How Armor Works in Halo (History of Mjolnir)

The Spartan program took advantage of the peak of technological advancement in the 26th century to produce highly effective super soldiers who became legends around the world. As tempting as it may be to assume that their deadliest weapon is whatever they're holding, their truly devastating tool is the

armor

that inhabits

mjolnir

, this suit is at the forefront of technology and harnesses the benefits of many fusion reactors, shield technology and neurally driven gel capes that might lead you to believe it operates by telepathy without

mjolnir

. The master chief would have had a pretty tough time in installation 0- 4 among other battles, so my name is the same symbol and today we will explore the

history

of mjolnir, as well as the technology that makes it so crucial.

A tool you are looking at. mjolnir explained throughout the story. Armor has been directly related to advancement. of weaponry entering the Iron Age swords were becoming common, highly maneuverable and extremely lethal, a sword could quickly and easily cut or impale anyone unlucky enough to encounter its swing or thrust, so, with In order not to die immediately, plate

armor

was developed to be worn over chain mail. together they made the user immune to sword slashes and even when low-powered firearms came into the picture, they could stop low-velocity bullets in the 16th century. Full armor essentially turned you into a tank, but suddenly firearms became cheaper and more effective. and as warfare began to change, so did lightweight armor materials, such as Kevlar mixed with ceramic plate inserts, which allowed mobility during combat while also resisting many forms of high-velocity projectiles;

However, the feeling at that time was that perhaps this was not enough, we went from resisting directly to the offensive. weaponry to having to employ tactics to avoid getting hit in the first place, so what if armor could offer more than just plates and protection and instead play an active role in combat? Computerized technology was increasingly woven into the battlefield to alleviate the limitations of the human body's satellite. Unmanned guidance drones and surface-to-air missiles to search and destroy those drones had become important components of a modern military, but there were still many situations where an actual human soldier was required, which means a lot of walking. one destination to another carrying everything.

This advanced and heavy technology is expected to enter combat at any time, as a result, human efficiency with all this load can be reduced, not to mention there is a maximum limit on the weight that each soldier can carry, that is where exoskeletons come in. in devices that increase human power. performance allowed for increased endurance and strength, however, progress in this area was slow, in general, exoskeletons were bulky, uncomfortable and, even worse, useless in combat, they were built specifically to assist soldiers and commonly Warehouse workers lift heavy equipment the moment bullets start flying from the last place.

What I want to be on is one of these mechanical frames and that's for the exoskeletons with battery packs, most of the next generation frames required an umbilical cord due to their high power requirements, perfect for transporting artillery on location, but a far cry from the super armored suits that the military longed for. After an appetite that would only continue to grow into the 25th century as humanity spread across the stars colonizing new worlds, central governments found it increasingly difficult to maintain control over their assets in the inner and outer colonies. , the insurgency had spread and eventually required the use.

The Orion military force project was created in secret to produce super soldiers who could quickly and covertly counter the growing rebel forces. Each Orion was an incredibly valuable asset that could only be effective when alive, so this became the perfect opportunity to develop true combat exoskeletons that offer protection while further increasing their efficiency. The Mark 1 battle suit was the Office of Naval Intelligence's first real attempt at creating a combat exoskeleton and they were surprisingly powerful; An average person inside these suits could reach up to 20 miles per hour and lift 2 tons and at the same time is impervious to standard light weapons thanks to its internal haptic interface that encloses the operator who controls the exoskeleton and feels like an extension of his own body, making it comfortable and intuitive to control The benefits of powered exoskeletons and armor were ultimately achieved by essentially creating The Knights of the 25th Century, this was the supersuit that the military longed for all those years ago, but one major drawback remained, such as that the exoskeletons of the old Mark 1 battle suits had to be strapped down due to their intensive power requirements, severely limiting their range in combat, ultimately while being considered.

Academically interesting, the project was scrapped and the remaining prototypes were relegated to the bunkers beneath the mountains of Reach. A Mark II battle suit was briefly prototyped with several improvements, including a roof system so it could be used in a vacuum, but it was still strapped down (perhaps useful for repairing space stations, but not useful in combat situations). dynamics where destroying the relatively weak strap would quickly turn it into a heavy hunk of metal that immobilizes whoever is inside, isn't particularly ideal and that's what the final prototype hoped to address. It is clear that power was the biggest barrier to true armored supersuits, as power requirements increase so much with the size of the generators and batteries, which then makes the suit heavier and therefore requires even more energy and the cycle continues at this stage, there were no portable generators powerful enough.

