MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

Legion Priority Target

In a world where high priced bounty hunters are often required to mete out justice at galaxy’s edge, everyone is looking for a leg up on their competition. While some of these hitters work their skills in tactical reconnaissance or by wielding a blaster, the ones with staying power—real longevity—go for armor that is more than just for show. 

Since the time when mercenaries first struck out into the galaxy to the rise of the Bronze Guild, those that make their living by the pull of a trigger know that not every job lands them in hospitable places. Desert star ports, jungles full of deadly predators, and the occasional trip into vacuum are all reasons the best of the blaster-set run their missions inside of fully enclosed armor.

Now, the Legion is known for their distinctive plate armor and buckets, but rare is the hunter or merc that can front the kind of credits it takes to pick up armor like that off the rack. For most, armor is a piecemeal affair, where it becomes modified over time. 

Acquire a piece here, a new helmet there, and that once frumpy-looking blaster thug has a brand-new bang. Not to mention a look distinctive from other hunters just running a plate carrier with ablative armor that only covers their chest. 

We see this on more than one occasion in Galaxy’s Edge Season 1, where Wraith starts with a set of Legion armor signed out to him for his mission. Through grift and guile, Wraith augments the armor with state-of-the-art Night Market tech, which seriously cracks the volume on the already dangerous Legion tool. 

In Season 3, we meet Black Heart at the beginning of the book, a bounty hunter working a contract for the Bronze Guild. The leejes find the hunter’s fully enclosed environmental armor is more than just a set of plates to keep stray blaster bolts from ruining the merchandise. Through complex onboard AI suites, high gain communications systems, and more than a little Night Market wizardry, Black Heart’s armor is more akin to a Legion C2—Command & Control—armor than it is something the bounty hunter pulled off-the-shelf. 

As the most famous bounty hunter in the galaxy, Tyrus Rechs, often displayed, the armor was a great place to hide combat advantages that put them far ahead of the competition. The ancient Mark I armor had augments that saved the former general on many occasions. Legion command even copied some of Rechs’s tech and incorporated it into their own kit, by way of his notorious jump jets.

Dive deep into Galaxy’s Edge and see the black market armor for yourself!