Knight
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TBH, I have always thought such tech to be BS, especially from a story standpoint, it is on par with magic and it's used as a get out of jail free card for bad writing. As someone who has a background in biology that stuff and cringe, the complex changes needed to manifest something like most mutants powers HAVE TO have profound full body changes that are unique to the individual, most mutants would not have a medical profile like a human and should not be compatible with many human drugs and medical devices.It's mentioned in the game that the tech exists, but it's not at a stage where it can be made man-portable due to things like power consumption and the size of the equipment.
It's not like counteracting a single hormone in the body, you would have to alter brain and body function on what could called a "full custom" human since many have body functions without an equivalent in a normal person. Mutant medical science would be a clusterfuck.
IRL we have trouble just making peoples hormone glands and organs function correctly using implants and meds without causing permanent damage throughout the body.
A SINGLE device that can neutralize the vast array of mutant abilities is like a single drug that cures all aliments, it's magic... or in this case bad writing.
It's also lazy, if there are magic collars that neutralize a mutants powers it diminishes the mutant threat to be on par to that of a guy a with machine gun rather than the existential threat that mutants have to be to humanity for the story to make sense.