[UT] Armor: Laser Resistant = Beam Weapon Resistant?

[Captain Joy]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

It's probably very unrealistic to treat 'laser' as referring to all beam weapons. Lasers have to 'burn' through (or flash-evaporate through) armor. Particle beams on the other hand are highly penetrating. They don't stop at the surface of a target at all. Whole different thing.

So then, the only flexible body armor at TL11 that is any good at stopping TL11 blasters (particle beams) is TL10 bioplas? If I'm missing anything, please let me know.

My Star Trek campaign is TL11^ safe tech; the medical tech is only TL9, so there is no bioplas armor.

Am I stretching things too much to say that at TL11, it's okay for laser resistant ablative nanoplas (a TL10 development) to receive the Beam-Adaptive Armor [UT190] upgrade, which "can be used with any TL11-12 armor"? (This would give them DRs of 108! This seems a bit much.)

Or, maybe it'd be better to say that at TL11, advanced materials science can now do what TL10 bioplas could have done. (Now, if I make that beam-adaptive, I get a DR of 45. That seems about right.)

I'm interested in trying to keep my campaign as GURPS canon as possible in the weapon/armor arena. Your thoughts on the matter are appreciated.

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Captain Joy

So then, the only flexible body armor at TL11 that is any good at stopping TL11 blasters (particle beams) is TL10 bioplas? If I'm missing anything, please let me know.

Cybersuit/Nanosuit. It's listed under powered armor, but it's flexible limited-profile body armor.

Anything else, I can't comment on without going home to my books.