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The [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor]] is equipped with a '''fail-safe detonation system'''. Once a [[SPARTAN programs|Spartan]] is killed or wounded fatally, the [[self-destruct]] protocol will have to be enacted by either themselves or a nearby Spartan. This is done to avoid capture of the suit and/or the wearer for identification or technological study.<ref name="fs">'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page 315''</ref>
The [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor]] is equipped with a '''fail-safe detonation system'''. If a [[SPARTAN programs|Spartan]] is killed or wounded fatally, or they are forced to shed the armor in the field, the [[self-destruct]] protocol will have to be enacted by either themselves or a nearby Spartan. This is done to avoid capture of the suit and/or the wearer for identification or technological study.<ref name="fs">'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page 315''</ref>


==Function==
==Function==
The tiny access panel at the back of the suit is opened to activate the protocol, it is activated by typing several digits only Spartans know. Once activated, a fifteen-second countdown timer starts.  Once it hits zero, the suit's [[fusion reactor]] overloads and burns everything in its path in a ten-meter radius with a follow-up explosion to finish anything alive.<ref name="fs"/>
The tiny access panel at the back of the suit is opened to activate the protocol, it is activated by typing several digits only Spartans know. Once activated, a fifteen-second countdown timer starts.  Once it hits zero, the suit's [[fusion reactor]] overloads and burns everything in its path in a ten-meter radius with a follow-up explosion to finish anything alive.<ref name="fs"/>


==Trivia==
==Uses==
The [[John-117|Master Chief]] is the only known Spartan to activate the fail-safe detonation system (on [[Grace-093]]'s suit after she was killed by a [[Jiralhanae|Brute]] in the [[Covenant]] resupply station ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'').<ref name="fs"/>
*[[John-117]] activated the fail-safe detonation system on [[Grace-093]]'s suit after she was killed by a [[Jiralhanae|Brute]] in the [[Covenant]] resupply station ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''.<ref name="fs"/>
*[[Fred-104]]'s damaged and inert [[CENTURION-class Mjolnir]] suit's fail-safe detonation system was activated at the conclusion of [[Operation: JOVIAN WHISTLE]] on [[Gao]] in order to prevent the armor from falling into enemy hands, destroying two low-flying Gao [[Wyvern]]s in the process.<ref>'''Halo: Last Light''', ''pages 373-375'' (Google Play edition)</ref>


==List of appearances==
==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Last Light]]''


==Sources==
==Sources==

Revision as of 00:25, December 26, 2015

The MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor is equipped with a fail-safe detonation system. If a Spartan is killed or wounded fatally, or they are forced to shed the armor in the field, the self-destruct protocol will have to be enacted by either themselves or a nearby Spartan. This is done to avoid capture of the suit and/or the wearer for identification or technological study.[1]

Function

The tiny access panel at the back of the suit is opened to activate the protocol, it is activated by typing several digits only Spartans know. Once activated, a fifteen-second countdown timer starts. Once it hits zero, the suit's fusion reactor overloads and burns everything in its path in a ten-meter radius with a follow-up explosion to finish anything alive.[1]

Uses

List of appearances

Sources

  1. ^ a b c Halo: First Strike, page 315
  2. ^ Halo: Last Light, pages 373-375 (Google Play edition)