Hello!
Since national (read: pure-blooded) Garleans cannot use aether, they do pretty much rely on magiteck and weapons to fight their enemies. Most of the armors are enhanced in some way, and I think some are powered by ceruleum.
There are actually a handful of players who RP as Garleans, whether aligned with the Garlean Empire or not! If you're looking for a Free Company, Regnum Garlemald is the only one I know of that is Empire-aligned. There's also the Ad Victorium linkshell, for Garlean RPers in general.
As far as magitech in Eorzea goes, we've got two, maybe three sources of it.
1) Ironworks - run by Cid
2) Mechanists' Guild (Ishgard-run, coming in 3.0)
3) Leftover stuff from previous Garlean invasions
Only the high-ranking members gets the super-armor, but if your character is either within that, or has raided from a castrum or two, I'm sure it'd be plausible enough to have made your own. In one of the scenes, we see Livia fire a gun from her armor. Gaius has some ceruleum weapons too. And Nael van Darnus (in 1.0) had all sorts of things until he started going crazy talking with dragons.
Since national (read: pure-blooded) Garleans cannot use aether, they do pretty much rely on magiteck and weapons to fight their enemies. Most of the armors are enhanced in some way, and I think some are powered by ceruleum.
There are actually a handful of players who RP as Garleans, whether aligned with the Garlean Empire or not! If you're looking for a Free Company, Regnum Garlemald is the only one I know of that is Empire-aligned. There's also the Ad Victorium linkshell, for Garlean RPers in general.
As far as magitech in Eorzea goes, we've got two, maybe three sources of it.
1) Ironworks - run by Cid
2) Mechanists' Guild (Ishgard-run, coming in 3.0)
3) Leftover stuff from previous Garlean invasions
Only the high-ranking members gets the super-armor, but if your character is either within that, or has raided from a castrum or two, I'm sure it'd be plausible enough to have made your own. In one of the scenes, we see Livia fire a gun from her armor. Gaius has some ceruleum weapons too. And Nael van Darnus (in 1.0) had all sorts of things until he started going crazy talking with dragons.
