Development of Armor (Elemental Army)

## **The Beginning**

In the beginning, Armor was very primitive, very basic, only consisting of a metal vest, metal helmet, and metal leg and arm plating. This armor would eventually evolve into armor that looks barely similar to Great War era armor.

## **Evolution**

As time went on, armor would eventually evolve into having interlocking plates, a HUD system would eventually come, they also had neural uplinks to the user of the armor, and that is about it for the evolution after the beginning.

## **Mage Wars**

During the Mage Wars, which took place underground due to the flooding era flooding everything, armor had to advance significantly if the Elementals wanted to win the war. A Scientist, who is mostly known as being Flame's great great uncle, would come up with Armor that would be able to be used under water and in space. This armor was air tight and could be used in said environments. The Armor also came with built in heaters to battle hypothermia. That wasn't the only armor advancement however, there was also a significant upgrade to the aesthetics of the armor, evolving from a prototype looking suit of armor to more of a complete version.

## **Post-Mage Wars**

After the Mage Wars, there was a realization that armor needed to be upgraded furthermore, due to the fact that many soldier's were still killed even in the heavy suits of armor. They advanced armors by adding more protective layers of armor, and also adding more modifications to the armor suit itself. This is also the point that they added exo-suits to the armors, which would improve mobility to the user of the armor. However, this exosuit came with some cons, such as it needed a power source to run off of, however, they couldn't figure one out so they either had to go with nuclear power, which would be too dangerous for the user, or they would go with an external power source, that would connect to the armor, so they had to make a very long cable that would feed power to the exo suit. Without power to the exo-suit, the user would have a harder time moving. However, eventually, they found out that if they had a battery placed in a specific area of the armor, they could have a functioning exo-suit without the need to charge it a lot. The battery placed in the armor could last up to 200+ hours, depending on how heavy the usage was. The battery would still have to be charged, especially after it ran out.

## **Pre-TRK War**

Before the TRK War, the Armors that Elementals had used was very good up until the point that they had realized that they would need to compensate for the human's bullet weapons, which could pierce metal armor quicker than the plasma ones. The Elementals would eventually come up with a material that could effectively repel bullets better than the last material.

## **TRK War**

During the TRK war, they made more material advancements in armor, and also improved the material that the visor used, which was more of a plexiglass before the TRK wars, they eventually made it into a metal/glass hybrid that used both materials effectively.

## **Post TRK War**

Although the Elementals had made very sufficient armor against bullets and plasma damage, there was still obstacles in the way if they wanted the end user to be completely safe. Explosive and Melee damage were still a major issue at the time, so they began to develop a piece of technology that would surround the armor, so that mainly explosive damage wouldn't affect the armor. This would end up starting the evolution of Plasma shielding or energy shielding over the armor. The Plasma shielding would be projected off of holographic projectors located at certain spots around the armor, the projection, would then form an invisible shield around the soldier which can be seen when it is shot at/damaged.

## **Pre-Great War**

Before the Great War, the Elementals were working very hard to get the Plasma or Energy shielding up and running for the armor. At first, they experimented with Energy shielding, which would use the Armor's solar battery to project a shield around the armor, but they had found that the Energy shielding, while more efficient than that of plasma shielding, was too weak. This would result in them having to improve the technology of the plasma shielding, and they had to make some sort of infinite source for the plasma so that it could remain around the armor for an indefinite amount of time unless deactivated by the user.

## **The Great War**

During the Great War, the plasma shielding technology advanced even more, at first in the war, the shielding would have to have some sort of bulky plasma pack that would be placed either under the armor on the back or on the front of the suit. However, this caused issues with the end user complaining of plasma burns that would try to get past the under-suit that user's wore. The fix for this issue, was to improve the armoring on the Under-suit, which would involve adding a plasma-retardant material over the top of the material on the undersuit. This solution would end up working for the most part, but they still had to reduce the size of the Plasma battery pack. They would end up shrinking the size of the pack and placing it under more layers of armor.

## **Post Great War**

At this point, armor had made so many advancements that the Elemental Army didn't really see any use in making more upgrades, however, they were still many more that they hadn't realize needed to be made. One of these issues was finally uncovered while there were armor diagnostics testing going on and one of the user's complained that they armor wouldn't move when they wanted it to move. The Team doing the diagnostic said that their brain waves were too low to activate the armor and that they needed to concentrate more about moving, rather than whatever they were thinking about at the moment. The Team realized that this was an issue, so they talked to the higher-ups about the issue. The issue was fixed when they decided that when the User of the armor was too focused on other things instead of moving, that the exo-suit would automatically shut off to prevent any sort of erratic movements that could severely damage the end-user. There was also another issue, involving hacking into the user's connection to the exo-suit itself. This would result in the exo-suit being able to be remotely controlled by another outside force. The exo-suits are all controlled by a big mainframe that is located at the lowest level possible in the Elemental Base, which is top secret only few know about this and if they reveal anything about it, they get exiled from the UE and never allowed back. They fixed the database breaching issue, by adding a ridiculous amount of firewalls between the outside Forces and the exo-suits functions.