It also occurred to Jarrod that if they could build articulated armor, then they had to have been fighting in armor for a very, very long time, here. Articulated cuir bouilli like Javal’s had been mentioned by Chaucer in the Fourteenth Century, which put it a good five hundred years ahead of their metallurgy and two thousand years ahead of the advent of riveted mail. Probably more than that, since on Earth everyone seemed to figure things out a lot faster than these guys did.
They were on the cusp of a major arms advancement. They just didn’t see it yet.
If you could import sheets of ten-gauge mild steel to this planet, you could buy and sell the Hillwhites.
He pushed the thought aside.
Jarrod knew, the moment that they arrived at the main gate to the keep, that things weren’t quite ri
