The Power Suit is a Powered armor utilized by the United Citizen Federation during the Second Bug War. A Power Suit consists two parts: the Inner Body Suit and the Powered Suit.
Components[]
Inner Suit[]
The Inner Suit is a "Muscle suit" which provides the trooper with extra muscle power. The suit is worn inside the Powered Suit.
Concept art for Inner Suit (Male)
Inner Suit (Male)
Inner Suit (Female, Mobile Infantry)
Inner Suit (Female, Fleet)
Inner Suit (Female, Fleet)
Main Powered Suit[]
The Main Powered Suit is an external armor worn over a inner suit, and powered by a battery. Every part of a Power Suit is mass produced with standardization in mind, hence a trooper can salvage parts from fallen soldiers powersuits on the battlefield.[1] There are male and female versions for both Inner Suit and Main Powered Suit. The female version Powered Suit is more streamlined than the male version.
- Body armor (Battle Armor)[1]
- There are several hardpoints on the armor, allowing various optional equipment and weapons to be attached and removed, such as a small missile launcher, Gatling gun, or a combat knife. The missile launcher can hold either two large missiles or eleven small high explosive grenades. There are three different types of missiles; a nuke missile (marked with a red outline in the front) which fires a nuclear warhead, a cluster missile (marked with a yellow outline) which breaks up into smaller cluster rockets, and a gas missile (marked with a white outline) which releases a gas that's toxic to the bugs.[1] On each elbow, there is a large hardpoint, which is made for interfacing with vehicles.[citation needed]
- Weapons can be placed on the rack on the back. Each suit comes equipped with magnetic soles under the feet, to enable the wearer to walk on metal surfaces even in low gravity. The armor also enables a trooper with a super jump as well as a sneak mode (silencing footsteps).[2]
- Two jump jets, or "rockets" are mounted in the lower back of the armor and powered by a limited fuel supply carried in the armor. They will open when in use. The later version features only one large jump jet, which can also enable a trooper to hover in place in flight.
- There is a marker light on the chest.
- Helmet
- Each helmet has a searchlight mounted on its left and a infrared camera on the right side. There are four camera-eyes on the visor that provide visuals, displayed on the other side of the visor. There is a HUD system inside the helmet.
- Helmets can be linked to other weapon systems, such as missile launcher onboard a Landing Ship.[1]
- The Helmet is made of a very strong metal material that has very high ballistic resistance, able to receive a bullet from a Morita and the bullet to ricochet from the Helmet[1]
Close up of the helmet.
The HUD inside the visor.
- Unit colors
Each unit has a different color, pattern, or word layout on the armor. For example, the A-01 armor is purely green, while the K-12 armor is patterned with white flakes. As for the Elite Guard and Roughnecks Marauder Team, it is dark blue armor.
A-01 Team
Standard army green with word "A-01"
Standard army green with word "A-01"
K-12 Team
A camouflage pattern with incline "K-12" printed on the armor
A camouflage pattern with incline "K-12" printed on the armor
Elite Guard
Dark Blue/Black armor
Dark Blue/Black armor
Roughnecks Marauder Team
Dark Blue/Black armor
Dark Blue/Black armor
Personal emblems[]
Some troopers have their own personal emblems on their helmets as seen in follows:
Merchandise[]
D-D-Wave[]
Ratzass figure
- Powered Suit Ratzass (PVC figure, 2012)
- This is a figure of Ratzass holding his Gatling gun, only sold within the Starship Troopers: Invasion Blu-ray DVD limited version with only 1500 sets.
- The decal needed to be applied by the collectors themselves.
Square Enix[]
Play Arts Kai Henry Varro
- STARSHIP TROOPERS INVASION Colonel Henry Varro[sic] (Play Arts Kai, 2013)
- Accessories: Assault rifle*1, Grenade*1, Optional hands, Display stand*1
- This is a Play Arts Kai action figure of Henry Varro.
Notes[]
- The female Inner Body Suit seems to be the normal uniform for a female personnel, as Ice Blonde and Trig both only wear the inner suit during the intermission, while Carmen Ibanez and Captain Jonah wear the suits under their jackets.
- The Power Suit seems more vulnerable than the Powered Armor in the novel as the enemy possesses weaponry powerful enough to destroy the armor with ease. However, the Power Suit is much lighter as the novel version are described as a "steel gorilla". Plus, it is shown to be durable from bullets powerful enough to pierce Warrior carapaces.
- Most troopers have their names near the armor between the chest and the neck, much like those in Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, who have their names on the helmets.
- Much similar to the 1988 anime, the troopers use a variety of machine guns as primary armaments, such as Morita Mk III SAW and Gatling guns.
- In the Japanese version of Starship Troopers: Invasion, the Suit is known as Powered Suit (パワードスーツ Pawādo Sūtsu), the alternative name for the Powered Armor as mentioned in the original novel.
- The Inner Suit is also known as Inner Body Suit (インナーボディースーツ Innnābodīsūtsu).
Appearances[]
- Starship Troopers: Invasion
- Starship Troopers: Invasion "Mobile Infantry"
- Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars
- Starship Troopers: Terran Command
Gallery[]
Concept art[]
Power Suit (Male, K-12)
Power Suit (Male, K-12)
Power Suit (Male, A-01)
Power Suit (Female, A-01)
Concept art for Powered Suit (Male)
References[]
- Starship Troopers: Invasion, Power Suits (Dead link)
- Mobile Infantry T's Diary #8: Powered Suit (Dead link; Japanese)
- Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 As seen or mentioned in Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars
- ↑ Starship Troopers: Invasion - Gallery (link dead, retrieved from Internet Archive)
See also[]
External links[]
Starship Troopers: Invasion
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