Talk:United Aerospace Command/@comment-24142455-20150520012853/@comment-24142455-20150520022211

Semi-Powered Infiltration Armor

An armor system developed by the UAC specifically for SPARTAN-III super soldiers. Though far less advanced then the MJOLNIR armor of previous companies and SPARTAN-IIs, it is cheaper, and easier to produce, allowing the fielding of more SPARTAN-IIIs. It features full body armor with an enclosed helmet and heads-up display that allows a x5 zoom, and a supply of oxygen (though only enough for seven minutes, compared to the MJOLNIR armor’s oxygen supply of ninety minutes). The armor is much tougher then standard UAC ODST armor, allowing the soldiers to withstand multiple projectiles before the armor succumbs to fire. The featured photo-reactive panels give SPARTANs a rough equivalent to active camouflage systems of say, the TD's ghosts (though they don't know about it). The camouflage patterns, however, shifted irregularly and imperfectly, which made the photo-reactive panels inferior compared to other active camouflage technologies, due to them being very early concepts. The photo-reactive panels were part of the researching of the SPI armor.

Unlike MJOLNIR armor, which is made for full on assault, the SPI armor is more for stealth attacks, and more relying on the agility, and the physical abilities of the SPARTANs.

Now note that this is the Mark I variant, I plan on making a Mark II of the SPI armor, but it won't really have a lot of major advantages over the Mark I, besides a few small things.