Sulumai Luss' Power Armor

"It is true. Commanding a grand fleet in a theatre of war is very different from single combat. But both are still combat. They require knowing when to strike and when to withdraw. How to take risks. How to subvert and opponent's strength and achieve victory. Therefore by mastering one, one can gain knowledge of the other."   Having served as a member of the warrior guild, Sulumai Luss was provided with a custom set of powered armor. Upon transitioning from traditional combat to being a naval commander she retained an appreciation for traditional martial combat. Using her own engineering expertise and access to classified technology only available to those with the highest level of security clearance she upgraded this set to service her needs. This armor was created to be used in the event of an emergency, and is designed to allow her to directly combat Xarian combat forms. It is also intended to test technologies which are too expensive or unreliable to implement on a large scale but could potentially see usage in future iterations of more common combat suits.

Defenses

Armor Plates

The armor is crafted of a heavily arsium-doped muran alloy forged and crystalized under incredibly high gravitic pressure. This allows the armor to be very thin but very dense and durable, moderately surpassing even mastercrafted Cauldarion Knight armor it can survive weapons designed to penetrate or destroy more standard suits, and partially resist strikes from hard light weapons. Ultimately it is not invincible. High powered weapons such as those designed to attack vehicles can still pose a serious threat to such a suit.

Hardlight Shield

The armor can project a hardlight shield around the body. This takes the form of a geodesic sphere of hexagonal hardlight plates generated in response to incoming fire. It has the same strengths and weaknesses as hardlight shield technology does in any other instance, requiring detection of the threat and immense reserves of energy to generate the plate. Though the technology is sufficiently optimized to allow fully englobing the suit for very brief periods to survive heavy attacks, it would require a recharge after such a feat. Hence its use is to block high-powered attacks that might otherwise severely injure or kill the wearer while ignoring weaker attacks that can be absorbed by the suit's armor plates.

Interface Denial System

Interface denial technology is integrated into the armor plates and channeled through the arsium within them. As this armor is intended to directly combat high-level Xarians who oftentimes possess matter-manipulation and reality altering abilities, the armor can deny direct manipulation by arcane or psionic forces. In other words the armor plates are rendered completely "untouchable" or "unreachable" by magical forces. Though the extent of this effect ended with the armor plates. Thus such entities would still pose an incredible danger with their capacity to manipulate the environment.

Personal Folding Spacetime Lattice

Another countermeasure intended to counteract the capabilities of Xarians. Specifically the capacity of Bridgers and Warlocks to utilize wormholes or spacetime distortion as a means of teleportation to secure an advantageous position or angle of attack in combat. In essence a highly miniaturized version of a shipboard interdictor, it created a field of normalized spacetime extending several meters around the user. Use of such tactics was still a dangerous and frustrating tactic to combat. But this provided the wearer a fighting chance.

Cybersecurity

The armor featured a Quantum Bridge communication system linked into the Galactic Admrial's neural lace. This created a secure connection between the two, and could allow for remote operation and access to the suit. There were no hatches or access points on the panels of the armor. The only way to enter it was through the permission of such a system. This would collapse the plating of the armor, opening it up with a highly complex series of servos and motors such that the wearer could simply step inside. This technology was common even on lower-end suits as it allowed quick entry or exit in the event of an emergency. The suit was not networked onto any other wireless networks to prevent tampering. Its quantum bridge communication system stored inside a tamper-proof casing linked directly to a nuclear self destruct device.

Life Support Systems

The suit was fully hermetically sealed and ran on a fully internal life support system. As the Galactic Admiral was highly cybernetically augmented her biological body would actually be placed into a comatose state when operating the suit. Only brain functions would be retained with heart rate, breathing and metabolism slowed to preserve more life support resources. In essence her body would be "sleeping" while wearing the suit and her sensory feeds would override her internal sensory feeds.

Weapons

HEAPA Micro Missile System

Seeing as the armor was intended to be brought to mass production (modified for the anatomy of other individuals) eventually be integrated into standard usage. 62 missiles could be used in total, 31 on each shoulder pod. These were compatible with more mass-produced missiles but the standard missiles used by the galactic admiral utilized antimatter-catalyzed fusion. Using microscopic amounts of antimatter to catalyze hydrogen fusion they could be incredibly potent for their size, with a single missile posing a threat to vehicles or entire formations of infantry. They would be linked to a guidance system that would allow her to remotely control their flight plan. Each missile provided with infrared and xray, as well as lock-on-jam technology.

