Cataphract armor

Cataphract armor

A suit of heavy powered armor, built for maximum protection at the cost of mobility. Heavy layered plasteel-weave plates with solid ablative coatings stop all but the most well-aimed or powerful attacks. Neuro-memetic assistors prevent the suit's massive weight from immobilizing the wearer entirely, but the suit is still quite cumbersome. Armor like this is used by imperial cataphracts to break heavily fortified positions in frontal assaults when no other option is available.

Base Stats

Type

Gear – Armor

Market Value

3120 

Mass

15 kg

HP

400

Apparel

Insulation - Cold

20 °C (36 °F)

Insulation - Heat

6.7 °C (12.1 °F)

Armor - Sharp

120%

Armor - Blunt

50%

Armor - Heat

60%

Coverage

Torso, Neck, Left Shoulder, Left Arm, Right Shoulder, Right Arm, Left Leg, Right Leg

Layer

Middle, Outer

Creation

Crafted At

Skill Required

Crafting 8

Work To Make

75,000 ticks (20.83 mins)

Resources to make

150 + 50 + 6

Technical

thingCategories

ApparelArmor

thingSetMakerTags

RewardStandardHighFreq

defaultOutfitTags

Soldier

tradeTags

HiTechArmor

Cataphract armor is a type of advanced apparel (armor) introduced by the Royalty DLC that can effectively block gunshots, cuts, blunt trauma, or burns. It forms a full set of armor along with the Cataphract helmet.

Acquisition

As a complicated piece of technology, Cataphract Armor can only be made at the Fabrication bench and requires Cataphract Armor to be researched in order to be constructed. Researching Cataphract Armor in turn requires the previous power armor projects to be researched as well as the use of two Cataphract Armor Techprints to unlock. Crafting the armor requires 150 plasteel + 50 uranium and 6 advanced components.

Alternatively, the armor can be received as a quest reward, purchased from traders, or found on Imperial Cataphracts.

Analysis

Cataphract armor provides the best protection of any armor in the game, especially against blunt, and can block heat damage. Like Recon armor and Marine armor it also covers the limbs in addition to the torso making for great overall protections. It provides roughly the same protection as a Marine Armor of one quality level above its own, or of Recon Armor two quality levels above its own. It also allows a pawn to reach the cap of 200% sharp protection at Legendary quality. Compared to a flak vest and duster, Cataphract armor offers strictly superior protection to all body parts when all items are the same quality, regardless of duster material. However, Cataphract armor is much more expensive, needs a long time to make and also needs the Cataphract Armor research before being available.

Acquiring it through fighting the Empire is also difficult due to their ubiquitious Death acidifier implants and the general difficulty of killing the pawns wearing this armor and carrying the empires best weapons. The armor provides a significant Move Speed debuff of -0.80 c\s, double that of Marine armor and over six times that of a flak vest, making the armor impractical for every day wear by some pawns. The bionic legs may be used to offset this move speed penalty.

Stats table

Cataphract armor	Sharp	Blunt	Heat	HP	Insulation - Cold	Insulation - Heat	Market Value
Quality
Awful	72%	30%	36%	400	-28.8 °C (-51.8 °F)	+9.6 °C (17.3 °F)	1560
Poor	96%	40%	48%	400	-32.4 °C (-58.3 °F)	+10.8 °C (19.4 °F)	2340
Normal	120%	50%	60%	400	-36 °C (-64.8 °F)	+12 °C (21.6 °F)	3120
Good	138%	57.5%	69%	400	-39.6 °C (-71.3 °F)	+13.2 °C (23.8 °F)	3620
Excellent	156%	65%	78%	400	-43.2 °C (-77.8 °F)	+14.4 °C (25.9 °F)	4120
Masterwork	174%	72.5%	87%	400	-54 °C (-97.2 °F)	+18 °C (32.4 °F)	5120
Legendary	200%	90%	108%	400	-64.8 °C (-116.6 °F)	+21.6 °C (38.9 °F)	6120

^{For the full effects of qualities, see Quality.}

Trivia

Cataphracts were heavy armored cavalry used in ancient warfare by people in Eurasia, including the Byzantines that inspired the Empire.

Every set of cataphract armor found on an Imperial Cataphract will be white.

Version history

• Royalty DLC release - Added.
• 1.1.2647 - No longer meets the clothing requirement of nobles, replaced in that role by Prestige cataphract armor. Stellic Wardens and Defenders no longer spawn with a regular cataphract armor, and instead spawn with the prestige version.

See Also

• Phoenix armor - a variant of cataphract armor that is slightly more protective against heat and temperature but less protective otherwise, with an integrated incendiary launcher.
• Prestige cataphract armor - a variant of cataphract armor that both pleases nobles and improves psychic ability.

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Apparel

Torso | Clothing

Button-down shirt • T-shirt (Kid ) • Tribalwear (Kid )

Corset • Eltex shirt • Eltex vest • Formal vest • Formal shirt

Slave collar

Sash • Kid romper

Armor

Flak vest

Legs | Clothing

Pants (Kid )

Armor

Flak pants

Shell | Clothing

Duster • Jacket • Parka (Kid ) • Robe

Cape • Eltex robe • Prestige robe

Burka • Slave body strap

Heavy bandolier

Lab coat

Armor

Flak jacket • Marine armor (Prestige , Grenadier ) • Plate armor • Recon armor (Prestige , Locust , Mechlord ) • Cataphract armor (Prestige , Phoenix )

Head | Clothing

Bowler hat • Cowboy hat • Hood • Psychic foil helmet • Tuque • Tribal headdress • Veil • War mask

Beret • Coronet • Crown • Eltex helmet • Eltex skullcap • Ladies hat • Stellic crown • Top hat

Authority cap • Blindfold • Broadwrap • Flophat • Headwrap • Shadecone • Slicecap • Tailcap • Torture crown • Visage mask

Airwire headset • Array headset • Gas mask • Face mask

Ceremonial hood • Ritual mask

Armor

Flak helmet • Marine helmet (Prestige/Samurai helmet ) • Recon helmet (Prestige , Mechlord ) • Simple helmet (Kid ) • Cataphract helmet (Prestige ) • Gunlink • Integrator headset • Mechcommander helmet