TODESFALL-CALADBOLG High Impact Body Armor

Inferior to more sophisticated armor suits such as the VAJRA-III Powered Assault Exoskeloten worn by VOLSUNG personnel or the MJOLNIR Armor worn by the SPARTANs, The TCHIBA (Pronounced:Chee-bah) Semi-Powered Assault Suit would (like many others) attempt to fill the void between the Standard Battle Dress Uniforms and the seemingly invincible MJOLNIR PAA.

Introduction
The TCHIBA S-PAS was originally commissioned by the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers as an "up-armored" upgrade to their standard vacuum suits. It would eventually spin off into it's own project, under the supervision of the PROJECT STYRKT personnel. At the time STYRKT was working on two separate projects codenamed TODESFALL and CALADBOLG respectively. When the projects failed to yield any practical applications, the collected efforts were put together in an attempt to compete with others to create the perfect body armor.

Armor
It is extremely resilient towards traditional ballistic weaponry. However, it is less resilient to plasma fire. The armor consists of several layers,....

While this armor protects the wearer from harm caused by weaponry it also has temperature-regulation units integrated into it. This also reduces the enemy's ability to track soldiers via thermal energy as well as keep the wearer's body temperature regulated to a comfortable level, eliminating the need to change when entering new environments.

Despite this there were many instances where the wearer would find him/herself fighting in environments too hot or cold for the standard suits. This usually caused the unfortunate failures of the suit's temperature regulating systems and eventual deaths of the wearers. The answer to this problem came in the form of two variants specifically made to operate in these extreme conditions. The TCHIBA-DE Variant, and the TCHIBA-AE Variant.

The TCHIBA-AE, used on the cold environments, consisted of environmentally-tailored armor, with insulated snow camouflage utilities and fully insulated and visored helmets. The armor also sported an improved temperature regulation system built in that not only kept the wearer comfortably warm, but gave off no excess heat and therefore ensuring that the wearer's position wasn't given away due to thermal recognition gear.

Headgear
The TCHIBA's helmet contained a variety of helpful electronics and neurally-linked functions. It is composed of titanium, coated with a heat resistance material to help disperse heat. Inside, the helmet is padded with a black cotton-polyester lining for comfort. When placed on the head, the helmet will immediately provide an option to sync with the wearers's neural link wirelessly. The faceplate of the helmet is completely armored (similar to the GUNGNIR Suit's helm) with four cameras placed on the sides of the helmet. This has proven to be an intimidating feature especially when combined with some of the wearers "creative" marking on the front.

VISR
Using assets from the MJOLNIR projects, the helmet also included VISR technology.

Projected onto the faceplate of the helmet, the VISR is capable of displaying a real-time HUD that is linked to features such as ammo counters, UGPS system, holographic weapon sights, maps of the surrounding area, armor integrity, personal health conditions for the wearer and his/her squad, night-vision, low-light, and infrared vision modes.

It naturally come standard with motion trackers,a security clearance-based access to all available UNSC data storage networks, and the ability to recognize IFF transponders.

Armor Variants

 * TCHIBA S-PAS: Standard Suit
 * TCHIBA[UA]: An Up-armored sub-variant
 * TCHIBA-AE: A variant made for use in arctic environments
 * TCHIBA-AE[UA]: An Up-armored sub-variant for use in arctic environments
 * TCHIBA-DE: A Variant made for use in desert environments.
 * TCHIBA-DE[UA]: An Up-armored sub-variant for use in desert environments.