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Not really an oddity, trench coats are a good way to keep warm, so they are semi common in reality. You all want the advantage of hiding who you are, and in fact most blue or soldiers probably want to hide who they are since people react poorly to them.
As for how shotos question of Nate knowing how to control his gear such as the contra grav boots. It falls under the same heading of why people with no experience with swords or nano tech armor can use them. I previously stated the bodies developed reflexive and instinctive knowledge. In Nate's subconscious he has been using the boots for ten years, and probably reloaded his weapon a few times, and of coarse fired it. The result is the classic balancing on a bike, you don't control it as much as do it.
Now for light armor. This is a mix between the posted heavy armor and the infantry, more or less. The armor transformed form is smaller, weaker in both power and defense. Before transformation it is like heavy armor, the weakest with the poorest reflexes, and not equipped with armor, but able to regrow lost limbs and such. Since the size of the transformed state is smaller they are equipped with the same crystal weapons infantry uses. (Remember the inertia rods are powered by brute force.) The key advantage in light armor as opposed to heavy armor is that they can stay transformed longer, the transformation requires smaller changes which in turn use less energy. As such light armor missions were those that required more punch then normal infantry had but were likely to be longer engagements.
As for how shotos question of Nate knowing how to control his gear such as the contra grav boots. It falls under the same heading of why people with no experience with swords or nano tech armor can use them. I previously stated the bodies developed reflexive and instinctive knowledge. In Nate's subconscious he has been using the boots for ten years, and probably reloaded his weapon a few times, and of coarse fired it. The result is the classic balancing on a bike, you don't control it as much as do it.
Now for light armor. This is a mix between the posted heavy armor and the infantry, more or less. The armor transformed form is smaller, weaker in both power and defense. Before transformation it is like heavy armor, the weakest with the poorest reflexes, and not equipped with armor, but able to regrow lost limbs and such. Since the size of the transformed state is smaller they are equipped with the same crystal weapons infantry uses. (Remember the inertia rods are powered by brute force.) The key advantage in light armor as opposed to heavy armor is that they can stay transformed longer, the transformation requires smaller changes which in turn use less energy. As such light armor missions were those that required more punch then normal infantry had but were likely to be longer engagements.
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