Interwoven with your skin is a flexible mesh and network of counter-charges designed to 'bounce' against ballistic impacts. This grants you significant defense versus gunfire and other projectiles of that nature; it is less effective versus arrows, flechettes, and other piercing damage.
Surface charges also react to incoming high-speed objects; this defense system has virtually no effect against melee attacks.
- Rank 1 - 15% reduced firearms damage
- Rank 2 - 25% reduced firearms damage
- Rank 3 - 33% reduced firearms damage
- Rank 4 - 50% reduced firearms damage
Rank 4 is only found on militarized posthumans.