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Originally Posted by Varyon
From what I can find, there aren’t any body armors that are made of composite metal foam (CMF) on the market, so it’s not going to be available in Icelander’s campaign.
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Well,
probably not.
That is, I plan to feature mostly commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) equipment, arms, armor, radios and everything else, and require legal justifications for gear normally not available to everyone.
However, the PCs do have 100 points invested in a billionaire Patron with extensive connections, who funds their Monster Hunting activities lavishly and pays the PCs well.
The personal Wealth of the PCs* ranges from Comfortable (Alice Talbot is technically not a Monster Hunter, she's a college student who works part time for J.R. Kessler, the Patron) to Filthy Rich (Teddy Smith was paid a full salary as a senior PSC operator for all the 23 years he was lost in the Bermuda Triangle and the proceeds were invested on his behalf by Kessler's business managers). 'Typical' Wealth for the active Monster Hunters is between Wealthy and Very Wealthy, depending on seniority and whether they have collected significant stock options.
All of which is to say, if a given technology exists and is too cool to ignore, there is theoretically a chance that one of the companies manufacturing prototypes happens to be partially owned by Kessler. This is especially likely for Texas-based companies or more generally, companies based around the Gulf Coast or perhaps the South as a whole. Kessler owns more assets in Caribbean countries, France and a number of African countries than he does anywhere north of the Mason-Dixie line (where, aside from Washington D.C., Kessler also seems to have spent very little of his time).
Even if Kessler doesn't own any companies making space age armor out of prototype TL9 materials, I strongly suspect that Kessler will have a stake in a small custom body armor company, if only because real world companies won't have the same need for protection against razor sharp sacrifical knives, Bite ST 30 fangs, demonic talons, swords and axes swung by ST 15-20 maniacs, etc.
But perhaps his Monster Hunters can buy COTS concealable ballistic armor and rifle-resistant plates, with only the multi-threat melee layer being a custom design. And, at any rate, the LEOs that the PCs are dealing with will certainly have ordinary COTS body armor, albeit possibly chosen to be useful against as wide a range of threat as is practical, without making it unacceptable for mundane use.
*I'm leaving 'Nonc' Morel out entirely, as he is in no way employed by J.R. Kessler... or anyone else. Francois Morel St. Patin claims to be a Druid, pact-bonded to Papa Mangrove, and the sworn Wilderness Guardian of his patch of the Atchafalaya Basin. Monetary concerns are beneath him and he consents to aid J.R. Kessler out of friendship and shared goals, not for pay. Also, 'Nonc' Morel more or less exists in a barter economy of a compex network of favors and obligations throughout his vast Cajun clan. And, in any case, 'Nonc' Morel will never buy body armor or any other modern equipment. He carries a gnarled stick (T-Papa, his Druid Staff) and a sling. When he brought a 'modern' weapon for self-defence, it was a black-powder Colt SAA .45 LC inherited from a great-grandfather.