Additional materials for armor construction

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

Re: superalloy:

What is superalloy?

According to the Design Binder, it’s a sort of Titanium mixed with Memory Plastic (known also as Memory Shape Polymer). “Superalloy” is an actual real life thing. It’s a metal that has highly desirable mechanical properties. Real life Superalloys are used in the engines of jet planes, for example. Superalloy also keeps its strength at high temperatures. Wikipedia has a good article on it. If that’s not your thing, there’s others.

[Trigon]

I can’t remember the exact stats, but scientifically spider silk is five times as strong as standard silk. It has to have the stickiness chemically removed, a process I don’t really know off the top of my head, but it could have an excellent niche in game as a full body close to skin layer suit with low warmth and high cutting protection. But no blunt protection obviously.

[TheZoneWizard]

Using a metal frame coupled with a strong material in a net like fashion. Spider silk maybe an interesting piece of armor.

Another good reason to use a light hard material in armor would be because the soft stuff(kevlar) only catches and creates a cone like shape…and then you are damaged or dead. Using some ultra light but sturdy material would slow a bullet down to mitigate damage. Example; several thin sheets of a light metal in key areas. Such as over the heart to prevent instant death. Possibly ceramic over metal? But with being able to swap out broken plates with new.

A caveat for melee:

Apparently Kevlar won’t do a darn thing against a sharp blade. Go figure.