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The protection that will always be with you. Truly last-chance armor.

May be an obvious carapace, may be subdermal - of course, in the latter case, rather than being prevented, an injury only becomes superficial, and the beneficiary presumably still feels it. Usually it can't be too solid, so as not to restrict the movement too much, but it's better than nothing. Likely to be differentiated (as all practical armor for as long as there is armor) - sometimes limited to vital organs only.


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* ''[[Mahabharata]]'', of all books. Karna has magical armor as a gift from his real father (the Sun god). As such, when he finally chose to remove it, he had to cut it out.

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* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'': some cyborgized humans have this; warriors of Mechanicus have integrated carapaces; Orks sometimes bolt armor plating to their bodies (they are tough like this).
** ''[[Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay]]'' has both Cranial and Subskin Armour as separate implants. Also, thorough augmentation represented by Machine(X) trait adds Armour Points. Cybernetic constructs have a significant amount of the latter, and often also integral armoured plating on top. Also, the Rak'Gol (at least, those encountered by humans) commonly have implanted plates.
* Among the many cybermods available in ''[[Shadowrun]]'' are Dermal Plating, Dermal Sheathing, Orthoskin, and other varieties of implanted armor.

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* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has it as uncommon, but less than exotic augmentation, used in military (obviously) and [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-03-11 some] professional sports. Usually limited to the brain-case, since medical [[nanomachines]] can reconstruct the rest of one's body later. Presumably, various "soldier boosts" include a lesser version of this, since other bones are significantly reinforced; Laz-R-Us boosts include "runt [[Super Soldier]]" mode, which includes visible armor plating of the body. Of the named characters, John Der Trihs was reduced to head in a jar many times, but survived - thanks to [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-12-22 the whole skull being replaced with armor]. Among the non-humans, [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-07-16 Ezraene Venombrook] (she introduces herself as "Daggermother, [[Mega Corp|Urtheep Industries]] Hot Mess Response Team", so it's professional too) has heavily reinforced skull.

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