Directorate Officer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To provide a basic set of battle armor suitable for customization by the members of the Mandalorian Covenant
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- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: Alu'skar Permission
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Silver Jedi Concord
- Affiliation: Mandalorian Covenant
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Mandalorian Covenant Battle Armor
- Modularity: Cosmetics; gauntlet weapons; backplate mount attachments; various cloaks & capes; webbing, belts, and similar load-bearing equipment
- Production: Limited
- Material: Alu'skar armor plates, Defensa Textile base layer body glove, various personal armor components
- Classification: Heavy Battle Armor
- Weight: Average
- Resistances:
- Energy: Very High
- Kinetic: Very High
- Lightsabers: Very High
- EMP/Ion: Average
- Radiation: Very Low
- Sonic: Very Low
- Elemental: Average
- Environmental: Average
- Loth-Wolf series Combat Scanner with SC-1 Hardened Comlink: This system provides Mandalorian Covenant Battle Armor with its standard package of HUD, sensors, and basic battle armor command and control systems as described in that submission. An open sensor slot in the Loth-Wolf has been plugged in with a medi-sensor, allowing users to help diagnose casualties and provide effective first aid. Loth-Wolf is usually linked into both gauntlet weapons, providing targeting information and visual reticles for a variety of weapons. Loth-Wolf can also be configured to provide tracking and firing information for many hand-held weapons as well, such as handheld blaster or slugthrower rifles.
- Asclepius Bio-support Dispenser: This internal device provides basic physiological monitoring, emergency topical bacta/kolto administration, and can also inject users with a variety of emergency or performance enhancing drugs.
- Crush-gaunts: Each of Mandalorian Covenant Battle Armor's gloves are actually crush-gaunts made out of Alu'skar. These can not only be used as a close-quarters combat weapon, but they are also useful for hanging onto and intensely gripping objects, whether the user is dangling off a cliff edge or firing a high-recoil weapon.
- Gauntlet Weapons: A classic feature of Mandalorian battle armor made famous by the Fetts, Mandalorian Covenant Battle Armor has been designed to accept a variety of different weapons on either wrist. While many warriors of the Mandalorian Covenant prefer to use the classic MM9 Wrist Rocket Launcher, Dur-24 wrist laser, or ZX Miniature Flame Projector, the Mandalorian Covenant's association with the Silver Jedi Concord has also provided high-tech weapons from many other companies such as the Lucerne Consortium. Newer options consequently also found include miniaturized masers, cryoban projectors, static blasters, dart launchers, and even tactical tractor beam devices. Most weapons can be directly linked into the armor's HUD system, making their use fairly instinctive, fast, and reasonably accurate at close ranges.
- Utility Belt: Mandalorian Covenant Battle Armor comes with a streamlined utility belt with compartments made out of the same armor plating as the rest of the suit. While heavily inspired by the classic stormtrooper belt, it contains fewer items in terms of types and quantities in order to cut down on bulk. Each belt contains the following equipment: a spool of high tension wire, one grappling hook, 2 power packs, two ion flares (for illumination or emergency signaling), a combat de-ionizer, a FastMed Emergency Medpac, and three ration packs.
- Modular Backplate Mount: Most of the suit's backplate is designed to accept a wide variety of aftermarket devices through the use of gription panels, latches, and other conventional fasteners. A data uplink and power coupling built into the backside allows these devices to be directly connected to the suit's HUD operating systems. While designed especially to support LPD's own devices, it can attach third party items like jetpacks, shield generators, individual field disruptors, and weapon systems with a little work. The following LPD products are fully supported and designed to be plug and play with this armor system: Mailoc Photonic Rocket Pack, Myntor Personal Shield Generator, Ferrazid Particle Distortion Shield Generator, Tauntaun series Modular Backpack, Kinrath Intelligent Handless System, and Bia Series Portable Power Generators (often used to provide extra power to heavy weapons and other portable devices).
- Modular Cape Clasps: The Mandalorian Covenant Battle Armor has gription panels and pinning mounts above the wearer's clavicle that allow the user to easily attach different types of cloaks, capes, and ponchos. This allows items like Neti Field Cloaks to be worn to increase passive stealth, All temperature cloaks to adapt to exceptionally hot or cold weather, or ceremonial dress cloaks to be worn by honor guards.
- Basic Environmental Protection: Like many common battle armors such as stormtrooper armor, Mandalorian Covenant Battle Armor provides limited protection from hostile environments. Each suit can be vacuum proof through its self-sealing Defensa body glove and built-in Pneuma-series Rebreathing System, which also has an independent air supply. This rebreathing system also allows its users to filter atmospheres from toxic gases, both natural and artificial, as well as the potential to breathe underwater with the right filters.
- Energy Resilience: Mandalorian Covenant Battle Armor's Alu'skar plate construction and Defensa undersuit provide the wearer with excellent protection from energy weapons like blasters and disruptors.
- Kinetic Resilience: Mandalorian Covenant Battle Armor provides fairly decent protection from kinetic weapons due to its padded, Defensa textile undersuit.
- Lightsaber Resilience: Mandalorian Covenant Battle Armor provides reasonable protection from lightsabers due to its use of beskar in the armor plating and armorweave in its undersuit.
- Low Sonic Resistance: Mandalorian Covenant Battle Armor has very limited protection against sonic weapons. While the helmet does provide sonic protection for the user's ears through its HUD system, the rest of the suit was not designed with sonic weapons in mind, with what little protection being present being largely coincidental.
- Low Radiation Resistance: Mandalorian Covenant Battle Armor wasn’t designed with any thought of radiation weapons or environments in mind, though the sheer thickness of its armor plating does provide some shielding via simple depth. Radiation can destroy the microbes used in its Defensa cloth, which can permanently degrade the armor’s ability to protect against energy weapons.
The Mandalorian Covenant brought many Mandalorians into the fold of the Silver Jedi Concord for any number of reasons, whether it was simple employment or long term plotting return Mandalorian space back to their own control. Regardless of their motivation, many mandalorian warriors and clans didn't have access to their traditional sources of Beskar back in Mandalorian space, nor did they have access to all of their armor smith and other traditional contacts. To help equip these new warriors, Clan Gred and Lucerne Personal Defense teamed up to supply a basic suit of mandalorian battle armor that combined many traditional motiffs and even some beskar combined with some of the best armor technology that the Silver Jedi Concord could supply. The resulting Mandalorian Covenant Battle Armor is a reasonably good set of base battle armor that many within the Mandalorian Covenant simply modify to better suit their own individual needs and preferences - the suits rarely remain stock, with at least clan markings and additional webbing, cloaks, or pauldrons quickly appearing after only a few weeks of service with most warriors.
