In my case it was the low CON and how we decided he'd "acquired" it. Character generation (this was MT) produced a low CON to begin with, but the character failed a Survival roll to enter the game, and we started in Aramis subsector, so i told the group by way of introduction that I'd had a bad time in that dustup with Vargr pirates some months earlier while on loan to the Navy for courier duty. While *I* hadn't taken any hits, my ship had, and I spent several days in a faulty Naval hardsuit. When they found me and saw what the suit had done to me, the Navy quietly and quickly awarded me a Purple Heart and sent me on my way. The Scouts, being heartlessly savage in their internal humor (they are known, IMTU, for playing dirty when it comes to comparing service medals with other Armed Forces), swapped my Purple *Heart* for a Purple *Colon* and gave me a medical discharge to go with...
The character was thereafter hard to seperate from his soft suit, but you couldn't pay him enough to put on a hard suit...
[This message has been edited by GypsyComet (edited 25 July 2001).]