The EFS is a heavy powered exoskeleton used by the Human Alliance Space Force. Originally designed to operate in harsh conditions like the summit of Mt. Everest (where it successfully recovered eighteen bodies in a single mission), the EFS was armored and modularized by HASF before being adopted into service.
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Capacity[]
The EFS can carry a plethora of engineering equipment in its detachable armored backpack. A typical EFS carries wielding equipment, a retractable 3D printer, a powered shovel and a pickax. This allows it to effectively preform every combat duty that HASF requires, from field repair of damaged vehicles to salvaging equipment to constructing field defenses. And it can do this under 10 meters of water, in the near-perfect vacuum of space, or on the summit of Mt. Everest.
Sensors[]
The EFS is equipped with built-in Nightvision capability to assist the operator's eyes in low-light environments. It also has a secondary Infrared scanner to improve visibility drastically through blowing blizzards.
Weaponry[]
The EFS carries no offensive weaponry.
Upgrades[]
Weaponry[]
AOS 20-H (2)[]
To provide EFS units with the capability to fight off enemy units in ways other than beating them into pulp with their engineering equipment, each EFS receives a single Advanced Ordinance Singapore 20mm Handheld Gatling gun. Drawing from a 200-round magazine, the gun can run it dry in just three seconds. It can be hung on a leg mount, making it convenient for EFS operators when they need to do something other than mow down infantry.
Protection[]
NGC Plating[]
12.7mm round armor resistance is not enough when your enemy is shooting 18.5mm slugs from his heavy machine guns. To completely solve that problem, HASF swapped out the Aluminum-Kevlar weave plating with Next Generation Composite, providing EFS with protection against 35mm shells with a manageable increase in size and weight.
Protection[]
HASF applied a layer of Aluminum-Kevlar weave plating outside the original EFS skin, providing it with resistance to 12.7mm rounds anywhere. Add that to the internal-circulation oxygen supply and vacuum sealing of the EFS, this makes it able to really go anywhere and do just about anything. The suit is also able to monitor the wearer's life signs.
Locomotion[]
The EFS is a powered exoskeleton that uses servomotors, powered by a micro-Liquid Thorium Fluoride Reactor that provides the suit with more energy than it could ever use. The suit has quadruple mobility redundancy and uses a non-invasive neural interface, making it unlikely to reach system failure even if the suit's hull gets penetrated in more than a few places. As a testament to the incredible durability of this system, EFS operators normally have a shorter lifespan than the EFS itself. EFS operators in their Systems can run at full sprint carrying 500 kilos of equipment without issues. Except that they might punch deep craters in the surface they're running on.