Ares Spartan Combat Suit

Modern warfare runs to small-scale conflicts, with small groups of highly trained soldiers striking specific strategic targets, frequently in an electronic-warfare-heavy environment. Soldiers in a modern war need to be fast, stealthy, versatile, competent, and capable of providing significant firepower even in small groups. They are usually long-service specialists rather than conscript riflemen, and, as such, represent a significant amount of investment of money and time for their parent corporation or government. Protection of these human resources is therefore good policy from a financial standpoint, as well as, of course, being a worthwhile humanitarian goal in and of itself.

For all these reasons and more, Ares provides the Ares Spartan Combat Suit. A step above everyday hardened military-grade body armor, the Ares Spartan is a suit of full-fledged powered combat armor. Its heavy vehicle-grade armor is impervious to most small arms fire, it is capable of running at speeds in excess of 120km/h, powered by an advanced compact fuel cell, and, dependent on the suit configuration, usually carries a heavy weapon, most commonly a shoulder-mounted Ares Victory Assault Cannon, which gives the Spartan the ability to engage and destroy targets up to and including AFVs. The Spartan's environmentally friendly emissionless fuel cell and radar-absorbant coating make it stealthy and difficult to detect, it possesses an electronics suite that provides it with an unparalleled ability to coordinate actions with other suits in its unit, and its ASIST interface allows the operator to make fullest use of its capabilities.

All of these features are packed into a suit of combat armor approximately the size of an average troll. The Spartan's agile smart material construction provides it with the dexterity and flexibility to maneuver in enclosed spaces as well as an unarmored troll, too, without sacrificing vital armor protection. All Spartan models have functional arms and hands that, given a trained controller, can perform manual operations ranging from the most delicate to the most arduous, and can operate standard troll-modified weaponry and equipment effectively.

The standard Ares Spartan Combat Suit is designed for maximum flexibility of role, but certain tasks require more specialized hardware. For these roles, Ares provides three specialized variants of the basic Spartan: the Command, Scout, and Fire Support suits.

The Ares Spartan Command Suit provides command and control for a platoon of Spartan suits. Command Suits carry the master units for the Spartan's BattleTac tactical data network, IVIS and FDDM, and radio communications network. All Spartan suits also possess the unique ability to be remotely controlled in the same manner as a standard drone, and the Command Suits carry the master remote control deck as well, allowing the unit commander to "jump into" any of the suits under his command and operate it via telepresence. Due to the electronically hostile nature of the typical modern combat environment, this feature is not only strongly encrypted and authenticated, but can be manually locked out by the actual occupant of the suit, thus eliminating the threat of hostile takeovers of the remote control network. Command Suits carry an Ares Firelance Laser rather than the Ares Victory Cannon of the standard Spartan suit.

Ares Spartan Fire Support Suits are designed to provide a Spartan unit with organic artillery support. They replace the standard Spartan's Ares Victory Cannon with a heavy mortar capable of firing a variety of shells ranging from guided anti-vehicular penetrators capable of destroying main battle tanks to smoke and flare and other specialty rounds. Any Spartan suit can act as spotter for Spartan Fire Support Suits' artillery fire, using either the laser designators that all Spartan suits carry or data-guiding the round via the BattleTac FDDM network.

The Ares Spartan Scout Suit's primary weapon is information. They have more advanced sensors than other Spartans, and are designed to be able to get into position to use those sensors and feed the resulting intelligence back to their unit. Their tactical communications gear is comparable to the Command Suit's in capability, but it is tasked for reliable long-range communications rather than the heavily multiplexed command and control the Command Suit's is designed for. Scout Suits are faster and even stealthier than standard Spartans, and their advanced electronic deception gear makes them difficult to localize even when they are nominally detected. Additional hydrogen storage gives the Scout Suit an extended range, up to 360km, and, like the other Spartan models, they have an electrolysis unit that allows them to remanufacture hydrogen to refuel themselves, given access to water and electrical power, which they can scavenge from civilian sources. Scout Suits do not carry a heavy weapon, instead relying on stealth, their heavy armor, and the antipersonnel weapons that all Spartans mount in their forearms for defense. These secondary weapons are modular and easily customized to fit the mission or the personal preferences of the suit's operator. The standard loadout is a 12 gauge semiautomatic shotgun in the right arm and a 9mm submachine gun in the left.

The Ares Spartan must be custom-fitted to a specific individual, and due to technical constraints, cannot at this time be adjusted to fit dwarves or trolls.

