Powered Battle Armor

About the Powered Battle Armor

Powered battle armor wraps its wearer in heavy plating and then solves the weight problem with a network of servos and actuators that move the suit almost as an extension of the body. The powered frame bears the load the muscles cannot, letting a soldier carry protection that would otherwise pin them in place, though the trade is a suit that is stiff, power-hungry, and unforgiving when its systems fail. Elite troopers, heavy-weapons specialists, and mercenaries with credits to spare wear it to walk into fire that would kill lesser-equipped fighters, trusting the actuators to keep them mobile under a burden of armor no unassisted body could shoulder. It demands maintenance and a charged cell to earn its keep, and a suit run dry becomes a cage. But at full power it turns a single infantryman into a walking strongpoint, hard to drop and harder still to stop.