To handle these suits, compact fusion plants had been slowly developed and were still a long way from being finished; however, a unique solution was proposed and tested. Portable generators were obviously not available, as were vulnerable belts, instead power could be transmitted wirelessly through the air. A brilliant solution. If it weren't for the fact that the transmitting power generators were essentially immobile, realistically the UNSC was back to square one and the Orion super soldiers were quietly written off for unrelated reasons and the prototype battle suits were shelved, of course, thanks to a pioneering office of naval intelligence scientist both concepts would be revived and this time finally delivered to the battle suit prototypes had realized many of the core concepts for effective armored exoskeletons, although they were ultimately scrapped, they would act as the basis for the Cyclops, a non-combat logistics platform that played to their strengths of being strong, fast and easily controlled by the average person, yet they were bulky, noisy and impractical for most combat environments and still There remained a longing for a true man-sized tight-fitting supersuit.

The insurgency continued to rise around the world. colonies that inspired Dr. Catherine Halsey to revive both UNSC covert projects to produce battle-suited super soldiers under her supervision. The second generation of Orion, called project Spartan 2, improved in every way, however, when it came to prototype-powered exoskeletons. The naval intelligence office had been working on it felt that there was very little progress, very little to salvage to achieve their vision, a vision that saw the armor as extraordinarily almost impossibly strong, although it did not know that there were external forces on it. Her motivation for producing this armor had been imprinted by the Precursors, the ancient alien species that humanity had only just begun to discover.

This boost led to a jump start for her revolutionary powered assault armor she called Mjolnir, designed to complement her Spartan super soldiers. In every way, Mjolnir enhanced its physiological augmentations with a host of cutting-edge technologies that the original battle suits couldn't muster. Each Mjolnir suit was designed for each Spartan built to perform at its absolute maximum continuously for months without maintenance and, most importantly, after many months. Through intensive research, Halsey solved that irritating power requirement situation. It was originally thought that no one would be willing to strap a nuclear reactor to her back. Fortunately, Halsey knew the right people for the job.

The intrepid Spartans continued from the prototypes of battle suits to the first line of armor. Materialized from Mjolnir was the Mark IV that acted as the basis for a new era of military technology. She pioneered the development of compact fusion reactors that solved the enormous energy requirement and at the same time were truly portable. It was no longer a large generator purchased as such. This was the only larger generator. A vital piece of technology for mjolnir to originally become viable, Dr. Halsey had wanted mjolnir to be completely modular without the need for generational upgrades, allowing for constant iteration, which did not sit well with the military who wanted an incredibly expensive project. how this would fit. clearly in the fiscal year budgets, so he committed on paper that each generation would work in their rooms, but outside of that, he would deliver new technologies as soon as they were ready, engines like those used in all previous exoskeletons allow a much greater strength, but this comes at a cost, fine and complex movements like those produced by the human body require an exponential number of motors to accurately recreate a large number of small motors might be fine for carrying light loads, but mjolnir needed do more to find a new solution.

Looking back, the piezoelectric effect discovered 700 years earlier is a phenomenon in which certain materials produce an electrical charge when subjected to stress or deformation. Interestingly, the opposite is also true when applying an electrical charge to a piezoelectric material. Halsey discovered that they could be deformed. In a specific direction, polymerized lithium niobicin, a man-made piezoelectric material originally created to discharge static electricity from starship hulls caused by entering star space, was selected to be woven into a mjolnir cloak that was It shapes around its user by applying a load to this material. Its shape can be freely altered quickly and smoothly and, best of all, it is extremely strong.

She was called the reactive metal liquid crystal cloak that impeccably enhances the speed and power of its wearer and is just a cloak of mjolnir, which is more of an airtight sandwich. More than just a single piece of armor that touches the wearer's skin, it is a suit of absorbent fabric surrounded by a gel-filled layer that regulates temperature while absorbing moisture and perhaps most imposing to the observer is the outer layer made of an alloy Exceptionally durable multi-layer. Perhaps this would have been overkill against its original targets, the insurrectionists who spurred the development of mjolnir in the first place, but soon after its creation, humanity encountered its greatest threat, the pact and mjolnir quickly represented much more than a simple application, That's why the outer alloy was augmented with a refractive coating that could disperse energy attacks from the Covenant's weapons.

