Implanted Armor

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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.

Examples of Implanted Armor include:

Myths and Legends

• 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.

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, 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.

Web Comics

• Schlock Mercenary has it as uncommon, but less than exotic augmentation - usually limited to the brain-case, since medical nanomachines can reconstruct the rest of one's body later. John Der Trihs have survived being reduced to head in a jar many times, thanks to the whole skull being replaced with armor (a memento from his previous job). Among the non-humans, Ezraene Venombrook has skull armor.