Disclaimer
I may be away for the weekend (and thus no internet access) So here's a technical file to tide you over in case I don't finish Lelouch's torture (I mean training) before I have to leave.
Technical File
File Number 1-200-CD-322-PA
REAPER power armor.
Type: Customized general combat power armor suit
Wearer: DEATH. Rank- General. Commander of Wraith Deep raider corps. True name- Luthur Harkin Wulfenbach AKA Luthur Harkin Lamplerouge
Actuation: Myomer muscle cabling.
Armor: Neoceramic hexagonal plate mail laced with boron/carbon lattice beneath HG compression forged titanium/steel/carbon (Tritium) plating. Kevlar biweave 'skin' over any exposed joints.
Kinetic absorbent Reflex padding underneath - Special thermal absorbing variant.
Height: 2 Meters
Weight: 0.23 Metric tons
Power source: Dual Hypercompressed Hafnium Sodate Batteries.
Fixed weaponry
30 Meters length Molecularised razor wire launcher in right gauntlet.
Retractable metal claws in fingertips for gripping surfaces
Armor clamps for scythes and personal bolt pistol.
Helmet
Neurohelmet receiver system for Mech piloting
Inbuilt targeting protocols and HUD
Thermal vision
Night vision
Sonic mapping vision.
Tracking software
Advanced chemical sensor package.
ARGUS sensor coordination software.
Recording and voice synthesizer system
Overview
The sensor apparatus of Death's Helm is designed to provide him with more information about his surrounding environment. This is often of great aid to him when running stealth operations or in battle conditions of minimal visibility. Even in a smoke filled room in utter darkness he can navigate. His armor is in fact capable of throwing off high frequency sound waves above the range of human hearing. The waves are recorded and then mapped like a bat's sonar. A radar vision if you will. He can also record and mimic human voices (or any sound) using his helmet system. The chemical sensors allow him to learn about his environment in any number of ways. The helmet is also capable of connecting to a Nobuseri mechs operating system like a standard neurohelmet. Death's helm is a fully sealed gasmask capable of providing one hour of oxygen to its wearer. Unless wearing specialized modules the armor is too heavy to swim in although being a sealed system he can just walk across the floor of a river of body of water.
Like all power armor the user controls his suit through two ways.
First the brainwave data received from the neuro helmet. Second the data received from pressure, muscle movement and nervous activity that is interpreted by the inner nerve suit which is worn in direct contact with the skin. There have been experiments with subdermal implants placed throughout the body above key sections of the nervous system to improve efficiency. Thus far Death only has such implants on his cranium.
The ribbed structure of the external plating provides greater protection against melee weaponry and small arm fire. Even so it is designed around agility and mobility with somewhat larger gaps to allow for complete and swift limb movement. It increases the wearers strength by a factor of five. Since Death has a prosthetic left arm the safety limiters for the left armor are not present so it is in fact eight times the strength of a normal man. However Death has tweaked the fibre bundles of the armor to allow for increased running speed and limb movement to twice that of a normal man. As opposed to the fifty percent increase in standard armor. Also the structure of the Kevlar skin and alterations in the gel composite allow Death to mask his armors heat signature. Although not as well as the dedicated lighter armor he uses for purely stealth missions.
The armor has a fully functional medic system that can pressurize parts of the suit to act as a makeshift tourniquet in the event of bleeding. It links in to Deaths internal cybernetics and health monitor system. It can deliver a wide range of antibiotics, coagulant, anti coagulants and painkillers. It can also administer various combat compounds when necessary such as focus and dull. In the event of extremely severe injury it can cause the armor to lockdown while it administers Torpor.
Visually speaking Death's armor is terrifying. The blank death mask acting as a powerful piece of psychological intimidation. While the standard color for the armor is dark red Death can alter it to better suit his operating environment as it is covered with specialized smartpaint.
Death's armor can carry a multitude of specialized weapons and equipment. However the weapons he never goes without are his personal heavy Pistol Redeemer and his scythe blades. The Redeemer pistol is extremely heavy and comes with a silencer function. It fires specialized armor piercing rounds that are launched using an extremely powerful plastic explosive ignition compound called Terman 27. The ammunition travels at sufficient speed that it could pierce a knightmare cockpit block in three to five shots on the same area. In order to accommodate both the extreme stresses and the kickback such ammunition generates the weapon has been made of very dense metal. In fact both in size and the sheer weight of the weapon it is beyond normal proportions for a handgun. It would be impossible for anyone not wearing power armor to lift and fire this weapon without breaking their arm.
