Sensory Augmentation

There is no point in not utilising all the available human senses, even if in space, no one can hear you scream. You can't hear anyone else screaming either, unless you are in a combat suit. Sensory augmentation takes known cues, like the open mouth behind clear helmet, seen by the suits AI, which measures the observable vibration and if instructed, may play you a scream. You can of course choose what you hear so you might have chosen to hear a sheep bleating, or a Wilhelm scream.

You can also hear the sound of bullets wipping past you from behind and ricocheting of a wall to your left because the suit sees all and can play sounds from the speakers by your ears.

Visual augmentation can replace the generic helmets of your squad with very real looking live feeds of what the head is doing inside the helmet. To the outside world, all they see is nodding, but you are talking with your squad like no one is wearing a helmet.

Combat suits also have touch augmentation so the wearer can t ell what’s going on around them, including a very light tap on the shoulder and even a breeze across the skin. Although exceptionally expensive, the breeze feel allows marines to detect air escaping out a hair crack in what should be a sealed environment. Many lives have been saved from this in post combat environments.

In your suit you can instruct it to sniff a bucket of goop and snell strawberries as that's the cue you've chosen to identify explosives.

There is no end to non-invasive sensory augmentation. Pilots have the augmented sound of the ships around them do better in battle. You can of course use any soundscape to represent ships but most pilots opt to have had a laser rangefinder bounced off the hull, measuring the vibration. The measurements are used as a base to generate false sound. The same soundscapes are available to all in the HAM, with the most popular being 'real', 'comedy' and 'movie'.

The brain is plastic, so it can mold itself to any input. The HA looks down on invasive sensory inputs often used by mercenaries, but out of respect for the freedom of individuals, it does not ban it in adults. Children are not allowed to be augmented unless there is a medical need as identified by HAHA. That is to say it is technically possible, but as anything can be regrown, no child has ever had augmentation sanctioned by HAHA.