When the war was over

there was lots of surplus stuff you could get online.....we put together our money and got four Space Navy powersuits.....not armed suits, just working suits like the Spacebees used when they were building asteroid bases or whatever.....still, you felt like Iron Man in one of those things, with augmented muscle and sensory arrays and flight capability and computer power.....and you are bullet-proof, pretty much.....unless somebody is shooting at you with a hypervelocity mirco-cannon or something like that.....and we claimed our Rights under the Omnibus Treaty and went out to stake claims in the Ort Cloud. We were the only four left alive from our old unit, and we had been through so much hell together that we decided to stick with it a while longer and see if we could survive the peace like we'd survived the war. There was an outfit in Mars orbit that was strapping old constant boosters onto those multipurpose space frames they had used for ferrying troops and supplies there towards the end of the hostilities....we begged and borrowed enough to equip one of those with life support for about 24 months......and we were gambling our lives that we would find some rock or hunk of ice out there with something on it we could parley into more months of survival.....a lot of desperate vets were doing the same thing......