Favourite Sci-fi armour

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**Easy E**

Gratuitious Dune reference!

Also, make sure no one hits you with a laser.

**chromedog**

Deathshead420 wrote:

I remember back in the day when i read comics and got to this page I was like awwww sh%^.

Nerd credits for people that know what these are from.

Batman v predator. I still have the 3 issue series.

After batman is blinded (temporarily). He puts on his armour with his sonar (bat-vision) mask (Pred's cloaking field thing only bends light after all).

My vote for armour is stormtrooper armour (but I have a set of it).
Second vote goes to Boba Fett's set of armour (working on it, currently only have helmet).

**Fafnir**

The Epic Chaosdude!!! wrote:
SpankHammer III wrote:Off the top of my head I have to go hellghast, love the gritty gas mark look. Come on can't tell me i'm theonly one who want to win the war for the ghast

I support the Hellghasts just because they look awesome

The problem with the Hellghasts is that they're a shameless ripoff of the Special Unit from the Kerberos Saga.

**Deathshead420**

Nerd cred to Chromedog!

**starhawks**

without a doubt commander cody from star wars, followed by good ol' mark 7 power armor

**Andrew1975**

Does this count. Battle of the planets. Yes I am old.

Or this.

**Lone Cat**

Deathshead420 wrote:I really like this tech for females.

I remember back in the day when i read comics and got to this page I was like awwww sh%^.

Nerd credits for people that know what these are from.

If Batman has an armor, Does Catwoman has it too?

=^.^=

**Henners91**

Stormtrooper armour!

**CthuluIsSpy**

Wyrmalla wrote:Gantz, Star trek: The Next Generation (presumably) and I can't quite place the batman series, but early 2000's period?^^

The second image is from Dune.
Since when did they have boxy shields in star trek?

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Fafnir wrote:
The Epic Chaosdude!!! wrote:
SpankHammer III wrote:Off the top of my head I have to go hellghast, love the gritty gas mark look. Come on can't tell me i'm theonly one who want to win the war for the ghast

I support the Hellghasts just because they look awesome

The problem with the Hellghasts is that they're a shameless ripoff of the Special Unit from the Kerberos Saga.

Kerberos, as in Jin-Roh (whatever its called) the wolf brigade?

Cause both armors are pretty badass.

**Fafnir**

Yep. Jin-Roh is just a single entry in the Kerberos Saga, a collection of media spanning 2 live action films, one animated film (Jin-Roh), and series of comics.

**Wyrmalla**

CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Wyrmalla wrote:Gantz, Star trek: The Next Generation (presumably) and I can't quite place the batman series, but early 2000's period?^^

The second image is from Dune.
Since when did they have boxy shields in star trek?

Hasn't watched Star Trek in years....

I just see Patrick Stewart everytime I see a balled man. =)

**Andrew1975**

There is a reason for that. It is Patrick Stewart, its just not Star Trek.

**Wyrmalla**

The man only plays one role. When he played Macbeth it was actually him playing Jean Luc in a holo quite playing Macbeth. ...This is how it works. ^^

**SpankHammer III**

Fafnir wrote:
The Epic Chaosdude!!! wrote:
SpankHammer III wrote:
Off the top of my head I have to go hellghast, love the gritty gas mark look. Come on can't tell me i'm theonly one who want to win the war for the ghast

I support the Hellghasts just because they look awesome

The problem with the Hellghasts is that they're a shameless ripoff of the Special Unit from the Kerberos Saga.

Kerberos, as in Jin-Roh (whatever its called) the wolf brigade?

Cause both armors are pretty badass.

Agree with this, don't see why the Hellghast armor being based/ripped off Jin Roh makes it any worse. They both rock and are both German inspired sci fi armor so are bound to similar.

**Lone Cat**

Look! What i've found! Dieselpunk powered body armor!

^ too bad it's a posession of a dakkanaut. http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/41516-APE%20Grunt.html

mew!

**Nerivant**

Wyrmalla wrote:
Hasn't watched Star Trek in years....

I just see Patrick Stewart everytime I see a balled man. =)

What.

**Perkustin**

Wyrmalla wrote:
Hasn't watched Star Trek in years....

I just see Patrick Stewart everytime I see a balled man. =)

I lol'd.

