CC-61 power armor

The CC-61 Deep Spacewalk power armor was a suit of mechanized protection created before the Great War. It was designed to be worn on spacewalks where significant threats were posed to USSA astronauts.
==Background==
===CC-00===
It was in 2050 that for the first time in history the United States of America found itself at war on another celestial body. The Tranquil War was fought between the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China over Helium-3 reserves in the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility. Even after the conflict ended and both sides agreed to cancel all further manned Moon missions, the USSA and American military were worried that future orbital and lunar conflicts were inevitable with the Resource Wars sweeping across the globe in 2052. The USSA collaborated with West Tek to produce the CC-00, the first model of power armor designed to be worn in space. While cumbersome to use, it offered phenomenal protection to astronauts in a time where orbital sabotage or outright conflicts were a very real possibility.
===Development===
As the Sino-American War raged on and a nuclear conflict seemed more inevitable with each passing day, America’s Enclave deep state toyed with the idea of escaping off-planet in the event that World War 3 ever erupted. Development of the CC-61 was started to provide an upgrade to the CC-00 that could be used by the Enclave in the efforts to abandon Earth and colonize another planet. With collaboration from Poseidon Energy to develop advanced armor plating and an experimental power system, the CC-61 Deep Spacewalk power armor was created. Named after the year of the first American astronaut in space, 1961 by Carl Bell, the suit was the most advanced model of power armor at the time of its deployment.
While the Enclave abandoned their plans to colonize other planets, the CC-61 was used in the final years before the Great War to defend American astronauts during the construction of a variety of orbital weapons, including the ARCHIMEDES, Bradley-Hercules, and B.O.M.B. satellites, as well as the lunar March Station. It was also secretly used during the Minerva program, a space program that claimed to only send unnamed missions to the Moon.
===Project ATHENA===
As atomic armageddon loomed closer and the Enclave abandoned its plans to leave Earth, Project ATHENA was initiated to create power armor designed specifically to survive in the harsh, post-nuclear conditions after the inevitable atomic holocaust. Using the CC-61 as a base, the X-01, Hellfire, and Equalizer prototype models of power armor were developed before the Great War and became the predecessor to the Enclave’s Advanced Power Armor projects.
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