Corporate Shogun
- Intent: Next generation standard-issue infantry armor for the GADF Army
- Image Source: Halo: Reach
- Canon Link: Not Applicable
- Permissions: Not Applicable
- Primary Source: Not Applicable
- Manufacturer:
- Nakaioma Defense Dynamics
- Nakaioma Land Systems
- Nakaioma Defense Dynamics
- Developer:
- Nakaioma Defense Dynamics
- Nakaioma Advanced Infantry Systems
- Nakaioma Defense Dynamics
- Affiliation:
- Galactic Alliance Defense Force
- GADF Army
- Galactic Alliance Defense Force
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: M86/A-IPS
- Modularity: Yes
- Practical:
- Pouch Configurations
- Role-Specific Equipment
- Helmet Mounts
- Mission-Specific Equipment
- Ergonomics:
- Custom Species Fittings
- Gender-Specific Fittings
- Organizational:
- Unit Markings
- Morale Patches
- Rank Markings
- Planetary:
- Camouflage Variations
- Weather Variations
- Atmospheric Variations
- Practical:
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Cost: 19,000 "7
- Material:
- M86/A-HG Combat Helmet:
- Lightweight Ceramic Armorplast Shell
- Titanium Support Frame
- Glasteel Ballistic Shades
- M86/A-C Torso Armor:
- Lower Thermal Gel Layer
- Upper Duraplate-Duraplast Composite Layer
- Central Laser-Reflective Armor Coating
- M57 Modular Infantry Pack:
- M86/A SfK Leg Plates:
- Ceramic Titanium-Durasteel Composite Armor
- Tertiary Laser-Reflective Layer
- Thick Lower Kevlar Thigh Pad
- M3 Infantry Combat Boots:
- Plasteel External Shell
- Spun-Plast Internal Structure
- M86/A Battle Dress Fatigues:
- Synthcloth Fabric
- Armorweave Bodyglove
- Inbuilt Temperature Regulator
- M86/A-HG Combat Helmet:
- Classification: Multipurpose Medium Armor
- Role: Standard-issue Frontline Infantry Protection
- Weight: Heavy
- Resistances:
- Energy: High
- Kinetic: High
- Lightsaber: Low
- Sonic: Average
- Environmental: Average
- Ion: Average
- M86/A-HG Combat Helmet:
- Communications:
- GH/43-T Long Range Comlink
- OH-090 Aural Amplifier
- Inbuilt Sonic Dampener
- MK7 Audio Encryption Module
- Eyewear:
- AN/QVH-78 Audio/Video Recorder
- KS-487 Ballistic Shades
- AN/PKT-65 Tactical Heads-up-Display [HUD]
- AN/PKT-65 Motion Sensor Suite [MSU]
- KS-487 Medical & Tactical Assistance [MTAC]
- AN/PKT-65 Lifeform Scanner Suite [LFS]
- T4s Rangefinder Attachment
- Other Systems:
- Multi-Spectral Target Assessor [MSA]
- Integrated Helmet Flashlight [x2]
- Multi-Frequency Acquisition System [MFAS]
- KS-487NV Night Vision Attachment
- KS-487 Infrared Vision
- KS-487 X-Ray Vision
- Communications:
- M86/A-C Torso Armor:
- Upper Plates:
- Inbuilt Rechargeable Power Cell [620 Hour Lifetime]
- Combat Vibroblade Sheath
- Wireless Medical Datachip [Contains Trooper Medical Records]
- Combat Velcro Pouch Webbing
- Pouches:
- TR-00 Ion Flare [x2]
- GADF Standard Infantry Medpac
- Blaster Rifle Power Pack [x4]
- Slugthower Ammunition Magazines [x4] [Optional]
- GADF Standard Infantry Multitool
- Lower Plates:
- Inbuilt Biometric IFF Transponder [Encrypted]
- FE-Series Blast Energy Sink
- MK9 Personal Energy Shield
- FE-Series Combat De-Ionizer
- Upper Plates:
- M57 Modular Infantry Pack:
- Upper Contents:
- GADF Standard Infantry Rations [14 Days Worth]
- Water Replenishment Pack [Extracts Water from Air - Depends on Planetary Environment]
- Spare GH/43-T Long Range Comlink
- Reserve Power Cell [620 Hour Lifetime]
- Utility:
- Magnetic Grip [Attaches Pack to Upper Torso Armor Plates]
- Drawstring Compressed [Keeps Internal Contents Still]
- Infrared Reflective [Lowers Pack Visibility from Night Vision - other Visual Sensors]
- Thin Titanium Casing [Prevents Water/Environment Ingress]
- Lower Contents:
- NKH Entrenching Tool
- Bed Roll & Pillow [Small Camouflaged Tent is Optional]
- Additional Warm Clothing
- Mission Specific Equipment [Differs Per Squad Role]
- Upper Contents:
- M86/A SfK Leg Plates:
- Plates:
- Inbuilt ECM Suite
- FE-Series Blast Energy Sink [Auxiliary]
- ElectroMag Defense Unit
- FE-Series Combat De-Ionizer
- Pouches:
- NKS-1/19 Sidearm Holster
- GADF Standard Infantry Medpac
- Blaster Rifle Power Pack [x2]
- Slugthower Ammunition Magazines [x2] [Optional]
- Thermal Detonator Bandolier [x2]
- Utility:
- Magnetic Grip [Attaches Plates to Metal Points in Kevlar Pads]
- Drawstring Compressed [Keeps Pouch Contents Still]
