UEG Powered Assault Armor is an extremely powerful and technologically advanced battle exoskeleton designed to enhance human combat performance on all scales by offering a myriad of weaponry and devices at its disposal.

The suit is designed to dramatically increase all physical properties of the soldier possessing it, including strength, speed, reflexes, agility, physiology (soldiers that have worn the armor are not affected by viruses and disease), and combat awareness.

Components

The armor features many layers which help enhance and protect the wearer.

Energy Shielding

The outermost layer consists of what is its most powerful protection system: A rechargeable shielding system which forms a protective layer around the armor and shields the user from most forms of heavy weaponry, the shields protect the wearer regardless of range. The shields also protect the wearer from the intense heat generated by atmospheric re-entry whenever an Armored Infantryman is Burning In above a planetary atmosphere, creating an iconic fire trail around the soldier. Although, any attacks not traveling at a high enough velocity, like melee strikes from a knife or even an Armored Infantryman's bare hands, may not trigger the shield systems at all.

The shields work by constantly sending out frequency pulses around the user (similar to sonar) that detects the movement speed of all nearby objects and calculates point of trajectory; when the armor senses an incoming object possessing a dangerous level of velocity and/or size the suit emits a powerful layer of plasma to the point of impact, melting or deflecting the object and rendering the user unharmed. The process repeats until the shields lose power from sustaining too much damage and the wearer takes cover, allowing them to regenerate.

The shield emitters can be seen on the outside of the armor as bright glowing blue, white, and orange LED (Light Emitting Diode) sections. The light can be dampened down for stealth operations.

Tritium-Alloy Armor Plating

The UEG Powered Assault Armor's thick armor plates are made of tritium alloy, a very lightweight but extremely resilient material. This armor plating covers sections of the wearer including the legs, shoulders, abdomen, back, chest, and helmet; its primary function is to protect against rail projectile weaponry and other munitions like plasma or high-explosives.

Synthetic Muscle System

Beneath the armor plating is one of the battlesuit's deadliest features: its synthetic muscle system. The synthetic muscle system is composed of many hexagonal shaped titanium-reinforced nano-fibers, all connected to form large fibers, which are in turn strung together with even more fibers to create the muscle system. The nano-fibers react to constant electrical stimulation from the armor, causing them to move with the wearer. The synthetic muscles greatly improve the strength, speed, and reaction time of the wearer, allowing him to lift very heavy objects by himself and excel in close combat against otherwise superior opponents.

The muscle layer completely covers the wearer's body and provides total protection from weaker projectiles like cased rounds not assisted by rail propulsion. The muscle system is also self repairing, and constantly sends out small self-replicating nanites to effect repairs on itself and other layers whenever the armor is damaged. Additionally, it renders most EMP attacks against the suit completely futile and allows the soldier to engage in Overdrive, enabling him to reach speeds of up to 75 mph.

Most importantly, the synthetic muscles are able to completely absorb extremely intense G-forces and high velocity impacts. This makes the synthetic muscle system vital to a Armored Infantryman's survival whenever he is Burning In, as it absorbs the G-forces that would otherwise render him unconscious when plummeting from thousands of feet above the ground at such high velocities, and then absorbs the tremendous force generated from the otherwise fatal impact upon a soldier's landing, keeping the wearer unharmed from a fall at such heights.

Helmet

The helmet consists of multiple layers, the first of which is a metal outer layer identical to the armor covering the rest of the suit. This outer layer has two small panels that cover the wearer's eyes. These panels can be retracted back into the rest of the helmet to allow the user to see directly out. On these panels are blue eye slits, two on each panel, accounting for a total of four. The wearer does not see straight through these slits, since they are actually optical cameras that are connected to the wearer's HUD.

Underneath the armored layer is an orange colored visor which displays the HUD. This visor is made of a type of durable bulletproof glass. The final layer is a mask that goes over the wearer's mouth. This mask supplies the wearer with oxygen, food, and water directly from the armor's storage areas.

Automated Medical System
A very important feature of the armor is its Automated Medical system (or Automed for short). The Automed system contains various miniature medical devices that allow it to heal the soldier inside if he is wounded, and keep him alert and active thereafter. It can rapidly heal burns, puncture wounds, lacerations, broken bones, and other serious injuries. The Automed System also dispenses painkillers and stimulation cocktails which help the soldier inside to stay alert.

Another function of the Automed system is that it houses millions of controlled self-replicating nano-sized artificial anti-bodies (nanites) which can fight off any known virus, bacteria, or other disease in the galaxy. The nanites also aid the Automed system in rapidly healing wounds, allowing soldiers to quickly recover from, and fight through, even the most serious injuries. These beneficial nanites continue to replicate themselves inside the wearer of the armor, so wearers that have used nanites are immune to all sicknesses and can recover from the most grievous wounds in a surprisingly short time.

Power Sources

To power its highly advanced systems, the armor utilizes a miniature plasma/antimatter reactor, housed in the back of the armor. This reactor uses a fuel (primarily tritium and deuterium) and antimatter to create electricity. The fuel is kept in a plasma state, and is then injected into a magnetically contained charge of antimatter. Since antimatter is the opposite of matter, they mutually annihilate themselves, creating a large outburst of energy.

The energy is stored in a large, "main" capacitor. This capacitor contains a large amount of energy. Whenever it is needed, the energy can be transferred to smaller capacitors (for example, those powering the jetpack or artificial muscles) which will use the power. When the main capacitor is nearly empty, the reactor fires again to recharge it. Any leftover plasma from the explosion is stored in a magnetic container and used by the armor's plasma shields. The reactor does not need to be refueled with more antimatter and fuel for many years, allowing the soldier to operate for extended periods of time.
If the antimatter reactor is out of power, all nanites in the armor initiate an emergency power sequence that recycles the waste of the armor wearer and converts it to energy, enabling the armor to continue functioning in this manner for several weeks or until the wearer can replenish the antimatter reactor.

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