MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor [GEN3]
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The MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor [GEN3] is the third system-wide generation of the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor.[4] As of 2560, Generation 3 MJOLNIR has been adopted by nearly all active Spartans serving in the United Nations Space Command.[5]
Design details[edit]
Design and features[edit]
The conceptual design framework incorporates lessons from the MJOLNIR [GEN2] line of Mjolnir, while also using performance and higher levels of protection given by the MJOLNIR [GEN1] line of Mjolnir.[4] At 400 kilograms or more, it is comparable in mass to prior generations of Mjolnir.[6]
The armor features a survival mode that can keep the occupant alive for at least six months in the vacuum of space with no food, water, or other things vital to life aside from the suit's oxygen supply. After a burst of power was used by Fernando Esparza to bring John-117's armor out of survival mode, the armor's fusion reactor almost instantly recharged Echo 216's depleted batteries in return, restoring functioning to the Pelican's internal lights and systems.[7] John later told the Weapon that the next thing that he remembered after getting thrown into space was waking up on the Pelican six months later, suggesting that he had been kept unconscious by the armor for the entire time.[8] The GEN3 Mark VII armor, even in a damaged and failing state, combined with his augmentations, kept Spartan Tomas Horvath from dying of exposure when he was comatose for a day on a mountainside.[9] After Horvath was impaled and severely wounded by an alloy shard between his intestines and spleen, his biomonitors kept him in a semicomatose state while the armor's medical systems regenerated his torn insides, and the armor kept him alive until he could hunt for food using its emergency high-calorie nutrient supplements.[10]
Unique to the GEN3 variant of the Mark VI armor, John-117's armor contains holographic emitters in the palm of the hand, allowing him to display an avatar of the Weapon over his hand, a feature not previously seen with his GEN1 and GEN2 suits while he was working with Cortana. The Weapon was able to transfer herself directly into systems by having her hologram walk off of the armor's hand and into the terminal in question.[3] John-117's armor also displayed the ability to remotely link to the systems of Echo 216 and then activate the ship's autopilot at his request to fly to a chosen destination.[11]
It is possible for the users to effect field repairs by removing and reconfiguring some of the plating to compensate for the damage, but the sheer weight of each piece and the complexity of the process was a severe limitation without the right equipment.[12]
It contained a distress beacon capable of signaling UNSC forces in range.[13]
Development history[edit]
Although the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN2) meant a radical simplification of the Mjolnir platform, to the point it could be mass-produced, some in the Spartan Operations branch were dissatisfied with its minimal performance improvement over the old GEN1 systems. By that reason, the UNSC decided to manufacture the next generation of Mjolnir armors.[14]
Around October 17, 2558,[15] the Mark VII was used as the testbed for the GEN3 improvements, but it remained uncertain if manufacturers would adopt the standards and cost accounting by the Unified Earth Government.[4]
On February 10, 2559, four months after the rise of Cortana and the Created, the Materials Group began to manufacture GEN3 armor.[2] In September 2559, the GEN3 Mark VI armor was manufactured and tested aboard Perihelion Station.[16] The Swords of Sanghelios have also become involved in the manufacture of some material for the GEN3 platform, making several helmets and armor pieces for their Spartan allies. While not strictly part of the GEN3 platform, several GEN1 armors have been refit to be roughly equivalent to the newest generation. Though this technology dates back to the Covenant War, it has been fully reconditioned and upgraded with newer and more optimized components, giving life to older technology at an integral time, and offering a new generation of Spartans the opportunity to take to the battlefield outfitted in the same style of armor that some of their own heroes once donned.[17][18]
On October 7, 2559, John-117 and Blue Team were deployed on a covert mission to CASTLE Base using the GEN3 Mark VI armor.[6] During a subsequent battle in New Mohács, Spartan IVs in GEN3 were deployed via drop pod.[19] Several months later on May 28, 2560, the armor was used by John-117 during a conflict on Installation 07.[20][3]
In the wake of the Created uprising, there were certain places where the GEN3 armor wasn't, or simply couldn't have been, rolled out. As a result, the GEN3 Mjolnir had yet to see full implementation in the Spartan branch, with some Spartans still using the GEN2 Mjolnir by late 2559.[21][22]
Armor variants and upgrades[edit]
Variants[edit]
The following is a list of major variants of the GEN3 platform.
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