Image Source: Cerberus Assault Trooper Armor from Mass Effect franchise.
Intent: Provide armor for the Aegis Initiative Marine Corps.
Development Thread: If needed.
Manufacturer: Aegis Initiative
Model: AIMC Battle Armor
Affiliation: Aegis Initiative Marine Corps
Modularity: No.
Production: Limited
Material: Flex-Armor weaved with reinforced durasteel plating; Armorweave weaved with durasteel insulated bodysuit; thermal gel underlay, sonic dampening overlay, Inertial Dampener
Classification: Multi-purpose
Weight: 18kg
Quality: 8
Special Features:
- Armor
Climate Control - Hermetically Sealed, Sealing Foam
- Camouflage Coating
- Heat resistant coating
[*]Helmet
- Military-grade HUD
- Retractable Helmet
- Polarized Anti-Flash Lenses, Electrobinoculars (X20), Range Finder
- Multi-Frequency Targeting and Acquisition System, Multi-Spectral Target Assessor
- Sonic Dampeners, Annunciator
- Broadband Antenna, HoloNet Access, ComLink
- Combat, Pineal Eye, Visual, Motion, Thermal, Audio Sensors
- Infrared, Echolocation, Radar, X-Ray, Life Form Scanners
- Environmental Filter, Rebreather, Oxygen Filtration System, Nutrient/Water Dispenser, Oxygen Tank (30 Minute Supply)
- Copper Faraday Cage
- Back Plate
Modular Equipment Mount -or- - Slot for Jetpack
- Wrists
Retractable Knuckle Blade - One universal slot per wrist for attachments.
- Forearm datapad + holographic projector
- Legs
Grav-Boots - Magno-Grip Soles
- Grenade Hooks (6)
- Ammunition Pouches (4)
- Flares (3)
- Grappling Hook Launchers (2), High Tension Wire
- Combat De-Ionizer, Blast Energy Sinks
- Energy Rations, Canteen, Medpacs (2)
- Anti-Security Blade, EMP Disruptor Stylus, Field Disruptor Overloader
Strengths:
- Durability and Resistance: The AIMC Battle Armor is certainly an all-around armor capable of serving the Marine Corps in all sorts of environments and versus a plethora of distinctive threats and attacks. The armor is capable of withstanding glancing blows from a lightsaber. The plates are certainly the strongest parts of this armor composition, whereas the body suit parts are at a less grade. Nonetheless, this armor stands as a paragon of survivability
- Flexible: If one views the image, there are certain black colored parts of the armor which compromise the fabric of the body suit. They, as it can be seen, are situated on the most logical locations of the armor to allow flexibility and prevent the user from turning into a walking box of steel.
- Utilities: The armor provides a load of different tools and utilities that support the user in the advanced model of combat that is waged across the galaxy. An example would be the inertial dampener that the armor possesses allows the Marines to drop with high speed from low orbit and survive high speed situations and sudden physical stress/shock.
- Agility at a cost: To maintain strength and power with agility, there always comes a price. The armor may provide flexibility and easier movement of body and joints but these are also the parts that are protected with lesser grade defences - the armorwave durasteel woven bodysuit. It certainly possesses traits to protect but not near to standard plating.
- Speed: Previously discussing the design's attempt to balance agility and flexibility with strength and endurance, the AIMC Battle Armor still falls under the medium-heavy spectrum and its capabilities in the sphere of acceleration, top sprint speed, agility will still be incomparable to the capabilities of the same sphere that light armor gives to a user.
Designed for the multi-purpose operations that the Aegis Initiative Marine Corps under takes, the developers have taken that as their first and most important 'value' when developing the battle armor. Thus, it was made capable of surviving in vacuum, allowed traversing through toxic, irradiated and other similar type-3 and type-4 locations. Moreover, it came with a load of utilities and supporting tools to keep the Marine in par with the necessary requirements of the contemporary advanced methods of warfare. It is also designed in such a way that it is easily disassembled
As discussed thoroughly in the Strengths and Weaknesses section, the armor is made with the idea of protecting the user from a plethora of various attack forms while aiming to maintain a balance with agility. This, of course, comes with the cost of 'plate gaps' where the only defense is the bodysuit, along with the fact that speed, acceleration and agility of the wearer would never match the capabilities of the said physical field that light armored allowed a wearer to have.
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