They sure give you a lot of revives.
That being said, I may have to update the wiki's info on mission rewards because 25 sparks (wiki) is a bit different than 54 (in game).

The picture of the small knight in cobalt running in the fiend level that's advertised...you know he's gonna die. Just like all the rest that ventured out because apparently the ones that survive have brains or something.

Whenever we're in danger they're ALWAYS going to throw us into the heat of battle because no one can fight a boss except your knight.

And what the [REDACTED] is the recon team doing when we're suppose to team up with them on danger missions? Do they just silently sit there then sneak to the elevator when the sandbags known as us are on the front lines then appear at the last minute only to say "yey we did it!1!!"??

Cobalt lines may be why we were losing the Moria wars. Now that we're on Cradle we have access to multiple worlds worth of weaponry.

It's historically accurate, anyway. In the US revolutionary war, most soldiers were volunteer local militia. They were expected to have their own guns.

For that matter, George Washington did not believe in a permanent standing army. He refused a permanent commission after the war, returning to his farm at Mount Vernon instead. In his view, states were supposed to call up volunteer militia when needed, and disperse them when they weren't needed. That idea eventually became the idea behind the phrasing of the 2nd Amendment "A well regulated Militia ...". (None of this modern "protection of property" nonsense that the NRA tries to convince us of.)

During the US civil war, it was pretty common to do exactly that. A bunch of locals would often sign up together, forming a company. The wealthiest among them would pay for guns and ammo, and was elected an officer. The wealthier the officer, the better the guns, and the more likely the company was to survive.

Well, why give a perfectly good 5* set to someone who's never been in combat? The best of the best survive with what they have, they progress, the weak get slaughtered.
You can just think of the players as the only knights on cradle that actually get anything done.
And, The spiral order is saving quite the bundle of cash when you just make your weapons, and they don't even waste money or resources training you! they just tell you what to kill, and you train yourself!

You died? Well, than you probably were not a good soldier, your sparks and weapons have been revoked and now your on dish duty.

Sadface for you.

Okay, I have to ask - what army theme? We're not an army. The Spiral Knights are - surprise, surprise - an order of knights. Y'know, European nobles who went around clobbering the peasants and paid for all their own gear? Honestly, the fact that noblemen could afford their own high-quality gear was the only real difference between knights and other 'professional' soldiers of the time.

It's not called The-Ones-Who-Came-From-Isora-And-Crashed-On-Cradle-Are Knights either

Wait, perhaps in some random alien language that doesn't exist Spiral means The-Ones-Who-Came-From-Isora-And-Crashed-On-Cradle-Are

This discovery could change lives! How must we handle this? Burn the evidence in a fire!

" ... they were like 'here is your official standard issue bullet proof vest' and then they hand you a T-shirt ..."

So basically, we're not Space Marines, we're the Imperial Guard.

Maybe the Spiral Knights are Carapacians.

Imagine when we bring an acheron back to isora, if proto gear was suffice to defeat the enemies there then I think acheron might split the planet it two if you use the charge attack.

Then again, we apparently nearly got wiped out by the morai wars... what if the things we were fighting in the morai wars are actually really bad, and the spiral knights are a really peaceful race that never developed a military until they had to? That wouldn't explain the knights already having blitz needles though. What if the strangers gave them to us? What if Blitz Needle Mcgee and her accessory covered crew found their gear just lying around in a loot box? Gear drops are apparently possible after all.

WE ARE PROBABLY OVERTHINKING THIS BUT IT'S FUN

THE PLAGUE NEEDLE'S LORE IS WRONG BTW, IT DEFINITELY PIERCES BEFORE IT POISONS.

I just realized something.

Everyone knows the prestige missions to give weapons? Does anyone actually give weapons? If no knight ever gives supplies, how can they give much of anything to new recruits? They have plenty of 0-2* items to hand out, but never any 3-5* because the veterans are too stingy to help out the new recruits.