- Infrared Reflective [Lowers Visibility from Night Vision - other Visual Sensors]
- Thin Armorplast Kneepads [x2]
- Plates:
- Survivability: Manufactured from strong composite materials and durable armor plating, the M86/A Infantry Protection System boasts a high degree of combat survivability when faced with both energy and kinetic weaponry. Live-fire tests conducted at NK Defense Dynamics - Holdfast Test Grounds on Eufornis Major demonstrated a forty seven percent decrease in trooper causalities from blaster weapons when equipped with the M86/A and a forty three percent decrease from kinetic weaponry such as slugthrowers and solid melee objects like vibroblades. As blaster weapons and their kinetic counterparts are the most commonly utilized weapons on any given battlefield, these tests were considered a success.
- Equipped for any Occasion: Arriving with the M57 Modular Infantry Pack [MIP] and a readied assortment of pouches which can be arranged across its many armored plates into any variety of positions the user wishes, the M86/A IPS supplies a trooper with enough goods to last two or more weeks in the field without access to the wider logistical chain. Equipped with everything from a multitool to camping equipment to a device capable of extracting enough water from the surrounding atmosphere (planet-dependent) to satisfy a trooper's needs, the M86/A's almost abundance of general-purpose personnel supplies play a large part in the armor system's overall 'one-man-army' objective.
- One-Man-Army: Unlike the galaxy's many mindless barbarians and sinister authoritarians, the Galactic Alliance values its people. It was with this sentiment that the M86/A Infantry Protection System was designed to enable GADF Army personnel to operate as individual units if need-be. Focused on network-centric warfare, the M86 provides troopers with full battlefield awareness, utilizing an advanced HUD system, IFF transponders, long-range comlinks and sophisticated targeting software to ensure that even in the event of organizational or logistical breakdown, individual units and lone troopers can receive and act on their orders without the need for third-party assistance, external equipment or specialized personnel.
- Exposed Areas: An unfortunate trade-off for increased manoeuvrability, the M86/A IPS has several open areas, leaving the trooper's unarmored battle dress fatigues exposed to enemy fire. While the soldier's most fragile parts and organs are protected by the M86/A's torso plating and helmet, with the exception of the knees and sides of the thighs, almost the entirety of the their legs are without protection, as well as both arms below the elbow. This decision was made in spite of much controversy within NK Defense Dynamics' Advanced Infantry Systems with Alliance design and Army doctrinal trends in mind, often favoring trooper mobility, ergonomics and speed over full-body casing.
- Vulnerable to Lightsabers: The bane of any armor designer's existence and a signature of galactic wars almost since the dawn of the hyperdrive, the dreaded lightsaber was such an inconvenience to bring into consideration when the M86/A was being developed that it was almost cut out entirely from the process. Far too rare of a threat to justify the finances of building a lightsaber-resistant set of armor considering how many troops it would be distributed to, beyond the M86/A's inherent sturdiness against conventional energy threats such as blasters and the physical thickness of its armored plating, it has no dedicated anti-lightsaber defenses and will likely fold to it like most armor does.
- Environmentally Restricted: Though on paper capable of being modularly refitted to operate in both vacuum and extreme weather conditions for prolonged periods of time, at its core the M86/A is not designed for such combat environments, and will always be inferior to suits which are purpose-built for those situations. While a trooper could go on patrol on a barren world hostile to sentient life with the appropriate modifications to his IPS, Nakaioma Defense Dynamics generally advises against conducting combat operations in such environments as it would be both impractical to the soldiers participating in such a venture and potentially life-threatening if their enemy was equipped with specialized gear.
