User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 12/@comment-184.158.54.213-20131130025306/@comment-4451464-20140109225119

low level thugs made off with armor, but at the same time it was stated the canyon was blood gulch(which was retconned to being a random canyon they crashed near) whats to say that the stolen armor plot was retconned to people with armor and tech SIMILAR to what project freelancer had(which it was, i believe felix told wash "everyone has tech like this now" or something along those lines)