Prestige marine armor

Prestige marine armor

A suit of powered armor. Layered plasteel-weave plates are very effective at stopping attacks, with few vulnerable joint sections. Neuro-memetic assistors allow a human to wear the armor and still move easily.
Expensive and beautiful, prestige armor like this is usually made for those of high status. Embedded eltex threads also enhance the wearer's psychic sensitivity.

Base Stats

Type

Gear – Armor

Market Value

2530 

Mass

15 kg

HP

340

Apparel

Insulation - Cold

32 °C (57.6 °F)

Insulation - Heat

9 °C (16.2 °F)

Armor - Sharp

106%

Armor - Blunt

45%

Armor - Heat

54%

Coverage

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

Layer

Middle, Outer

Creation

Work To Make

120,000 ticks (33.33 mins)

Resources to make

120 + 20 + 4 + 100

Prestige marine armor is a set of power armor introduced by the Royalty DLC that forms a full set along with the Prestige marine helmet. It combines the defensive ability of Marine armor with additional the psychic boosts of Eltex apparel.

Acquisition

As a complicated piece of technology, Marine Armor can only be made at the Fabrication bench and requires Marine Armor to be researched in order to be constructed. Crafting the armor requires 220 plasteel, 20 uranium and 4 advanced components and 10 gold.

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

Analysis

Prestige marine armor improves a pawns Psychic Sensitivity by 5%, and improves the neural heat recovery rate by 0.033 heat per second. This primarily improves a pawns psychic power, but note that it also makes them more susceptible to psycasts themselves, as well as psychic drones. This increase is inferior to the Eltex vest that the prestige marine armor replaces, but in exchange it is significantly more protective.

Protection-wise, the prestige marine armor is exactly as defensive as regular marine armor. Marine armor is the middle tier of the three types of power armor, the other two being the inferior Recon armor and the superior Cataphract armor. As expected, it is also the middle tier in expense and protection as well. While it provides the same coverage, Marine armor is roughly equivalent to a Recon armor of one quality level above (e.g. a Normal Marine armor ~= Good Recon armor), or a Cataphract armor one quality levels below.

Compared a flak vest and duster, the marine armor offers strictly superior protection to the arms and legs when all items are the same quality, regardless of duster material. The interactions of two layers are dictated by the games Armor Rating calculations, and the result is that marine armor provides torso, neck and shoulders protection approximately equivalent to the combination of a devilstrand duster and flak vest, assuming all items are the same quality. However replacing the devilstrand with hyperweave or thrumbofur results in more protection to those areas. So while marine armor is more protective than a devilstrand duster and flak vest, when compared to better duster materials, the overall impact of the opposing traits of superior arm and leg protection and inferior torso, neck and shoulder protection on pawn survivability is currently unclear. However in this comparison, it should be noted that several vital organs are in the torso and the destruction of these can result in immediate death. It should also be noted that marine armor comes with a Move Speed debuff of -0.40 c\s, while a flak vest has a penalty of only -0.12c/s meaning there may be a reason to choose the flak vest and duster even with inferior protection.

It occupies both the overgarments, middle, and shell layers, while flak vests only occupy the middle layer - meaning it can't be worn with tribalwear.

Prestige marine armor also appeases the middle and outer torso requirements of all nobles, replacing both the Formal vest/Corset and the Prestige robe.

Stats table

Prestige marine armor	Sharp	Blunt	Heat	HP	Insulation - Cold	Insulation - Heat	Market Value
Quality
Awful	63.6%	27%	32.4%	340	-25.6 °C (-46.1 °F)	+7.2 °C (13 °F)	1265
Poor	84.8%	36%	43.2%	340	-28.8 °C (-51.8 °F)	+8.1 °C (14.6 °F)	1895
Normal	106%	45%	54%	340	-32 °C (-57.6 °F)	+9 °C (16.2 °F)	2530
Good	121.9%	51.75%	62.1%	340	-35.2 °C (-63.4 °F)	+9.9 °C (17.8 °F)	3030
Excellent	137.8%	58.5%	70.2%	340	-38.4 °C (-69.1 °F)	+10.8 °C (19.4 °F)	3530
Masterwork	153.7%	65.25%	78.3%	340	-48 °C (-86.4 °F)	+13.5 °C (24.3 °F)	4530
Legendary	190.8%	81%	97.2%	340	-57.6 °C (-103.7 °F)	+16.2 °C (29.2 °F)	5530

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

Stat	Increase
Psychic Sensitivity	+5%
Neural Heat Limit	+4
Neural Heat Recovery Rate	+0.033

Version history

• 1.1.2647: Added

See Also

• Marine armor - the base model. Identical protection, but not acceptable to nobles and offers no improvement to psychic abilities.
• Grenadier armor - a slightly less protective variant of marine armor with an integrated grenade launcher.

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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