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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/37174
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Ah, the good old balance between hard sci-fi and creative liberty question. I can't answer all, as each time this problem occurs, the solution differs.

I did create the somewhat useful **Mephisto's Solving Algorithm for Awesome** it reads out like this:

1. Collect everything you know about the problematic item.
2. Go through it, and see if it can be solved, real-world excuses/analogies are what you searching for, for example, an analogy can be drawn between the Quetzalcoatlus Northropi and a dragon, at least I think.
3. See if you can discard something to save the rest. (do dragons need to be that big?)

This allows you to keep something that's useful within a context, created in this way.

_A dragon from Second Earth (my fantasy setting) will nowhere nearly be as powerful as Smaug, but why should he? He won't be pitted against a Gandalf or a Sauron, or a shooty boi with an infinity +1 arrow._

## Applying this to your question:

Why do you need boob plates? A 15th-century gothic plate armor is the medieval equivalent of iddqd. Its weight is evenly distributed, [allowing you to do somersaults if you wanted to](https://youtu.be/qzTwBQniLSc?t=101), it also looks cool.

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VIYM2m.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VIYM2m.jpg)  
_Joan of Arc, the first and only overpowered female protagonist. She didn't need boob plates, why should you?_

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