His scythe blades are formed from Tritium that has been folded twenty times then condensed using HG compression forging. Then sharpened to a monomolecular edge using highly concentrated UV lasers. The weapons can be attached at the base of their hafts to form a double bladed staff. The blades can be held at right angles or 180 degrees to the line of the hafts. A special property of the blades can allow Death to actually damage knightmare armor. By using AG emitters and a condensed UV laser discharge he can maintain for the space of one second a concentrated 'edge' of charged particles along the blade. This has high energy costs and so he generally uses other methods to deal with knightmares if he can.
File Number 1-000-CD-007-PA
VOID command power armor.
Type: Customized Command power armor suit
Wearer: ZERO. Rank- Supreme commander True name-REDACTED
Actuation: Myomer muscle cabling
Armor: Tungsten coated 2cm thick HG compression forged Tritium plates over Neoceramic hexagonal plate mail laced with carbon titanium lattice.
Kinetic absorbing Reflex padding.
Height: 1.8 Meters
Weight: 0.31 tons.
Helmet
Night vision
Thermal Vision
Fully integrated tactical and strategic mapping software linked to HUD
ARGUS sensor coordination software.
Overview
The VOID is heavier than standard power armor due to both the thickened plates of Tritium and the extra communication and computer gear inside it. Much of the armors power is spent allowing Zero to move so it does not increase his strength by the same proportions that standard armor does. The VOID has an encrypted communication package capable of both radio and directed laser transmission. It has a fully functional haptic computer system which links to the suits gloves and the helmet HUD. With a flick of the wrist Zero can create a 3D tactical map, pull up the biography of a target, maintain multiple communication links with his forces and even launch computer hacking attempts while standing upright in a rainstorm.
This system can connect to the computer systems of a Nobuseri mech or a Knightmare allowing a wider field of vision to its wearer and improving its efficiency. Its internal structure also allows it to act as a neurohelmet when piloting a Nobuseri mech.
His armor contains the standard medic system albeit without the focus compound.
Zero's personal weapon is a specialized 14 round pistol with inbuilt sensors that connect to his HUD allowing him to fire with pinpoint accuracy. It is stored in a hip compartment that lies flush with the metal of the right armor leg. It fires standard and armor piercing rounds. The ammunition is stored in the left compartment.
Like all forms of Power armor The VOID contains its own built in air supply and filtration system. It provides full environmental protection from any chemical, biological or radiological hazard. Although Zero's helmet contains a voice synthesizer to help protect his identity. The outer armor and the internal Reflex padding protect the wearer from the effects of heat. Meaning that Zero can walk right through a burning building and not even break a sweat.
His Cloak likewise is heat resistant and fire proof. It has a special deflective material woven within it that prevents successful laser targeting. It is also a memory weave. Certain electrical currents can slightly affect its rigidity which allows Zero to wrap himself in it completely without holding on to it.
File NO 2-456-BK-3780-KF
RONIN 47
Frame data and tactical assessment of Ronin 47 knightmare frame.
Height 4 meters
Weight: 7 Tons
Armor: Tritium lattice in neoceramic
Sensor: Multiple sensors placed in head, upper chest and shoulders.
Includes
-3 thermal cameras.
-2 High speed telephoto cameras with telescopic function.
-4 standard frame rate cameras with low light vision capability.
Cameras are all linked to one another using ARGUS system.
Power source 1 yggdrasil drive (slight modification to interior block allow 2 hours additional performance than standard drives)
Propulsion: two landspinners.
Fixed armament: two slash harkens
2 pile driver gladius's – composition multiple folded steel and tritium alloy sharpened to molecularised edge
Weapon inventory
Stalker pattern knightmare assault rifle
Tishen anti armor Naginata spear
Knightmare shoulder mounted rocket launcher
Anti knightmare sniper rifle
Arbalest Grenade launcher
Arclight anti personnel flamethrower
Anti armor/personnel thermite grenades
Development history
Unlike the Burai which are made by modifying surplus or stolen glasgows Ronin 47's are manufactured from scratch in tier 3 or 2 installations. The exception to this being the armor plating,the ARGUS computer hardware and the slash harken cabling which are created in tier 1 installations. The Ronin are an improvement on the Sutherland knightmare frame and use approximately 70% of the original components. The ability to manufacture them so is a consequence of operation PERAGUS.
