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Intent: To usher in the next step in the re-awakened Darktrooper project, an advanced, heavily armored battle-suit.
Development Thread: If Required
Manufacturer: First Order
Model: Phase 'IX'
Affiliation: First Order
Modularity: Grenades and Missiles mounted on the armor can be changed to suit the mission.
Production: Limited
Material:
- Phrik
- Titanium-Reinforced Stygian-Triprismatic Polymer
- Duraplast secured circuitry
- Soft padding
Weight: 2387 kg
Quality: 10
Special Features:
- Can Interface with the HUD of the Stormtrooper piloting it, allowing the use of additional sensory tools provided by the helmet.
- Reactive Combat De-Ionizer
- Quintessence powered skin-like shielding to prevent potentially costly damage to the Armor
- Self-preserving Oxygen Filters and Reserve Tank (10 hours recycled)
- Smoke, Toxin and Air Born pathogen filters
- Adjustable 360 degrees vision due to sensors on the back of the head.
- Genetic Lock and helmet lock - Darktroopers can control other IX models than their own, but normal Stormtroopers cannot do anything more than open one to signal for distress.
- Magnetic Locking System
- Cooling and Atmospheric Temperature Control System
- Can release taser like electric impulse across armors surface to non lethally discourage foes
- Inertia Negators
- Sonic Dampeners/Volume control
- Incredible level of protection
-Coated in thick layers of Phrik and shielding, darktroopers are the epiphany of quality protection for the best of the First Order ground forces. They are capable of taking a very severe beating. - Mobile Cover
-Large and wide, the Phase IX can be used as cover for less well defended allies when assaulting heavily fortified positions. - Powered by Quintessence
This rare, yet in this form mundane power source has thus far only officially been made usable by the First Order. Attempting to charge a captured Dark Trooper's battery with any other form of power source will result in the small scale explosion of the battery (likely harmless unless they decide to hold on), followed by a pre-recorded distress signal from the armor while it begins locking to make itself useless to the enemy until it can be recovered, checked for bugs and reset. - Massively Enhanced Strength
-Capable of striking down walls, carrying large weapons with ease, minimizing recoil, and if need be; engaging in more even hand to hand combat against hostile Sith or Jedi. - Enhanced Durability
-With proper maintenance and a respectful wearer. Phase IX armor is built to last. - Sealed Environment
-Like all variants of First Order armor, Phase IX armor is built to enable the trooper inside to temporarily survive the vacuum of space. - Autobalancers
-Prevent accidental stumbling through automatic adjustments to foot positioning and stature.
- Noise
Clunk, clunk, clunk. Dark Troopers are inherently loud when they're moving, a competent foe might decide to plan an ambush in advance. A clever one would run. - Loss of ability to manipulate small devices
-Blaster pistols, datapads and an assortment of small items become impossible to use due to the large gauntlets of the Darktrooper. - Weight
-The IX is very heavy, around the same weight as a large land rover but with only two metal feet to displace the weight instead of four tires. Sudden impacts and weak floors may lead to the 'IX' and its operator unintentionally plummeting through buildings. - Powered by Quintessence
-A rare but mundane powersource when not used in weaponry, when deployed in the field it is nearly impossible for a Darktrooper to charge his armor without fully replacing it with a new battery. A lengthy process that can easily put him at risk. - Decreased Agility
-Climbing, jumping, crawling. Any movements requiring finesse become bulky, risky or impossible endeavors. One shall not be performing back-flips in an IX. - Unable to enter small locations
-The sheer size of the IX can prevent it from entering through small locations short of smashing them open with raw strength. The IX can become stuck in areas such as these. Making it vulnerable to attack or ambush. - Cannot quickly change direction when moving quickly
-Though IX's can move surprisingly fast, they are not able to adjust their direction very quickly, and stopping requires a fair amount of preparation to prevent toppling over. The sudden deployment of a repulsor shield, or a hard wall could easily result in trauma. - Slow to open
-IX's are designed to keep the operator safe inside, to prevent unwanted access by enemy troops from behind there are a series of locking mechanisms in place. In the event of catastrophic malfunction, submersion in water with no hope of escape, or other events the person inside would want to escape quickly. It is impossible, and the slow inflow of water as the locks come undone might risk drowning by the time they're finally able can get out. - Expensive
Dark Trooper battlesuits are very costly to produce, even for the First Order who owns their own supply of Phrik from Valhalla. This is one of the few reasons for their relative rarity. - Back of the Knees
-Troopers always face forwards, this rule of combat, and the requirement of extra maneuverability for the autobalancers to operate effectively has led to significantly less armor in this position. - "Grab his legs!"
It is possible, yet ill advised. To tie the legs of a darktrooper together with sufficiently strong material in order to make them fall over when they attempt to move. Making them vulnerable.
One of two production line Darktroopers in the present day, the Phase '' was designed by a team rival to that of those designing Graf's
faux-human Phase X Darktroopers. While Graf's team focused on making human looking battledroids, the Phase 'IX' features an actual human pilot, in a suit that appears completely inhuman.
Once meant to completely replace the Stormtrooper armor currently used by the First Order, the costs involved in producing a single suit of Phase 'IX' armor makes widespread deployment an unfeasible task, and the suits sheer bulk prevents it from complicated maneuvers a Stormtrooper is capable of performing, such as climbing, or jumping, chasing through a small hallway, or taking cover behind low down items.
An immensely powerful jetpack offers the Darktrooper limited flight capabilities. Allowing it to reach high up locations, or reduce falling velocity to increase the units survivability in the event of total disaster, but not move side to side or travel large distances due to the rapid overheating issues the jetpack experiences.
Worthy of its last field tested ancestor -the Phase III's- terrifying reputation. The Phase 'IX''s left and right shoulders are capable of being armed with cluster missiles and grenade launchers of multiple types, but provide a vulnerable point that risks damage being caused when the pauldrons lift if the shielding has also been pierced, or a weapon is capable of bypassing it.
The Phase 'IX' is also the third model of Darktrooper armor to utilize a Quintessence battery as an energy source. The same energy source used to power the Starkiller base of centuries past before it the harmless energy was converted into the unstable phantom energy that actually destroyed the Hasian system. The first model failed to meet expectations, its battery bleeding far too much energy and leaving it with a very short field life, while the second. That early tests suggested was operating fine, detonated in a violent inferno and converted both the armor, and the Stormtrooper testing it into electrons due to a slight miscalculation by the team. Quintessence provides the Dark Troopers with a clean, practically infinite energy source, as long as they are able to access the charging ports contained upon appropriate First Order ships. On the field however, this power source is unlikely to be present. Requiring the operator to exit their armor and begin the total and lengthy changing of the battery to a full one -or else the suit will become completely immobile.-
This also provides an advantage. The rarity of Quintessence technology prevents the powerful suit from being commandeered by enemy troops, as once the battery runs out they will have no way to charge it again short of stealing the rare supplies from the First Order.
