Beta said
I'm pretty sure I did. And I can just reason that he saved his salary and bought custom armor once he left the military, rather than kept his old kit. Once I have am of time, I will make the needed edits.
I'll throw that to the others, but most military salaries aren't superb. Whe it's possible to save a large sum of credits over 9 years, a lot of that stuff (mainly jetpack armour) wouldn't be readily available on a civilian market, much because of how specialized it is to military applications and that it's something I doubt the Hegemony would allow to be sold on a civilian market. The black market is an option, but it's crazy marked up due to hpw hard it is to obtain. Remember, mercs scraping by, not heavily armed spec ops team is the premise here. I'm also pretty wary about when people are fixed on the multiplayer classes as their inspiration, because it usually seems like they are more interested in doing that kind of thing with the character as a secondary focus. I remember we had someone try to apply as a krogan warlord with the giant hammer, this kind of feels the same way.
It doesn't mean the stuff is unobtainable, it's hust that anyone who's desperate enough to join a crew that's literally living pay cheque to pay cheque probably isn't rolling in riches to begin with.