The PMC-18 is a pre-packaged cluster of 24 piezoelectric-coated steel micro-flechettes loaded in a cylindrical drum cartridge for the SFL-4 'Hornet' platform…

…ever material it has embedded in. Against personnel in hard armor, the effect is devastating — the slug does not need to fully penetrate the plate, because the reson…

…king at four times the speed of sound. Against conventional armor, the rotational energy compounds the kinetic penetration — the round does not simply punch through,…

…inetic energy on impact, but it will not defeat modern hard armor at any range. The caseless design requires careful storage. The propellant block is hygroscopic an…

The CCS-12 is a pre-measured charge of irregular ceramic composite fragments designed for the PSP-2 'Gravel' scatter pistol, packaged in 8-round speed strips…

…: it is designed to embed in soft tissue, not punch through armor. Operators aim for exposed skin, neck, face, and hands. The neural disruption payload is the dart'…

…art achieves hypervelocity speeds that defeat most personal armor through sheer kinetic energy. The dart's flight characteristics change dramatically across this ran…

…ries sufficient kinetic energy to defeat standard soft body armor at close range, though hard plate remains effective. The weapon's primary lethality comes from volu…

…2 pre-loaded material profiles — concrete, steel, composite armor, ceramic, bone, glass, and six other common structural materials — plus a custom profile upload por…

…ric activation surface area. Against hard surfaces — walls, armor plate, bone — the bead shatters without activation, producing no electrical effect. This material-s…

…nition — with corresponding increases in kinetic energy and armor penetration. The projectile itself is a tungsten-alloy penetrator in a discarding sabot, optimized…

The TNA-80 is a pattern-deployable array of ultra-fine tungsten-alloy conductive needles designed for the ENAR-3 'Porcupine' incapacitation rifle. Each needl…

…f soft-tissue impact. Hard-surface impacts — hitting walls, armor plate, or bone at an oblique angle — produce insufficient membrane stress and the round acts as a c…

…same muzzle velocity and enhanced penetration against hard armor that tungsten-ceramic flechettes cannot defeat. The flechettes are designed as a direct dimensiona…

…8 charges are expended, the magazine must be replaced at an armorer's bench, a process that requires approximately 10 minutes and specialized tools. This design phil…

…d why their precision weapon is suddenly inaccurate. Street armorers who can verify HB-3 authenticity are valued for this capability.

The IRS-11 is a black market attempt to solve the TCS-11's weapon-specific frequency matching problem by replacing the fixed resonance cavity with an adjusta…

…e legitimate PGM-4 gel micro-bead, produced by street-level armorers who replace the standard piezoelectric crystal array with higher-output crystals salvaged from i…

…one — only chemical analysis reveals the difference. Street armorers who can verify UFC-40 formulation by testing are valued for this capability, as using the wrong…

The Sentinel is a tactical soft-armor vest sold openly to licensed security personnel and, with the right documentation, to civilians. It…

Body armor assembled entirely from salvaged materials — flattened cans layered into scale patterns, car-door p…

Matte black, form-fitting, worn under street clothes without obvious bulk. The torso shell and upper thigh panels are densely woven shear-thickening gel fibe…

…panels that cover the torso without the bulk of traditional armor. Four front zip pockets of different sizes, a clean stand collar, and a snap-front closure. In matt…

A full-body armored suit rated for Level IIIA ballistic protection with ceramic plate inserts at vital zones that upg…

…eds ballistic protection without the visual profile of body armor. The StrikeLayer won't stop a rifle round, but it will stop most pistol calibers and all fragmentat…

…s. Constructed from a dense ballistic-weave nylon with soft armor panels integrated into the front and back — rated for low-velocity rounds and blade resistance, tho…

A modular riot-control suit with overlapping hard-shell plates covering the torso, arms, legs, and groin. Each plate is rated for blunt impact, low-velocity …

A tight-fitting undershirt woven with para-aramid fibers that provide certified stab and slash resistance. The fabric is layered in a crosshatch pattern that…

…der and elbow panels for abrasion resistance and a CE-rated armor insert system in the shoulders and elbows (back armor sold separately). It is made to be ridden in…

…, a slightly asymmetric zip closure, and removable CE-rated armor inserts at the shoulders, elbows, and a spine channel at the back. The collar is medium height and…

Ironclad is a mobile fortress — a squat, massively armored platform that moves on eight short, wide legs like an enormous mechanical crab. Its profile is lo…

Ironclad is a mobile fortress — a squat, massively armored platform that moves on eight short, wide legs like an enormous mechanical crab. Its profile is lo…

Arctic Slope is where the money started. The Inupiat people of the North Slope had lived above the Arctic Circle for thousands of years when oil was discove…

