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The protection that will always be with you. Truly last-chance armor.
 
May be an obvious carapace, may be subdermal. - ofOf course, in the latter case, rather than being prevented, an injury only becomes superficial, and the beneficiary presumably still feels it… but it's better to lose some skin than liver. 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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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[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, thoroughgeneral augmentation represented by Machine(X) trait or The Flesh is Weak (X) talent adds Armour Points. Cybernetic constructs have a significant amount of the latter, and often also integral armoured plating on top. AlsoOf the aliens, the Rak'Gol (at least, those encountered by humans) commonly have implanted plates (see [https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/ffg_blog/20857/original_content Rak'Gol Marauder] — common foot soldier, [https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/ffg_blog/20885/original_content Rak'Gol Abomination] — leader).
* Among the many cybermods available in ''[[Shadowrun]]'' are Dermal Plating, Dermal Sheathing, Orthoskin, and other varieties of implanted armor.
* Similarly, ''[[Cyberpunk 2020]]'' from R. Talsorian Games offers the Skin Weave cyber mod, which makes the skin of the recipient's torso equivalent to light body armor, and Body Plating, which is just what it sounds like -- bolting armor plates onto the character's body.
* ''[[Stars Without Number]]'' (Revised Edition) has Dermal Armor implant; it's as good as common TL4 combat armor, but 20× more expensive and gives constant 2 points of System Strain (most inflict 1), that limits amount of healing via psionic powers or most drugs per day.
 
== Video Games ==