E1-Thermal-Optical Camouflage
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The E1-Thermal-Optical Camouflage (otherwise known as Model 3302, Thermo-Optic Camo or TO Camo) is a camouflage utility that allows the user to blend in with their environment/surrounding, a cloaking technology similar to the Covenant's advanced camouflage technology. Since a wearer could only carry limited amounts of batteries, this form of camouflage tends to have a very short lifetime, and is usually limited to covert operations.
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[edit] Summary
Ridiculously expensive yet effective for stealth operations, the Thermo-Optic Camo gear would allow the wearer to adapt to his/her surroundings, hiding their physical appearance as well as their heat signature. This makes the wearer quite invisible to optical and thermal sensors. However, the gear itself is very fragile, and if large amounts of particulate matter (water, dust, etc) is in the air, it is not terribly effective. The gear is very light-weighted and has the capability to cloak its wearer for 2 hours. It also comes with several features; the ability to store information/data up to 7 terabytes and also supplying emergency/back-up power that can power up a MJOLNIR suit for roughly 5 minutes.
[edit] Operational History
The E1-Thermal-Optical Camouflage was first tested by the ORION units, otherwise known as Spartan-Is during their last year of service. The gear was extremely helpful in their test-run and was recommended to be manufactured widely for the UNSC. However, the outline of the initial plan was not approved. The universal economy plummeted after the end of the Human-Covenant War, causing hundreds, if not thousands, of research corporations like Phade Technology Industry to hibernate, thus prevented such mass production to be achieved.
[edit] System Operation
[edit] Mark One
Kyo-Re Model 3300 was the first model tested by Spartan-Is back during their training exercise. It utilizes the experimental photo-reactive module designed to camouflage the wearer with its surroundings. The wearer is covered with reflective/refractive coating/panels which collects data from the environment and relays the information back, thus transferring the camouflaging pattern throughout the wearer's entire body.
Kyo-Re Model 3300/A1, otherwise known as Mark 1.2, was fitted on the Semi-Powered Infiltration Armour (Alpha) with enhance photo-reactive technology and regulates patterns of its surroundings. This technology was put to the test in the field by Alpha Company of the SPARTAN-IIIs during Operation: PROMETHEUS. The field test showed that the application had a major flaw in its design; the camouflage patterns to shift irregularly and imperfectly, which made the photo-reactive panels unmatched against the Covenant's Camouflage technologies.
[edit] Mark Two
Kyo-Re Model 3301 was a total makeover of the Mark One. The camouflage technology was intensively revised and compared to the Covenant's Camouflage technologies. This research lead to the development of a newer photo-reactive coating which is capable of boosting camouflaging properties. Almost near to perfection, the Mark Two could mimic a wide range of electromagnetic radiation. However, it was still sensitive to overloading. This model was fitted to the newly-updated Semi-Powered Infiltration Armour (Beta). It was tested in the field by Beta Company of the Spartan-IIIs in Operation: TORPEDO which showed great achievements over its predecessor, thus leading to the continuation of the Kyo-Re program.
[edit] Mark Three
Kyo-Re Model 3302 is the final product of the Kyo-Re program, replacing the photo-reactive technology with metamaterials systems, a systematic technology introduced by Marathon Research Corporation in 2492 which utilises negative refraction index; the principle where light doesn't reflect or refract on it but instead bends around the object. This model is considered to be the exact counterpart of the Covenant Camouflage Technology. However, the cost of this technology prevented mass manufacturing for the standard UNSC soldier.
It was fitted to special forces division (mainly for the black operatives and ONI assassins), lowering their risk of being detected and enabling them to run a silent and stealthier operation. In 2530, the plan for the gear was brought up and manufactured for a possible future power-armour feature.
