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, 9 years ago→Zoe's armor vest
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** Because it's wrecked ... that's the thing with modern armour. It stops bullets, but is permanently damaged in the process.
*** It was just a little dented. It could still be useful.
**** No, you don't understand. If it was anything like kevlar, then it works by being extremely densely-woven high tensile strength fibers. When a kevlar vest takes a hit, the weave loses a lot of its density... it unravels and loosens to a certain extent, basically, because it ''took a hit from a bullet''. Once a vest has been shot once, it's worthless. There's no reason to believe that Zoe's vest, which was very thin and obviously much more lightweight than the body armor we see most soldiers wearing, was any different.
** Cost, presumably. Also, most of the times when crew members have been injured by torso wounds, they've either been in situations where they weren't expecting combat (Mal facing the pirate smugglers, for example) or were noncombatants (Book being shot in "Safe," Kaylee in the pilot, etc) of note is that Jayne gets shot in the chest in "War Stories" yet his only reaction is an angry curse, so its possible that he was wearing some variant of a bulletproof vest as well.
*** It's heavy. It probably chafes a lot.
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** That's a good explanation for why none of the crew would have had armor, but why not other characters who did have money or were opportunist (could steal it)? Surely, after the war, there would be a lot of surplus that people would just walk off with or sell.
*** Who said people don't have access to that armor? Niska's men seem to be wearing armor, and most of the rest of the people the crew fights seem to be either bandits or others who wouldn't have the money to buy the armor.
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