"Yeah. Or potentially making things worse with a bad repair." Sometimes, if a person didn't know enough about what they were doing, they would only make things worse than actually fixing them. They had to be careful of that, too, or lose use of the limb altogether.

He nodded about the rain thing, but tried to remember if that had been an issue. They hadn't been exposed to much in the way of weird weather back home because they spent most of their time on the ship. It hadn't really been something he'd gotten the chance to observe. He'd have to watch out for anything here.

"Kind of..." Keith leaned in to look a little closer when Ed pulled his sleeve up. "Though, doesn't thinning the metal like that weaken it to impact?" It wasn't like the bayards at all, though, if that's what Ed was doing. The bayards were complete weapons, using Altean particle storage technology to make themselves smaller and then to essentially disappear into the Paladin armor.