Cinderfall was incorporated in 2137 by the Mwangi-Kowalczyk industrial family, who had operated legacy steel mills in the Gary corridor for three generations…

Founded in 2141 by former Great Lakes Environmental Remediation Authority microbiologist Dr. Sable Okonkwo, who was quietly defunded mid-project and decided …

Born from the catastrophic Port Collapse of 2141, when the old Great Lakes shipping infrastructure buckled under simultaneous cyberattack and climate-driven …

Marrowvault was incorporated in 2131 by a consortium of life-extension researchers, insurance actuaries, and estate lawyers who identified what they called '…

Stonepath was assembled rather than founded — a 2139 consolidation of eleven failing regional freight operators by logistics financier August Tran-Holloway, …

The collapse of industrial Midwestern farming in the 2030s left millions of acres of chemically exhausted, flood-damaged, and contamination-blighted land ess…

The Bastion Mesh is a military-grade subdermal armor system consisting of interlocking boron-carbide ceramic hexagonal tiles bonded to a titanium-weave…

The Ironback APC is a mid-weight armored personnel carrier built on a modular chassis platform developed by Arcturus Defense Solutions for…

…t controversial commercial product — a surgically implanted armor system consisting of a network of flexible carbon-titanium filaments and pressure-distributing gel…

…and allowing the system to function through clothing, body armor, and even some cyberware casings. The Distributed Triage Lattice is primarily issued to corporate…

…er on standard electromagnetic scans calibrated for powered armor. When the suit detects contact from a conductive threat — a blade, a stun device, or an uninsulate…

…nd wear-resistant components for industrial machinery. Body armor ceramic strike faces, vehicle protection panels, and building hardening tiles are produced by a sma…

…cks, training grounds (both physical and VR simulation), an armory complex, vehicle hangars (ground and aerial), a field hospital, a military intelligence operations…

…ine corridor allocations, private vertiport facilities, and armored executive transport services. The aggregate daily ridership of corporate private transit across a…

…ter Layer**: Environmental protection and social signaling. Armored jackets for operators. Corporate uniforms for the employed. Rainwear for anyone moving through ar…

…ume occupied by propellant. Specialty ammunition includes: armor-piercing ACNT penetrators (designed to defeat BallCer), fragmentation rounds (that break apart on i…

…n it does fail, rather than fracturing cleanly. - **Dermal armor:** Spliced from pangolin keratin genetics or rhinoceros skin collagen structure. Thickened dermal l…

…efense layer is designed to defeat military-grade threats — armored vehicles, combat drones, and organized infantry formations. ### Layer 3: The Wall (perimeter) Th…

…ough materials that would stop a conventional edge: BallCer armor, ACNT composites, reinforced ProgCrete, and bone. ## Mechanism The blade contains a piezoelectric…

…polyethylene that provides the protective function in body armor and vehicle protection systems—is a controlled material in GLMZ's corporate security framework. Lic…

…trained athletes. ## Equipment Standard RRF loadout: - **Armor**: Full BallCer plate carrier over RAG undersuit. Stops all conventional weapons and most military-…

…ly augmented ("she's chrome") - "Skin" — RAG undersuit body armor - "Shell" — carapace landing system - "Penny" — someone whose glider wings failed (from "dropping l…

…manufacturing floor in GLMZ — designation WLD-1190, a squat armored unit with no face, no voice synthesizer, and an aesthetic resemblance to a refrigerator on treads…

…nt platforms. Humanoid but deliberately non-human-passing — armored, imposing, with visible chassis seams that signal 'I am a machine.' Axiom doesn't want their Ward…

…armaments annually — gauss weapons, resonance blades, body armor, drone systems, electronic warfare equipment, and the specialized tools of violence that arm the ci…

…eration ablative coating system, designed as a modular over-armor layer that can be applied to existing body armor or worn as a standalone protective garment. It con…

The Atmospheric Breach Torch is a directed thermal cutting tool designed for forced entry through the reinforced composite and ballistic-grade materials used…

A full-coverage tactical helmet with integrated comms, HUD visor, NBC filter, and NIJ Level IV ballistic protection. The BH-9 uses a composite of boron carbi…

A lightweight partial exoskeleton that augments the wearer's lower body and core strength without the bulk of a full tactical exoskeleton. The CEL-3 consists…

A modular plate carrier incorporating reactive armor elements that detonate outward on ballistic impact, disrupting incoming projectiles before they rea…

…lassified as personal protective equipment rather than body armor in several jurisdictions due to its non-rigid construction, allowing it to be worn and transported…

A transparent ballistic visor that provides NIJ Level IIIA facial protection while maintaining full visual clarity. The BFS-2 is constructed from layered pol…

A full-body protective suit providing Level A chemical, biological, and radiological protection through a multi-layer barrier system with integrated self-con…

