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Surely you aren't comparing a Death Star to BH armor.

There's a very good game-world reason for not everyone to be able to have a Death Star: ownership of something as massive as a Death Star is simply beyond the reach of any player character. If a player were somehow able to obtain a Death Star, and get thousands of trained people to crew it for them, it'd make perfect sense for them to be able to use it to blow up planets. But a player is never going to be able to obtain an operational Death Star.

Now, conversely, BH/Mandalorian armor is something that any player character could potentially obtain, even if only by paying a BH an exorbitant price. If the character is able to obtain it, why shouldn't they be able to wear it?

Again, I'm absolutely in favor of providing some LOGICAL reason for only Bounty Hunters wearing it. Perhaps if a non-BH puts on Mandalorian armor, the Bounty Hunter's Union gets pissed and a BH TEF is put on that player, with the first BH to kill them getting to loot the armor off their inert carcass. Perhaps the jetpack is only operable by a BH, so any non-BH trying to use it will crash and burn. Perhaps Bounty Hunter armor gives huge bonuses to BH skills, but is inferior to conventional armor in other ways, so that a BH gets nice benefits from wearing it (more than enough to compensate for its other inferiorities - maybe some nice defense mods?) but for anyone else it's a hindrance.

But please don't do the thing of I can't put this hat on because I'm not level13 yet.

mando armor is equipable by:

Bounty Hunters,Commandos,Rangers, and Squad Leaders