MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Black

MJOLNIR: Black is variant a standalone "skunkworks" prototype of the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor, likely part of MJOLNIR's Advanced Hardware Program. It was designed by a top-secret parallel development lab in Seongnam, United Korea. Spartan Black Team wore the armor from no later than August 2552 until their deaths in July 2557.

Overview
Black uses the same armor components as the MJOLNIR Mark VI and is thus outwardly identical. However, it features several unique internal design elements. The HUD has a field of view of nearly five kilometers, allowing extreme-range reconnaissance. The armor is colored jet black rather than the standard olive green, increasing the user's ability to hide in shadows. One arm includes a device nicknamed the "Interrogator", featuring a built-in microphone, processor, and speaker for translation of Covenant languages to English and from English to Covenant speech. The armor is capable of carrying a seventh-generation smart AI. Black (like the contemporary Mark V and later models) features recharging energy shielding.

Being a prototype, it features some flaws: it has trouble displaying exact altitude, making three-dimensional tracking difficult, and the biofoam injectors were known to mistakenly set broken bones into the wrong shape to heal.

Trivia
The armor's visor is said to be reflective gray in Blunt Instruments, but in Halo: Blood Line it is gold like the default MJOLNIR visor.

List of appearances

 * Halo Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
 * Blunt Instruments
 * Halo: Blood Line
 * Halo: Escalation