A set of deployable ballistic barriers that unfold from flat-packed panels into free-standing walls providing cover against rifle-caliber fire. Each RFS-3 pa…

…hilosophy here is fundamentally different from conventional armor: rather than interposing a material barrier between the threat and the wearer, the Myomeric Suit au…

…hat builds combat and utility packages onto Traverse rigs — armored cabs, weapon mounts on the implement couplings, sensor arrays — creating vehicles that look like…

The Kinetic Bleed Capacitor is a wearable energy harvesting and storage unit that converts ambient kinetic and thermal energy from its user's movement, envir…

Originally engineered for workers operating in active demolition and controlled-collapse environments, the Compressive Load Carapace uses layered ceramic-pol…

The Loadframe Exo-Rig is a full-body industrial exoskeleton developed by Palladian Construction for heavy labor in GLMZ's perpetual construction and demoliti…

…vide load-bearing support that allows the operator to carry armor mass that would be prohibitive without powered assistance. The integrated plating is rated for sust…

The Fractal Deflection Chassis is a modular hard-plate armor system built on Ringo Corponation's proprietary fractal surface geometry — each plate's exterior is…

A ballistic shield fabricated from vehicle door panels, steel plate salvage, or layered industrial materials mounted on improvised handles. The Iron Curtain …

Body armor improvised from whatever materials are available — layers of duct tape and phone books over vital a…

…tration tool rather than a combat platform — the underlying armor protection is modest, rated for light fragmentation and minimal ballistic resistance. The Ghost Ch…

…ides a conventional bike or the corporate operative with an armored vehicle. Owning a Fold signals a certain level of operational sophistication: the understanding t…

The Galvanic Carapace Shell is a reactive body armor system developed by Zheng-Dao Bioelectric that integrates a layered bioelectric charge matrix benea…

The Burnside Guard is a protection racket that genuinely protects. Operating in Chicago's Burnside neighborhood — a Shelf-adjacent district too poor for corp…

The Causeway Collective started as a neighborhood watch in Milwaukee's Kinnickinnic corridor and became something more out of pure necessity. When climate re…

…t augmentation licensing denials. Their legitimacy is their armor. By operating within the letter of corporate civic law, they make it expensive and publicly awkward…

…han a Shelf apartment building — reflex boosters, subdermal armor, optical targeting systems, and a neural processor that runs combat algorithms in real time. Where…

…se network of safe houses and vehicle caches. Members drive armored ground vehicles, ride modded motorcycles, and in extreme cases make deliveries on foot through ar…

…bony plates beneath the skin — modeled on armadillo dermal armor. The plates form a flexible mosaic covering the torso, upper arms, and thighs. Each plate is approx…

…scular control — raised, they bristle outward like pinecone armor; flattened, they lie smooth and can be concealed under long sleeves. Crucible Genomics developed th…

…s the edge. They're not weapons capable of penetrating body armor, but in close combat they're effective slashing tools. The modification is popular in the Shelf as…

Introduces an ultra-dense melanin layer beneath the skin that functions as both UV shielding and mild impact resistance. The melanin is structured in layers …

A reactive armor ceramic engineered with a graded porosity microstructure that undergoes controlled ablative fractur…

Adaptex-RM is a magneto-rheological composite textile developed by Tessera Materials in collaboration with Veilweave Textiles, consisting of iron-rich partic…

…mesh-7 is a flexible CNT mesh engineered for conformal soft armor applications, produced by Tessera Materials using a wet-weave nano-loom process that creates interl…

…ass and resistant to ballistic impact. ALON windows protect armored vehicles, aircraft cockpits, and high-security observation posts. In 2200, ALON has largely repla…

Woven aramid fibers laminated with toughened epoxy into rigid panels. These offer excellent ballistic and fragment protection at low weight. Standard issue f…

A multi-layer graphene-polymer armor laminate developed by Crucible Industries through a co-development agreement with Tessera Materials…

Calorite-F is a CNT aerogel foam produced by Tessera Materials through supercritical drying of a multi-walled CNT hydrogel, yielding an open-cell foam struct…

…vation domes, it has since become the prestige standard for armored visors and high-security glazing.

Cryonite-SC is a scandium-aluminum-lithium alloy with a quantum-engineered lattice that undergoes a controlled martensitic phase transformation at a precisel…

…all-caliber rounds at range. The quintessential desperation armor of Tier 1 street fighters who can't afford anything better. Weighs a ton and falls apart when wet.

Ferralive-4 is a high-tensile iron-carbon alloy threaded with a suspended culture of engineered fibroblast-analog cells housed within microscopic vascular ch…

Ferrex-NT is an iron-nickel-chromium alloy with a quantum-engineered band structure that exploits quantum tunneling at macroscopic scale — specifically, its …