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Nov

Powered Armor - Part 2 of 3: 21st Century Tech

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http://davidszondy.com/future/robot/hardiman.htm

Today’s continuation of our discussion of Powered Armor will focus around the existing technology in the 21st century and the limitations that this technology presents. Lets get right into it shall we?

Powered armor and exoskeleton has long been the subject of fiction. Lesser known perhaps is that it has also long been the subject of scientific interest. Check out this little bit about project Hardiman:

Hardiman was the first attempt to build a practical powered exoskeleton, by General Electric in 1965. The machine was intended to allow the wearer to lift loads of 1500 pounds (680 kg) with ease.

The project was not successful. Any attempt to use the full exoskeleton resulted in a violent uncontrolled motion, and as a result the exoskeleton was never turned on with a person inside. Further research concentrated on one arm. Although it could lift its specified load of 750 pounds (340 kg), it weighed three quarters of a ton, just over twice the liftable load. Without getting all the components to work together the practical uses for the Hardiman project were limited.

Nov

Powered Armor - Part 1 of 3: Overview

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Minerva has long held the advantage against the raider groups and paramilitary dictatorships that it has encountered. This is due in large part to Minerva’s Aegis Mobile Assault squads. While gunships, satellites and armored troop transport vehicles all serve their part, in hostage and rescue missions the infiltration ability of an Aegis squad is unmatched.

Aegis squads - composed of 20 soldiers cross-trained in various aspects of medicine, support, and combat roles - are broken down into 4 pentads of 5 soldiers each. The armor capabilities of a standard Aegis soldier are sufficient to stop nearly all small arms fire and even long rifle fire up to 50 caliber rounds.

Nov

About the Science articles

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In these Science articles Nick and I (normally via a fictitious Glaucus historian) will share our thoughts on the science and technology of the Demon Archives. We’ll link to articles about current science and show how 150 years of research will take it to the futuristic level found in our story.

Our goal here is to make our science and tech believable, because we don’t want any readers to see what we have and feel that it is impossible. We aren’t going to just tell you we have some magic tech, deal with it. We want to show you how it is possible based on today’s technology.

This archive will, in time, contain art, sketches, descriptions and articles about all sorts of technology, futuristic and contemporary. We hope that you will participate and discuss these with us.