MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor: Difference between revisions

*In both game manuals and in the books it is said that the armor weighs in at 1000 pounds, or a half-ton.  However, in Halo 3, the armor floats and drifts in water. In Halo 2, the armor rises to the surface an ocean, requiring Gravemind to drag John-117 down.  It has been speculated that the armor has a feature that enables the suit to float in water that can be activated by the occupant and that automatically activates upon the Spartan going unconscious.  This would prevent Spartans from sinking to the bottom of an ocean and have to walk to shore to get out.  Or it could be that the oxygen reserves and all of the other factors contribute to a net density that is less than one (the density of water) and thus it floats in water.  But this is not apparent in Mk. V MJOLNIR armor, as you can walk underwater in Halo: Combat Evolved, but the Mk. V armor itself might be denser than Mk. VI armor, which floatsin Halo 2 and Halo 3, although in Halo 2 it does not float if youu die in the water.  It is unknown to the general public if any other MJOLNIR armor versions other than Mk. VI float.