Played straight with Forrest, who placed second to Kent in the Armored Olympics, which just means she's the very first one the commanders call on to do every impossible mission.For a while it seems like he's a Fake Ultimate Hero, but it turns out he's really as good as his image suggests, which just makes it worse that the high command have made such poor use of him.
Played with in the case of Nathan Kent, who is awesomely skilled with a suit of powered armor, not to mention handsome and extremely charismatic - and has never been anywhere near actual combat, except for brief and carefully stage-managed publicity exercises, because he's far too useful as a propaganda icon to let him go and get killed.Shortly before arriving, he encounters a derelict spaceship containing a suit of Powered Armor, and takes the armor with him as a memento the research base's head historian, Hollis Ware, finds the suit's blackbox/recorder pod and becomes obsessed with finding out about the armor's former owner. The second, set some years later, follows mercenary Jack Crow as he infiltrates a remote space colony to help steal something from the research base there. He not only survives more battles than any soldier in history, but winds up collecting a whole bunch of new traumas as well. The first follows new recruit Felix, who joins up in the hope of finding a meaningful death and an escape from his traumatic past, but discovers himself to be constitutionally incapable of giving up and letting himself get killed, no matter how hopeless the situation appears to be. The story alternates between two plot strands. There's an epic Space Opera backdrop, but the story takes place among the little people at ground level, for whom their own high command also seem distant and incomprehensible.
It's the distant future, and humanity is embroiled in a Bug War with the implacable, incomprehensible Ants. It can't protect you from who you are." Armor is a 1984 science fiction novel by John Steakley.
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