The Mourners' Composition of War: Armour Pattern - Infantry
The Mourners' armour/barding appear highly complicated and detailed but in truth, have a simplistic start. From its chest-harness and faulding, telescopic armour fold out to cover the body in distinctive serrated plating over typically a zero-g undersuit.
The helmet itself is a separate device that is armour as much as 'heart' to the many capabilities that it is capable of. Typically, it have a familiarity to Qu facial shape as a daemon thing of fear that strike an near instinctive fear in many Mourners during the early age of unification and the rare moments of separation between the herds.
Despite their single-minded hatred, Mourners are still people and there are herds who wish to let go and live. The greater power of their empire disallows in the belief; if they let go, then their momentum will falter. Those who break away from the Great Herd is no longer of the Eternal War and exiled, stricken and forgotten by the greater public. It is only by the Third Civil War did they renounce from genocide, the Song of Forsaken Release composed.
Over the growing technological strength, the Infantry pattern remain the foundation to the other specialized variants. From its surprising light but resilient material to the adaptability even as self-defensive protection to the martially-competent emissaries and civilian militia.