Going back from the rules discussion and considering the in-world situation, layering armor is all about practicality. As I see it, you can easily armor your armour's armour... at least in the blueprint design program. Whether it will *work* is something completely different. Many armour mods, especially immunities against special threats, reactive systems and stealth, require coatings that all have to be the outermost, so they cannot easily be layered and retain their effects. And customizing armour intended for biomorphs to fit a synthmorph is easy... but it just *fits*, it doesn't move as intended (wrong kind of joints for the flexible sections) or even provides slightly wrong protection (biomorphs are much more afraid of shrapnel penetrating their hides than synths are, who want to avoid cracks in their rigid parts - shrapnel is much less of a problem without an essential circulatory system). Turning yourself into a ball of armour is easy, turning yourself into an *agile* ball of armour is very hard. And it is so easy to forget something. Like heat dissipation - biomorphs quickly notice that they get too hot, the would-be-invincible synth might not notice any problem while testing out its Armour of Ultimate Invincibility but starts getting nasty overheating messages right during battle. Or that one of the armour designs isn't intended for vacuum use - 'splat' goes the layer of nanofiber gel, and now you are getting abrasive fullerenes into all your joints. It would have been annoying to a biomorph (who would anyway have been decompressing), but to a synth this might require a trip to the repair shop. Slapdash combining of open designs is a leading cause of accidents in the outer system...

If you think the armor would fit then they can wear it. Just apply the standard armor layering rules and common sense.

That *is* weird. I guess it's because Nanofab doesn't really belong under the same skill, but they shoehorned it in there. *shrug* I'm not sure what you're supposed to do there, but spec'd specs isn't it. :(

I agree with you. It's weird and nonsense. The simplest, most logical solution is to remove the Nanofab spec list. It has no business being there, and no one would take it anyway… because they already got the spec bonus on all Nanofab. (I'd never noticed that before, and I'd love to hear the reason for it, if anyone knows.) It is assuredly not a separate skill (though probably *should* be). :) My reasoning there is that most skills are narrower (look at social: separate for Persuasion, Deception, Intimidation…), and that Nanofab and Programming are both very powerful.

That works, too. :) One or the other, and that one is a little weaker (always good!). It's still an oddity. :/

That's not really the question, Unity. We *know* Nanofab is a listed spec of Programming. The weird bit is that Nanofab, for some reason, has suggested specs *itself* in the skills section, even though it's not a skill.

Exactly. And because neither of those make sense, they logically aren't true. :) Thus, Nanofab is the spec, and the stuff under Nanofab is just a curious error.