Talk:Combat skin

Armor? I don't need no stinking armour!

Tartarus's Combat Skin a 12?

• maybe tartarus used a lvel 12 in halo 2 -- 189.146.179.87 23:21, 23 October 2006
• Probably tartarus used a level "12" when he fought in the last level i halo -- 189.146.179.87 00:41, 24 October 2006

Maybe he did, although Brutes don't seem to wear much of any armour. -- Esemono 10:08, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I dont think that was considered armour, and definately not a level 12 seeing as how 3 plasma bolts bring it down. -Lt.O'Brien 14:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

brutes dont wear energy sheilds, right? --74.36.53.98 00:08, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

right his hammer just gave him one.--ryanngreenday 00:15, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

• not sure about that. Cheers, TRU⁷H 00:35, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

• Well the only time he had the shelid on was when he was using that hammer in combat and it looked like he turned it on when he was about to attack when you fight him at the end of the gamne.--ryanngreenday 00:46, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Forerunner are in Human Brains

The differing nomenclature suggests that the two items 343 refers to are different, i.e. your armour is what he refers to as the 'Environment Suit', and your 'Combat Skin' is the Chief's flesh and body.

Which brings up an intesting idea of the Forerunner. There is no evidence that speaks of Forerunner form, save a hand print that may just be a computer pattern. Therefore the forerunner could have no bodies and lead a life much like a parasite. The Chief certainly seems to know how to use Forerunner tech even though he's not supposed to have come across it before, and when 343 Guilty Spark first met Master Cheif he seemed to recognise him. Perhaps 343 didn't recognise the Chief's physical form but something IN the Chief.

This theory brings up other possibilities that maybe the Flood are a type of Forerunner either a branch on the evolutionary tree or some kind of gentic enhancement of the orginial Forerunner. This could go the other way of course maybe the Forerunner is the spawn of the Flood, a weapons program gone wrong.

It could also explain why all the doors on Halo are different sizes, because depending on which being the Forerunners were inhabiting, different sized portals may have been necessary. The idea that GS isn't actually talking to the Chief could account for the perception that GS thinks the Chief has set off Halo before - he doesn't think the Chief has at all, as he is actually addressing the Forerunner in John 117's head, who have/has set Halo off before, and having done so were forced to inhabit the forms of the very creatures they sought to contain.

this is backed by the fact that 343 Guilty Spark says when they are ready to set off halo "last time you asked me, if it was my choise would i do it". -- User:Climax Viod 09:45, 13 August 2006

Shielding Technology

The term "Combat Skin" could refer solely to the shielding technology used by the Mjolnir V armor, an idea that would seem to be given credence by the fact that the monitors seem to be protected by an incredibly strong shielding system themselves, and that the shielding technology the was derived from Covenant technology which in turn was adapted from Forerunner artifacts. -- User:Cu Roi 00:48, 11 December 2006

The Classifications are for the suits purpose!

• The differing nomenclature suggests that the two items 343 refers to are different, i.e. your armour is what he refers to as the 'Environment Suit', and your 'Combat Skin' is the Chief's flesh and body.

• Another theory states that the classes (Class 1 to Class 12) might not be levels of power but rather designations for their purpose. In this sense, a Class 2 suit like the MJOLNIR would be a general combat armor while a Class 12 could be a suit specifically desgined to fight the Flood. -- 65.93.129.138 22:51, 26 December 2006

However, in Halo: The Flood, the Master Chief upon hearing this, thinks, "If there's a battle suit six times as powerful as the MJOLNIR armor, I'll be first in line to try it on," implying that the Combat Skin classes are indeed ranked in an arithmetic sequence. -- User:Azathoth 23:12, 5 March 2007