- Information Overload: "You know everything except what you're about to walk into." Was a phrase uttered by one of the first infantrymen to test the M86/A in a simulated combat environment and much to the annoyance of the marketing folks at NK Defense Dynamics it appears to have stuck. Though an oversimplification to say the least, it unfortunately does bear some truth- albeit in a different sense to what most think when they hear that quote. The HUD system projected onto the KS-487 Ballistic Shades purchased with every M86/A-HG Combat Helmet can become crowded with information being provided to the user, and while the information of what they are about to walk into is there, for new users it can be difficult to find.
The M86/A Infantry Protection System is a set of medium infantry armor developed by Nakaioma Advanced Infantry Systems, a division of Nakaioma Defense Dynamics and manufactured by Nakaioma Land Systems, another division of the same corporation which is itself a subsidiary of the NAKAIOMA Group. Planned, ordered and designed shortly after the outbreak of open war between the Galactic Alliance the Brotherhood of the Maw, the M86/A was intended to be the spearhead of its parent corporation's wider push into the Core Worlds ground defense market, which had for centuries been dominated by the Republic Engineering Corporation. Presented to the Alliance's Defense Committee in 876ABY as part of a combined marketing effort with Roble Manufacturing, it was approved for a test run with the GADF by Dracken Pryce, with no further deployment able to be committed to initially due to the logistical strains of the Alliance's war with the Maw.
Extensively utilizing heavy composite materials, titanium and armorplast in its manufacturing, the M86/A was designed with the goal of improving an infantryman's physical protection on the battlefield, even at the cost of mobility when compared to its predecessors. Several layers of duraplate-duraplast composite supported by underlying titanium structural supports and kevlar pads interconnect with one another via the use of synthmesh cables to form the armor's upper and lower plate sets, providing two primary layers of hardened physical protection beneath a weaker tertiary personal energy shield deployed from a small projection device built into the lower rear-facing plate of the M86/A-C Torso Armor. It's SfK Leg Plates which are majority titanium, with thermal jel sandwiched between each layer, much like the rest of the armor, provide a notable degree of security to the wearer's thighs, while providing additional room for tactical webbing, pouches and a holster.
Tested at Nakaioma Defense Dynamics' Holdfast Testing Grounds facility on Eufornis Major prior to being displayed to Alliance military officials and politicians, one of the system's major development issues arose in regard to cost. Already had the Defense Committee opposed a modernization of the military on the grounds of logistical and other wartime difficulties, and to the Board of Directors at Nakaioma pushing their luck by asking for an exorbitant amount for each trooper equipped was out of the question. As such a number of cuts had to be made to the M86/A's initial plans, mostly to the percentage of armor cover. Originally the team at Advanced Infantry Systems' idea had been to market the M86 as a superior successor to what had come before by taking inspiration from the full-body suits of past Clone and Stormtroopers, yet with the sheer number of advanced electronic systems, general-purpose infantry supplies and expensive composite materials being incorporated into what was meant to be a mass-produced set of armor, sacrifices had to be made. It would later be marketed as an intentional decision.
When tests moved from controlled environments at Holdfast to the corporation's large-scale open field 'Cascade' range on Chandrila, however, the already impressive performance of the armor under direct enemy fire was further bolstered by what was perhaps its biggest tactical and wider strategic strength, its 'One-Man-Army' doctrine. Supervised battlefield simulations against both Maw and vague, indeterminate forces (who just so happened to be equipped like Imperial troops) showed that when given the tools and longevity to complete their mission, GADF Army ground troops (during these tests represented by Nakaioma security operatives) displayed remarkable initiative and planning. Playing to the strengths of Alliance military doctrine in relying on individuality to persevere under pressure, the M86/A's plethora of electronic, network-centric warfare systems and surplus of survival supplies enabled troops to remain in the field for long periods of time, act quickly and effectively without the need for bureaucracy among higher-ranking officers and frequently outmanoeuvre their opponents.
