Environmental Suits

The environmental suit is the standard zero-atmo gear owned by almost anyone who leaves a greenzone. Originally designed by General Manufacturing for New Economic Block workers, the suit proved reliable, cheap, and easily modified. Nowadays there are as many brands of e-suit as there are stars in the sky, with any real differences being minute enough to matter only to collectors. Even the quadrupedal suits are more or less standardized (and analogous) to the basic e-suit.
While environmental suits use power, they are not what's commonly considered power armor. They are dependent on the user's musculature to operate. E-Suits operate through a series of specialized high-capacity batteries that are charged wirelessly when placed in their locker, but may also recoup charge from the user's movement.
Suits all have the following basic functions:

• Oxygen Recycling System. The suit stores up to 4 hours of oxygen at a time through a series of honeycombed reservoirs throughout the armor plates. When powered, the suit also reclaims oxygen from the atmosphere, the user's breath, and will also convert sweat and other waste fluids to hydrogen and oxygen.
• Hazard Defense Value. This value perfectly protects against any environmental hazard that deals that value damage or below. Any that deal higher damage are reduced by a rolled HDV.
• Combat Defense Value. This is rolled to reduce any incoming source of combat damage.
• Self-sealing Gel. Immediately stops up any armor breaches, good for 6 hours against basic zero-atmo conditions.
• Hardpoints - Bipedal Suits. Hardpoints for mounting additional equipment on each shoulder, the back, and utility belt. Typically only one of the shoulder hardpoints is powered for equipment such as auxiliary weapons systems, servo-arms, and the like.
• Hardpoint - Quadrupedal Suit. In quadrupedal armor, hardpoints are instead combined into one large powered hardpoint that slots for a weapon or utility harness.
• Medicine Injection Port. Found in each arm and right torso, this allows medicine injections for medical emergencies in the harshest of environments.
• Automatic Resuscitator. Will attempt to jump-start the user's heart in case of a flatline. This has a low success rate, but has still been found to save lives.
• Communications Equipment Modules. Incorporated into each shoulder, this includes exterior speakers, radio equipment, and laser signaling projectors.
• Emergency Quick-Ejection System. Each major armor plate may be ejected in case of burnthrough, malfunction, or any other unforeseen circumstance. Early modules even included an amputation function, but this was quickly dropped after the Hacksuit Massacre.

There are three major categories of suit: light, medium, and heavy.
Light suits are only rarely used, and usually only when mobility is at a premium. They're most often used by children, small uplifts, or the infirm in the civilian sectors, though there are some uses for them in occupations that require tight spaces or low mass. In military operations, they are the suit of choice for scouts and spies.

• Minimum strength to operate: d4
• Hazard Defense Value: d6
• Combat Defense Value: d6
• One step bonus to agility-based Athletics and Covert rolls

Medium suits are the most common, used across civilian and military domains. Construction workers, troopers, and the average spacer all use these suits.

• Minimum strength to operate: d6
• Hazard Defense Value: d8
• Combat Defense Value: d8

Heavy suits are only used by the largest of uplifts, the most dangerous of professions, and heavy weapons users. Slow and cumbersome, they're proof against almost all environmental hazards- but pack enhanced power systems to compensate.

• Minimum strength to operate: d8
• Hazard Defense Value: d10
• Combat Defense Value: d10
• Reduces movement speed by 5 ft
• In bipedal armor, both shoulder hardpoints are powered
• In quadrupedal armor, back hardpoint is capable of mounting equipment with vehicle-level power requirements