"I could probably explain it, given a whiteboard to work with," says Gordon, "but all right."

"Oh- it was billed as a hazardous environment survival suit when they issued it to me, but honestly, I have to assume it was designed as an augment exoskeleton for the military and we were just the human testers. Although the monitoring and chelation systems built into it work exactly as advertised. There's about eight different monitoring systems in here keeping track of the wearer's vitals and injecting painkillers and medical compounds as needed, plus the radio system and the munitions monitor link. It's got an energy reserve that it can divert to compensate for potential damage to the wearer, but that chews up the power supply in a hurry."