Available load figures listed are empty capacity, and may be reduced by the ammunition loads for the Spartan's heavy weapons, if any. The standard Spartan's maximum ammunition loadout, 40 AV rounds for the Ares Victory Assault Cannon, leaves it with 52.5kg of remaining capacity. The Fire Support Spartan's maximum ammunition loadout, 8 seeker shells for the heavy mortar, leaves it with 36.5kg of remaining capacity. The Command Spartan's Ares Firelance Laser requires no ammunition, and the weight of the Scout Spartan's ammunition is negligable.

ModelHand.SpeedAccel.BodyArmorSig.Auto.PilotSensorCargoLoadSeatingEntryFuelEcon.S/BL/TChassisSIAvail.CostFeatures
Ares Spartan Combat Suit140-367-13058.511hEFC(120PF)1.5 km/PF--Heavy Anthroform4-557,180¥Rigger Adaptation, Remote Control Interface (Encryption Rating 6), Mechanical Arm (Str 9, Cybershotgun, External Clip Port), Mechanical Arm (Str 9, CyberSMG, External Clip Port), External Hardpoint (Ares Victory Cannon, Recoil Adjustment 9, 0.4 CF Ammo Bin, Smartlink II Integration), Smart Materials, GridLink Power, Drive-By-Wire 3, Structural Agility 3, EnviroSeal (gas/water/engine), RAM 3, Spotlight, IR Spotlight, BattleTac Receiver, BattleTac IVIS, BattleTac FDDM, Personal Tactical Communicator (Rating 2), Laser Designator, ECM 1, ECCM 1
Ares Spartan Command Suit150-367-140.1521.511hEFC(120PF)1.5 km/PF--Heavy Anthroform4-1,134,880¥Rigger Adaptation, Remote Control Interface (Encryption Rating 6), Mechanical Arm (Str 9, Cybershotgun, External Clip Port), Mechanical Arm (Str 9, CyberSMG, External Clip Port), External Hardpoint (Ares Firelance Laser, Smartlink II Integration), Smart Materials, GridLink Power, Drive-By-Wire 3, Structural Agility 3, EnviroSeal (gas/water/engine), RAM 3, Spotlight, IR Spotlight, BattleTac Master, BattleTac IVIS, BattleTac FDDM, Master Tactical Communicator (Rating 6, External Backpack Version), Laser Designator, ECM 1, ECCM 1, Remote Control Deck (Rating 6, Remote Control ECCM 6, Battletac FDDM Master, BattleTac IVIS Master)
Ares Spartan Fire Support Suit040-337-130148.511hEFC(120PF)1.5 km/PF--Heavy Anthroform4-432,580¥Rigger Adaptation, Remote Control Interface (Encryption Rating 6), Mechanical Arm (Str 9, Cybershotgun, External Clip Port), Mechanical Arm (Str 9, CyberSMG, External Clip Port), External Hardpoint (Heavy Mortar, 0.4 CF Ammo Bin, Smartlink II Integration), Smart Materials, GridLink Power, Drive-By-Wire 3, Structural Agility 3, EnviroSeal (gas/water/engine), RAM 3, Spotlight, IR Spotlight, BattleTac Receiver, BattleTac IVIS, BattleTac FDDM, Personal Tactical Communicator (Rating 2), Laser Designator, ECM 1, ECCM 1
Ares Spartan Scout Suit057-358-1408911hEFC(240PF)1.5 km/PF--Heavy Anthroform4-526,360¥Rigger Adaptation, Remote Control Interface (Encryption Rating 6), Mechanical Arm (Str 9, Cybershotgun, External Clip Port), Mechanical Arm (Str 9, CyberSMG, External Clip Port), Smartlink II Integration, Smart Materials, GridLink Power, Drive-By-Wire 3, Structural Agility 3, EnviroSeal (gas/water/engine), RAM 3, Spotlight, IR Spotlight, BattleTac Receiver, BattleTac IVIS, BattleTac FDDM, Master Tactical Communicator (Rating 6, External Backpack Version), Laser Designator, ECM 1, ECCM 1, ED 2
Weapons
WeaponsModeMinS(4)M(5)L(6)X(9)RCDamageAmmoNotes
Ares Firelance LaserSA020035075012000015S40(battery)-2 Power per range bracket
Ares Victory CannonSS/FA010050025005000920D40(bin)
CybershotgunSA010205010018S10(c)
CyberSMGSA/BF010408015017M24(c)
Heavy Mortarspecial2008002000600080000by shell8(bin)3d6 * 5m scatter
Laser Designator-50300150030005000---