Mjolnir is built around the user and automatically molds to their shape, matching their body temperature, coupling all of those. layers with its effortless feeling of weightlessness, it essentially becomes a second skin like a sensory deprivation tank on the inside. If you closed your eyes you wouldn't even know you were locked in, the onboard computer systems can interact with the Spartan's enhanced neural implants by effectively intercepting their thoughts, for example by simply thinking that the Spartans can operate their head-up display to open secure communication links or It even marks targets and then there are the brain signals that control motor functions where mjolnir knows if you want to move your leg or arm before the signal from your brain reaches your own limbs.

All of this reduces the threat of task overload and creates a unique bond between man and machine, as controlling the suit is literally like controlling your own body, the focus can be entirely on the combat environment, thus protecting mjolnir is inflexible without affecting theefficiency, in fact, it greatly improves the performance of its user, fractally scaling and amplifying the force input, resulting in increased reaction speed and force by more than five times compared to normal humans, of course, the comparison to average people is purely academic, as using mjolnir is lethal to those without spartan augmentations because it amplifies movements, a simple muscle contraction in a human subject's arm would send them flying on any attempt. to compensate would then be amplified even more until their limb was literally torn apart and that would be just their arm, assuming they start panicking and moving other limbs while spasming in pain.

Non-augmented humans bounce to death inside the suit. Scientists working on mjolnir discovered this. the hard way, therefore, at least at this stage, this armor was to be used exclusively by Spartans who have the strength to withstand these extreme forces. Mjolnir was perfect during his training sessions. They were honest about his love for armor. A love that Dr. Halsey shared. Having successfully realized his vision, the Mjolnir Mark IV was ultimately overkill against its intended targets, but by the time it was put into service in 2525, the Covenant was already decimating Earth's colonies with its superior technology, so this armor would become Instrumental in preventing the total annihilation of humanity, through decades of service with the Spartans, Dr.

Halsey had many ambitions for the future of Mjolnir in Mark 7, hoping to create and shape energy shields to which could be used, for example, as airfoils, but, unfortunately, mark 5 would be their final design. It entered service in 2551, 26 years after Mark IV, but this variant would protect the Master Chief against the Covenant and, worse, while stranded in a

halo

ring, its survival is due in part to two crucial upgrades: the energy shields and the suit's ability to house an entire intelligent AI in 2536, more than a decade after the Human Covenant War had begun a human scientist had finally reversed Covenant engineering advanced shield technology that far surpassed the effectiveness of humanity's own attempts the first thought was to integrate it with spacecraft but the designs at the time simply could not produce enough energy to protect an area that Large, however, Dr.

Halsey believed that the Mark V Mjolnir that was in development with their new generation of highly overloaded fusion reactor would be the perfect testbed for this shield technology rather than an entire ship. All they had to do is protect a single suit. of armor and worked after so many years of reverse-engineered pact technology failing and therefore so many years facing an enemy that far exceeded humanity's capabilities, this represented a ray of hope technically, the first variant of mjolnir that featured energy shields in active service was a b variant of the mark v produced for the spartan 3 program using private contractors eventually, although the technology would reach the base mark v design developed internally, mark v energy shields provide coverage total and even surpass the covenant technology from which they were essentially derived.

Acting as a physical barrier, they hover over the armor by just a millimeter, so the user retains the ability to manipulate objects with shields activated. The only drawback is that they are slippery to the touch. will be of no use in combat, therefore the emitters around the gloves and boots can be adjusted to increase traction at the expense of making those areas more vulnerable and then, in zero gravity environments, they can be maximized to increase the protection, soon this shield technology would make its appearance. way to UNSC warships as was the original intention and just as those shields were expanded, the intelligent AI was scaled down by adapting a highly advanced computer system traditionally housed on a starship to fit inside that single armor in the year 2500 .Intelligent AI highly advanced digital era.

