Lackies

Which formation should we use? All of them.

Ves's spiritual spider sense starts tingling when he imagines obtaining the spiritual remnants of this massive beast

Its a little surprising they can claim to be "familiar" with CFA weaponry when they haven't really seen the fleeters going all out.

Considering Ves triggered at least two wars since then he's bucking the trend

Just place the shield generator module inside the cod piece. Protection for your protection.

New manly design, I call it "cargo pants".

Aren't tower shields like by default large relative to their wielder? What's a short tower shield? Is it like just a rectangular shield, and at that point isn't it just a pavise or other oblong shield?

Check back in 4000 chapters to see if this foreshadowing of Ves pioneering in some dark dimension only accessible through psychic powers and phasewater bears fruit.