Weird Harold wrote:Jonathan_S wrote:On the other hand that means if the morgue is in vacuum or has a toxic atmosphere from fire or battle damage that a Marine can't don their power armor because they have to strip out of their skinsuit, slide into a new custom fitted bodysuit - which takes a while. And you also get the fun of redoing the plumbing connections; oh joy.
It seems to me that battle armor is assigned and custom fitted to a particular marine. So it would make sense that Marines assigned to a heavy weapons platoon would have the body-glove for their armor fitted as their normal skin-suit. That would ameliorate most of your objections; at least the major point about having to change suits before donning the Battle armor.
If that is indeed the way thing are set up, the body-glove for battle armor would be roughly comparable to Navy skin suits as armor, but lack -- or have removable -- thrusters and other systems not needed inside the battle-armor.
Since not every situation would require full battle-armor, heavy weapons platoon would have to have enough armor and capability to fight in just skin-suits. In any event, those Marines would be in the "Morgue" as their GQ station. They would have their skin-suits/body-glove stored there and have a choice of which to don according to the situation that prompted "General Quarters."
Your and Jonathan's post begs the question of comfort. It seems it could become unbearably hot wearing a skin suit and powered armor. Which I beg the question of whether powered armor somehow provides internal atmospheric control?