Superconducting Microcoil Carbines

Four very small magnetic accelerators were integrated into each wrist. These would fire tiny (sub millimeter diameter) spin stabilized magnetic metal glass flechettes with a high rate of fire. These were very light micromunitions, with most of their kinetic energy deriving from their speed rather than mass, allowing a thousand rounds to be stored in each weapon. Traveling at highly hypersonic speeds they would create a plasma flash. This gave the weapon a strobing effect when utilized, with narrow bolts of bluish-white light created by the hyper accelerated projectiles heating the air molecules. Incredibly dangerous against unarmored targets and good for suppression or distraction, but against sturdier foes they were little more than a nuisance.

Separating Hardlight Nodachi

Resembling a very long curved and single-bladed sword designed to maintain grip with all four hands, this was the traditional weapon of the warrior guild. Without being able to channel the energy of the suit, the handle was inert. Drawing power from the hands of the suit to create the hard light projections. The long handle and blade allowed for more leverage when attacking higher degrees of armor. It too channeled power from the armor's systems.   The handle could separate into four distinct segments, producing for shoto blades. Or be partially separated to any proportionately long blade intended to be used by that number of arms.

"Judgement of Bausmuan" Hardlight Ringshot

Based off of hard light loop weaponry which would bend a holographic hard light "laser" into a loop that would spin at relativistic speeds. This more advanced version, built specifically for use with this suit and demanding so much power be transferred from the suit that it could not be used with standard power suits.   The weapon would generate two counterrotating looped lasers tied together. This would gyroscopically stabilize the hard light construct providing better accuracy and more damage output. Upon colliding with a target their momentum would overlap imparting massive amounts of energy. The hardlight loops effectively superheated "circular saws" designed to cut through even the strongest armor.   Manifesting and firing such potent hard light constructs took immense amounts of energy, hence the weapon had a low rate of fire. With the weapon being able to charge shots for increased damage or fire low powered shots at a more intensive rate of fire.

Sensors

The armor featured a number of sensor systems. While being worn the onboard data would be processed and analyzed extensively by an AI system.

Microwave Radar System

The armor featured a powerful omnidirectional active microwave radar system. This could service as a form of passive defense in and of itself against unarmored biological enemies as it put out so much radiation when running at full power that simply standing near the wearer was liable to boil the fluids inside their body. This radar system created a three-dimensional map of the surrounding area and had ground-penetrating capabilities providing information on concealed or internal structure of objects providing environmental awareness.

Sonar System

Powerful adaptive sonar system with receivers set into the "ears" of the armor. The system was designed to adapt to a variety of atmospheric conditions and put out sonar frequencies in anticipation of a response. The independent components of this could also function as a hardened passive listening device and sonic weapon.

Trans Spectral Eye

  The vertical slit along the faceplate of the armor contained an adaptive "eye". Formed of synthetic "rods" and "cones" mimicking various organic creatures with the ability to perceive these waveforms of the electromagnetic spectrum. This could perceive a broad range of the electromagnetic spectrum from thermal to x ray spectra in impeccable resolution.

Mobility Systems

Thrusters

The armor featured ten fusion torch plasma reaction thrusters (two on the chest, four on the ankles and two at the bottom of the feet.) These were designed to maneuver the suit quickly in a three-dimensional environment. Providing tremendous acceleration. Two coreless ring jets were installed on the back flaps. These functioned as the primary flight thrusters for sustained movement, able to attain supersonic speeds during atmospheric flight. Though not as agile as a shadow ranger, the attainable top speed was actually higher.  

Servo Drivers

The joints of the armor were created by linking superconducting electric motors in sequence, drawing energy from the reactor to drive the system, This provided incredible precision and strength of movement. The armor had a lifting strength greater than that of Cauldarion knights, estimated at around a hundred tons. Frequently running into problems with cross section and pressure when attempting feats of strength, wherein the armor would sink into the ground when attempting to lift heavy loads.   

Reactors

The armor's fusion reactor was assembled by way of an atomic assembler. Providing optimal fusion efficiency and compactness, outputting many times more power than the reactors utilized on standard armor sets. It was one of the most revolutionary components. These fusion reactors could fuse traditional protium, not requiring deuterium-tritium mixture and were equipped with an ISRU fuel extractor. This device was capable of breaking down water (either liquid or vapor in the air) and extracting the hydrogen from it, then using that hydrogen to power the reactor system. This made the source of energy on the armor renewable without logistical support.

Repair Nanites

A colony of repair nanites lived within the armor. Though these were not able to rebuild macro scale systems such as replace armor plates or repair servo joints, they could repair the micro-scale systems. This colony was intended primarily to mend damage to the various sensor or computer systems. For instance if the trans-spectral eye became damaged due to radiation or an intense flash outside the ability of the flash suppression system, the nanites could individually repair damaged sensor cells or detect and repair faulty electronic components in the armor's various computer systems. This was one of the most promising technologies the armor introduced as its wide-scale implementation could vastly reduce the maintenance needed on complex systems.