Trope-a-Day: Highly Conspicuous Uniform

General
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Highly Conspicuous Uniform: Most notably, the Watch Constabulary’s fluorescent/illuminated bright-yellow trim on their black-and-shiny-white armor, but that’s because – in their multiple roles as law enforcement, paramedics, and disaster-response crew – they’re supposed to stand out because when you need one, you want to be able to spot him easily.

Not quite played straight by the actual Imperial Legions and other military forces, but in many parts of them outside special operations, recon, and such, there is quite a bit of Bling of War going on; given how very, very difficult it is to hide the thermodynamic and in many cases neutrino signature of modern battlefield equipment, especially when that includes combat exoskeletons, a lot of forces trade in the de minimis increase in stealth passive camouflage gets you in exchange for looking properly gorgeous on the battlefield.  The loss is rarely noticeable in the statistics.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://eldraeverse.com/2014/08/01/trope-a-day-highly-conspicuous-uniform
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(Yes, this version of how the Constabulary dress is now deprecated.

But they are still Highly Conspicuous.)

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I feel that the Constabulary would have exoskeletons available at the koban, though probably more the industrial type with significantly enhanced strength than the “carry the weight of armor and gear” levels of Legion combat armor.

For purposes of lifting fallen beams etc in mass-casualty disasters. So I think they’d have full internal atmospheric seal/reprocessing like Legion armor.

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Firefighting is the other time you want a good sealed power-assisting suit. I say this as someone who has done volunteer firefighting: it’s hot, it’s hard to breathe sometimes, and the hoses are HEAVY. Running 200m while dragging a hose is legit one of the requirements on the physical test you do for it. I passed it as a teen, but there’s no way I could do so now with my myriad of health issues.

…come to think of it, I think our volunteer bush firefighting service is one of the ones that the Imperials would approve of. Ditto for our SES, the State Emergency Services, who are the ones you call when a tree falls on your house/your roof blows off etc etc. All the weather-related disasters where there is no longer an imminent risk to life (those are the firefighter’s remit) but the average soph isn’t expected to have the tools to handle the immediate crisis, like helping you get a tarpaulin over the gaping hole in your building that’s letting all the rain in.