The Griffin of Zakuul
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION- Intent: Creating a specialised armor for the Force Users of Vandemar serving in the Imperial Knights of the New Imperial Order.
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- Primary Source: Mark VII Agema, Mark V Izax, Powersuit, Exoskeleton
- Manufacturer: Olympian Armorsmiths Ltd.
- Affiliation: Vandemar
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: OA Vindicator Armor Mark I 'Repentius'
- Modularity: Yes
- Visuals like tabard, surcoat, helmet crests
- Production: Semi-Unique
- Material: Songsteel, Duranium, Matrix-Armor, Armorweave, phototropic transparisteel, power generator parts, electronical parts
- Classification: Power Armor
- Weight: Extremely Heavy
- Resistances:
- Energy: Very High
- Kinetic: Very High
- Lightsabers: Very High
- Force: High
- Sonic: Average
- Ion/EMP: Average
- Elemental: Very High
- Molecular: Low
- Atomic: Very Low
- Spinal Cord Connectors (thought-impulse-unit): Through points along the body and the spine the wearer becomes directly attached to the armor, instead of wearing it, the armor becomes a part of the wearer, enhancing his speed and strength with its servos and own power generator. The movements are transmitted to the limbs as well as to the armor.
- Tactical HUD: An interactive connection to the armor integrated sensors and scanners as well as The Phalanx's scanners, sensors and strategium gives a 3D HUD with the possibility to access a large variety of information. Tactical display and map, troop locations, targeting reticules, range finders, ultraviolet vision, infrared vision and night vision, as well as interactive com-link and holo-transmitter. The HUD works on thought activation. The helmet offers a strong increase of all senses, both due to the sensors and scanners and the natural enhancement of the wearer connected to them.
- Internal power supply: A miniature power generator with a high energy output and high durability, but extensive maintenance if failures occur.
- Life support: The armor features a rebreather unit to clean dirty or toxic atmosphere, allowing for unlimited deployment in Type III atmospheres but also allowing deployment in atmospheres were a minimum of oxygen was present, utilising this bit, but only working for a limited amount of time.
- Pressure system: For a limited time the armor suit allows the wearer to be deployed in space, utilising saved oxygen reserves to breath.
- Magnetic boots: The boots can become magnetic upon activation.
- Second Skin: The armor has the benefit of not only being worn, but becoming a second skin for the wearer due to its extensive connections.
- Enclosed: The armor allows a deployment in nearly all environments.
- Ironclad: The suit is designed to withstand a large amount of damage and the heaviest of attacks.
- Sixth & Seventh Sense: The armor expands the perception of the wearer to a superhuman level through scanners and sensors, giving impressions and information ordinary senses would not give as well as improving the common senses like vision and hearing through the helmet functions.
- Tactical: The suit is made to be deployed in battle and its connection to its own scanners and sensors is used as well as the connection to the battlefield surveillance of the strong ship based scanners, if a ship of the Order is in orbit which can allow for a maximum overview and information access.
- Maintenance: The systems of the armor are very complex and therefore the maintenance of the armor is very time consuming if a system should fail.
- Chain reaction: There is the very slight possibility that during a malfunction of the internal power supply, the suit of armor is getting permanently destroyed and killing the wearer due to neural connections overloading and melting.
- Weight: Unaltered individuals may only be able wear this armor if they are of an extremely strong physics.
- Visibility: The armor is made of auromidium and therefore gold, it is very very difficult to hide in it.
- Size: The armor is designed for very large individuals and therefore can only be worn by and altered for people in a specific spectrum of weight and height.
- Behemoth: Opposite to the Mark XI, the XII sacrifices some agility for more protection and is therefore slowing down the Legionnaire.
From the Forgelords of the Olympus Vulcanus are coming the armors of the Vandemarian Shield and Spear Legions. The finest equipment for the finest soldiers. Their craft was over the years turned into an art and the massed production of these items a competition of the different Forge-Houses.
As soon as it became clear that Vandemar would join arms with the New Imperial Order, a solution was proposed of how to deal with the Force sensitives of Vandemar. The Imperial Knights were the perfect place and their code was as acceptable as it could get for a civilisation which opposed the Force and its users. Therefore the program of taking Force users out of society was altered to training them in the code of the New Imperials but still enhancing them via the Vandemarian Legion program.
To get the maximum use out of it, a new armor was designed more specifically designed to suit the needs of a Force User unit, still battle-focused, not duel though. The Vindicator Mark I was born, taking the best the Forgelords had to offer and putting it together with the art of Force reactive runes which would protect the wearer from outside Force influences onto his or her mind. It was stripped of all Auromidium as it was not seen fit to bear the Vandemarian gold into battle, instead the main ingredient was decided to be Songsteel, to show that they were second class only. They were for their lives bound to repent for their sin of being Force sensitive.
