Recon helmet
Recon helmet
A high-tech armored helmet with a built-in status computer and a protective plasteel-weave plate. Armor like this is often used by imperial scout troops or glitterworld police forces.
Base Stats
Apparel
- Insulation - Cold
- 4 °C (7.2 °F)
- Insulation - Heat
- 2 °C (3.6 °F)
- Armor - Sharp
- 92%
- Armor - Blunt
- 40%
- Armor - Heat
- 46%
- Coverage
- Head, Left Ear, Right Ear, Left Eye, Right Eye, Nose, Jaw
- Layer
- Headgear
Creation
A Recon helmet is a full-head power armor helmet that forms a full set along with the Recon armor.
Acquisition
As a complicated piece of technology, Recon Helmets can only be made at the Fabrication bench and requires Recon Armor to be researched in order to be constructed. Crafting the helmet requires 
30 plasteel and 
1 advanced component.
Alternatively, the helmet can be received as a quest reward, purchased from traders, or found on Imperial Janissaries and other Raiders.
Analysis
Recon helmets are the lowest tier of the three power armored helmets, the other two being the Marine helmet and the Cataphract helmet. As such they're both significantly cheaper and have fewer research requirements, while also offering significantly less protection. While they have the same full head coverage, the recon helmet is roughly equivalent to a Marine Helmet one quality level below (e.g. a Normal Recon Helmet ~= Poor Marine Helmet), or a cataphract helmet two quality levels below.
Compared to the non-power armored helmets like the Simple and Flak helmet, the recon helmet is almost totally superior. It offers superior coverage, covering the face as well as the head, has a higher armor rating than even a plasteel flak helmet and requires 20 less plasteel to construct, however it does require a relatively rare advanced component instead of two of the more common components.
War veils and war masks provide identical coverage, but even with high level materials, they only offer a fraction of the sharp and blunt protection.
Stats table
 Recon helmet
|
Sharp | Blunt | Heat | HP | Insulation - Cold |
Insulation - Heat |
Market Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | |||||||
| Awful | 55.2% | 24% | 27.6% | 120 | -3.2 °C (-5.8 °F) | +1.6 °C (2.9 °F) | 260  |
| Poor | 73.6% | 32% | 36.8% | 120 | -3.6 °C (-6.5 °F) | +1.8 °C (3.2 °F) | 395 |
| Normal | 92% | 40% | 46% | 120 | -4 °C (-7.2 °F) | +2 °C (3.6 °F) | 525 |
| Good | 105.8% | 46% | 52.9% | 120 | -4.4 °C (-7.9 °F) | +2.2 °C (4 °F) | 655 |
| Excellent | 119.6% | 52% | 59.8% | 120 | -4.8 °C (-8.6 °F) | +2.4 °C (4.3 °F) | 785 |
| Masterwork | 133.4% | 58% | 66.7% | 120 | -6 °C (-10.8 °F) | +3 °C (5.4 °F) | 1310 |
| Legendary | 165.6% | 72% | 82.8% | 120 | -7.2 °C (-13 °F) | +3.6 °C (6.5 °F) | 2625 |
For the full effects of qualities, see Quality.
Trivia
Every Recon helmet found on an Imperial Janissary will be black.
Version History
- 1.1: added
- 1.1.2647: No longer meets the clothing requirement of nobles, replaced in that role by Prestige recon helmet
See Also
- Prestige recon helmet - a variant of the recon helmet that both pleases nobles and improves psychic ability.
- 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