PERAGUS was launched in the occupied zone of Indonesia on January 21st 2013 A.T.B under cover of a storm and using the resistance group 'sons of the severed hand' as a supporting force. It involved several attacks to distract Brittanian forces from an assault upon a knightmare manufacturing plant led by War, Death and Zero. The mission achieved its objective in which the design specs, industrial tooling and part construction stats for the Sutherland Knightmare were stolen. The factory was then destroyed with high yield sakuradite infused thermite bombs to remove any evidence that the material needed to create a Sutherland production line had been carried away. Development of the Ronin took another nine months. It began to see use by Conclave strike teams as early as February 2014 A.T.B. Sale to various tier 3 resistance groups began in 2015. Sale as part of general inventory to any group began in 2016.
Technical details
Sensors
The Ronin does not possess a factsphere. The construction of these specialized thermographic cameras remains a Brittanian technical secret. The conclave has not tried to reverse engineer them as it is time better spent improving their own sensor technology. However it does use the ARGUS cockpit hardware system. ARGUS allows for the coordination and overlay of multiple sensor cameras into single data. The pilot can view the cameras separately or watch a complete image composed of the data taken from all the cameras at once. The system automatically adjusts for the loss of any of the cameras.
Also the placement of cameras, means that Ronin pilots can in fact see behind themselves. (The images are projected in the same manner as a rear view mirror as smaller windows on the two computer screens to either side of the main one.)
Armor
Knightmare armor is a combination of lightweight metals and high yield ceramics. This grants them protection against small arms fire. The Ronin's armor is an improvement on this compound called neo ceramic with an internal lattice of tritium which is used in part in the construction of Black knight infantry armor and power armor. This grants fifty percent more endurance to knightmare scale projectile weaponry. However the addition of full metal layers would make it heavier thus it is no more resistant to close combat piercing weaponry (like a Brittanian's lance)
Tactical assessment.
The Ronin is an excellent knightmare for mid to extended range combat. Its improved energy endurance and greater sensor capacity make it excellent for supporting stealth attacks and raids. Especially where you might need to wait in ambush for a considerable amount of time. Its pile driver gladius's are also excellent close combat tools for fighting Sutherlands. However its acceleration, maneuverability and manual dexterity do not match those of the Gloucester model. Ronin pilots are discouraged from engaging in direct combat with Gloucesters. It is better to use their extended range slash harkens to escape to higher ground.
Authors Note
Derain: Well I know I promised that you would get to see Lelouch being pounded. Don't worry it will happen. But since I'll be away for the weekend (Which is when I get a lot of my writing done) I felt I had to post this from my notes to keep things interesting.
Lelouch: A reprieve.
Derain: This also brings up an important point for me about the black knights technology. Yes they do have some draw dropping bad ass tech. But that does not mean they are more advanced then the Brittanians in every way. Their own mech technology is radically different from the Brittanians so they spent all their effort into making that better then researching better knightmare tech. The Ronin is a tuned up Sutherland with some of the compatible Nobuseri tech added on. All the nations of the world, at the time of season one are behind Brittannia when it comes to building knightmares. Except of course Rakshata.
Luthur: Hmm I wonder what will happen when she joins us.
Derain: Even now the thought of what the pair of you together will cook up fills me with fear. Still on the subject of power armor you can see how Luthur is like a more gothed up version of the Predator. If I listed every various killing device he may pull out in the course of this fic we'd be here for ages so I stuck to the two weapons he always has with him.
Lelouch: And me?
Derain: You're the general, ideally you won't be involved in close combat. But if you are you'll have excellent protection while you whip out your pistol and head shot everybody. Then get back to coordinating your troops like chess pieces on the battlefield. Hehheh. It would be funny to see someone try to kick you while wearing that though.
Lelouch: They'd break their leg.
Suzaku: I felt a slight chill.
Derain: And here's a slight teaser. When we finally get around to revealing your personal Mech it will remain true to your combat philosophy as shown in the canon.
One- Stay at a distance
Two- Guns. Big guns. And lots of them.