The M86/A-HG Combat Helmet is the 'brain' of the overall armor system, when paired with the KS-487 Ballistic Shades it is essential to the modern functioning of the wearer, providing battlefield updates, several methods of tactical combat vision including lifeform scanners, night-vision and even an on-board medical scanner suite. Secured by a lightweight ceramic armorplast casing, the helmet contains a miniaturized broadband antenna, two-way biohexacrypted HoloNet transceiver and long-range comlink (with a spare included in the M57 Modular Infantry Pack) to ensure a consistent degree of battlefield communications, while a set of integrated flashlights on either side negate the need for a handheld light device. The Ballistic Shades are digital-compatible, enabling them to provide the wearer with a fully optimized heads-up-display system, which can connect to both the helmet and a variety of sensors dotted throughout the rest of the armor to provide real-time biomonitoring data in conjunction with the external battlefield data provided by its suite of additional sensors. The shades themselves polarize according to local light exposure, protecting the wearer's eyes from sudden flashes and more mundane changes in light level. The shades' coating also prevents them from fogging or icing up, as well as being scratched.
Extensively utilizing heavy composite materials, titanium and armorplast in its manufacturing, the M86/A was designed with the goal of improving an infantryman's physical protection on the battlefield, even at the cost of mobility when compared to its predecessors. Several layers of duraplate-duraplast composite supported by underlying titanium structural supports and kevlar pads interconnect with one another via the use of synthmesh cables to form the armor's upper and lower plate sets, providing two primary layers of hardened physical protection beneath a weaker tertiary personal energy shield deployed from a small projection device built into the lower rear-facing plate of the M86/A-C Torso Armor. It's SfK Leg Plates which are majority titanium, with thermal jel sandwiched between each layer, much like the rest of the armor, provide a notable degree of security to the wearer's thighs, while providing additional room for tactical webbing, pouches and a holster.
Tested at Nakaioma Defense Dynamics' Holdfast Testing Grounds facility on Eufornis Major prior to being displayed to Alliance military officials and politicians, one of the system's major development issues arose in regard to cost. Already had the Defense Committee opposed a modernization of the military on the grounds of logistical and other wartime difficulties, and to the Board of Directors at Nakaioma pushing their luck by asking for an exorbitant amount for each trooper equipped was out of the question. As such a number of cuts had to be made to the M86/A's initial plans, mostly to the percentage of armor cover. Originally the team at Advanced Infantry Systems' idea had been to market the M86 as a superior successor to what had come before by taking inspiration from the full-body suits of past Clone and Stormtroopers, yet with the sheer number of advanced electronic systems, general-purpose infantry supplies and expensive composite materials being incorporated into what was meant to be a mass-produced set of armor, sacrifices had to be made. It would later be marketed as an intentional decision.
When tests moved from controlled environments at Holdfast to the corporation's large-scale open field 'Cascade' range on Chandrila, however, the already impressive performance of the armor under direct enemy fire was further bolstered by what was perhaps its biggest tactical and wider strategic strength, its 'One-Man-Army' doctrine. Supervised battlefield simulations against both Maw and vague, indeterminate forces (who just so happened to be equipped like Imperial troops) showed that when given the tools and longevity to complete their mission, GADF Army ground troops (during these tests represented by Nakaioma security operatives) displayed remarkable initiative and planning. Playing to the strengths of Alliance military doctrine in relying on individuality to persevere under pressure, the M86/A's plethora of electronic, network-centric warfare systems and surplus of survival supplies enabled troops to remain in the field for long periods of time, act quickly and effectively without the need for bureaucracy among higher-ranking officers and frequently outmanoeuvre their opponents.
The M86/A-HG Combat Helmet is the 'brain' of the overall armor system, when paired with the KS-487 Ballistic Shades it is essential to the modern functioning of the wearer, providing battlefield updates, several methods of tactical combat vision including lifeform scanners, night-vision and even an on-board medical scanner suite. Secured by a lightweight ceramic armorplast casing, the helmet contains a miniaturized broadband antenna, two-way biohexacrypted HoloNet transceiver and long-range comlink (with a spare included in the M57 Modular Infantry Pack) to ensure a consistent degree of battlefield communications, while a set of integrated flashlights on either side negate the need for a handheld light device. The Ballistic Shades are digital-compatible, enabling them to provide the wearer with a fully optimized heads-up-display system, which can connect to both the helmet and a variety of sensors dotted throughout the rest of the armor to provide real-time biomonitoring data in conjunction with the external battlefield data provided by its suite of additional sensors. The shades themselves polarize according to local light exposure, protecting the wearer's eyes from sudden flashes and more mundane changes in light level. The shades' coating also prevents them from fogging or icing up, as well as being scratched.
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