Life forms capable of true intellectual development rather than being programmed, as is the case with so-called dumb AI, intelligent AI are created by scanning a human brain, placing them in a unique and reliable position to assist in functioning. of the human colonies and spaceships Dr. Halsey worked on. extensively in building intelligent AI and naturally sought to link them with his Spartan projects and mjolnir sandwiched between the Mark V circuitry and the biological layers is a memory processor superconducting fabric or, in other words, the same material as the core of an AI because the suit can already connect to the brain through neural implants.

Any intelligent AI stored on board can interact with the user in a way never seen before. In that sense, data can be implemented directly on the fly. Automatic translations could be made, as well as tactical and strategic field information. communicated as if the user was thinking of themselves essentially this ai would be inside the mind of whoever dawns mjolnir as such pairing the correct ai with the correct spartan was essential, they would be connected at an almost incomprehensibly deep level and because of this the successful combination From the Spartan John 117 with Intelligent AI Cortana Near the end of the Human Covenant War it was imperative to save humanity after the Mark V new iterations arrived quickly compared to the nearly three decade lifespan of the Mark IV The Mark VI It arrived a little less than a year after the five and incorporated only a handful of minor improvements in addition to a modified base design, improved the energy shields featured on the 5 and 5b marks, refined the exoskeleton, and standardized the plug-in modules.

A biofoam injector was also integrated that could temporarily seal wounds, eliminating the need. to remove his armor to apply life-preserving measures, this generation of mjolnir saw john 117 during the final intense months of the human covenant war which culminated in the intense firefights against not only the covenant but also the deluge. parasite on the ark and post-War Cortana was able to modify and upgrade this armor while the Master Chief was in cryosleep using a process known as fabrication which uses nanotechnology to ultimately manipulate matter, however she soon changed this for something entirely new after of the war and with Dr.

Halsey essentially out of the game. Image At this point a completely new revision of Mjolnir was created as the entire base architecture was altered, this became known as Mjolnir Gen 2. Mass production was now a key factor in the design as it was to service the new spartan 4 program unlike spartan 2 and 3 which saw children kidnapped or brainwashed or both actually this program was open to active duty soldiers after generations of being shrouded in secrecy and mountains of funds seemingly evaporating from the budget most wide of the UNSC, the new, more open branch of Spartan operations probably had its spending under a microscope, so Generation 2 was designed for ease of manufacturing, the exoskeleton was simplified, dramatically reducing costs while still maintaining compatibility with older armor systems, custom components replaced by standardized modular systems, commercial efficiency to improve manufacturing times and spare parts management, and even more.

Private contractors were brought in and those already working on the gen 1 mark v and mark vi projects had a considerable advantage in streamlining this new production process; However, as most of Gen 2's improvements were made in manufacturing, its users quickly became dissatisfied with the lack of new features over Gen 1 which spurred early development of its successor Mjolnir Gen 3. The latest variant of Mjolnir , gen 3, began production four months after the emergence of Cortana's creation, which had once again plunged humanity into a desperate fight for survival and weighed twice as much as gen. 2 This new revision focuses on performance and protection above all, featuring advanced survivability protections that can keep occupants alive in the vacuum of space for months, a new fusion reactor that can restore power to vehicles and holographic emitters that can be used to project the image.

Of AI avatars on board, new accessories are also available, including the grappling hook, a hook of incredible strength that uses the increased mass of Gen 3 to pull objects towards the user and even pull the user towards suitable surfaces. These improvements have once again been crucial to The Master Chief's success this time in his campaign against the Banished at Installation Zero Seven, ultimately Mjolnir is a technical marvel that has allowed Spartans like the Master Chief to excel in situations of extreme combat, effectively saving humanity many times over, just like plate armor over male swords and Kevlar armor against bullets in the 26th century can counter the weapons technology of highly advanced aliens if not for the covenant war Human, this armor would have struck fear in anyone who dared to rebel against Earth's government, but it turns out that Mjolnir is a beacon of hope.

Combining cutting-edge technology such as portable fusion reactors and energy shields with classic notions of warfare that there is a person inside rather than a drone culminates in a symbiosis between man and machine mjolnir is most effective with the spartans and the spartans are more effective with mjolnir and so thank you very much for watching, if you liked it, leave a like, subscribe and press the bell icon so you don't miss the next episode, stay safe and I'll see you next time.