I wear second skin with the infrared sensors upgrade underneath my freebooter armor, and so far no GM has found issue with it. It has crossed my mind that this might not technically be legal though.
I for one would certainly like to know how this is meant to work as well.
This is a good question which I have seen pop up a few times hopefully the equipment book covers it. My groups have basically been handling it working like the other parts of the stacking. You get the best of whatever you are wearing so if your outer armor has more mod slots then you get those if the light under armor does than you get those mod slots. So you are not tempted to wear infinite second skins for unlimited mod slots.
Generally the heavier armor tends to have more mod slots it seems so that probably should work well enough as a rule of thumb until/unless some official ruling happens.
I don't think you can wear light armor (even second skin) under either heavy or light armor and get any benefit from it.
My assumption is that all heavy armor and most of the light armors come with something like second skin to wear as a part of them (even if they're not described as having it) but even if that isn't the case, this would get really silly really quickly.
For power armor, specifically, I think you get the benefit of the armor upgrades in the slots of both the light armor and power armor. For one, that ish is expensive, and you're not wearing the power armor 24/7 anyway.
I'd probably only disallow sensory upgrades or something the two armors have exclusive features...like...you can't use your light armor vision enhancement if the power armor also has a helmet that provides another form of enhancement. But I dunno..
I don't think you can wear light armor (even second skin) under either heavy or light armor and get any benefit from it.
My assumption is that all heavy armor and most of the light armors come with something like second skin to wear as a part of them (even if they're not described as having it) but even if that isn't the case, this would get really silly really quickly.
For power armor, specifically, I think you get the benefit of the armor upgrades in the slots of both the light armor and power armor. For one, that ish is expensive, and you're not wearing the power armor 24/7 anyway.
There actually are specific rules covering wearing lighter armor under heavier armor. The only thing it does not make clear is how mods on the under armor work or if they work.
As far as I know, those are just for wearing light under power armor.
I just double checked, and I don't see anything indicating you can wear light under heavy. If it exists and I just missed it, I'd appreciate the correction (honestly).
If nothing else it makes sense that you can wear second skin under heavy armor, since it is designed to be worn under clothes, and clothes are presumably meant to be worn under heavy armor.
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I get the rationality to that, but I don't see anything in the rules allowing that, at least not explicitly. And I also see this...
Most suits of armor consist of a helmet, gloves, boots, and a bodysuit that offers head-to-toe protection.
That's what led me to my earlier comment about heavy armor including something like second skin underneath it already (even if it doesn't explicitly mention it).