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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To provide a basic set of traditional battle armor for the Jedi Knights within the Silver Jedi Concord
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- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Lucerne Personal Defense
- Affiliation: Player character Jedi Knights and Masters within the Silver Jedi Concord
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Silver Jedi Knight Plate
- Modularity: Cosmetics
- Production: Limited
- Material: molecularly bonded turadium-desh alloy armor plating; layered defensa textile base suit
- Classification: Multipurpose
- Weight: Heavy
- Resistances:
- Energy: Very High
- Kinetic: Very High
- Lightsabers: Very High
- EMP/Ion: Low
- Radiation: Low
- Sonic: Very Low
- Elemental: Very High
- Environmental: Low
- Comlink Gauntlet (Right Gauntlet): Knight Plate's right gauntlet features a built-in SC-1 Hardened Comlink, providing a convenient means for the armor's users to keep in contact with their allies.
- Ascension Cable Launcher (Left Gauntlet): Knight Plate's left gauntlet includes an ascension cable launcher with a power winch, allowing the armor's users to easily move up and down vertical surfaces or swing across chasms and similar obstacles. It can also be used as an impromptu weapon by creative users.
- Utility Belt: Knight Plate Armor comes with a utility belt with compartments made out of the same armor plating as the rest of the suit. Each belt contains the following equipment: a spool of high tension wire, one grappling hook, two power packs, three ion flares (for illumination or emergency signaling), a combat de-ionizer, a Pneuma-series Rebreather, a FastMed Emergency Medpac, and four ration packs.
- Lightsaber Resistance: Much of Knight Plate's particular armor plate alloy is made out of turadium, known for its resistance to lightsabers, especially without much force put behind such blows.
- Energy Resistance: Both the turadium element of the plating and the Defensa base layer provide excellent protection from most common energy weapons.
- Kinetic Resistance: Both the turadium element of the plating and the Defensa base layer provide excellent protection from most common physical weapons.
- Elemental Resistance: Knight Plate provides fairly good protection from most elemental attacks simply by its unusually strong molecular bonds of armor plating. These bonds make it very difficult to break down from cold, heat, or acid attacks while the Defensa underlayer provides electrical insulation through its use of spun-plast.
- Heavy: Even when alloyed with Desh, the turadium elements of Knight Plate make it fairly heavy, comparable to traditional battle armors such as beskar'kandar.
- Vulnerable(Sonic Weapons): Knight Plate was not made with any thought to protection from sonic weapons. While the armor plating provides some incidental resistance to some sonic brute force attacks, this is largely offset by Defensa's particular vulnerability to sonic weapons which largely lets sonic vibrations pass through it entirely unhindered.
- Vulnerable (Radiation): Knight Plate was not made with any thought to radiation protection. While the sheer density of the plating provides some resistance, this is largely offset by Defensa's particular vulnerability to radiation which can cause it to rapidly degrade.
- Vulnerable (Environmental): Knight Plate is not remotely sealed armor and entirely lacks a helmet of any sort. Consequently, it provides little resistance to many environmental factors such as hostile atmospheres, intense pressures, or the ability to function in vaccuum or underwater.
Jedi Armor has a long if somewhat controversial history among the galaxy's force-users, with some eschewing it entirely because of beliefs such it impeding their ability to use the Force or it being uncomfortable or too warlike. But in times of prolonged conflict, whether during the Great Galactic War or the Clone Wars, Jedi commonly have donned such suits to better protect themselves from the rigors of battle. With its long association with the Silver Jedi Concord, Lucerne Personal Defense stepped up to make a standardized set of Jedi Armor that was plain enough to assuage some Jedi's concerns of technological reliance yet durable enough to provide a meaningful benefit on the battlefield. To that end, Knight Plate largely follows the tradition of Jedi Robes, being simple enough in form and construction to the point where it could easily be misidentified as the battle armor of countless civilizations throughout the galaxy. Its technological features are few and largely focused on simple utility: a comlink for communication, an ascension cable launcher for ease of vertical transport, and a utility belt not too unlike the old Jedi Utility Belt used just prior to the Clone Wars. While relatively cheap compared to many high-tech armors being produced in the galaxy, the quality of the armor's plating and the general Jedi thought that one should become reliant on technology (especially at the Padawan level) means that the armor has only been produced in limited numbers for Jedi Knights and Masters within the Silver Jedi Order.
