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Power Armor Refit

This adds recipes to upgrade regular powered armor and helmets into their alternate and prestige versions.
Prestige recipes will include Eltex if you're using Vanilla Psycasts Expanded.
Beware that this does not preserve the quality of the source armor, for better or for worse.
These recipes will also 'untaint' any tainted armor used as materials. If you're not already using a mod that allows this it can change the balance of the game.

This does not play nice with stuffable armors. (Which is why you can't upgrade the VPE Prestige Plate Armor)

Textures in this mod are not original and are low-effort edits of other people's work.

I found myself wanting something like this in my current playthrough and didn't see a mod that already did it. (Though I didn't look that hard tbh.)
I did some basic testing, but I wouldn't call it 'extensive', so please drop a comment if you see any issues.

The mod adds upgrade recipes for the following armors:
Recon Armor -> Prestige Recon Armor
Recon Armor -> Locust Armor
Recon Armor -> Mechlord Suit
Marine Armor -> Prestige Marine Armor
Marine Armor -> Grenadier Armor
Cataphract Armor -> Prestige Cataphract Armor
Cataphract Armor -> Phoenix Armor

From Vanilla Armour Expanded
Trooper Armor -> Prestige Trooper Armor
Siegebreaker Armor -> Prestige Siegebreaker Armor

From Prestige Specialist Armors
Locust Armor -> Prestige Locust Armor
Grenadier Armor -> Prestige Grenadier Armor
Phoenix Armor -> Prestige Phoenix Armor

From Biotech Prestige Mechlord Armor 1.4
Mechlord suit -> Prestige Mechlord Suit (Thanks Real Life Hobgoblin!)

This mod also *adds* the following prestige variants and recipes for upgrades:
From VFE Vikings (Removed from 1.6 version)
Guardian Armor -> Prestige Guardian Armor (no upgrade because stuffable)
Crypto Armor -> Prestige Crypto Armor
Heavy Crypto Armor -> Prestige Heavy Crypto Armor

From VFE Pirates
Marine Armor -> Privateer Armor
Privateer Armor -> Prestige Privateer Armor

From Save Our Ship 2 (Removed from 1.6 version)
Prestige Heavy EVA

Thank you to ハグ / Ian_Suffix for updating the SOS2 patch to work with the more recent experimental version.