Where's the body armor?

POSTED BY: shambleau
UPDATED: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 03:51
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SHAMBLEAU

Thursday, March 18, 2004 8:04 PM

In Serenity, Zoe wears some kind of ultralight body armor, which saves her life. We haven't seen or heard of it since. Why didn't we see anybody putting on body armor in War Stories, for instance? (Although maybe Jayne did. He looked like he got hit in the fire-fight, but was fine later.)

shambleau

BROWNCOAT1

Thursday, March 18, 2004 8:06 PM

Not sure why it has not been mentioned since Shambleau, but I am sure they still have it, at least Zoe does.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

KINGOFKOINS

Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:08 PM

I'm fairly certain that Zoe wore it in War Stories.

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SHINY

Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:33 PM

Zoe wore it in War Stories. Jayne doesn't have any because he's expendable (ZOE: 'she hasn't hurt anybody...not anyone we can't spare, I mean') and Mal's just too damn pretty to die, so he don't need it. ;)

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

LJOSALF

Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:48 PM

I wondered about the hit that Jayne took in War Stories, as well, but concluded that the weapon he was hit with was likely similar to the Alliance stun gun from Ariel and that he only took a glancing blow.

Also, doesn't anybody else in the 'verse have this armor? The folks that the crew shoot at don't seem to, not even Niska's people, but then the only Fed they've shot was Dobson and he took it in the head. Maybe concealable armor is too expensive for the average Joe or crook but provided to certain Alliance forces. I suppose Zoe might have liberated it....However, contemplating Zoe buying the armor on the black market brings to mind a question I had about Mal's finances: Serenity can't have been all that cheap, working or not. Where did Mal get the scratch to buy her?

Ljosalf

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

CYBERSNARK

Friday, March 19, 2004 1:21 AM

Or maybe Zoe's armour is "home-made."

I kinda got the feeling Mal sank everything he had into Serenity. Life savings, soldiery pay, heck, maybe he had a well-off relative who just died.

Or maybe he pulled a Han Solo and won his choice of ship in a card game.

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SHINY

Friday, March 19, 2004 2:01 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ljosalf:
Also, doesn't anybody else in the 'verse have this armor? The folks that the crew shoot at don't seem to

Early wore body armor. Probably one of the reasons River decided she had to trick him off the ship rather than try to get the crew into a firefight with him.

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

VETERAN

Friday, March 19, 2004 3:07 AM

Zoe's body armor is a bit of a mystery. It doesn't even cover her sternum.

STEVE580

Friday, March 19, 2004 3:23 AM

Or maybe, after taking one direct hit, the armour just becomes unuseable.

...what? You never know. Maybe they just have shitty armour in the future.

As for the ship, maybe he's still making payments on it. Or was for a while, anyways. I guess if he and Zoe sold all their worldly possesions...but then, the ship would be at least partly Zoe's, right? And I've never gotten that feeling. So, I wonder what the deal is with that.
-Steve

LJOSALF

Friday, March 19, 2004 12:17 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Shiny:
Early wore body armor.

But Early's armor was implied to be in his spacesuit not concealed on his person....Much like the Purple Belly (Starship Troopers) armor that we see in Train Job and Bushwhacked. That's not to say that Early wouldn't have concealable armor in his repertoire and he certainly would be able to afford it, black market or not.

Ljosalf

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

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