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'''Fail-Safe Detonation''' is a term that is used to explain the Self Destruct system of a WIA or KIA [[Spartan-II]]'s [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor]]. Once a Spartan-II is killed or wounded fatally, the protocol will have to be enacted by either themselves or a nearby Spartan. This is done to avoid capture of the suite and/or the wearer for identification or technological study. It is mentioned for the Mjolnir Mk. V only, it is unkown if the Mk. VI has this capability. <ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', page 315</ref> | '''Fail-Safe Detonation''' is a term that is used to explain the Self Destruct system of a WIA or KIA [[Spartan-II]]'s [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor]]. Once a Spartan-II is killed or wounded fatally, the protocol will have to be enacted by either themselves or a nearby Spartan. This is done to avoid capture of the suite and/or the wearer for identification or technological study. It is mentioned for the Mjolnir [[Mk.V]] only, it is unkown if the [[Mk.VI]] has this capability. <ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', page 315</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 10:25, May 3, 2008
Template:Ratings Fail-Safe Detonation is a term that is used to explain the Self Destruct system of a WIA or KIA Spartan-II's MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor. Once a Spartan-II is killed or wounded fatally, the protocol will have to be enacted by either themselves or a nearby Spartan. This is done to avoid capture of the suite and/or the wearer for identification or technological study. It is mentioned for the Mjolnir Mk.V only, it is unkown if the Mk.VI has this capability. [1]
Effectiveness
The tiny access panel at the back of the suite is opened to activate the protocol, it is activated by typing several digits only the wearer knows. Once activated, a thirty-second countdown timer starts. Once it hits zero, the 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.[2]
Trivia
- The Master Chief is the only known Spartan to activate the Fail-Safe Detonation (on Grace-093's suit after she was killed by a Brute in the Covenant city of Unyielding Hierophant.[3]
Sources
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 315
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 315
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 315
