is designed for a quick, agile fighter, and does not meaningfully restrict speed or range of motion of the wearer.
- Armor of Contempt: The Panoply provides a high degree of protection against the most common threats on a battlefield; the blaster, the lightsaber, and the vibroblade.
- Safety First: To accommodate use in a wide variety of environments, the Panoply comes with a simple-yet-reliable line of defense against chemical agents.
WEAKNESSES
- Eminently Bonkable: The Marauder's Panoply was not designed with kinetic energy dispersal in mind, and provides limited protection against blunt trauma and ballistic impact.
- Chemical Breach: The body glove used to protect the wearer of the Panoply from skin contact with chemical agents is not particularly thick or durable, and is prone to accruing minor tears during extended combat or other rough conditions.
While unarmored combat has its perks - primarily in the form of bragging rights - Arette has had her intestines speared with a lightsaber enough times (once, to be clear) to recognize that actually wearing gear designed to keep you from dropping dead has its upsides, too. Which is not to imply that she intends to lumber onto the battlefield bedecked in plates of beskar; leave that to the Krayts and the Carnifexes of the Galaxy. Having armor to fall back on is grand, but Arette's first priority is speed and mobility.
Fresh from a stint in the bacta tank and flush with a (small) fortune gained by looting Jutrand during its subjugation, the newly self-proclaimed Knight of the Sith decided that her next course of action was acquiring a proper set of gear. Gathering resources was the easy part; top quality armorweave was expensive, and phrik even more so, but she had the money. The tricky part was finding someone willing to make the damn suit. The Sith were only just resurgent, after all, and lacked the massive industrial complex they once held sway over. Fortunately, a solution presented itself here, too. Thus is the way of the Sith; if charm and credits fail you, pain and plasma won't.
Finding an armorer willing to work for a murderous, quasi-fascist soldier of empire turned out to be a simple matter of strolling into an armor shop on a backwater planet and chopping away until everyone still possessed of limbs agreed to do some pro bono work.
Arette dubbed the resultant suit of armor the Marauder's Panoply. The set in total is primarily composed of high-end armorweave with rancor leather accents. The shirt, trousers, boots, gloves, and coat are all enhanced with a layer of ultrafine phrik chainmaille, and the Panoply's respirator casing is phrik as well. The resultant armor is extremely light and maneuverable, and provides a high degree of protection from blaster fire, lightsaber strikes, and attempts by desperate enemy troops to gut the wearer with a vibro-bayonet. Since drowning to death as your own lungs liquefy inside themselves is not a particularly glorious way to go out, the suit also incorporates protection against chemical weapons attacks. The respirator filters out agents which enter through the respiratory system, and an internal body glove prevents skin contact with any potentially hazardous substances. If the wearer suspects chemical weapons are a risk, she can deploy the suit's hood, normally kept rolled up around the neck, and use the seal around the mouthpiece to attach the respirator and render the suit airtight.
No set of gear is perfectly protective, of course. While better than your average set of street clothes, the Panoply was not designed with hammers and slugthrowers in mind, and provides only so much protection against said forms of harm. It'll probably stop a slugthrower from turning the wearer inside out, but catching a round to the chest or the shin is still going to lead to broken bones. And the body glove is a bit...flimsy. It's primarily useful for evacuating areas drenched in nerve gas, not undergoing operations within them, and has a tendency to accumulate tiny tears when the armor above it takes a hit. Which has the potential to be...very bad.
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