Cope Curtain

Hairy Mary armored train with hemp rope armor from the Boer War.

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It's actually camouflage. The enemy will think it's just a migrating giant yarn bundle and not shoot it
Ah, the wooly mammoth camouflage. A classic, sadly it only tricks the enemy for as long as it takes them to remember that wooly mammoths are extinct.
Unfortunately, Hairy Mary was detected by odor and destroyed on her maiden voyage.
- Ah nevermind.
  
  I was being facetious about the strong smell of hemp, my brother in Christ. For all I know, Mary had a long and odiferous career, full of adventure.
Sweet Jesus, that looks flammable.
"Cope Cage? I thought you said Rope Cage."
the shittiest of technicals

i think similar contraptions were used in propellant factories of the era as blast shields, but it's kinda pointless this way when curtain can't flex under stress. maybe perhaps it will stop tiny fragments or shot and the slowest of bullets, otherwise it would probably cause more trouble when it catches fire
- This is also why fire repellent theater curtains are no longer a thing.
  
  Well that and the fact they are made of asbestos, and raising and lowering friable asbestos fabric all the time in a public space isn’t the best idea.
Those sharpened mangoes were particularly lethal

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