Forerunner personal armor: Difference between revisions

Forerunner armor suits were also equipped with [[ancilla]]e, personal [[artificial intelligence]] constructs. Mature Forerunners could connect to the [[Domain]] through their armor.<ref name="c13"/> Most if not all Forerunner body armor possessed [[N-barrier]]s and lenses among other systems to protect the user from harm. Other systems include automatic hardening, which would harden into a tough surface at the moment of impact by a projectile, similar to the properties exhibited by corn starch. The armor could also mitigate the effects of plasma bolts by “cooling off” to temperatures of negative 200 degrees a fraction of a second before the plasma impacts the armor, which would cancel out the effects of the superheated plasma, though these properties only came into play after the ancillla was depleted. Unfortunately, the armor didn’t protect against the sharp spines of the flood infection forms used to take over a host body, leaving the forerunners defenseless against the infection forms. <ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''', "[[Soma the Painter]]"</ref> A suit of armor was sealed against vacuum or the lack of atmosphere.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 116''</ref> While wearing the armor, sleep was not required.<ref>'''[[Halo: Cryptum]]''', ''page 32''</ref> Forerunners could also transfer enormous amounts of information to one another through the armor at the touch of each other's fingertips.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 140''</ref>