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Powered Armor

Unlike light and heavy armor, powered armor requires its own battery, and comes with a fully charged battery at purchase. Powered armor uses the same type of batteries as other items, including charged weapons, and the battery for a suit of powered armor can be recharged as normal using a generator or recharging station (see page 234), or it can be replaced with a new battery when spent (see Table 7–9: Ammunition for battery pricing).
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Angel Frame (Hybrid)

Source Alien Archive 3 pg. 125
Item Level 16; Price 191,000
EAC Bonus 18; KAC Bonus 22
Max Dex Bonus 6; Armor Check Penalty -2; Speed 30 ft.; fly 60 ft., (perfect)
Strength 20 (+5); Damage 2d6 P; Size Medium
Capacity 100; Usage 1/minute
Weapon Slots 1; Upgrade Slots 2; Bulk 18
This surprisingly light suit of hybrid powered armor uses technomagical microthrusters to grant you flight and incredible mobility. In its undeployed form, an angel frame looks and functions as a specific kind of clothing, often an environmental outfit or travel outfit. In this form, an angel frame grants none of the effects of wearing powered armor and doesn’t use charges. As a full action, you can speak a command word that causes pieces of the armor to deploy from extra-dimensional spaces and fit together around you. Once deployed, the angel frame functions as powered armor with the listed statistics. You can return the angel frame to its undeployed form as a full action by speaking the same command word. An angel frame that runs out of power stays in its deployed form and has a bulk of 18; you can still exit the armor as a full action.

Angel frames tend to resemble a gleaming suit of full plate perfectly tailored to your form, sometimes with wing-like protrusions at its shoulders; its appearance can also be subtly altered to fit your personal aesthetic.