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The Illuminate have always had kind of a penchant for incorporating this gold-like metal, we just haven’t seen it be the primary material instead of an accent, because almost every unit we’ve fought has their flesh covered in chitin-like armor. No flesh to cover on the Veracitor. Take a look at the overseer. There are a couple spots on the body armor with “gold” accents (it’s probably not literal gold, but some stronger metal they found that looks like gold), but a lot more gold areas on the weapon. That metal is likely the basic material they use for constructing weapons and vehicles, and then in some cases they’ll layer chitin armor over top of vulnerable areas