On 5/28/2020 9:44 AM, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> Well, it's 'battle dress' in that some wag hung that emotive title on
> 'powered exoskeleton with armour'. It is technically true (much like a
> set of fatigues is battle dress) but it's also just dramatic sounding.
> The designers may never have called it that but the marketers would.

I wonder to what extent this is language and/or cultural - remember,
Galanglic is not 20th/21st century English, it has even more <s>stolen
vocabulary</s> loanwords, etc.  Maybe that's what the Vilani-derived
phrase most literally translates as; meanwhile, the Sollies call it
"power armo(u)r", as they have since long before it was actually
invented/made practical.

Alternatively, per your mention of marketing: could be that "battle
dress" is trademarkable where "power armor" is not.  (This, of course,
works on a meta level as well. :p )

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