Alpha Dawn - Star Frontiersman

Benefits. When wearing a Stealthskin, the
character is permitted to use the Stealth and
Concealment subskills of the Environmentalist skill
as if he were a Level 1 Environmentalist. If the
character already has the Environmentalist skill, he
can make amazing use of this fabric and gets a
bonus of +10% to both of these skills.
If a character sustains more than 25 points of
personal damage, or is encumbered with gear
(carrying more than half his STA score in kilograms)
the Stealthskin no longer provides these bonuses.
Defensive Armor
The game already has details for skeinsuits (military
and civilian) but lacks any rules for dealing with
harder armor. If you wish to add harder armor to
your game, use these rules.
Players may not layer other defensive suits over
polyplate armor, though screens will function
normally.
Partial Polyplate Armor
This armor covers all vital areas with hardened
polymer plates, formed and molded to the body.
The armor is fitted, and can only be modified to fit
another person in a lab. In the field, a Technician
may be able to modify it, but this requires a Repair
Machinery roll with a penalty equal to how different
the armor is from the person being fit to.
Protection. Partial Polyplate Armor acts like a
combination albedo suit and skeinsuit. It absorbs
half damage from all beam and physical attacks.
Half the damage gets through to the wearer.
Ablative. The suit is somewhat ablative; as it
absorbs damage it becomes scored and darkened,
unable to reflect blaster fire well. Its pieces crack
and chip, occasionally busting off. This is top of the
line stuff, but it doesn’t last forever. Therefore,
when the suit has absorbed 100 points of damage it
stops protecting the wearer and looks like hell.
Penalties. Because of the restricting nature of the
plates, many people find it difficult to wear the
armor comfortably. It can’t be slept in easily (unlike
skeinsuits). Characters wearing Partial Polyplate
Armor have a -5 penalty applied to all Dexterity and
Reaction Speed checks.
Full Polyplate Armor
Like its less protective brother, Full Polyplate Armor
is a hardened polymer carapace designed to protect
a combatant from harm. It works just like a Partial
Polyplate Armor, with the following differences.
Protection. Characters protected by this armor
take only one fourth (round down) the damage that
should otherwise be applied to them, if that damage
comes from a beam weapon or physical/inertial
source. The other three fourths applies to the
armor.
Ablative. The armor can take 250 points of damage
before it stops protecting the wearer.
Penalties. Full Polyplate is much more restrictive,
and characters have a -10 penalty applied to all
Dexterity and Reaction Speed checks.
Polyplate Armor Skill
Players with a Military PSA may wish to spend the
equivalent number of experience points to overcome
the penalties associated with the use of Polyplate
armor. This isn’t really a skill, but a player may
spend 5 experience points to eliminate the penalty
from Partial Polyplate, and 10 experience points to
overcome the penalties from Full Polyplate. These
are separate purchases. Characters with non-
Military PSAs cannot do this.
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