Thinking about it I also really like the Commando helmet from Halo reach.

Oh and BTW Easy E according to Dune lore shooting a laser at the shield would do precisely nothing. You are thinking of when they shoot a laser inside the shield. Not that that really needed cleaning up lol.

**black templar**

40K

Star wars

**Nerivant**

Perkustin wrote:
Oh and BTW Easy E according to Dune lore shooting a laser at the shield would do precisely nothing. You are thinking of when they shoot a laser inside the shield. Not that that really needed cleaning up lol.

Actually, the intersection of a lasgun beam with a Holtzman field creates an atomic explosion, regardless of whether the beam comes from inside or outside the field. But I digress.

**Perkustin**

It only happens once in the book and that's when it's fired inside..... Or was that a bomb? I forget.

**Easy E**

The atomics used to breach the shield wall before the final assualt of Paul Mah'dib on the spaceport was an actual bomb. Not a laser hitting a Holtzman Field.

But now I digress as well.

Armor... feth yeah!

**Balance**

Nerivant wrote:
Perkustin wrote:
Oh and BTW Easy E according to Dune lore shooting a laser at the shield would do precisely nothing. You are thinking of when they shoot a laser inside the shield. Not that that really needed cleaning up lol.

Actually, the intersection of a lasgun beam with a Holtzman field creates an atomic explosion, regardless of whether the beam comes from inside or outside the field. But I digress.

It's always seemed weird that nowhere in the Dune books I've read does anyone point out that this change effectively means dirt-cheap nuclear weapons.

Laser weapons are cheap. Shields are cheap. (In the appropriate eras, armies are outfitted with each.) Combine one of each in a small crate with some dumb timers and you've got a nuclear weapon without messing around with having to refine tons of ore to get the fissile material.

**Nerivant**

Balance wrote:
Nerivant wrote:
Perkustin wrote:
Oh and BTW Easy E according to Dune lore shooting a laser at the shield would do precisely nothing. You are thinking of when they shoot a laser inside the shield. Not that that really needed cleaning up lol.

Actually, the intersection of a lasgun beam with a Holtzman field creates an atomic explosion, regardless of whether the beam comes from inside or outside the field. But I digress.

It's always seemed weird that nowhere in the Dune books I've read does anyone point out that this change effectively means dirt-cheap nuclear weapons.

Laser weapons are cheap. Shields are cheap. (In the appropriate eras, armies are outfitted with each.) Combine one of each in a small crate with some dumb timers and you've got a nuclear weapon without messing around with having to refine tons of ore to get the fissile material.

Doesn't Miles Teg use that exact idea as a weapon against the Honored Matrons?

Or am I remembering things that didn't happen again?

**Balance**

Nerivant wrote:
Balance wrote:
Nerivant wrote:
Perkustin wrote:
Oh and BTW Easy E according to Dune lore shooting a laser at the shield would do precisely nothing. You are thinking of when they shoot a laser inside the shield. Not that that really needed cleaning up lol.

Actually, the intersection of a lasgun beam with a Holtzman field creates an atomic explosion, regardless of whether the beam comes from inside or outside the field. But I digress.

It's always seemed weird that nowhere in the Dune books I've read does anyone point out that this change effectively means dirt-cheap nuclear weapons.

Laser weapons are cheap. Shields are cheap. (In the appropriate eras, armies are outfitted with each.) Combine one of each in a small crate with some dumb timers and you've got a nuclear weapon without messing around with having to refine tons of ore to get the fissile material.

Doesn't Miles Teg use that exact idea as a weapon against the Honored Matrons?

Or am I remembering things that didn't happen again?

It's possible. I struggled to get through some of the later original books... Although they didn't annoy me as badly as some of the prequels.

**KamikazeCanuck**

Good 'ole Fashioned Space Marine Power Armour.

**Pacific**

Just found a pic of this model kit from Hasegawa, have no idea what it is or what it's for but it looks great!

**FabricatorGeneralMike**

Pacific wrote:Just found a pic of this model kit from Hasegawa, have no idea what it is or what it's for but it looks great!

Thats MaK (Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000) and they are some of the best powerarmoured suits out there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maschinen_Krieger_ZbV_3000