This is essentially your own materials design sequence. Note that you can't get "Advanced Composite" out of it, and a lightweight composite that strong won't be available until around 2500.
Tech Level
The basic strength's for materials at various
TL's are:
| TL | AV (Armour Grade) | Notes |
| 1 (Pre-history) | 0.03 | Wood, leather, bone, stone |
| 2 (10,000 BC) | 0.07 | Copper |
| 3 (3,000 BC) | 0.1 | Bronze |
| 4 (0 AD) | 0.17 | Iron |
| 5 (1400 AD) | 0.23 | |
| 6 (1700AD) | 0.33 | Steel |
| 7 (1800 AD) | 0.43 | |
| 8 (1900 AD/ 2001 AD) | 0.57 | Face-hardened steel |
| 9 (1930 AD/ 2060 AD) | 0.7 | |
| 10 (1960/ 2090 AD) | 0.87 | Aluminium alloys |
| 11 (2120 AD) (Old Commerical) | 1.0 | |
| 12 (2200AD) (New Commercial/ Old Military) | 1.25 | Ceramic-Metal Composites |
| 13 (2300AD) (New Military) | 1.5 | |
| 14 (2400AD) | 1.67 | |
| 15 (2500AD) | 1.9 |
This is modified as follows:
| Type | Toughness | Mass | Cost |
| Organic | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| Lightweight | 0.67 | 2 | 1.33 |
| Intermediate | 0.8 | 3 | 1.167 |
| Medium | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Heavy | 1.5 | 8 | 2.5 |
| Super Heavy | 1.75 | 10 | 3 |
The other modifer is the material type:
Construction materials are not meant as armour. They have half the AV, but cost 1/4 of the amount
Hardened materials are designed to be
highly damage resistant. They have double the AV, and 4 times the cost.
Partially hardened materials are double the cost and 1.4 time as tough.
Our classic SC materials correspond roughly to:
Metallic: Old Commercial Heavy Armour
Synthetic: Old Commercial Partially Hardened
Medium Armour
L.P. Synthetic: Old Military Partially Hardened
Intermediate Armour
Advanced Synthetic: New Military Partially
Hardened Lightweight Armour
Composite: New Military Hardened Medium Armour
(raised mass from 3 to 4)
Advanced Composite: No equivalent
The best modern, hardened armours are:
Lightweight: AV2
Intermediate: AV2.4
Medium: AV3
Heavy: AV4.5
Super Heavy: AV5.25
Cost
The generic cost of armour is Lv10,000 per cubic meter, modified by stealthing (see below), hardening, and weight. Note that construction materials are 1/4 this, and may not be hardened, or stealthed. Each TL below the current TL saves 20% of the cost, upto 90%.
Stealthing
This involves adding stealth treatments to our materials. Heavy and Super Heavy materials have a default RCS of 1 before stealthing. All others 0.6. One level of stealth multiplies this by 0.5, two levels 0.33, and 3 levels 0.2. Each level doubles the material cost.
The New Material Table
Converting as best we are able:
| Signature | Lv per cubic meter | Tons per cubic meter | AV | Armour Multiplier | |
| Metallic | 1 | 15,000 | 8 | 1.5 | x4 |
| Synthetic | 0.6 | 12,000 | 4 | 1.41 | x4.24 |
| LP Synthetic | 0.3 | 37,344 | 3 | 1.41 | x4.24 |
| Advanced Synthetic | 0.1 | 150,000 | 2 | 2 | x3 |
| Composite | 0.6 | 167,000 | 3 | 2.4 | x2.5 |
| Advanced Composite | 0.2 | 213,333 | 2 | 2 | x3 |