Armor Type: WEAVE

Probably considered by most to be more important outside of the fields of armor than inside of it. Weave armor, sometimes distinguished as Fiberweave, or simplified as cloth is a form of fabric or animal product garment used to provide protection. As is implied, clothes are by far the most common form of Fiberweave out there.

While cloth armor can range the gambits from more to less protective, the ultimate truth is that most often it informs the lower levels of protection on this spectrum. Almost always used as a first, or second layer of attire or harness. Some cloth, like oil-rendered polyfibers are cheap and provide little protection. Other natural fibers might be more resistant, such as linen or silk.

This also includes padding, with layers of cloth or animal products, or batted fibers.

When utilizing animal products, instead of being distinguished as fiberweave, it is instead designated as skinweave. But both can still be acknowledged as weave armors without any real interruption.

While possible, it is acknowledged to be very ineffectual to try and add mass-altering technologies, and other protective systems to fiberweave. In all cases except total concealment until the moment of use, with even that being limited, doing so with another form of armor will always yield greater results.

The long-lived standard for the base-layer of armor for many generations. Synthweave consists of very strong, usually synthetic fibers, used to form a textile material. This textile material may then be used as cloth, be layered into padding, or more thickly layered and pressed into a rigid or semi-rigid plate.

With many effective options such as Kevlar, Fiberalloy, and so on, Synthweave has become a ubiquitous standard in most militaries in some shape or form. Many use it to fashion sturdy clothes worn beneath armor. Civil defense, civilian self-defense, and planetary defense forces often use more significant, outer layers of Synthweave; this is primarily due to economic and ease-of-use factor.

Synthweave garments can be tailored to extreme detail, making form-fit attire or armor quite effectively.

Although quite rare, some individuals use mass-altering defensive technologies paired with their synthweave garments. Being that they already possess a very high tensile strength, a sudden increase in mass when trauma is expected can potentially save a life. This is most often limited exclusively to a wealthy person’s last line of defense. Not a desired first line of defense implementation.

Non-rigid Synthweave can also resist LAZ weapons better, pound-for-pound, than typical rigid armors. So long as insulating material is worn beneath.

At the cutting edge of fiber-based defensive implementations, Nightweave armor makes use of highly sophisticated textiles, with high-strength synthetic components hybridized with carbon nanotubes and conventional alloys.

Such are prohibitively expensive to acquire, and as such are usually fitted to the individual. That being said, they tend to offer impressive protection for anything regarded as a textile. Additionally, they are very difficult to detect, between having an (if desired) near true-black color, and making almost no sound via friction. Though, such garments tend to need more service over time than their common counterparts, to care for the carbon nanotubes.

Additionally, it is more common for those who have Nightweave garments to have mass-affecting defensive technologies integrated to them. If only because they might be worn alone for concealment factor, as well as the effects yielded are better than any other weave armor. Though, still often failing before good quality rigid armor. Though, having such technologies powered will give certain peoples the ability to observe you in ways beyond your concealment.

The LAZ-weapon resistant qualities are inherited by Nightweave, though often to a lesser degree the darker the fabric. A very bright Nightweave, while eschewing its visual concealment advantages, would have an even more significant resistance to such weapons.