Following Oceanyka's re-entry into the international scene, bannerets were some of the first people in the continent to adopt foreign weapons, armour and tactics. In particular, they were some of the earliest to adopt gunpowder firearms and became closely associated with them. Full body plate armour and longswords were also characteristic of these soldiers, both of which began to be made of steel in limited numbers. It was during this time period that the Horse began to be imported into Oceanyka in limited quantities, primarily from Java, which was known for its horse breeding industry. Many bannerets began to specialise in arts other than direct and bloody combat, such as in the role of quartermasters, combat engineers or as artillery officers. These men not only had to be excellent military leaders, but also literate and extremely intelligent, for which many states employed them as bureaucrats during peacetime. Finally, the phenomenon of military families emerged as the status of "lower nobility" of the bannerets solidified; more than half of a banneret's sons would normally take up arms in service of a lord, being handsomely repaid, to begin the cycle anew once they married and settled down. Leaders from these families would most often lead local levies, mostly people they already knew of a lower social status. During the Revolutionary Ages the bannerets were the first to widely adopt European warfighting traditions, becoming a class of literate officers skilled in contemporary warfare, leading to Aboriginal Bannerets in the Revolutionary Ages.