Strength Augmentation
Even light armor grants the wearer several times the effective strength of an unarmored human, whereas the heavy myrmidons have been described as miniature Hercs (a rather obvious example of dramatic exaggeration). Practically speaking, lifting strength of a light armor is approximately five times that of a man of average fitness in his prime. A medium is perhaps thirty percent more, and a heavy is easily twice the strength of a light. In conjunction with T-grav nodes in the weapon stocks, the armor allows a single individual to carry more firepower than an infantry platoon of the Cybrid wars.

The microservo network enhances all tactically relevant muscle motion, including the hands, oblique abdominals, and rotator cuffs as well as the more obvious gross limb movements. Flexor expansion-contraction sequences are keyed to the armor's neural link such that augmentation activates in proportion to a warrior's perceived need. Thus, an armored warrior can crush a human skull as easily as she can pick up an egg.

The design restricts an armor's servo output to levels the human body can tolerate, though some stories tell of warriors overriding their armors' limits to accomplish feats of speed and prowess considered quite improbable in real life armor use. Again, the popularity of these "tales of battle" is a common thread whenever one discusses military subjects in tribal space. There have been some documented cases of warriors who ripped their joints apart and caused serious permanent injuries by overriding the safety parameters of their armors' performance. In the popular "Renegades" vid series (to which I shamefully admit my addiction), the heroes continually ignore their armors' limitations to perform completely superhuman feats. Remind me to send you an episode sometime. You'll get a kick out of the tacnuke machine guns.

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